Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present
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BORIS DOI
Date of Publication
2024
Publication Type
Article
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Author
Cervantez Rodríguez, Pedro Alejandro |
Series
Environment and Planning. C, Politics and space
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
2399-6544
Publisher
Sage
Language
English
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Description
Building on work in feminist geopolitics, we discuss how the governance of in/fertility affects the
value assigned to different bodies and the question whose bodies and lives are considered as worthy
of reproducing in Mexico. To reveal the geopolitical entanglements of past and present forms of
reproductive governance, we investigate the transnational connections of Mexico’s fertility network
with Spain and the United States of America. We juxtapose visual materials from political
campaigns of the past with advertisements for present-day fertility clinics to trace the reproductive
geopolitics of (post)colonialism that shape current developments, practices, and discourses in this
transnational fertility network. Each pair of visuals exemplifies particular times and spaces of
reproductive geopolitics. The paper reveals how the contemporary Mexican fertility market is
shaped by transnational forms of reproductive governance. We employ visual juxtaposition to
provoke readers to think about the entanglement of present-day fertility markets with past reproductive
geopolitics.
value assigned to different bodies and the question whose bodies and lives are considered as worthy
of reproducing in Mexico. To reveal the geopolitical entanglements of past and present forms of
reproductive governance, we investigate the transnational connections of Mexico’s fertility network
with Spain and the United States of America. We juxtapose visual materials from political
campaigns of the past with advertisements for present-day fertility clinics to trace the reproductive
geopolitics of (post)colonialism that shape current developments, practices, and discourses in this
transnational fertility network. Each pair of visuals exemplifies particular times and spaces of
reproductive geopolitics. The paper reveals how the contemporary Mexican fertility market is
shaped by transnational forms of reproductive governance. We employ visual juxtaposition to
provoke readers to think about the entanglement of present-day fertility markets with past reproductive
geopolitics.
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