Legitimating Life

Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology

Sonja Van Wichelen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0051-9 (ISBN)

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The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial. Throughout the past few decades transnational adoption transformed from a humanitarian response to a means of making family. In this new manifestation, life becomes necessarily economized. While push and pull factors, demand and supply dynamics, and competition between agencies set the stage for the globalization of adoption, international conventions, scientific knowledge, and the language of human rights universalized the phenomenon. Van Wichelen argues that such technoscientific legitimations of a globalizing practice are rearticulating colonial logics of race and civilization. Yet, she also lets us see beyond the biopolitical project and into alternative ways of making kin.

Sonja van Wichelen is a senior research fellow with the department of sociology and social policy at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Religion, Gender and Politics in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body.

Contents

List of figures, tables and images

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology

The Ethical Market: Between Reproduction and Humanitarianism
Double Movements: International Law as Transparency Device
Valuing Bodies: Somatic Ethics in the Biomedicalization of Adoption
Grievable Lives: The Adoptee and the Child Migrant
Economies of Return: Openness, Knowledge, Relations

Conclusion: Legitimating Life

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	5 b-w
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-0051-7 / 1978800517
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0051-9 / 9781978800519
Zustand	Neuware