Sonja van Wichelen

Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Medical Anthropology
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800519
• ISBN-10: 1978800517
• Artikelnr.: 51979916

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of figures, tables and
images                                                                                          
Acknowledgements                      
                                                                                        
Introduction: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and
Biotechnology                             
1. The Ethical Market: Between Reproduction and Humanitarianism
                         
2. Double Movements: International Law as Transparency Device
                             
3. Valuing Bodies: Somatic Ethics in the Biomedicalization of Adoption
                  
4. Grievable Lives: The Adoptee and the Child
Migrant                                              
5. Economies of Return: Openness, Knowledge,
Relations                                          
Conclusion: Legitimating
Life                                                                       
                       
Bibliography                                                                                                                          
Index