Banerjee / Castillo South of the Future

Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8108-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banerjee, Anindita

Castillo, Debra A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Life and Care from South of the Future
Anindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo

1. From Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala to Commercial Global Surrogacy in Gujarat and Beyond: Lessons Learned from Research and Human Rights
Karen Smith Rotabi

2. On Cruelty and Care: Motherhood and the Crisis of Futurity
Kumkum Sangari

3. Promissory Futures: Medicine and Markets in Speculative Fiction
Sherryl Vint

4.The Surrogacy Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court: Marginalizing the Marginalized
Sital Kalantry

5. Wet Nurses and Migrant Nanas in Mexico's Imaginary Landscape
Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez

6. Structures of Affect in Transactions of Care: From Surrogacy Discourses of the Womb to Mahasweta Devi's "Breast-Giver"
Kavita Panjabi

7. Artificial Bodies: The Politics of the Posthuman in Argentine Science Fiction Novels
Silvia G. Kurlat Ares

8. Unbearable Futures: The Science/Fiction of Care Markets in the Global South
Anindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anindita Banerjee is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of the humanities concentration in the Environment and Sustainability Program at Cornell University. Her most recent book is Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East. Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture, also published by SUNY Press.