Reproductive Technologies as Global Form

“[Reproductive Technologies as Global Form] ambitiously promises to introduce innovative core questions and modes of analysis to the social studies of ARTs [Assisted Reproduction Technologies], and it delivers on its promise convincingly by taking the border (both geopolitical and socio-cultural as well as economic) as a strategic site for the analysis of already existing global processes. The practices of border reinforcing and border crossing and the resulting tension between sameness and difference surface as an important perspective from which to analyze emerging transnational ART developments. In an astute fashion, concerns with the economic inequalities of an increasingly ‘stratified reproduction’ are combined with the local variability of technical aspects and their convergence with other technologies. . . . The attempt to merge new approaches makes this volume of interest to readers in transnational studies, science and technology studies, and the ethnography of globalization not familiar with ARTs. The ethnographies are captivating and detailed, and innovative in raising new ethical questions on the role of ethnographer as vector of new global spaces.”