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Cuerpa PoliticaExploraciones fotográficas de la maternidad, con Ana Casas BrodaAna Casas Broda es fotógrafa, escritora, gestora, docente, editora y comisaria, radicada en México desde 1974. Su obra gira en torno a su autobiografía y la construcción de la identidad. Los principales temas en su trabajo son la memoria, el cuerpo, la familia, el archivo, la genealogía y la maternidad. Es autora de dos libros: Álbum, de 2000, y Kinderwunsch de 2013. Sus obras se han expuesto en México, Austria, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos, Bélgica, Polonia, Uruguay, China, y Argentina, entre...2022-04-1431 minCuerpa PoliticaContra el capacitismo y los estereotipos acerca del deseo y la sexualidad. Con Diana Vite HernándezDiana Vite Hernández es de México y se autoidentifca como una mujer feminista con discapasidad visual. Vite Hernández estudió la licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales en la UNAM y la maestría en Filosofía de la Cultura en la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Ella actualmente pertenece a la Red Nacional de Feministas con Discapacidad (FEMIDISCAS) y al GT en Estudios Críticos en Discapacidad de CLACSO. Asimismo ha colaborado en diversos proyectos de la sociedad civil q...2022-02-2241 minCuerpa PoliticaHistories of racism and reproductive freedom at the US-Mexico border. With Dr Lina-Maria MurilloDr Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History Department at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on the intersections of reproductive freedom, race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as immigration and Latinx subjectivities. She is currently completing her manuscript titled Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race, and Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. In this episode, we discuss her research into the twentieth ...2022-02-0343 minCuerpa PoliticaA 'Counter-geography of violence': Maternal activism and resistance at the US/Mexico border. With Dr Elva F. Orozco MendozaElva F. Orozco Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender studies at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Orozco Mendoza was a 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow at The Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Her work has been published by Theory and Event, New Political Science, The Journal of Latin American Geography, and Philosophy and Global Affairs. In this episode, we discuss Dr Orozco Mendoza’s interdisciplinary research on femicide in Ciudad Juárez, reproductive pol...2022-01-1935 minCuerpa PoliticaChallenges to reproductive rights in El Salvador: Part 2 with Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del AbortoEn este episodio hablamos con Sara Garcia Gross. Sara es activista Feminista, psicóloga y máster en derechos humanos. Actualmente es Coordinadora de alianzas e incidencia política de Agrupación Ciudadana por la despenalización del aborto en El Salvador. En este episodio, Sara explica los objetivos de la organización, el contexto de criminalización del aborto y de las emergencias obstétricas en el que trabaja. Tambien hablamos de cómo ha exacerbado la pandemia las inequidades sociales en relac...2022-01-0744 minCuerpa PoliticaChallenges to reproductive rights in El Salvador: Part 1 with Dr Rebecca SmythDr Rebecca Smyth is a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, specialising in international human rights law. She focuses on women’s and LGBTQ* rights, and the (sometimes productive) tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging with the language and mechanisms of human rights. Her research has been published in the journal Feminist Review, and in the 2020 edited volume Gender Justice and the Law: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity. In this episode we discu...2022-01-0746 minCuerpa PoliticaEugenics, Disability and Latinx Communities. With Dr Natalie LiraDr. Natalie Lira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Dr. Lira’s research looks into the largely neglected racial aspects of California’s eugenic sterilization program by providing evidence of the disproportionate institutionalization and sterilization of Mexican-origin women and men in state hospitals for the disabled during the first half of the twentieth century....2021-12-0747 minCuerpa PoliticaAbortion rights and biopolitics in Chile. With Dr Lieta VivaldiLieta Vivaldi works at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Law Department. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, a Masters in sociology from the London School of Economics, a diploma in gender and violence from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of Universidad de Chile, and is qualified in Law, by the same institution. She also works as a researcher in the Center of Applied Ethics (CEDEA) at Universidad de Chile, and as an associate researcher of the F...2021-11-1835 minCuerpa PoliticaReproductive violence at the US-Mexico border. With Dr Leandra H. HernándezDr. Leandra H. Hernández is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Utah Valley University. She is the co-author of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights (2018) and the co-editor of This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzalduan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis (2019) and Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty (2019). In this episod...2021-11-0127 minCuerpa PoliticaGender and Health: Understanding Care Work, Policy and the Economy in Latin America -With Jasmine GideonDr Jasmine Gideon is a Reader in Gender, Health and International Development at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Gideon is the author of several articles as well as the monographs Gender, globalization, and health in a Latin American context and Handbook on gender and health (2016) and co-author of two books in 2020, Critical reflections on Public Private Partnerships and Motherhood, social policies and women's activism in Latin America. This episode explores Dr Gideon’s research interests...2021-10-1540 minCuerpa PoliticaParticipatory methods in reproductive violence research: spotlight on the Quipu project. With Dr Karen TuckerDr Karen Tucker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the colonial knowledge politics that shape encounters with indigenous knowledges, bodies and worlds, and the decolonial practices that reveal and remake them. As well as the global governance of ‘traditional knowledge’, Dr Tucker has researched legacies of forced sterilisation in Peru in the award-winning Quipu Project (quipu-project.com), and peace activism in Peru and Colombi...2021-10-0435 minCuerpa PoliticaParticipatory Methods in Reproductive Violence Research With Dr Karen TuckerKaren Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the colonial knowledge politics that shape encounters with indigenous knowledges, bodies and worlds, and the decolonial practices that reveal and remake them. As well as the global governance of ‘traditional knowledge’, she has researched legacies of forced sterilisation in Peru in the award-winning Quipu Project (quipu-project.com), and peace activism in Peru and Colombia. In this conversation we look at the methodological considerations of the Quipu project, the question of decoloniality in research methods design, and how to research non-verbal comm...2021-09-3033 minCuerpa PoliticaBodies as Territory, Bodies in Crisis: Reproductive Politics in Argentina. With Prof Barbara SuttonProfessor Barbara Sutton is based in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, at University at Albany. Professor Sutton's scholarly interests include body politics, human rights, collective memory, globalization, and women's activism particularly in Latin American contexts. In this episode, Professor Sutton gives an overview of the history of reproductive politics in Argentina, citing periods of military dictatorship, economic crises and the recent ‘marea verde’ or ‘green t...2021-09-1553 minCuerpa PoliticaVisual Birth Narratives: Communicating the Intensity and Intimacy of Labour Through Art. With Dr Clarissa BorgesDr Clarissa Borges is an artist and teacher. In 2019, she received her doctorate in Social History from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is currently professor of Visual Arts. Her artistic work explores themes relating to motherhood, childbirth, and sexuality, through photography and video installation. In this conversation, we discuss the context of constrained childbirth choices in Brazil, photography as a means of communicating pain, pleasure, intim...2021-09-0251 minCuerpa PoliticaThe Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas. With Dr Anne CarruthersDr Anne Carruthers is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University where she teaches film studies. Her research interests lie in phenomenologies, narrative, and close textual analysis, and she has published on how pregnancy, the pregnant body, and the physical are explored in film. In this conversation, we talk about her new book titled Fertile Visions: The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas, published by Bloomsbury. We discuss the uteru...2021-08-1942 minCuerpa PoliticaConflict and Reproductive Violence in Colombia. With Dr. Tatiana Sánchez ParraDr Tatiana Sanchez Parra is Assistant Professor at the Pensar Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Working at the intersection of feminist socio-legal studies, anthropology of violence, and medical anthropology, her research explores gender-based, sexual, and reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transition. Currently, she is part of the gender advisory committee of the Colombian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for which ...2021-08-1034 minCuerpa PoliticaTracing Eugenic ideas in Latin America. With Professor Alexandra Minna SternProfessor Alexandra Minna Stern works at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the history of eugenics and the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. Her recent book publications are Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (2012), and Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination (2019). In this conversation we start with the global ‘semantic landscape of eugenics’, through the nineteent...2021-07-2237 minCuerpa PoliticaChallenging reproductive injustice in Argentina, Chile and Ireland: Art and Activism. With Dr Céire BroderickThis episode features a conversation with Dr Céire Broderick, lecturer in Latin American Studies at University College Cork. Her research focuses on gendered approaches to Latin American Cultural Studies, with special interest in contemporary Chile. We discuss Dr Broderick’s current research into artistic responses in the campaigns for reproductive justice in Argentina, Chile, and Ireland in 2018, including the longer histories of reproductive politics, coloniality and the Catholic Church in ...2021-07-081h 00Cuerpa PoliticaThe Development of "The Pill" and Fertility Control in 20th Century Mexico with Professor Gabriela Soto LaveagaIn this episode we speak to Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga, from Harvard University. Professor Soto Laveaga’s research interests encompass the intersection of science and culture and public health in Latin America, and scientific and medical exchange in the Global South. She is the author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill. In this conversation, we discuss Mexico’s place at the centre of one of the most important breakthroughs in reproducti...2021-06-2436 minCuerpa PoliticaReproducción, Salud Pública y Justicia Reproductiva en México-Conversación con Rebeca Ramos DuarteEn este episodio hablamos con Rebeca Ramos Duarte, directora de la organización mexicana GIRE, el Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida. GIRE se fundó en 1992, con el impulso de resolver el problema de salud pública y de justicia social en México. Esta conversación toca el potencial de colaboraciones productivas entre académicos y activistas, la política del acceso al aborto en México, las formas de protesta durante la pandemia Covid-19, y lo que significa ser 100% ‘feminista limón’.En...2021-06-1037 minCuerpa PoliticaReproductive Health is a Non-negotiable Human Right. With Alexandra-Marie Figueroa MirandaAlexandra-Marie Figueroa Miranda is a communicator, activist, and law student. She is currently the Communications Director and the creator of an Organizational Communication's Growth Strategy for Taller Salud in Loiza, Puerto Rico. She is also one of the co-creators and leaders of La Clara, a grassroots digital medium with a mission of making civic knowledge accessible to young peoples across Puerto Rico. Alexandra-Marie is a militant feminist and organizer, focused on women’s rights, rights...2021-05-2745 minCuerpa PoliticaBeyond the law: Abortion access in Latin America. With Dr Cordelia FreemanDr Cordelia Freeman is a political geographer, and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Her research considers the spatiality of reproductive health in Latin America, including how reproductive justice - particularly abortion access - is shaped in relation to borders and mobilities, and in the context of violence.In this conversation, we discuss how abortion access figures as a dimension of reproductive justice in Latin America, how it is bound by legal and geographical boundaries but also t...2021-05-1222 minCuerpa PoliticaThe Coloniality of Reproductive Violence, with Dr Julieta Chaparro-BuitragoDr Julieta Chaparro Buitrago is a member of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, or ReproSoc, at the University of Cambridge. Her research encompasses fertility studies, decolonial feminisms, reproductive justice, and Latin American studies. In this conversation, Dr Chaparro Buitrago discusses her research into questions of extractivism (especially in Cajamarca, Peru), water politics, and their fundamental relation to understandings of reproduction. This recent research responds to...2021-04-2940 minCuerpa PoliticaWhy is Cuba’s birth rate falling? With Dr Elise AndayaIn this episode we talk to Dr Elise Andaya, a cultural medical anthropologist and associate professor at State University of New York in Albany. Dr Andaya’s research encompasses questions relating to reproductive health care, kinship, gender, and health policy and health inequalities in Cuba and the United States. In this conversation, we discuss the ethnographic work that led to her 2014 monograph, Conceiving Cuba: Women, Reproduction and the State in the Contemporary Era, the intersection o...2021-04-1537 min
Over The Wire PodcastWhat’s so political about reproduction in Latin America? With Professor Laura Briggs Podcast: Cuerpa PoliticaEpisode: What’s so political about reproduction in Latin America? With Professor Laura BriggsPub date: 2021-03-17Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:A discussion ranging from neoliberalism's intensification and distortion of care labour, the separation and monetisation of children during the Guatemalan civil war, and the intersection of race science with empire and reproductive control in Puerto Rico.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationProfessor Laura Briggs teaches and researches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is a...2021-04-0344 minCuerpa PoliticaReproductive justice and activism: culture as context and tool (with Hannah S. Borboleta, Jaime Géliga and Alexandra-Marie Figueroa)This episode is a recording of a roundtable discussion that took place during the ‘Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America’ conference on Zoom, 14-15th January 2021. The roundtable was chaired by Dr. Rachell Sánchez Rivera and included Hannah S. Borboleta, midwife, activist, and founder of the Morada Violeta clinic, Jaime Géliga, researcher and drag performance artist, Alexandra-Marie Figueroa, communications director of Taller Salud Puerto Rico. The panel discussed a range of topi...2021-04-011h 26Cuerpa PoliticaWhat’s so political about reproduction in Latin America? With Professor Laura BriggsProfessor Laura Briggs teaches and researches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an authoritative voice in several fields relating to reproductive politics across the Americas. She is the author of several monographs, including the landmark 2003 book Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, the 2017 book How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump, and most recently, Taking Children: A History of...2021-03-1744 minCuerpa PoliticaIntroducing: Cuerpa PolíticaLatin American countries have some of the world’s most contentious reproductive health laws and policies, and there are persistent challenges in the quest for reproductive justice. The lived realities of reproduction are mediated and shaped by political and legal frameworks and determined by economic, cultural, and social dynamics.Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by D...2021-03-0305 min