Full Description
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and other forms of migrant labor in the Americas together with the emerging "Wild West" of biotechnology and surrogacy in the Indian subcontinent. The volume is profoundly interdisciplinary and includes both prominent and emerging scholars from a wide variety of fields, including anthropology, law, literary and cultural studies, science and technology studies, and social policy. These contributors speak to the dynamic, continually changing facets of the nexus of care and value across these two key regions of the global south. By mobilizing specific locations and techno-economics and putting them into dialogue with one another, South of the Future rematerializes the gendered, racialized bodies that are far too often rendered invisible in structural analyses of the global south, or else are confined to particular geo- and biopolitical paradigms of emerging markets. Instead, these bodies occupy the center of a global, highly financialized economy of creating and sustaining life.
Contents
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
