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From biopolitics to bioeconomies: The ART of (re-)producing white futures in Mexico's surrogacy market
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Reproduction has been the privileged site of post-colonial eugenic politics through which the future national body is regulated in racial terms. Nikolas Rose argues that new forms of liberal eugenics have replaced traditional state biopolitics. In the current bioeconomy, it is no longer the state but active consumers that make (racialized) reproductive choices. The market of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Mexico serves as an empirical case to argue that the liberal eugenics practiced in this market recasts rather than replaces traditional state biopolitics. This becomes evident in (1) the racialized access to surrogacy programs in Mexico and (2) in giving higher value to white sex cells, while (3) devaluing the genetic traits of non-white women through the selection and classification processes of reproductive laborers. Analyzing the transnational geographies of surrogacy markets in Mexico, the article investigates how future bodies are whitened through biomedical practices and consumer choices that are shaped by and simultaneously reinforce (post-)colonial imaginaries of white desirability.
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“While commissioning parents tend to recruit egg cell vendors who match their ideals of 'good genetic motherhood' in terms of ethnicity, intelligence and physical traits, the surrogates are employed as 'mere' gestational carriers whose genetic makeup is constructed as relatively irrelevant (Winddance Twine, 2011; Pande, 2014; Schurr, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Schurr, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Schurr, Carolin
- Venue
- Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-07-26
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 241-262
- ISSN
- 0263-7758 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-3433
- OpenAlex
- W2322965022
- Cited by
- 91
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 8.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
- Locations
- Environment and Planning D Society and Space (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Bioethics and Human Rights Issues
- Keywords
- surrogacy, assisted reproduction, biopolitics, bioeconomy, liberal eugenics, racialization, reproductive labor, reproductive choice, consumer choice, Mexico, postcolonial imaginary
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