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Legitimating life : adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology, Sonja van Wichelen
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- Summary
- The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial. Throughout the past few decades transnational adoption transformed from a humanitarian response to a means of making family. In this new manifestation, life becomes necessarily economized. While push and pull factors, demand and supply dynamics, and competition between agencies set the stage for the globalization of adoption, international conventions, scientific knowledge, and the language of human rights universalized the phenomenon. Van Wichelen argues that such technoscientific legitimations of a globalizing practice are rearticulating colonial logics of race and civilization. Yet, she also lets us see beyond the biopolitical project and into alternative ways of making kin
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 207 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology
- The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism
- Double movements: international law as transparency device
- Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption
- Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant
- Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations
- Conclusion: legitimating life
- Isbn
- 9781978800526
- Label
- Legitimating life : adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology
- Title
- Legitimating life
- Title remainder
- adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology
- Statement of responsibility
- Sonja van Wichelen
- Subject
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- Adoption
- Anthropologische Medizin
- Ausländisches Kind
- Familiensoziologie
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Intercountry adoption
- Intercountry adoption
- Intercountry adoption
- Internationales Familienrecht
- Niederlande
- Reproduktionsmedizin
- USA
- Vergleichende Forschung
- Verwandtschaft
- 70.10 multidisciplinary fields of interest in the social sciences
- 70.10 multidisciplinary fields of interest in the social sciences
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial. Throughout the past few decades transnational adoption transformed from a humanitarian response to a means of making family. In this new manifestation, life becomes necessarily economized. While push and pull factors, demand and supply dynamics, and competition between agencies set the stage for the globalization of adoption, international conventions, scientific knowledge, and the language of human rights universalized the phenomenon. Van Wichelen argues that such technoscientific legitimations of a globalizing practice are rearticulating colonial logics of race and civilization. Yet, she also lets us see beyond the biopolitical project and into alternative ways of making kin
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wichelen, Sonja van
- Dewey number
- 362.734
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV875.5
- LC item number
- .W53 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Intercountry adoption
- Human reproductive technology
- Human reproductive technology
- Intercountry adoption
- Familiensoziologie
- Anthropologische Medizin
- Verwandtschaft
- Adoption
- Reproduktionsmedizin
- Internationales Familienrecht
- Ausländisches Kind
- Adoption
- Vergleichende Forschung
- Niederlande
- USA
- 70.10 multidisciplinary fields of interest in the social sciences
- Label
- Legitimating life : adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology, Sonja van Wichelen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology -- The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism -- Double movements: international law as transparency device -- Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption -- Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant -- Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations -- Conclusion: legitimating life
- Control code
- 1029100516
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 207 pages
- Isbn
- 9781978800526
- Lccn
- 2018008421
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029100516
- Label
- Legitimating life : adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology, Sonja van Wichelen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: adoption in the age of globalization and biotechnology -- The ethical market: between reproduction and humanitarianism -- Double movements: international law as transparency device -- Valuing bodies: somatic ethics in the biomedicalization of adoption -- Grievable lives: the adoptee and the child migrant -- Economies of return: openness, knowledge, relations -- Conclusion: legitimating life
- Control code
- 1029100516
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 207 pages
- Isbn
- 9781978800526
- Lccn
- 2018008421
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029100516
Subject
- Adoption
- Anthropologische Medizin
- Ausländisches Kind
- Familiensoziologie
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Intercountry adoption
- Intercountry adoption
- Intercountry adoption
- Internationales Familienrecht
- Niederlande
- Reproduktionsmedizin
- USA
- Vergleichende Forschung
- Verwandtschaft
- 70.10 multidisciplinary fields of interest in the social sciences
- 70.10 multidisciplinary fields of interest in the social sciences
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