Sigrid Vertommen
Biographic Data
| ID | 938905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sigrid Vertommen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sigrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Vertommen |
| SIGNATURE | VERTOMMEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1648-8795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Surrogacy at the Fertility Frontier
Surrogacy is a popular assisted reproductive practice in Israel, and it has been legal since 1996, albeit, until recently, only for married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples who aspired to genetic parenthood were therefore “forced” to look for available surrogates abroad, in countries such as the United States, India, Nepal, Mexico, and Russia. This resulted in the emergence of a lucrative transnational surrogacy industry in Israel that reli…
I6 passages
La première étude clinique française utilisant des cellules souches embryonnaires humaines à des fins régénératives a été lancée en 2014, en employant la lignée de cellules souches I6 importée d'Israël. Entre Israël et la France, les politiques et les pratiques nationales en matière de reproduction informent sur la manière dont les biologistes produisent, gèrent et font circuler les cellules d'un pays à l'autre. S'appuyant sur une coproduction in…
Introduction
The introduction to the Special Section “Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies” (re)situates assisted reproductive technologies, infrastructures, and markets within older, yet ongoing, histories of colonialism, racial capitalism, and slavery. Engaging with the “colonial present” of a broad array of reproductive technologies, including surrogacy, adoption, seed saving, “slave breeding,” and in vitro…
Global Fertility Chains
Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the various ways reproductive tissues, bodies, services, customers, workers, and data are inserted into capitalist modes of accumulation. While many of these studies are empirically grounded in single country-based analyses, this paper proposes an integrative political ec…
The in/visible wombs of the market
Since the early 2000s transnational surrogacy has emerged as a new capitalist frontier founded on the intensification of the commodification of women’s reproductive labours, bodies and biologies. This has resulted in academic and policy debates on whether to outlaw surrogacy altogether or to ban commercial surrogacy in favour of altruistic forms of surrogacy. Rather than tackling surrogacy in moralising terms of ‘altruistic’ gift-giving versus ‘g…
I6 passages
The first French clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells for regenerative purposes was launched in 2014, using the I6 stem cell line that was imported from Israel. From Israel to France, national reproductive policies and practices inform how basic scientists produce, manage and circulate cells across countries. Building on an interdisciplinary co-production involving two social scientists and a life scientist, this article suggests that …
Babies from Behind Bars
It was easy to congratulate the mother, who was sitting on the hospital bed, beaming with pride. Majd’s father, however, was only present through his absence. Twelve years ago, Abdul Kareem Al-Rimawi was sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting at Israeli soldiers. Being denied conjugal visits, the only contact he and his wife have had over the last 12 years has been through a glass window. Although the Holy Land is famous for its miraculous …
From the pergonal project to Kadimastem
Extractions
In the introduction of her newest book, Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism, Michal Nahman states: “There are various ways to tell the story of Israeli egg donation. It is how you c
Assisted Reproductive Technologies at the Frontier
Global Fertility Chains
Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the various ways reproductive tissues, bodies, services, customers, workers, and data are inserted into capitalist modes of accumulation. While many of these studies are empirically grounded in single country-based analyses, this paper proposes an integrative political ec…
The in/visible wombs of the market
Since the early 2000s transnational surrogacy has emerged as a new capitalist frontier founded on the intensification of the commodification of women’s reproductive labours, bodies and biologies. This has resulted in academic and policy debates on whether to outlaw surrogacy altogether or to ban commercial surrogacy in favour of altruistic forms of surrogacy. Rather than tackling surrogacy in moralising terms of ‘altruistic’ gift-giving versus ‘g…
From the pergonal project to Kadimastem
I6 passages
The first French clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells for regenerative purposes was launched in 2014, using the I6 stem cell line that was imported from Israel. From Israel to France, national reproductive policies and practices inform how basic scientists produce, manage and circulate cells across countries. Building on an interdisciplinary co-production involving two social scientists and a life scientist, this article suggests that …
Assisted Reproductive Technologies at the Frontier
Surrogacy at the Fertility Frontier
Surrogacy is a popular assisted reproductive practice in Israel, and it has been legal since 1996, albeit, until recently, only for married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples who aspired to genetic parenthood were therefore “forced” to look for available surrogates abroad, in countries such as the United States, India, Nepal, Mexico, and Russia. This resulted in the emergence of a lucrative transnational surrogacy industry in Israel that reli…
Extractions
In the introduction of her newest book, Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism, Michal Nahman states: “There are various ways to tell the story of Israeli egg donation. It is how you c
Assisted Reproductive Technologies at the Frontier
Babies from Behind Bars
It was easy to congratulate the mother, who was sitting on the hospital bed, beaming with pride. Majd’s father, however, was only present through his absence. Twelve years ago, Abdul Kareem Al-Rimawi was sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting at Israeli soldiers. Being denied conjugal visits, the only contact he and his wife have had over the last 12 years has been through a glass window. Although the Holy Land is famous for its miraculous …
From the pergonal project to Kadimastem
I6 passages
The first French clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells for regenerative purposes was launched in 2014, using the I6 stem cell line that was imported from Israel. From Israel to France, national reproductive policies and practices inform how basic scientists produce, manage and circulate cells across countries. Building on an interdisciplinary co-production involving two social scientists and a life scientist, this article suggests that …
The in/visible wombs of the market
Since the early 2000s transnational surrogacy has emerged as a new capitalist frontier founded on the intensification of the commodification of women’s reproductive labours, bodies and biologies. This has resulted in academic and policy debates on whether to outlaw surrogacy altogether or to ban commercial surrogacy in favour of altruistic forms of surrogacy. Rather than tackling surrogacy in moralising terms of ‘altruistic’ gift-giving versus ‘g…
Introduction
The introduction to the Special Section “Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies” (re)situates assisted reproductive technologies, infrastructures, and markets within older, yet ongoing, histories of colonialism, racial capitalism, and slavery. Engaging with the “colonial present” of a broad array of reproductive technologies, including surrogacy, adoption, seed saving, “slave breeding,” and in vitro…
Global Fertility Chains
Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the various ways reproductive tissues, bodies, services, customers, workers, and data are inserted into capitalist modes of accumulation. While many of these studies are empirically grounded in single country-based analyses, this paper proposes an integrative political ec…
Surrogacy at the Fertility Frontier
Surrogacy is a popular assisted reproductive practice in Israel, and it has been legal since 1996, albeit, until recently, only for married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples who aspired to genetic parenthood were therefore “forced” to look for available surrogates abroad, in countries such as the United States, India, Nepal, Mexico, and Russia. This resulted in the emergence of a lucrative transnational surrogacy industry in Israel that reli…
I6 passages
La première étude clinique française utilisant des cellules souches embryonnaires humaines à des fins régénératives a été lancée en 2014, en employant la lignée de cellules souches I6 importée d'Israël. Entre Israël et la France, les politiques et les pratiques nationales en matière de reproduction informent sur la manière dont les biologistes produisent, gèrent et font circuler les cellules d'un pays à l'autre. S'appuyant sur une coproduction in…
Reproductive Health and Technologies (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ecology (3 works)