Rajani Bhatia
Biographic Data
| ID | 218343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajani Bhatia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajani |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhatia |
| SIGNATURE | BHATIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6099-5471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies
Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become a nearly ubiquitous framework for understanding, critiquing, and intervening in complex social inequalities. Emerging from critical race and feminist studies, intersectionality has many shared analytic priorities with science and technology studies (STS), including an emphasis on co-emergent social forces, historical contingency, and interventions that challenge and enhance knowledge produc…
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety
Ecofascists’ environmentalism is primarily built around hatred. It builds on long-standing politics that conceive of population issues as the primary environmental problem. Using population replacement arguments about the threat of growing Black, immigrant, and Muslim populations, eco-fascists argue that immigrants are a threat to the environment, habitat, and home for white people of European descent. Building on a comparative analysis of majori…
Trading in harms: Covid-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state
Recruiting Egg Freezers via Informational Events: Affect, Sociality, and the Question of Informed Consent
The commercialization of egg freezing for fertility preservation spawned a market in information and education as much as in clinical services. Even before there was a technically viable mode to freeze eggs, Christy Jones envisioned “educational seminars” as a key “marketing and education” programmatic strategy in her 2004 contest-winning business plan for an egg freezing company at Harvard Business School. A decade and a half after Jones first p…
Tricky Tools for Feminist Struggle: Sex Ratios as Indicators of the Status of Women and Girls
This article takes up shifting meanings of the population sex ratio in select times and places. Through historicization and contextual analysis, I seek to identify possible origins and continuities of the gendered imperial and racialized logics that undergird current dilemmas for feminists related to the sex ratio. I argue that sex ratios, like other numerical abstractions that stand in as representations of empirical reality, are tricky tools fo…
Doing and undoing nation through ART: A Franco–American comparison
Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change
In this themed section, we identify three forms of populationism and bring them into conversation, which allows us to mount feminist challenges to present day forms of population control. These interventions are timely and necessary because of the continued prevalence of population control ideology and population alarmism in sustainable development and climate change policy and programs. We issue a direct challenge to scholarship that links popul…
A feminist exploration of 'populationism: Engaging Contemporary Forms of Population Control
Following the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 in Cairo, which prompted a discursive shift from population control to reproductive health and rights in international development, policy experts and scholars have relegated population control to the realm of history. This presents a unique challenge to feminist critics who seek to identify manifestations of population control in the present. In this article, we conside…
Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
The Biomedicalization of Social Egg Freezing: A Comparative Analysis of European and American Professional Ethics Opinions and US News and Popular Media
In 2012, two major professional societies representing Europe and the United States released influential statements that would propel a commercial market for social egg freezing (SEF), in which women bank their oocytes for later use in order to avoid compromised fertility that comes with age. While the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) condoned SEF based on reproductive autonomy and justice, the American Society for Re…
Cross-border sex selection: Ethical challenges posed by a globalizing practice
In this article, I examine reproductive travel for sex selection with reference to two distinct technologies—MicroSort and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Available since the 1990s for sex-linked disease avoidance, I focus here on their imbrication in an emerging global form of nonmedical, lifestyle sex selection that elicits movements of information, biomaterial, patients, providers, and equipment across borders. This web of cross-borde…
Raising the age of marriage in 1970s India: Demographers, despots, and feminists
A feminist exploration of 'populationism: Engaging Contemporary Forms of Population Control
Following the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 in Cairo, which prompted a discursive shift from population control to reproductive health and rights in international development, policy experts and scholars have relegated population control to the realm of history. This presents a unique challenge to feminist critics who seek to identify manifestations of population control in the present. In this article, we conside…
Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change
In this themed section, we identify three forms of populationism and bring them into conversation, which allows us to mount feminist challenges to present day forms of population control. These interventions are timely and necessary because of the continued prevalence of population control ideology and population alarmism in sustainable development and climate change policy and programs. We issue a direct challenge to scholarship that links popul…
The Biomedicalization of Social Egg Freezing: A Comparative Analysis of European and American Professional Ethics Opinions and US News and Popular Media
In 2012, two major professional societies representing Europe and the United States released influential statements that would propel a commercial market for social egg freezing (SEF), in which women bank their oocytes for later use in order to avoid compromised fertility that comes with age. While the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) condoned SEF based on reproductive autonomy and justice, the American Society for Re…
Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies
Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become a nearly ubiquitous framework for understanding, critiquing, and intervening in complex social inequalities. Emerging from critical race and feminist studies, intersectionality has many shared analytic priorities with science and technology studies (STS), including an emphasis on co-emergent social forces, historical contingency, and interventions that challenge and enhance knowledge produc…
Doing and undoing nation through ART: A Franco–American comparison
Raising the age of marriage in 1970s India: Demographers, despots, and feminists
Cross-border sex selection: Ethical challenges posed by a globalizing practice
In this article, I examine reproductive travel for sex selection with reference to two distinct technologies—MicroSort and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Available since the 1990s for sex-linked disease avoidance, I focus here on their imbrication in an emerging global form of nonmedical, lifestyle sex selection that elicits movements of information, biomaterial, patients, providers, and equipment across borders. This web of cross-borde…
Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
The Biomedicalization of Social Egg Freezing: A Comparative Analysis of European and American Professional Ethics Opinions and US News and Popular Media
In 2012, two major professional societies representing Europe and the United States released influential statements that would propel a commercial market for social egg freezing (SEF), in which women bank their oocytes for later use in order to avoid compromised fertility that comes with age. While the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) condoned SEF based on reproductive autonomy and justice, the American Society for Re…
Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change
In this themed section, we identify three forms of populationism and bring them into conversation, which allows us to mount feminist challenges to present day forms of population control. These interventions are timely and necessary because of the continued prevalence of population control ideology and population alarmism in sustainable development and climate change policy and programs. We issue a direct challenge to scholarship that links popul…
A feminist exploration of 'populationism: Engaging Contemporary Forms of Population Control
Following the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 in Cairo, which prompted a discursive shift from population control to reproductive health and rights in international development, policy experts and scholars have relegated population control to the realm of history. This presents a unique challenge to feminist critics who seek to identify manifestations of population control in the present. In this article, we conside…
Tricky Tools for Feminist Struggle: Sex Ratios as Indicators of the Status of Women and Girls
This article takes up shifting meanings of the population sex ratio in select times and places. Through historicization and contextual analysis, I seek to identify possible origins and continuities of the gendered imperial and racialized logics that undergird current dilemmas for feminists related to the sex ratio. I argue that sex ratios, like other numerical abstractions that stand in as representations of empirical reality, are tricky tools fo…
Doing and undoing nation through ART: A Franco–American comparison
Recruiting Egg Freezers via Informational Events: Affect, Sociality, and the Question of Informed Consent
The commercialization of egg freezing for fertility preservation spawned a market in information and education as much as in clinical services. Even before there was a technically viable mode to freeze eggs, Christy Jones envisioned “educational seminars” as a key “marketing and education” programmatic strategy in her 2004 contest-winning business plan for an egg freezing company at Harvard Business School. A decade and a half after Jones first p…
Trading in harms: Covid-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state
Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies
Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become a nearly ubiquitous framework for understanding, critiquing, and intervening in complex social inequalities. Emerging from critical race and feminist studies, intersectionality has many shared analytic priorities with science and technology studies (STS), including an emphasis on co-emergent social forces, historical contingency, and interventions that challenge and enhance knowledge produc…
Kindling green hate through eco- and demographic anxiety
Ecofascists’ environmentalism is primarily built around hatred. It builds on long-standing politics that conceive of population issues as the primary environmental problem. Using population replacement arguments about the threat of growing Black, immigrant, and Muslim populations, eco-fascists argue that immigrants are a threat to the environment, habitat, and home for white people of European descent. Building on a comparative analysis of majori…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Politics (3 works)