T Moll
Biographic Data
| ID | 50549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Moll |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Moll |
| SIGNATURE | MOLL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7230-7082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned involuntary childlessness to the interiority of the body. In this article, I suggest a conceptual rethink …
Troubling the canon: Language, geography, and the politics of STS publishing in five decades of journal publications
STS is now a global endeavour, with journals, scholars, and associations in a wide range of regions, languages, and transnational networks of knowledge. Building on recent debates about decolonizing research, we contribute to debates about epistemic injustice and asymmetries in the discipline by analysing a large sample of articles in 17 STS journals, published between 1976 and 2023. Our goal is to understand the multiplicity of factors that shap…
Foetal programming meets human capital: Biological plasticity, development, and the limits to the economization of life
The disciplinary integration of biology and economy is taking new forms in the postgenomic era, transforming long-standing exchanges between human biology and economics. In this article, we first describe how an emerging area of research in development and health economics has embraced, stabilized, and expanded the emerging field of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). We map the global expansion of this literature particularl…
Egg providers in eGoli: Operability and aspiration in South African fertility markets
In South Africa's urban hubs, young women are increasingly participating in the global fertility market by donating their eggs. Egg providers, who supply oocytes for others' use in fertility treatment, are a key resource in the fertility market, and they are emblematic of new forms of biolabor. Egg markets have tapped into a precariously middle-class population of young Black women in Johannesburg, where the neoliberal state has largely retreated…
Assisted Reproductive Technology: Capital, Affect, Kinship, Bodies, Faith, Mobility, and Coloniality
Assisted Reproductive Technology: Capital, Affect, Kinship, Bodies, Faith, Mobility, and Coloniality
A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era
Recent studies demonstrating epigenetic and developmental sensitivity to early environments, as exemplified by fields like the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) and environmental epigenetics, are bringing new data and models to bear on debates about race, genetics, and society. Here, we first survey the historical prominence of models of environmental determinism in early formulations of racial thinking to illustrate how notions…
Reproductive travel to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age
Part of the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is the premise that the children born from in vitro fertilization (IVF) are no different from their counterparts conceived spontaneously. However, interest in peri-conception health and new epigenetic understandings of biological plasticity has led to some questioning the presumed irrelevance of conception in vitro, and when doing so, describing IVF children as "apparently hea…
Assisted Reproduction: Politics, Ethics and Anthropological Futures
Anthropological literature on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) has burgeoned in the forty years since IVF emerged as a potential solution to childlessness. A lexicon has consolidated, and key sets of debates have been identified. Chief among these are questions of kinship, the intersection of technologies and local moral worlds, and the circulation of gametes and technological know-how. The recent publication of five books in the Berghahn s…
Making a Match: Curating Race in South African Gamete Donation
What shapes would-be parents' choices of gamete donors for third-party IVF? Following extensive ethnographic fieldwork in South African fertility clinics and egg donor agencies, I explore the work of donor matching, a process in which translational figures mediate patient desires, donor biography and corporeality, and racial imaginaries to assist would-be parents. In doing so, these figures, or "matchers," draw upon both historical schemas and no…
Gendered bio-responsibilities and travelling egg providers from South Africa
Biological relatives: IVF, stem cells, and the future of kinship
Gendered bio-responsibilities and travelling egg providers from South Africa
Making a Match: Curating Race in South African Gamete Donation
What shapes would-be parents' choices of gamete donors for third-party IVF? Following extensive ethnographic fieldwork in South African fertility clinics and egg donor agencies, I explore the work of donor matching, a process in which translational figures mediate patient desires, donor biography and corporeality, and racial imaginaries to assist would-be parents. In doing so, these figures, or "matchers," draw upon both historical schemas and no…
Assisted Reproduction: Politics, Ethics and Anthropological Futures
Anthropological literature on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) has burgeoned in the forty years since IVF emerged as a potential solution to childlessness. A lexicon has consolidated, and key sets of debates have been identified. Chief among these are questions of kinship, the intersection of technologies and local moral worlds, and the circulation of gametes and technological know-how. The recent publication of five books in the Berghahn s…
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age
Part of the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is the premise that the children born from in vitro fertilization (IVF) are no different from their counterparts conceived spontaneously. However, interest in peri-conception health and new epigenetic understandings of biological plasticity has led to some questioning the presumed irrelevance of conception in vitro, and when doing so, describing IVF children as "apparently hea…
Biological relatives: IVF, stem cells, and the future of kinship
Gendered bio-responsibilities and travelling egg providers from South Africa
Making a Match: Curating Race in South African Gamete Donation
What shapes would-be parents' choices of gamete donors for third-party IVF? Following extensive ethnographic fieldwork in South African fertility clinics and egg donor agencies, I explore the work of donor matching, a process in which translational figures mediate patient desires, donor biography and corporeality, and racial imaginaries to assist would-be parents. In doing so, these figures, or "matchers," draw upon both historical schemas and no…
Assisted Reproduction: Politics, Ethics and Anthropological Futures
Anthropological literature on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) has burgeoned in the forty years since IVF emerged as a potential solution to childlessness. A lexicon has consolidated, and key sets of debates have been identified. Chief among these are questions of kinship, the intersection of technologies and local moral worlds, and the circulation of gametes and technological know-how. The recent publication of five books in the Berghahn s…
A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era
Recent studies demonstrating epigenetic and developmental sensitivity to early environments, as exemplified by fields like the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) and environmental epigenetics, are bringing new data and models to bear on debates about race, genetics, and society. Here, we first survey the historical prominence of models of environmental determinism in early formulations of racial thinking to illustrate how notions…
Reproductive travel to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age
Part of the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is the premise that the children born from in vitro fertilization (IVF) are no different from their counterparts conceived spontaneously. However, interest in peri-conception health and new epigenetic understandings of biological plasticity has led to some questioning the presumed irrelevance of conception in vitro, and when doing so, describing IVF children as "apparently hea…
Assisted Reproductive Technology: Capital, Affect, Kinship, Bodies, Faith, Mobility, and Coloniality
Assisted Reproductive Technology: Capital, Affect, Kinship, Bodies, Faith, Mobility, and Coloniality
Foetal programming meets human capital: Biological plasticity, development, and the limits to the economization of life
The disciplinary integration of biology and economy is taking new forms in the postgenomic era, transforming long-standing exchanges between human biology and economics. In this article, we first describe how an emerging area of research in development and health economics has embraced, stabilized, and expanded the emerging field of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). We map the global expansion of this literature particularl…
Egg providers in eGoli: Operability and aspiration in South African fertility markets
In South Africa's urban hubs, young women are increasingly participating in the global fertility market by donating their eggs. Egg providers, who supply oocytes for others' use in fertility treatment, are a key resource in the fertility market, and they are emblematic of new forms of biolabor. Egg markets have tapped into a precariously middle-class population of young Black women in Johannesburg, where the neoliberal state has largely retreated…
Troubling the canon: Language, geography, and the politics of STS publishing in five decades of journal publications
STS is now a global endeavour, with journals, scholars, and associations in a wide range of regions, languages, and transnational networks of knowledge. Building on recent debates about decolonizing research, we contribute to debates about epistemic injustice and asymmetries in the discipline by analysing a large sample of articles in 17 STS journals, published between 1976 and 2023. Our goal is to understand the multiplicity of factors that shap…
Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned involuntary childlessness to the interiority of the body. In this article, I suggest a conceptual rethink …
Sociology (9 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)