R Van Der Waal
Biographic Data
| ID | 68746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Van Der Waal |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Waal |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER WAAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Humanistic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2152-2695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Obstetric racism in Europe
In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death. Through bio‐ and necropolitics, certain life is optimized by investments, and other life is negated by disinvestments in reproductive…
Birth Justice
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The Undercommons of Childbirth and Their Abolitionist Ethic of Care. A Study into Obstetric Violence Among Mothers, Midwives (in Training), and Doulas
Engaging in dialogue with critical mothers, midwives, midwives in training, and doulas in the Netherlands, this study furthers the theoretical understanding of both obstetric violence and the activist resistance against it. Obstetric violence is understood as part of a process of relational separation, leaving the pregnant person isolated. The activist resistance against it is consequently theorized as the abolitionist building of an alternative …
I Give Birth / I Lay Bare / I Dissolve
Hacking Reproductive Justice
Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenic principle, Chiara Bottici’s feminist mythology, and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Black feminist praxis of hacking, all underscore the importance of working through the myths, codes, and origin stories that discursively form our world. We identify the biblical story of Solomon’s judgment as an origin story which constitutes an understanding of justice in matters of reproduction that is still hegemonic today, and that must …
The 'dead baby card' and the early modern accusation of infanticide
This article concerns a form of contemporary obstetric violence that is known as 'playing the dead baby card'. Playing the dead baby card entails shroud waving where the threat to the foetus' life is exaggerated to get the pregnant person to comply with obstetric policy. I argue that the playing of the dead baby card echoes the accusation of infanticide, which was prominent in the early modern witch hunts as the most common verdict for which wome…
Undercommoning Anthrogenesis
Sophie Lewis coined anthrogenesis as "the production of human beings" and, using this unfamiliar term, calls for the radical reimagining of gestational politics, as an alternative to liberal feminism's focus on choice. Revivisng Shulamith Firestone, for feminists like Lewis and Helen Hester this reimagination takes shape within a techno-utopic communist framework. While enticing, such a framework relies on a modernist understanding of institution…
Obstetric Violence
Obstetric violence , a term coined by activists in Latin America to describe violence during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, is a controversial feminist term in global health policymaking as well as in obstetric and midwifery practice and research. We reflect on the term both theoretically and autoethnographically to demonstrate its feminist value in addressing the problem of violence as embedded within the obstetric institution. We argue …
When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds
Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue with the work of Édouard Glissant and Denise Ferreira …
Mijn belichaamde kennis is van waarde
Based on autoethnographic material and feminist theory, such as care ethics and epistemic (in)justice studies, we expose four forms of epistemic injustice in reproductive care in the Netherlands: hermeneutical injustice, testimonial injustice, willful hermeneutical ignorance, and gaslighting. These forms of injustice rest on deeply rooted systems and their associated assumptions and on practices that produce and reproduce this injustice. We draw …
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity. We argue that the modern obstetric subject (doctor or midwife) representing the obstetric institution engulfs the (m)other in a typically modern way as othered, racialised, affectable and outer-determined, i…
Bodies that birth’ and the violence it bears
Rachelle Chadwick has been a crucial voice in theorising and exploring obstetric violence in the global south, especially in South Africa. Chadwick has published widely on reproductive politics, birth narratives, critical feminist methodologies and obstetric violence. She is currently leading the Gestational Justice Research Hub, a research group dedicated to gestational and reproductive justice at the University of Pretoria, funded by the Nation…
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity. We argue that the modern obstetric subject (doctor or midwife) representing the obstetric institution engulfs the (m)other in a typically modern way as othered, racialised, affectable and outer-determined, i…
Undercommoning Anthrogenesis
Sophie Lewis coined anthrogenesis as "the production of human beings" and, using this unfamiliar term, calls for the radical reimagining of gestational politics, as an alternative to liberal feminism's focus on choice. Revivisng Shulamith Firestone, for feminists like Lewis and Helen Hester this reimagination takes shape within a techno-utopic communist framework. While enticing, such a framework relies on a modernist understanding of institution…
Bodies that birth’ and the violence it bears
Rachelle Chadwick has been a crucial voice in theorising and exploring obstetric violence in the global south, especially in South Africa. Chadwick has published widely on reproductive politics, birth narratives, critical feminist methodologies and obstetric violence. She is currently leading the Gestational Justice Research Hub, a research group dedicated to gestational and reproductive justice at the University of Pretoria, funded by the Nation…
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity. We argue that the modern obstetric subject (doctor or midwife) representing the obstetric institution engulfs the (m)other in a typically modern way as othered, racialised, affectable and outer-determined, i…
Bodies that birth’ and the violence it bears
Rachelle Chadwick has been a crucial voice in theorising and exploring obstetric violence in the global south, especially in South Africa. Chadwick has published widely on reproductive politics, birth narratives, critical feminist methodologies and obstetric violence. She is currently leading the Gestational Justice Research Hub, a research group dedicated to gestational and reproductive justice at the University of Pretoria, funded by the Nation…
Mijn belichaamde kennis is van waarde
Based on autoethnographic material and feminist theory, such as care ethics and epistemic (in)justice studies, we expose four forms of epistemic injustice in reproductive care in the Netherlands: hermeneutical injustice, testimonial injustice, willful hermeneutical ignorance, and gaslighting. These forms of injustice rest on deeply rooted systems and their associated assumptions and on practices that produce and reproduce this injustice. We draw …
Obstetric Violence
Obstetric violence , a term coined by activists in Latin America to describe violence during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, is a controversial feminist term in global health policymaking as well as in obstetric and midwifery practice and research. We reflect on the term both theoretically and autoethnographically to demonstrate its feminist value in addressing the problem of violence as embedded within the obstetric institution. We argue …
When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds
Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue with the work of Édouard Glissant and Denise Ferreira …
Undercommoning Anthrogenesis
Sophie Lewis coined anthrogenesis as "the production of human beings" and, using this unfamiliar term, calls for the radical reimagining of gestational politics, as an alternative to liberal feminism's focus on choice. Revivisng Shulamith Firestone, for feminists like Lewis and Helen Hester this reimagination takes shape within a techno-utopic communist framework. While enticing, such a framework relies on a modernist understanding of institution…
Birth Justice
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The Undercommons of Childbirth and Their Abolitionist Ethic of Care. A Study into Obstetric Violence Among Mothers, Midwives (in Training), and Doulas
Engaging in dialogue with critical mothers, midwives, midwives in training, and doulas in the Netherlands, this study furthers the theoretical understanding of both obstetric violence and the activist resistance against it. Obstetric violence is understood as part of a process of relational separation, leaving the pregnant person isolated. The activist resistance against it is consequently theorized as the abolitionist building of an alternative …
I Give Birth / I Lay Bare / I Dissolve
Hacking Reproductive Justice
Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenic principle, Chiara Bottici’s feminist mythology, and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Black feminist praxis of hacking, all underscore the importance of working through the myths, codes, and origin stories that discursively form our world. We identify the biblical story of Solomon’s judgment as an origin story which constitutes an understanding of justice in matters of reproduction that is still hegemonic today, and that must …
The 'dead baby card' and the early modern accusation of infanticide
This article concerns a form of contemporary obstetric violence that is known as 'playing the dead baby card'. Playing the dead baby card entails shroud waving where the threat to the foetus' life is exaggerated to get the pregnant person to comply with obstetric policy. I argue that the playing of the dead baby card echoes the accusation of infanticide, which was prominent in the early modern witch hunts as the most common verdict for which wome…
Obstetric racism in Europe
In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death. Through bio‐ and necropolitics, certain life is optimized by investments, and other life is negated by disinvestments in reproductive…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Pregnancy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Childbirth (3 works)