R Homanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 69001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Homanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Homanen |
| SIGNATURE | HOMANEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4630-9532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Configuring Race, Racialization and Reproduction in the Nordic Context
The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation
Donor conception is an area where increased emphasis on “openness” has produced major changes to legal, medical, and kinship practices. Anonymous gamete donations are becoming prohibited, and donor registers with identity-release systems are becoming common. These reforms assume that it is in a child's best interest to know the “truth” about their genetic origin, and that this overrides intended parents’ right to privacy. Drawing on ethnographic …
Good donors, bad donors and oddities in the family tree: Genomics, donation and reproductive citizenship in Finnish egg donor accounts
Research on reproductive citizenship has focused on prospective or intended parents and how they are (or are not) accorded responsibility, entitlement and support in creating a family. With third-party reproductive arrangements, reproductive tissue donors and surrogates have emerged as new reproductive citizens to be governed in public policy, law and medical practices. In this article, drawing on 23 in-depth interviews of Finnish egg donors, we …
Population anxieties in constituting Nordic welfare state futures: Affective biopolitics in the age of environmental crises
Declining fertility rates across world have generated deep concern among different stakeholders. In 2019, Finland’s fertility rate was at an ‘ultra-low’ 1.35 children per woman. Investigating the affective work of policymaking on population issues—‘population anxieties’—in a Nordic welfare state, this article constructs a genealogy of the affective biopolitics of populations in Finland. Drawing from a corpus of historical and recent materials, th…
Artificial intelligence and assisted reproductive technology: Applying a reproductive justice lens
In recent years, health-data-driven artificial intelligence and machine learning applications have been introduced to many areas of medicine. In the field of assisted reproduction, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and related technologies have been hailed as (potentially) significant and ground-breaking, not least because they promise standardisation and automation in in-vitro fertilisation clinics – a precondition for sc…
Making and Unmaking Migrants' Family Relationships in Finland: A Study of Nordic Welfare State Population Registration and Statistics Production
This article explores how Nordic welfare states produce knowledge about migrant family ties through registration and the register-based production of statistics. States govern migrants through this knowledge: their eligibility for social rights is based on register entries, and migration and foreign policies are based on register-derived statistics. By analysing how familial relationships are made and unmade in the registration of and production …
Justice reproductive en Finlande ? Le mythe de l'homogénéité dans une social-démocratie nordique
Bien que la social-démocratie finlandaise soit fondée sur l'égalité sociale, la justice reproductive n'est toujours pas une réalité dans ce pays. Les causes de cet état de fait sont explorées à l'aide de deux ethnographies sur les technologies de procréation médicalement assistée et, plus spécifiquement, sur les manquements à l'égalité de traitement liés à la race, la classe, le genre et la sexualité. Les entretiens avec des chercheur·se·s et des…
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry
The multibillion-dollar fertility industry promotes standardization in in vitro fertilization laboratories. Transnational pharmaceutical and biotechnological giants distribute a wide range of fertility products, from embryo culture mediums and incubator technologies to add-ons such as time-lapse embryo monitoring. These technologies are designed to standardize and automate knowledge production regarding embryonic viability. More effective knowled…
Reproducing whiteness and enacting kin in the Nordic context of transnational egg donation: Matching donors with cross-border traveller recipients in Finland
Assisted Reproduction across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalization, Disruptions and Transmissions
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are no longer new technologies or cutting-edge science. Rather they are, in many parts of the world, a mundane everyday practice to the extent that involun
Making valuable mothers in Finland: Assessing parenthood in publicly provided maternity healthcare
This article discusses the e/valuation of motherhood in the assessment practices of maternity healthcare provided by the welfare state. It argues that while middle-class women can position themselves more easily than working-class women as neoliberal, reflexive and self-responsible client-consumers, and can have their family values reflected back to them by maternity nurses, there is also room for values and subjects of value beyond the dominant …
Enabling and controlling parenthood in publicly provided maternity healthcare: Becoming a parent in Finland
This article discusses practices of parental support in the maternity healthcare provided by the welfare state. Drawing on ethnographic material from clinics in Finland, I discuss maternity healthcare practices and processes as the specific contexts of subjectification to parenthood in the Nordic welfare state. The analysis shows that in both nurses' (work) experience-based knowledge and population-statistical knowledge, parental competence is ac…
Reproducing whiteness and enacting kin in the Nordic context of transnational egg donation: Matching donors with cross-border traveller recipients in Finland
Making and Unmaking Migrants' Family Relationships in Finland: A Study of Nordic Welfare State Population Registration and Statistics Production
This article explores how Nordic welfare states produce knowledge about migrant family ties through registration and the register-based production of statistics. States govern migrants through this knowledge: their eligibility for social rights is based on register entries, and migration and foreign policies are based on register-derived statistics. By analysing how familial relationships are made and unmade in the registration of and production …
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry
The multibillion-dollar fertility industry promotes standardization in in vitro fertilization laboratories. Transnational pharmaceutical and biotechnological giants distribute a wide range of fertility products, from embryo culture mediums and incubator technologies to add-ons such as time-lapse embryo monitoring. These technologies are designed to standardize and automate knowledge production regarding embryonic viability. More effective knowled…
Making valuable mothers in Finland: Assessing parenthood in publicly provided maternity healthcare
This article discusses the e/valuation of motherhood in the assessment practices of maternity healthcare provided by the welfare state. It argues that while middle-class women can position themselves more easily than working-class women as neoliberal, reflexive and self-responsible client-consumers, and can have their family values reflected back to them by maternity nurses, there is also room for values and subjects of value beyond the dominant …
Assisted Reproduction across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalization, Disruptions and Transmissions
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are no longer new technologies or cutting-edge science. Rather they are, in many parts of the world, a mundane everyday practice to the extent that involun
Enabling and controlling parenthood in publicly provided maternity healthcare: Becoming a parent in Finland
This article discusses practices of parental support in the maternity healthcare provided by the welfare state. Drawing on ethnographic material from clinics in Finland, I discuss maternity healthcare practices and processes as the specific contexts of subjectification to parenthood in the Nordic welfare state. The analysis shows that in both nurses' (work) experience-based knowledge and population-statistical knowledge, parental competence is ac…
Assisted Reproduction across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalization, Disruptions and Transmissions
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are no longer new technologies or cutting-edge science. Rather they are, in many parts of the world, a mundane everyday practice to the extent that involun
Making valuable mothers in Finland: Assessing parenthood in publicly provided maternity healthcare
This article discusses the e/valuation of motherhood in the assessment practices of maternity healthcare provided by the welfare state. It argues that while middle-class women can position themselves more easily than working-class women as neoliberal, reflexive and self-responsible client-consumers, and can have their family values reflected back to them by maternity nurses, there is also room for values and subjects of value beyond the dominant …
Enabling and controlling parenthood in publicly provided maternity healthcare: Becoming a parent in Finland
This article discusses practices of parental support in the maternity healthcare provided by the welfare state. Drawing on ethnographic material from clinics in Finland, I discuss maternity healthcare practices and processes as the specific contexts of subjectification to parenthood in the Nordic welfare state. The analysis shows that in both nurses' (work) experience-based knowledge and population-statistical knowledge, parental competence is ac…
Reproducing whiteness and enacting kin in the Nordic context of transnational egg donation: Matching donors with cross-border traveller recipients in Finland
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry
The multibillion-dollar fertility industry promotes standardization in in vitro fertilization laboratories. Transnational pharmaceutical and biotechnological giants distribute a wide range of fertility products, from embryo culture mediums and incubator technologies to add-ons such as time-lapse embryo monitoring. These technologies are designed to standardize and automate knowledge production regarding embryonic viability. More effective knowled…
Justice reproductive en Finlande ? Le mythe de l'homogénéité dans une social-démocratie nordique
Bien que la social-démocratie finlandaise soit fondée sur l'égalité sociale, la justice reproductive n'est toujours pas une réalité dans ce pays. Les causes de cet état de fait sont explorées à l'aide de deux ethnographies sur les technologies de procréation médicalement assistée et, plus spécifiquement, sur les manquements à l'égalité de traitement liés à la race, la classe, le genre et la sexualité. Les entretiens avec des chercheur·se·s et des…
Population anxieties in constituting Nordic welfare state futures: Affective biopolitics in the age of environmental crises
Declining fertility rates across world have generated deep concern among different stakeholders. In 2019, Finland’s fertility rate was at an ‘ultra-low’ 1.35 children per woman. Investigating the affective work of policymaking on population issues—‘population anxieties’—in a Nordic welfare state, this article constructs a genealogy of the affective biopolitics of populations in Finland. Drawing from a corpus of historical and recent materials, th…
Artificial intelligence and assisted reproductive technology: Applying a reproductive justice lens
In recent years, health-data-driven artificial intelligence and machine learning applications have been introduced to many areas of medicine. In the field of assisted reproduction, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and related technologies have been hailed as (potentially) significant and ground-breaking, not least because they promise standardisation and automation in in-vitro fertilisation clinics – a precondition for sc…
Making and Unmaking Migrants' Family Relationships in Finland: A Study of Nordic Welfare State Population Registration and Statistics Production
This article explores how Nordic welfare states produce knowledge about migrant family ties through registration and the register-based production of statistics. States govern migrants through this knowledge: their eligibility for social rights is based on register entries, and migration and foreign policies are based on register-derived statistics. By analysing how familial relationships are made and unmade in the registration of and production …
Good donors, bad donors and oddities in the family tree: Genomics, donation and reproductive citizenship in Finnish egg donor accounts
Research on reproductive citizenship has focused on prospective or intended parents and how they are (or are not) accorded responsibility, entitlement and support in creating a family. With third-party reproductive arrangements, reproductive tissue donors and surrogates have emerged as new reproductive citizens to be governed in public policy, law and medical practices. In this article, drawing on 23 in-depth interviews of Finnish egg donors, we …
Configuring Race, Racialization and Reproduction in the Nordic Context
The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation
Donor conception is an area where increased emphasis on “openness” has produced major changes to legal, medical, and kinship practices. Anonymous gamete donations are becoming prohibited, and donor registers with identity-release systems are becoming common. These reforms assume that it is in a child's best interest to know the “truth” about their genetic origin, and that this overrides intended parents’ right to privacy. Drawing on ethnographic …
Political science (9 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Welfare (4 works)