Franklin
Biographic Data
| ID | 9472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franklin |
| FAMILY NAME | Franklin |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKLIN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4623-6962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1059 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Understanding the Challenges in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement in Florida
Florida ranks third in the United States for prevalence rates of human trafficking, but there are still clear gaps in the way we address human trafficking in terms of prevention, intervention, and treatment. To better understand the gaps in services for human trafficking survivors from the perspective of the providers who serve them, we conducted in-depth interviews with anti-trafficking stakeholders in Florida. This comprehensive gap analysis he…
Fear of victimisation among LGBTQ+ students at Latine-focused institutions v. predominately white institutions: An examination across sexuality, gender identity, and ethnoracial identity
Strains and Self-Harm: A Look at LGBQ, Transgender, and Non-binary College Students
Queer criminology is quickly growing but is often not integrated within orthodox theoretical frameworks. Moreover, many studies analyze the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals as a monolithic experience instead of investigating the nuances between sexuality and gender identity. This study bridges these gaps by using a national sample of college students and applying an intersectional, queer criminological lens to a general strain theory framework t…
The Roles of Race and Mental Health in the On-scene Outcomes of Public Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are most frequently committed by white men. Yet, these white perpetrators often do not meet the same fatal fate as Black people who have committed lesser crimes, particularly in the United States. Furthermore, Black people with mental health issues in such situations are more commonly met with lethal force. This study investigates if disparities exist in the likelihood of being apprehended, taking one's own life, or being killed by…
Ans De Reproduction Médicalement Assistée: Une Lecture Anthropologique Et Féministe
Dans cet entretien, Sarah Franklin revient sur son itinéraire, proposant des pistes pour aborder les transformations intervenues dans le champ de la reproduction médicalement assistée depuis 40 ans. Avec des enquêtes sur la médecine régénérative, le clonage ou les marchés de tissus et services reproductifs, Sarah Franklin est une figure incontournable de l'analyse des mutations médicales et sociales contemporaines dans le champ de la reproduction…
Conception among the anthropologists
Gender as a proxy: Diagnosing and resisting carceral genderisms
Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Nostalgic Nationalism: How a Discourse of Sacrificial Reproduction Helped Fuel Brexit Britain
Two years ago my partner and I moved to a small rural English village in South Cambridgeshire, close to the Suffolk border. The parish, which dates back to the tenth century, occupies a thin stretch of land along a tributary of the river Stour. It is surrounded by some of the most productive agricultural land in Europe, farmed since Neolithic times. Paths dating back to 3000 BC cross the village green, bordered by the tiny local post office and s…
Developmental Landmarks and the Warnock Report: A Sociological Account of Biological Translation
At a crucial meeting during their proceedings, on 9 November 1983, the sixteen members of Britain's influential Warnock Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology reached a key decision on how to base proposals for comprehensive legislation governing this largely uncharted territory. Famously, they chose the formation of the 'primitive streak' in the early embryo as the basis for the fourteen-day rule that has now served as the global benchm…
Interpreting Strathern's ‘unconscious’ critique of ontology: Debate
Staying with the Manifesto: An Interview with Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway's recent volume, Manifestly Haraway, offers the opportunity not only to compare two of her most influential writings side-by-side but also to revisit some of the enduring themes of her work over the past several decades. In this interview with Haraway, feminist science studies scholar Sarah Franklin explores some of the key terms in her work, looking back to some of her early work on embryology and primatology as well as exploring t…
Sexism As A Means Of Reproduction: Some Reflections On The Politics Of Academic Practice
Personal experience remains an important resource in the collective effort to document the many faces of sexism - a problem with a name, but an elusive diagnosis. This article, based on a lecture of the same title prepared for the Sexism Workshop at Goldsmiths College in 2014, builds on personal experience to address the persistence of sexism in the academy. The individual experiences on which it is based are both personal and generic, and the ai…
The Oldham Notebooks: A look back at one of the most remarkable scientific collaborations of the twentieth century
Analogic Return: The Reproductive Life of Conceptuality
One of the most important lessons the work of Marilyn Strathern has taught us about knowledge practices is how they stand alone or intersect according to their context. In turn, this has helped us to develop a more dynamic account of knowledge formations as they both travel and stand still. Indeed it is the vacillation between movement and stasis that explains how essentialisms can either anchor cultural systems of thought or become unmoored - a …
Rethinking reproductive politics in time, and time in UK reproductive politics: 1978-2008
This paper explores two different but interlinked and contemporaneous debates over reproductive politics in which we can observe at least three distinct combinations of time. In the first part, I describe the shift in the 1980s to a 'biologized' time by British Christian Right-to-Life groups, who began to use a secularized ontogeny to promote and defend a religious definition of 'the way, the truth, and the life' - an altered 'theo-ontology' base…
Revisiting Holistic Interventions in Substance Abuse Treatment
Holism is regarded as an effective means of alternative treatment, and there has been an increase in the number of innovative holistic treatment interventions in diverse fields of practice. Holistic practices in substance abuse treatment programs encompass therapies such as expressive therapy, art therapy, spiritual, or religious interventions; osteopathic treatment; acupuncture; and more. Although there is limited research on the effectiveness a…
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What’s in the Dish? Comments on Franklin’s In Vitro Anthropos Hannah Landecker Conceptual Clarity for Conception Frameworks: Comments on Franklin’s In Vitro Anthropos Charis Thompson Reply Sarah Franklin
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF …
In Vitro Anthropos: New Conception Models for a Recursive Anthropology
Drawing on fieldwork in U.K. stem cell labs, where early human development is modelled in vitro using cell culture systems, and cultured cell lines are used to make new diagnostic tools, this article explores a new meaning for the phrase 'conception model'. In the London labs where the author has conducted fieldwork since the 1990s are many examples of how human reproductive cells are being used to manufacture and 'road test' new diagnostic tools…
Anthropology of Biomedicine and Bioscience
Saint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of Russian Identity
This book tells three stories. The first traces the biography of the monk Sergii of Radonezh (1322–92), founder of the Trinity monastery at the place now called Sergiev Posad (“Zagorsk” for much of the Soviet period) about forty miles northeast of Moscow. The second story tells of Sergii's afterlife as Russia's most revered native saint, credited as the inspiration for the expansion of cenobitic monasticism, a worker of healing miracles, and inte…
Lynn M. Morgan, Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
Journal Article Lynn M. Morgan, Icons of Life: a Cultural History of Human Embryos Get access Lynn M. Morgan, Icons of Life: a Cultural History of Human Embryos, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 310. $21.95, £14.95. ISBN 978 0 52 026044 3. Sarah Franklin Sarah Franklin London School of Economics [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social H…
Specimens as Spectacles
Questions about the meaning of the human species have also raised the issue of its representation, and in this article the authors consider the role of bio-art in the production of the specimen as spectacle. Something we look both at and through, specimens have a long visual history that has recently become the subject of both artistic and scholarly re-evaluation. Here, bio-artist Suzanne Anker is interviewed by feminist science studies scholar S…
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology. Jeanette Edwards , Carles Salazar
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF …
Science as Culture, Cultures of Science
Although controversial, science studies has emerged in the 1990s as a significant culture area within anthropology. Various histories inform the cultural analysis of science, both outside and within anthropology. A shift from the study of gender to the study of science, the influence of postcolonial critiques of the discipline, and the impact of cultural studies are discussed in terms of their influence upon the cultural analysis of science. New …
Re-thinking nature-culture: Anthropology and the new genetics
This article explores the implications of `the new genetics' for anthropology as questions of articulation, connection, and relation - or as the production of difference. Using Marilyn Strathern's model of merographic connection, and drawing on recent ethnographic work on the new genetics, including my own, the question of what kinds of connections and relations are being forged through emergent forms of genetic information is critically explored…
Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the "new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method. Using detailed empirical evidence, the authors show that …
The Cyborg Embryo: Our Path to Transbiology
It is useful on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the 'Cyborg Manifesto' not only to reconsider its lessons in the context of what is frequently described as the re-engineering of 'life itself', but to look at Haraway's earlier work on embryos. In this article I begin with Haraway's analysis of embryology in the 1970s to suggest her cyborg embryo was already there, and has, if anything, gained relevance in today's embryo-strewn society. I a…
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective
Embryonic Economies: The Double Reproductive Value of Stem Cells
Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit
New Directions in Kinship Study: A Core Concept Revisited
Staying with the Manifesto: An Interview with Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway's recent volume, Manifestly Haraway, offers the opportunity not only to compare two of her most influential writings side-by-side but also to revisit some of the enduring themes of her work over the past several decades. In this interview with Haraway, feminist science studies scholar Sarah Franklin explores some of the key terms in her work, looking back to some of her early work on embryology and primatology as well as exploring t…
Analogic Return: The Reproductive Life of Conceptuality
One of the most important lessons the work of Marilyn Strathern has taught us about knowledge practices is how they stand alone or intersect according to their context. In turn, this has helped us to develop a more dynamic account of knowledge formations as they both travel and stand still. Indeed it is the vacillation between movement and stasis that explains how essentialisms can either anchor cultural systems of thought or become unmoored - a …
Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture
Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Sherry B. Ortner. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. 262 pp
Culturing Biology: Cell Lines for the Second Millennium
Public concerns about innovative biomedical health technologies, such as human therapeutic cloning, have been the subject of a rapidly expanding social scientific literature. A prominent argument within much of this literature is that 'the social' is itself undergoing fundamental transformation in the context of what some have called 'the age of biological control'. This article interrogates the question of how social relationality is being trans…
Essentialism, Which Essentialism: Some Implications of Reproductive and Genetic Techno-Science
New technologies, such as genetic screening, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and pre-natal diagnosis, have given new meaning to human reproduction. Such innovations make clear that marriage, procreation, and the biological family are not the sole "natural" means of perpetuating the human race. One would have hoped that these inventions would eventually have raised in public regard the gay/lesbian family to the same level as heter…
Sheepwatching
Rethinking reproductive politics in time, and time in UK reproductive politics: 1978-2008
This paper explores two different but interlinked and contemporaneous debates over reproductive politics in which we can observe at least three distinct combinations of time. In the first part, I describe the shift in the 1980s to a 'biologized' time by British Christian Right-to-Life groups, who began to use a secularized ontogeny to promote and defend a religious definition of 'the way, the truth, and the life' - an altered 'theo-ontology' base…
Specimens as Spectacles
Questions about the meaning of the human species have also raised the issue of its representation, and in this article the authors consider the role of bio-art in the production of the specimen as spectacle. Something we look both at and through, specimens have a long visual history that has recently become the subject of both artistic and scholarly re-evaluation. Here, bio-artist Suzanne Anker is interviewed by feminist science studies scholar S…
Nostalgic Nationalism: How a Discourse of Sacrificial Reproduction Helped Fuel Brexit Britain
Two years ago my partner and I moved to a small rural English village in South Cambridgeshire, close to the Suffolk border. The parish, which dates back to the tenth century, occupies a thin stretch of land along a tributary of the river Stour. It is surrounded by some of the most productive agricultural land in Europe, farmed since Neolithic times. Paths dating back to 3000 BC cross the village green, bordered by the tiny local post office and s…
Postmodern procreation: Representing reproductive practice
Stem Cell Stories 1998–2008
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Stem Cell Technologies 1998–2008: Controversies and Silences
In May 2001, the Prime Minister of the German Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement, created a lot of political heat. A brief overseas excursion led to an outcry of representatives from
Crook' pipettes: Embryonic Emigrations From Agriculture to Reproductive Biomedicine
Developmental Landmarks and the Warnock Report: A Sociological Account of Biological Translation
At a crucial meeting during their proceedings, on 9 November 1983, the sixteen members of Britain's influential Warnock Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology reached a key decision on how to base proposals for comprehensive legislation governing this largely uncharted territory. Famously, they chose the formation of the 'primitive streak' in the early embryo as the basis for the fourteen-day rule that has now served as the global benchm…
In Vitro Anthropos: New Conception Models for a Recursive Anthropology
Drawing on fieldwork in U.K. stem cell labs, where early human development is modelled in vitro using cell culture systems, and cultured cell lines are used to make new diagnostic tools, this article explores a new meaning for the phrase 'conception model'. In the London labs where the author has conducted fieldwork since the 1990s are many examples of how human reproductive cells are being used to manufacture and 'road test' new diagnostic tools…
The Values of Enterprise Culture
Surviving development
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, by Vandana Shiva, London: Zed Press, 1989, 224 pages, hb £27.95, pb £8.95
Feminism and cultural studies: Pasts, presents, futures
Both feminism and cultural studies have complicated and contradictory histories, inside and outside academy. It would be impossible, as well as perhaps undesirable, to map out a comprehensive outline of these developments here, as if there were simply one single, linear or unified account. However, we fell it is important to highlight what we consider to be some of the key issues in these developments in order to consider the nature of their rela…
Postmodern procreation: Representing reproductive practice
Essentialism, Which Essentialism: Some Implications of Reproductive and Genetic Techno-Science
New technologies, such as genetic screening, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and pre-natal diagnosis, have given new meaning to human reproduction. Such innovations make clear that marriage, procreation, and the biological family are not the sole "natural" means of perpetuating the human race. One would have hoped that these inventions would eventually have raised in public regard the gay/lesbian family to the same level as heter…
Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Byron J. Good
Feminism and Cultural Studies
Science as Culture, Cultures of Science
Although controversial, science studies has emerged in the 1990s as a significant culture area within anthropology. Various histories inform the cultural analysis of science, both outside and within anthropology. A shift from the study of gender to the study of science, the influence of postcolonial critiques of the discipline, and the impact of cultural studies are discussed in terms of their influence upon the cultural analysis of science. New …
EIGHTEEN Postmodern Procreation: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction
Making Transparencies: Seeing through the Science Wars
It is no coincidence the Science Wars have erupted in British and American academic circles close on the heels of the Culture Wars preceding them: they are both about cultural values. The politics of knowledge at stake in both chapters of intellectual change are the same. In both skirmishes, the foundations of scholarly inquiry have been subjected to critique on the basis of their purported universality, formulaic absolutism, and exclusivity. The…
An Excellent Prognosis
Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
New reproductive technologies, such as in vitrio fertilization, have been the subject of intense public discussion and debate worldwide. In addition to difficult ethical, moral, personal and political questions, new technologies of assisted conception also raise novel socio-cultural dilemmas. How are parenthood, kinship and procreation being redefined in the context of new reproductive technologies? Has reproductive choice become part of consumer…
Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture
Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Sherry B. Ortner. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. 262 pp
What we know and what we don't about cloning and society
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSarah FranklinSarah Franklin is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University and the author of Embodied Progress: a Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
Life Itself: Global Nature and the Genetic Imaginary
Global Nature, Global Culture
This volume is an innovative exploration of understandings of globalisation in relation to the nature, culture and gender concerns of two decades of feminist theory
New Directions in Kinship Study: A Core Concept Revisited
Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the New Biologies
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
Culturing Biology: Cell Lines for the Second Millennium
Public concerns about innovative biomedical health technologies, such as human therapeutic cloning, have been the subject of a rapidly expanding social scientific literature. A prominent argument within much of this literature is that 'the social' is itself undergoing fundamental transformation in the context of what some have called 'the age of biological control'. This article interrogates the question of how social relationality is being trans…
Sheepwatching
Embodied Progress
New reproductive technologies, such as in vitrio fertilization, have been the subject of intense public discussion and debate worldwide. In addition to difficult ethical, moral, personal and political questions, new technologies of assisted conception also raise novel socio-cultural dilemmas. How are parenthood, kinship and procreation being redefined in the context of new reproductive technologies? Has reproductive choice become part of consumer…
Reproducing Jews: A cultural account of assisted conception in israel
Re-thinking nature-culture: Anthropology and the new genetics
This article explores the implications of `the new genetics' for anthropology as questions of articulation, connection, and relation - or as the production of difference. Using Marilyn Strathern's model of merographic connection, and drawing on recent ethnographic work on the new genetics, including my own, the question of what kinds of connections and relations are being forged through emergent forms of genetic information is critically explored…
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective
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