Complexities and contingencies conceptualised
Towards a Model of Reproductive Navigation
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2248789 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Erica Van Der Sijpt (0000-0001-5556-6130, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2014 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 278-290 |
| Data de publicação | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12064 |
| PMID | 24111549 |
| OpenAlex | W2112400409 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 20 |
| Referências citadas | 21 |
Current international attention to reproductive health behaviour is inspired by a western celebration of individual rights, autonomous action and rational choice. A predominant idea is that individuals should be free to act in accordance with their reproductive intentions and that, in doing so, they will attain their desired (and quantifiable) fertility outcomes. Yet such a framework leads to a misrepresentation of the reproductive dynamics on the ground, because individual fertility intentions are often not a priori defined, decisions are often not the result of rational calculation and reproductive happenings do not exist in a social vacuum. This article provides sociocultural evidence for a different conceptualisation of reproductive health behaviour. On the basis of long-term anthropological fieldwork in the East Province of Cameroon, I will analyse the complexities of fertility-related decision-making. Two case studies from the field will show that reproductive happenings are often characterised by indeterminacy and contingency. In order to understand the complex ways in which women give direction to these uncertainties, I propose an encompassing framework of reproductive navigation that explicitly acknowledges the influence of sociality and corporeality on fertility aspirations and actions
Biology · Contingency · Epistemology · Fertility · Misrepresentation · Political science · Population · Reproductive health · Sociality · Sociology · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Ecology · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Identifying factors that influence pregnancy intentions
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Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Navigating fertility, reproduction and modern contraception in the fragile context of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Factors influencing pregnancy intentions and contraceptive use
The making of ‘old eggs’
Procreative consciousness in a global market
Aspiring to become gay fathers
Avortement et norme procréative de la dernière génération soviétique en Russie
Reproductive Governance in a Fragile and Population-Dense Context
Lost to follow up’
The Enduring Case for Fertility Desires
Navigating with logics
Gendering the beginning of life
Fertility and digital technology
Mediating Means and Fate
Action, Subjectivity, and the Constitution of Meaning
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Contingent Lives
Of choice, chance and contingency
The vagina does not talk’
Contingent Lives
If All We Knew About Women Was What We Read in Demography , What Would We Know
Navigating Terrains of War
Influences on Childbearing Intentions Across the Fertility Career
Cultivating the Body
Foi Por Acaso
Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive
When the Future Decides
Taking Chances, Making Choices
| Obras citantes distintas | 20 |
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| Citações por ano | 1,82 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 19 |