Reproductive materialism and justice for women with abortion care needs in Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15541867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Kagaha (0000-0002-7787-8597, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author), L Manderson (0000-0002-7883-1790, University of the Witwatersrand) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 3476-3492 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-1692 • E-ISSN: 1744-1706 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17441692.2022.2129722 |
| PMID | 36223332 |
| OpenAlex | W4304758496 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
While reproductive health justice is often assumed to be inherent in reproductive health interventions, the nature of injustices, and the reasons for and mechanisms of concealment, are often unclear. In this article, we draw on an ethnography of priority setting and healthcare practice in eastern Uganda to illuminate these injustices and the mechanisms of concealement. We focus on discursive practices as the mechanisms through which power is activated and navigated, such that health practitioners are able to evade state surveillance and retribution. While language discourses conceal and normalise reproductive health injustices, discursive practices of care and priority setting enable reproductive controls to be navigated in ways that amplify these injustices and create new ones. In interventions, precarious conditions that impact women's reproductive health and living circumstances are often overlooked or concealed. We illustrate the convergence of biopower and necropolitical strategies to illuminate these conditions. Using the concept of reproductive materialism, we show how neoliberalism cultivates particular conditions of everyday life, in which populations are positioned as instruments for pecuniary motives, and normative controls are used to further financial gain
Abortion · Biopower · Commodification · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Health care · Materialism · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Psychological intervention · Reproductive health · Reproductive justice · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception
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Discourse, ideas and power in global health policy networks
Reproductive justice
Posthumanist Performativity
Precarious Lives
Implementation considerations when expanding health worker roles to include safe abortion care
Abortion as agentive action
Expanding reproductive justice through a supportability reparative justice framework
The social movement for reproductive justice
Feminism, Law, and Neoliberalism
Reproductive justice in context
Ludic Feminism, the Body, Performance, and Labor
Power, policy and abortion care in Uganda
Medical technologies and abortion care in Eastern Uganda
Objectification, standardization, and commodification in health care
High profile health facilities can add to your trouble
Measuring improvements in sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa
Undoing the Demos
Necropolitics
Reproductive governance in Latin America
Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa
Human Rights and Reproductive Governance in Transnational Perspective
Reproductive Governance, Redux
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |