342 research outputs found
Introduction: Global fertility chains and the colonial present of assisted reproductive technologies
Get PDFThe introduction to the Special Section “Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”(re)situates assisted reproductive technologies, infrastructures,and markets within older, yet ongoing, histories of colonialism, racial capitalism,and slavery. Engaging with the “colonial present” of a broad array of reproductive technologies,including surrogacy, adoption, seed saving, “slave breeding,”and in vitro fertilization in different (post)colonial sites of inquiry, including India, Korea, Australia, the United States, and the borderlands between Mexico and Guatemala, the papers in this collection draw on the foundational work of materialist, STS, Black, Indigenous,and decolonial feminists to foreground three main “relational”themes: (1) between past and present colonial materializations and imaginaries of ARTs;(2) between colonialism’s myriad, intraconnectedreproductive grammars of slavery, genocide, conservation, exploitation,and extraction;(3) between ART’s life and death functions and their mutually constitutive biopolitical and necropolitical logics
How I became the first Aboriginal person in Australia to lead a national education organisation
No full textIn this paper, Bronwyn Fredericks reflects on how, in 1997, she became the National President of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations Inc. (CAPA). The paper describes the election process faced by Fredericks, and identifies some of her key achievements during her time as National President. In becoming the National President, Bronwyn became the first Aboriginal person in Australia to lead a national education organisation. The story within this paper is told from the author’s autobiographical memory, drawing on the cultural, social and political context in which the story and the author were (and are) situated (Wojecki 2007). In this way the story teller reveals story lines which have not previously been articulated (Wojecki 2007). Throughout this paper, Fredericks ‘re-stories’ her experiences of leadership
Farewell to the Rainbow Nation? : a conversation between Oscar Hemer, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Masande Ntshanga and Ivan Vladislavic
No full textMore than a quarter of a century since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first democratically elected president, the racial categories of apartheid live on in South Africa. The proud vision of the “Rainbow Nation” is now being challenged by various forms of populism, with racial thinking as the common denominator. How can one advocate for non-racism and cosmopolitanism—in South Africa and the world—without being perceived as a defender of the privileges of the white minority? Oscar Hemer, Professor of the Arts at Malmö University, considers these questions in discussion with South African author colleagues Masande Ntshanga, Ivan Vladislavić and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Farewell to the Rainbow Nation? [Elektronisk resurs] : a conversation between Oscar Hemer, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Masande Ntshanga and Ivan Vladislavic
No full textMore than a quarter of a century since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first democratically elected president, the racial categories of apartheid live on in South Africa. The proud vision of the “Rainbow Nation” is now being challenged by various forms of populism, with racial thinking as the common denominator. How can one advocate for non-racism and cosmopolitanism—in South Africa and the world—without being perceived as a defender of the privileges of the white minority? Oscar Hemer, Professor of the Arts at Malmö University, considers these questions in discussion with South African author colleagues Masande Ntshanga, Ivan Vladislavić and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen.</p
Farewell to the Rainbow Nation? : a conversation between Oscar Hemer, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Masande Ntshanga and Ivan Vladislavic
No full textMore than a quarter of a century since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first democratically elected president, the racial categories of apartheid live on in South Africa. The proud vision of the “Rainbow Nation” is now being challenged by various forms of populism, with racial thinking as the common denominator. How can one advocate for non-racism and cosmopolitanism—in South Africa and the world—without being perceived as a defender of the privileges of the white minority? Oscar Hemer, Professor of the Arts at Malmö University, considers these questions in discussion with South African author colleagues Masande Ntshanga, Ivan Vladislavić and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Contested bodies: Property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts
No full textThe authors would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for funding the project on which this research is based and King’s College, Cambridge for accommodating the project. They are particularly indebted to the members of the CFAS/Addenbrookes Hospital Brain Bank collective who allowed themselves to be subject to such intense and prolonged scrutiny! For very helpful comments on an earlier draft, the authors would like to thank Chris Wilbert and Damian White, Catherine Nash, Kathy Liddell, Carol Brayne, and two very helpful referees. Any errors remain those of the authors. 1The Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium (BCLC) is a European wide syndicate of breast cancer researchers. Funding for the consortium’s work is provided by the European Union and European national governments. 2See: http://www.european-patent-office.org/news/pressrel/2005_01_21_e.htm 3The new Act, the Human Tissue Act 2004, makes consent the fundamental principle underpinning lawful storage and use of human bodies, body parts, organs and tissue, with tissue banks and specific premises being licensed by a new Human Tissue Authority. The requirements for consent will be determined in the Codes of Practice to be issued by the Human Tissue Authority when it is established. See: http://www.hta.gov.uk 4This research project has been of three years duration. It has involved observation and face-to-face inter-viewing of staff and scientists at the Brain Bank and at CFAS as well as discussions with others in related funding organizations such as the MRC. We have also conducted face-to-face interviews with 100 people in the UK about their attitudes to organ donation for research purposes. 5Further work is in preparation on the status and fate of other, more highly engineered artefacts, such as interactive scans of archived organs. 6Hybrid collectives, a term derived from Latour, may also be thought of as assemblages—a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to mean networks of humans, nonhumans, of animals, practices, tech-niques, discourses. Here the terms hybrid collectives, collectives, and assemblages are used interchangeably. 7Coke’s Institutes, 3 Inst. 203, quoted in Percival, Law of Cadavers, p. 103. Courtesy of Professor, David Burrell, Kermit Hall, University of Albany. 8A civil case brought by parents whose children’s organs had been retained in hospitals across the UK. 9Interviewed by the authors by telephone on 19 March 2002. 10Interviewed by the authors in Oxford on 19 February 2002. 11Interviewed by Dr Bronwyn Parry in London on 10 April 2002. 12Interviewed by the authors at the Addenbrookes Hospital Brain Bank on 25 January 2003. 13For further information see: Beaulieu (2004).Peer-reviewe
The Heart of the Flats
Get PDFThe poem"The Heart of the Flats" by Bronwyn February describes the author\u27s journey as a youth development worker in the Cape Flats area of South Africa. The author highlights how daily communal struggles are overcome with resilience and the gift of being an empathetic leader who plants seeds of change, hope, and peace. 
Knowing Mycellf™: Personalized Medicine and the Economization of Prospective Knowledge about Bodily Fate
No full textThe author explores the emergence of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing as a means of economizing information or knowledge about “bodily fate.” She begins by examining the parallels and incommensurabilities between the kinds of bodily information that have been produced historically and those now generated by the application of advanced genome sequencing technologies. She then explores how contemporary understandings of disease are coproduced by individuals identified as potential constituents of disease communities by these forms of testing. The chapter concludes with a review of the implications that this involvement in the coproduction of understanding of disease has for the global regulation of DTC genetic testing.Peer-reviewe
The politics of the Hijab
No full textBronwyn Winter has better part of two decades thinking and writing about the politics of the hijab, and here in conversation with Shakira Hussein at Gleebooks they explore the issues surrounding this highly politicised garment, which are very far from simple.
An ostensibly simple piece of cloth can be one of the most controversial and divisive items in a society. In 2004, when the French Government decided to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarfs - or hijab - to school, popular opinion split on the issue. Was it an authoritarian abuse of religious freedom? Or, was it a strike against religious ghettoisation, by a staunchly secular government? Bronwyn Winter has better part of two decades thinking and writing about the politics of the hijab, and here in conversation with Shakira Hussein at Gleebooks they explore the issues surrounding this highly politicised garment, which are very far from simple.
Bronwyn Winter is the author of "Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarves Debate." She is a Senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of Sydney. She is also Director of the University\u27s International and Comparative Literary Studies program. Winter is currently working on a book that will look at how 9-11 has impacted on women\u27s lives and on transnational feminist activism.
Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher focusing on Islam, gender and South Asia. She is currently completing her PhD on encounters between Western and Muslim women at ANU\u27s Centre for Asian Societies and Histories.
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Trees along our travelling tracks
No full textThis creative non-fiction piece of writing speaks to the ‘tree’ themed edition of the About Place Journal. It begins with…“This tree stands steadfast along my inland travelling track, near the town of Mundubbera on the land of the Wakka Wakka people. It is in the region called North Burnett. When we travel, we follow the river systems and look out for distinct markers in the landscape. We acknowledge the lands of others as we move down to Booburrgan Ngmmunge (the language term used by many Aboriginal people to describe the Bunya Mountains) and beyond”. The piece includes photograph images also taken by the author
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