This article is part of the special issue “Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work”, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksc...

At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...

International assisted reproduction depends largely upon the work of various brokers. They mediate and articulate global assisted reproduction assemblage, the mobilities of intended parents, surrog...

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This panel addresses the challenges of doing and undoing reproduction with a particular focus on technologies that aim at facilitating and/or preventing the birth of children. We invite papers that de...

by Max Schnepf _   Kasmani, Omar. 2022. Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affect in Pakistan. Durham: Duke University Press. The meaning of suhbet, we learn from Omar Kasmani��...

New technologies for creating genetically related children could transform family life, giving same-sex couples and infertile women more options for parenthood.

Based on in-depth interviews and non-participant observation collected with various actors in four surrogacy markets (India, the U.S. Germany, and Ukraine), in this paper we examine the impact of t...

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...

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Until early 2022, within the global fertility industry, Ukraine was one of the most important destinations for reproductive travel worldwide, particularly specializing in gestational surrogacy for ...

The Call for Restitution from the Peoples of Kilimanjaro and Meru Am Kilimanjaro und Meru in Tansania ist die Erinnerung an den Widerstand gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft noch lebendig. Doch vie...