South of the Future
eBook - ePub

South of the Future

Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas

  1. 229 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

South of the Future

Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas

About this book

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.

South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and other forms of migrant labor in the Americas together with the emerging "Wild West" of biotechnology and surrogacy in the Indian subcontinent. The volume is profoundly interdisciplinary and includes both prominent and emerging scholars from a wide variety of fields, including anthropology, law, literary and cultural studies, science and technology studies, and social policy. These contributors speak to the dynamic, continually changing facets of the nexus of care and value across these two key regions of the global south. By mobilizing specific locations and techno-economics and putting them into dialogue with one another, South of the Future rematerializes the gendered, racialized bodies that are far too often rendered invisible in structural analyses of the global south, or else are confined to particular geo- and biopolitical paradigms of emerging markets. Instead, these bodies occupy the center of a global, highly financialized economy of creating and sustaining life.

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Yes, you can access South of the Future by Anindita Banerjee, Debra A. Castillo, Anindita Banerjee,Debra A. Castillo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Indian & South Asian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Life and Care from South of the Future
  7. Chapter 1 From Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala to Commercial Global Surrogacy in Gujarat and Beyond: Lessons Learned from Research and Human Rights
  8. Chapter 2 On Cruelty and Care: Motherhood and the Crisis of Futurity
  9. Chapter 3 Promissory Futures: Medicine and Markets in Speculative Fiction
  10. Chapter 4 The Surrogacy Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court: Marginalizing the Marginalized
  11. Chapter 5 Wet Nurses and Migrant Nanas in Mexico’s Imaginary Landscape
  12. Chapter 6 Structures of Affect in Transactions of Care: From Surrogacy Discourses of the Womb to Mahasweta Devi’s “Breast-Giver”
  13. Chapter 7 Artificial Bodies: The Politics of the Posthuman in Argentine Science Fiction Novels
  14. Chapter 8 Unbearable Futures: The Science/Fiction of Care Markets in the Global South
  15. Contributors
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover