Sosiologian nykykeskusteluja, 5 op

During this course students will learn about theory and recent research on reproduction and related institutions and technologies. After completing the course, they will understand reproduction, such as pregnancy, fertility and birth, as well as reproductive healthcare, as an object of social scientific research. They will be able to grasp and critically evaluate how reproduction, institutions and technologies shape each other historically and globally. Finally, this course will elaborate on how biological reproductive processes are in many ways subjected to gendered institutional forms of power and governmentality but also how there nevertheless is room for choice and agency.

Course programme:

1) Introductory lecture: theoretical approaches and empirical areas of study (3h)

2) The governance of bodies and populations (3 h)

3) Reproductive justice and environment (3h)

4) Sociomaterial consitution of gender, reproduction and kinship (3h)

5) Reproductive technologies and laboratory life (3 h)

6) Fertility tourism and markets (3 h)

7) Seminar I: presentation of group essays (3h)

8) Seminar II: presentation of group essays (3h)