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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Publisher

SUNY Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9781438481081

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gender Studies

Index

Social Sciences

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