| Abstrakt: |
Despite technical and legal innovations for certain groups' reproduction, many people's reproductive concerns and choices remain disparaged or unsupported. We call this assemblage 'reproductive abandonment' and present aspects of these conditions in this special issue. 'Abandonment' highlights the failure of 'relationality', a Pacific value and ontology that emphasises the importance of being in relations of obligation, accountability and respect. Having this central Oceanic ideal in mind highlights the weight of its opposite—'abandonment'—and extends the conceptual terrain that anthropologists have called 'stratified reproduction'. Reproductive abandonment refers to the failure of relations of desired reproduction, in its social, biological, infrastructural and environmental senses. It is caused mainly by economic systems and global development and population ideologies, entangled with colonialisms. Bringing reproduction once again to the centre of social analysis, this special issue reveals local actions and agendas that are taking reproduction back from global health and technological utopias to assert Indigenous logics, challenge dominant truths and continue creative struggles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
