South of the Future
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2020
229 pages
978-1-4384-8108-1 (ISBN)
Description
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 1
Total Illustrations: 1
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-8108-1 (9781438481081)
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Anindita Banerjee | Debra A. Castillo
South of the Future
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
Book
07/2021
State University of New York Press
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Anindita Banerjee | Debra A. Castillo
South of the Future
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
Book
12/2020
State University of New York Press
€107.80
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Persons
Anindita Banerjee is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of the humanities concentration in the Environment and Sustainability Program at Cornell University. Her most recent book is Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East. Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Life and Care from South of the Future
Anindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo
1. From Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala to Commercial Global Surrogacy in Gujarat and Beyond: Lessons Learned from Research and Human Rights
Karen Smith Rotabi
2. On Cruelty and Care: Motherhood and the Crisis of Futurity
Kumkum Sangari
3. Promissory Futures: Medicine and Markets in Speculative Fiction
Sherryl Vint
4.The Surrogacy Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court: Marginalizing the Marginalized
Sital Kalantry
5. Wet Nurses and Migrant Nanas in Mexico's Imaginary Landscape
Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez
6. Structures of Affect in Transactions of Care: From Surrogacy Discourses of the Womb to Mahasweta Devi's "Breast-Giver"
Kavita Panjabi
7. Artificial Bodies: The Politics of the Posthuman in Argentine Science Fiction Novels
Silvia G. Kurlat Ares
8. Unbearable Futures: The Science/Fiction of Care Markets in the Global South
Anindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo
Contributors
Index
Introduction: Life and Care from South of the Future
Anindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo
1. From Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala to Commercial Global Surrogacy in Gujarat and Beyond: Lessons Learned from Research and Human Rights
Karen Smith Rotabi
2. On Cruelty and Care: Motherhood and the Crisis of Futurity
Kumkum Sangari
3. Promissory Futures: Medicine and Markets in Speculative Fiction
Sherryl Vint
4.The Surrogacy Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court: Marginalizing the Marginalized
Sital Kalantry
5. Wet Nurses and Migrant Nanas in Mexico's Imaginary Landscape
Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez
6. Structures of Affect in Transactions of Care: From Surrogacy Discourses of the Womb to Mahasweta Devi's "Breast-Giver"
Kavita Panjabi
7. Artificial Bodies: The Politics of the Posthuman in Argentine Science Fiction Novels
Silvia G. Kurlat Ares
8. Unbearable Futures: The Science/Fiction of Care Markets in the Global South
Anindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo
Contributors
Index
