What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued
life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle …

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and
important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent critiques of geographical scholarship on
'neoliberal natures'. The analysis juxtaposes distinct (and at times divergent) …

In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing
resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that …

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear
age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples …

Neuroscience-based representations and practices of the brain aimed at lay populations
present the brain in ways that both affirm biological determinism and also celebrate …

The individual has never been more important in society-in almost every sphere of public
and private life, the individual is sovereign. Yet the importance and apparent power …

This paper presents a poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist interrogation of the 'Girl
Effect'. First coined by Nike inc, the 'Girl Effect'has become a key development discourse …

This article discusses the new reproductive technology of egg freezing in the context of
existing literature on gender, medicalization, and infertility. What is unique about this …

In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg
donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life …