Carolin
Schurr
Schurr
REPRODUCTIVE GEOPOLITICS
Project Description
Governing and Contesting In/Fertility within the Swiss Asylum Context
Reproductive Justice: A Feminist Concept in Motion
Gendering and Racializing In/fertility among Marginalized Women in Mexico
The Reproductive Geopolitics of Spain’s Strawberry Industry
The Invisible – Modern Slavery in Europe
Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth
Short Film Program: Reproductive Justice
Making Babies. Egg Donation and the Politics of Reproduction.
Kassensturz - Strawberries from Spain - to buy or not?
Erdbeeren isst sie jetzt nicht
Exhibition: Making Babies in Bern
Toxic Textures
Elusive Exposures Event Series
Exhibition: Making Babies in Berlin
"Making Babies?" Panel Discussion Video
In Ukraine and Russia, surrogacy is seen as work
Lidl setzt sich stärker für Pflückerinnen ein als Coop und Migros
Sie pflücken unsere Erdbeeren unter prekären Bedingungen
WOZ – Solidarität im Zeichen der Erdbeere
Erkenntnis als kollektiver Prozess
Bi aller Liebi... So kann und will ich nicht schwanger werden
Eierstock mit Beinen?
Als Julie ging, ihre Eizellen einzufrieren
Podcast: La selección genética en la clínica de fertilidad: tendencias presentes y futuras.
Deutschlandfunk – Erst die Technologie, dann die Ethik?
Bayern 2 debattiert: Eizellenspende - Was würde eine Legalisierung bedeuten?
Blick – Nachfrage nach Leihmüttern steigt
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik – Das Geschäft mit dem Kinderwunsch
RaBe – Ausstellung «Babys machen»
WOZ – Der Begriff «Spende» führt in die Irre
L’autoconservation des ovocytes, une réponse médicale à un problème social ?
SRF – Für das Wunschkind nach Spanien
SRF – Leihmutterschaft: pro und contra
Frankfurter Rundschau – Gibt es ein Recht auf ein Kind?
Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present
Der Bund – eine Legalisierung stoppt den Reproduktionstourismus nicht
ZDF – Müssen wir die Eizellenspende legalisieren?
RBB – Eizellenspende: Zwischen Verbot und realer Anwendung
Zeit online – "Sie wollen die Eizellspende legalisieren, ohne die Details zu klären"
Tagesanzeiger – Eine Legalisierung stoppt den Reproduktionstourismus nicht
SRF – Geschichten hinter den Spenderinnen
Welt – Was mit den Babys von Leihmüttern im Krieg passiert
20minuten – Schweizer Eltern bangen um Leihmutter-Babys aus der Ukraine
DW Deutsch – Ukrainische Leihmütter im Krieg
Selbstbestimmte Familienplanung: Haben Geflüchtete Zugang zu Beratung?
Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit im Fluchtkontext – Neue Perspektiven
Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry
Leihmutterschaft in Zeiten des Krieges
Reproduktive Gesundheit – die Perspektive geflüchteter Frauen in der Schweiz
Peripartale Gesundheit asylsuchender Frauen in der Schweiz: who cares?
Erschwerter Zugang zu Verhütung in den Asylzentren: Perspektiven von geflüchteten Frauen in der Schweiz
Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present
Globale Intimität multisensorisch erforschen und ausstellen
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood:A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views
Imagining Motherhood and Becoming a Mother After Egg Freezing. An Anthropological Study in the French Context
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy
Exhibiting Toxicity: Sprayed Strawberries and Geographies of Hope
Book Review: Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold
Intimate Technologies: Towards a Feminist Perspective on Geographies of Technoscience
Selective Assisted Reproduction
Book Review: Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging.
Spain's Reproductive El Dorado. The Economization of Spanish "Egg Donation"
Feminist Geographies of Technosciences
Transnational Reproductive Mobility from Switzerland
The Promise of a Healthy Child. An Analysis of the Spanish Egg Donation Economy.
Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy: Reproductive Biographies of Mexican Egg Donors
Reproductive Rights
Fertility Clinic
The Affective Economy of Transnational Surrogacy
The Baby Business Booms: Economic Geographies of Assisted Reproduction
Multiple Mobilities in Mexico’s Fertility Industry
From Biopolitics to Bioeconomies: The ART of (Re-) producing White Futures in Mexico's Surrogacy Market
Elusive Exposures Event Series
This project explores and attempts to trace the effects of pesticides and other contaminants on human bodies and the rest of the environment. A programme of events will take place throughout May 2022 at the Institute of Geography of the University of Bern.
Elusive Exposures brings together artist Lucy Sabin, geographer Nora Komposch, and soil scientist Professor Adrien Mestrot. The programme they have devised combines artistic and scientific approaches. Collaborations take the form of creative mapping, excursions and workshops, symposia, and an art exhibition.
Sabin will collaborate with Komposch and Mestrot to develop creative processes for making toxicity visible and communicating experiences of exposure. The residency team is guided by a commonly held question: How can we make exposures to toxicity visible while conveying scale and complexity?
The inquiry draws upon preliminary fieldwork in Huelva, Southwest Spain, as well as local farming practices in the region surrounding Bern. Huelva is an area of intensive agricultural and industrial activity. Elusive Exposures began with the idea to create a digital map showing sources and trajectories of pollution in the province, such as pesticides, smokestacks, waste dumps, and heavy metals from mining.
The resultant programme is intended as a forum for developing multidisciplinary methods and networks that will feed into future research projects on related themes. Throughout this investigative residency, the team are joined by colleagues researching pesticides as well as partners at laboratories and farms.
09/05/2022
Tour of Batati farm in Sutz | 08.00-12.30
See where food comes from; experience farming with Plant Protection Products. Open to all at GIUB. Max. 13 people. Priority to those who can also attend the tour on
23/05
RSVP by 02/05
12/05/22
Protecting plants, risking environments
16.00-18.00, Room 001, GIUB
Toxic relations are part of late industrial contexts. Toxicity is inscribed in bodies and landscapes. Since the publication of Silent Spring (Carson 1962), the toxic effects of pesticides have become increasingly apparent. Yet pesticides and their legacies of harm persist in widespread circulation, now more than ever.
Plant protection products or PPPs are, according to the European Commission, pesticides that “protect crops or desirable or useful plants”… while often risking the health of surrounding ecosystems. This symposium features a panel of three researchers from the University of Bern who approach the topic of plant protection products from different angles.
Dr. Abdallah Alaoui considers what a sustainable transition might look like, within the context of global health. Dr. Natacha Van Groeningen examines the authorization and risk assessment of PPPs here in Switzerland. While Dr. Aurea C. Chiaia-Hernández traces the sources and trajectories of PPPs across the environment.
17/05/22
Uneven geographies of pesticide production, trade and use
12.00-14.00, Room 002
Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium. Lecture by Professor Christian Berndt (Universität Zürich)
23/05/22
Tour of Balmeggberg farm plus lunch | 08.00-14.00
Experience land management following natural rhythms. Open to all at GIUB. Priority to those who can also attend the tour on 09/05. Max. 13 people
RSVP by 15/05
24/05/22
Exposición (exhibition/exposure)
Location and timings to be confirmed
A series of works in progress by artist-in-residence Lucy Sabin (UCL) inspired by fieldwork in Huelva with Nora Komposch
Take Part
To book your place on the fieldtrips, join the project mailing list, or suggest a collaboration email Lucy, Nora and Adrien at
elusiveexposures@gmail.com
