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
Making Babies. Egg Donation and the Politics of Reproduction.
A project on egg donation and politics of reproduction based on the research of Laura Perler, with photographs by Tamara Sánchez Pérez. Curated by Mirko Winkel.
(Still) prohibited in Switzerland and Germany, a normalized procedure in other countries: egg donation. The traveling exhibition “Making Babies? Egg Donation and the Politics of Reproduction” explores this reproductive technique and its social, ethical and economic implications. It features photographs, audio and video documents on the subject, created as part of Laura Perler’s research, which has been also published as a book in 2022.
The exhibition portrays the lives and motivations of egg donors in Spain and visits the laboratories and operating rooms of a fertility clinic. Spain is a European leader in assisted reproduction in general and egg donation in particular. In the exhibition, visitors will meet one of these recipients, as well as a young woman who was born as a result of egg donation.
Accompanied by workshops, discussion programs and extensive media coverage, the project seeks feminist answers to pressing questions.
So far, the exhibition has been shown in Berlin at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in June 2022, where it was organized together with Taleo Stüwe and the Gen-Ethisches Netzwerk e.V. and Derya Binışık from the Gunda Werner Institut, and in Bern at the Kornhausforum from November 2022 to January 2023. The exhibition was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Bern, and the Branco Weiss Fellowship.
Photos of the exhibition in Berlin by Tamara Sánchez Pérez
At the vernissage in Berlin, the insights into the lives and backgrounds of egg donors as well as into the Spanish reproductive market in general were deepened in a panel discussion. The key note on Spain as a reproductive market was led by Sara Lafuente-Funes (sociologist, author of ” Mercados Reproductivos: Crisis, Deseo y Desigualdad”).
The keynote was followed by a panel discussion with Laura Perler, Tamara Sánchez Pérez (photographer), Elia Muñoz (activist, egg donor portrayed in the exhibition) and moderated by Derya Binışık.
The closing event in Berlin included a key note by Taleo Stüwe (medical doctor and member of the Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V.) on the medical-technical basics of “egg donation”, its benefits and risks. It was followed by a panel discussion with Ines Pietschmann (Institute for Ethics und History of Medicine, University of Göttingen) and Dr. Susanne Schultz (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Focus Area Biotechnology, Nature and Society), moderated by Dr. Antje Schrupp (Journalist und Political Scientist).
Photos of the exhibition in Bern by Alexander Gempeler
The opening event in Bern included a panel discussion with Laura Perler, Tamara Sánchez Pérez (photographer), Alba Cambeiro Cernadas (egg donor portrayed in the exhibition) and Sabina Rhyner (egg recipient portrayed in the exhibition), moderated by Carolin Schurr (professor for Social and Cultural Geography, University of Bern).
In the panel at the closing event, Christina Bachmann-Roth (president Die Mitte Frauen Schweiz), Derya Binışık (referee at the Gunda-Werner-Institut in Berlin for reproductive health), Lisa Mazzone (politician in the Council of States, GRÜNE Schweiz) and Markus Zimmermann (vice president of the National Ethics Commission in the area of Human Medicine, NEK) discussed together, moderated by Michael Braunschweig (postdoc at „Human Reproduction Reloaded“ by the University of Zurich).
