Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: T his special section presents some of the papers and reflections that were delivered during the "Surrogacy Beyond the Carceral: Culture, Law and Lived Experience" Workshop organized by the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH) and the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, and held at the University of Sussex in June 2024.1 CORTH has enabled stimulating and open discussion amongst all its members to create interdisciplinary academic and policy fora and collaboration on sexual and reproductive rights, health and human reproduction.The idea of the special section developed through several conversations and a previous workshop that we had on how anthropology and law could collaborate specifically on surrogacy and on how combined strategies could be developed to influence current legislation and policy beyond the lens of criminalization. 2 As an area that inherently requires interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary liaison, surrogacy has posed challenges to the law, Special Section: Surrogacy Beyond the Carceral: Culture, Law and Lived Experience, edited by Maya Unnithan and Maria Federica Moscati, pages 229-3341 See full report by Aishwarya Chandran.We wish to thank Dr Anindita Majumdar for her invaluable contribution to the organization of the workshop and all presenters for generously sharing their research.2 The literature on the relation between law and anthropology and on how they can collaborate on several aspects of life is vast, and it is outside the scope of this brief introduction to review it.Thus, we signpost the reader to other sources.See, for instance, Vetters & Margaria and the literature they review (2024); and Mundy (2002);
Source: Amicus Curiae
Authors: Maya Unnithan, Maria Federica Moscati
Institution: University of Sussex
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410788839