Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by, Dr Rebecca Ogden, lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent and Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera, Research Fellow in Gonville & Caius College and Affiliate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Cuerpa Politica explores reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practition ...
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Exploraciones fotográficas de la maternidad, con Ana Casas Broda
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Ana Casas Broda es fotógrafa, escritora, gestora, docente, editora y comisaria, radicada en México desde 1974. Su obra gira en torno a su autobiografía y la construcción de la identidad. Los principales temas en su trabajo son la memoria, el cuerpo, la familia, el archivo, la genealogía y la maternidad. Es autora de dos libros: Álbum, de 2000, y Ki…
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Contra el capacitismo y los estereotipos acerca del deseo y la sexualidad. Con Diana Vite Hernández
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Diana Vite Hernández es de México y se autoidentifca como una mujer feminista con discapasidad visual. Vite Hernández estudió la licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales en la UNAM y la maestría en Filosofía de la Cultura en la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Ella actualmente pertenece a la Red Nacional de Feministas con Discapa…
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Histories of racism and reproductive freedom at the US-Mexico border. With Dr Lina-Maria Murillo
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Dr Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History Department at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on the intersections of reproductive freedom, race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as immigration and Latinx subjectivities. She is currently completing her manuscript titled Fighting…
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A 'Counter-geography of violence': Maternal activism and resistance at the US/Mexico border. With Dr Elva F. Orozco Mendoza
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Elva F. Orozco Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender studies at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Orozco Mendoza was a 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow at The Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Her work has been published by Theory and Event, New Political Science, The Journal of Latin American Geography, and Philosoph…
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Challenges to reproductive rights in El Salvador: Part 2 with Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto
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En este episodio hablamos con Sara Garcia Gross. Sara es activista Feminista, psicóloga y máster en derechos humanos. Actualmente es Coordinadora de alianzas e incidencia política de Agrupación Ciudadana por la despenalización del aborto en El Salvador. En este episodio, Sara explica los objetivos de la organización, el contexto de criminalización …
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Challenges to reproductive rights in El Salvador: Part 1 with Dr Rebecca Smyth
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Dr Rebecca Smyth is a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, specialising in international human rights law. She focuses on women’s and LGBTQ* rights, and the (sometimes productive) tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging with the language and mechanisms of human rights. Her research has been published in the journal Fe…
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Eugenics, Disability and Latinx Communities. With Dr Natalie Lira
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Dr. Natalie Lira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Dr. Lira’s research looks into the largely neglected racial aspects of California’s eugenic sterilization program by providing evidence of the disproportionate institu…
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Abortion rights and biopolitics in Chile. With Dr Lieta Vivaldi
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Lieta Vivaldi works at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Law Department. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, University of London, a Masters in sociology from the London School of Economics, a diploma in gender and violence from the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of Universidad de Chile, and is qualified in Law, by the same i…
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Reproductive violence at the US-Mexico border. With Dr Leandra H. Hernández
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Dr. Leandra H. Hernández is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Utah Valley University. She is the co-author of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights (2018) and the co-editor of This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzalduan Approaches to Theory, Metho…
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Gender and Health: Understanding Care Work, Policy and the Economy in Latin America -With Jasmine Gideon
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Dr Jasmine Gideon is a Reader in Gender, Health and International Development at Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Gideon is the author of several articles as well as the monographs Gender, globalization, and health in a Latin American context and Handbook on gender and health (2016) and co-author of two books in 2020, Critical reflections on Publ…
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Participatory methods in reproductive violence research: spotlight on the Quipu project. With Dr Karen Tucker
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Dr Karen Tucker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the colonial knowledge politics that shape encounters with indigenous knowledges, bodies and worlds, and the decolonial practices that reveal and remake them. As well as the global governance of ‘traditional knowledge’, Dr Tucker has…
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Bodies as Territory, Bodies in Crisis: Reproductive Politics in Argentina. With Prof Barbara Sutton
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Professor Barbara Sutton is based in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, at University at Albany. Professor Sutton's scholarly interests include body politics, human rights, collective memory, globalization, and women's activism particularly in Latin American contexts. In this episode, Professor Sutton gives an overview of the hi…
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Visual Birth Narratives: Communicating the Intensity and Intimacy of Labour Through Art. With Dr Clarissa Borges
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Dr Clarissa Borges is an artist and teacher. In 2019, she received her doctorate in Social History from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is currently professor of Visual Arts. Her artistic work explores themes relating to motherhood, childbirth, and sexuality, through photography and video installation. In t…
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The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas. With Dr Anne Carruthers
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Dr Anne Carruthers is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University where she teaches film studies. Her research interests lie in phenomenologies, narrative, and close textual analysis, and she has published on how pregnancy, the pregnant body, and the physical are explored in film. In this conversation, we talk ab…
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Conflict and Reproductive Violence in Colombia. With Dr. Tatiana Sánchez Parra
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Dr Tatiana Sanchez Parra is Assistant Professor at the Pensar Institute of Social and Cultural Studies at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. Working at the intersection of feminist socio-legal studies, anthropology of violence, and medical anthropology, her research explores gender-based, sexual, and reproductive violence in contexts of war…
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Tracing Eugenic ideas in Latin America. With Professor Alexandra Minna Stern
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Professor Alexandra Minna Stern works at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the history of eugenics and the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. Her recent book publications are Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (2012), and Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Righ…
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Challenging reproductive injustice in Argentina, Chile and Ireland: Art and Activism. With Dr Céire Broderick
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This episode features a conversation with Dr Céire Broderick, lecturer in Latin American Studies at University College Cork. Her research focuses on gendered approaches to Latin American Cultural Studies, with special interest in contemporary Chile. We discuss Dr Broderick’s current research into artistic responses in the campaigns for reproductive…
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The Development of "The Pill" and Fertility Control in 20th Century Mexico with Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga
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In this episode we speak to Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga, from Harvard University. Professor Soto Laveaga’s research interests encompass the intersection of science and culture and public health in Latin America, and scientific and medical exchange in the Global South. She is the author of Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects…
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Reproducción, Salud Pública y Justicia Reproductiva en México-Conversación con Rebeca Ramos Duarte
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En este episodio hablamos con Rebeca Ramos Duarte, directora de la organización mexicana GIRE, el Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida. GIRE se fundó en 1992, con el impulso de resolver el problema de salud pública y de justicia social en México. Esta conversación toca el potencial de colaboraciones productivas entre académicos y activistas…
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Reproductive Health is a Non-negotiable Human Right. With Alexandra-Marie Figueroa Miranda
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Alexandra-Marie Figueroa Miranda is a communicator, activist, and law student. She is currently the Communications Director and the creator of an Organizational Communication's Growth Strategy for Taller Salud in Loiza, Puerto Rico. She is also one of the co-creators and leaders of La Clara, a grassroots digital medium with a mission of making civi…
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Beyond the law: Abortion access in Latin America. With Dr Cordelia Freeman
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Dr Cordelia Freeman is a political geographer, and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Her research considers the spatiality of reproductive health in Latin America, including how reproductive justice - particularly abortion access - is shaped in relation to borders and mobilities, and in the context of violence.In this conversation, we discuss h…
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The Coloniality of Reproductive Violence, with Dr Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago
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Dr Julieta Chaparro Buitrago is a member of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, or ReproSoc, at the University of Cambridge. Her research encompasses fertility studies, decolonial feminisms, reproductive justice, and Latin American studies. In this conversation, Dr Chaparro Buitrago discusses her research into questions of extractivism (espe…
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Why is Cuba’s birth rate falling? With Dr Elise Andaya
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In this episode we talk to Dr Elise Andaya, a cultural medical anthropologist and associate professor at State University of New York in Albany. Dr Andaya’s research encompasses questions relating to reproductive health care, kinship, gender, and health policy and health inequalities in Cuba and the United States. In this conversation, we discuss t…
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Reproductive justice and activism: culture as context and tool (with Hannah S. Borboleta, Jaime Géliga and Alexandra-Marie Figueroa)
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This episode is a recording of a roundtable discussion that took place during the ‘Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America’ conference on Zoom, 14-15th January 2021. The roundtable was chaired by Dr. Rachell Sánchez Rivera and included Hannah S. Borboleta, midwife, activist, and founder of the Morada Violeta clinic, Jaime Géliga, researc…
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What’s so political about reproduction in Latin America? With Professor Laura Briggs
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Professor Laura Briggs teaches and researches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an authoritative voice in several fields relating to reproductive politics across the Americas. She is the author of several monographs, including the landmark 2003 book Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, the 201…
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Latin American countries have some of the world’s most contentious reproductive health laws and policies, and there are persistent challenges in the quest for reproductive justice. The lived realities of reproduction are mediated and shaped by political and legal frameworks and determined by economic, cultural, and social dynamics.Cuerpa Politica i…
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