Reproductive justice in the climate crisis - Seminar Three

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• Heather McMullen - Queen Mary University of London
• Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30
• Sociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

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Why highlight the centrality of reproduction when studying climate change? Hosted by Dr R S ánchez-Rivera

The climate crisis disproportionately affects those living in the global South, with potentially devastating impacts on maternal and infant health, access to safe birthing and abortion conditions and reproductive autonomy. Meanwhile, the discourse around the environmental impacts of reproduction has been tainted by racist myths about overpopulation and fertility and a history of forced sterilisation of indigenous and ethnic minority groups.

Featuring academic panel members across the fields of biological sciences, sociology, gender studies and history, these seminars discuss how climate change and reproductive justice intersect. We will address topics such as the overpopulation myth, environmental racism, and social inequalities utilising reproductive justice as our framework and highlight the centrality of reproduction as a form of political intervention.

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This talk is part of the Cambridge Reproduction series.

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• Cambridge Reproduction
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