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Geographies of reproductive justice
Carolin Schurr1, Susanne Schultz2, Nora Komposch3
1University of Bern, Switzerland.
Progress in Human Geography
|June 30, 2025
Summary
The concept of reproductive justice offers a framework to understand how politics impacts reproductive rights globally. This approach integrates diverse fields, advocating for a multiscalar, activist spatial research agenda in geography.
Area of Science:
- Social Geography
- Feminist Geography
- Political Geography
Background:
- Global reproductive rights struggles highlight the influence of politics on personal reproductive experiences.
- The concept of reproductive justice (RJ) is a key feminist framework for analyzing power dynamics in reproductive rights.
Purpose of the Study:
- To establish reproductive justice as an overarching framework for diverse geographical subfields.
- To develop a multiscalar and activist spatial research agenda for geography centered on reproductive justice.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis integrating feminist, Black, biopolitical, health, environmental, and abolition geographies.
- Developing a spatial approach to necro- and biopolitics through the lens of reproductive justice.
Main Results:
- Reproductive justice serves as an umbrella concept, unifying disparate research areas within geography.
- The study proposes a novel framework for geographical research on reproductive politics and power.
Conclusions:
- A reproductive justice approach is essential for understanding contemporary reproductive rights issues.
- This paper calls for and outlines a dedicated reproductive justice research agenda within the field of geography.
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