Trained as a historian and a political scientist, I conduct qualitative research on the political economy of global fertility chains and markets, aimed at examining past, present and future frontiers of assisted reproductive technologies. It is rooted in a long-term care for, stubborn interest in and active engagement with the social study of reproduction and feminism, on a theoretical, empirical and political level.
Since the start of my doctoral research in 2010, I have been exploring historical and contemporary political economies of assisted reproduction at the intersection of ongoing histories of racial capitalism, (settler)colonialism and heteropatriarchy - an approach that deserves further scrutiny within the field. After having conducted fieldwork-based research on/in Palestine/Israel and Georgia for many years on the politics of assisted reproduction, with a particular focus on transnational surrogacy and egg donation, I am eager to turn the research gaze to Belgium, and explore its global histories and futures of transnational reproduction that remain under researched.
