Ingvill Stuvøy
Background and activities
Ingvill Stuvøy is an associate professor in sociology. Her main research interests include reproduction, gender and inequality, technology, economy and biopolitics. Stuvøy holds a PhD in sociology from NTNU and a BA and MA from University of Copenhagen. Stuvøy's PhD thesis Parenthood at a price. Accounting for the viability of transnational surrogacy (2018) examined the social meaning of money in transnational surrogacy, taking as her starting point the travels undertaken by Norwegian citizens in order to have a child born to them abroad by a surrogate mother. As part of her postdoc, Stuvøy worked on different forms of mobility and migration, including the "repro-migration" she studied in her PhD thesis.
Main research areas are surrogacy; reproduction; assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs); body; gender; stratification and inequality; repro-migration; money; (bio)economy; welfare state; qualitative methods; feminist theory; economic sociology; sociology of the family.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2020) En utopi om familiens avskaffelse og nye reproduktive fellesskap. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.
- (2019) Governing parental desires and vulnerabilities: Affective bio politics in the context of Norwegian citizens' repro-migration. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. vol. 9 (4).
- (2018) Accounting for the money-made parenthood of transnational surrogacy. Anthropology & Medicine. vol. 25 (3).
- (2018) Book review: A Critical Approach to Surrogacy: Reproductive Desires and Demands, by Damien W. Riggs & Clemence Due (2018). Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online.
- (2018) Troublesome reproduction: surrogacy under scrutiny. Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online. vol. 7.
- (2016) Book review: Critical Kinship Studies, edited by Charlotte Kroløkke, Lene Myong, Stine W. Adrian & Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
- (2013) Reproduksjon i grenseland. Fett.
Part of book/report
- (2016) Surrogati: Reproduksjon i globalt farvann. Reproduksjon, kjønn og likestilling i dagens Norge.
Report/dissertation
- (2018) Parenthood at a price. Accounting for the viability of transnational surrogacy. 2018. ISBN 978-82-326-3180-3.
Others
- (2019) 1,6 barn og andre trøblete tall. Kvinnedagen 8.mars: Hvem skal bære (frem) velferdsstaten? Befolkningspolitikk i et bredt perspektiv . Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning, UiO; Oslo. 2019-03-08 - 2019-03-08.
- (2019) Dør vi ut? Fallende fertilitet (paneldebatt). Sakprosafestivalen . Litteraturhuset i Trondheim; Trondheim. 2019-11-01 - 2019-11-01.
- (2019) En hjelpende livmor? (Bio)politikk, surrogati og potensialet i den reproduktive assistansen. Kjønnsforskning NÅ! . Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, UiT; Tromsø. 2019-11-13 - 2019-11-15.
- (2019) Sosiale skillelinjer, klasse og konflikt (panelsamtale). Sosiologifestivalen 2019 . Trøndersosiologene; Trondheim. 2019-09-24 - 2019-09-24.
- (2018) Panelist on "The Future of Reproduction". The Future of Reproduction . Institutt for Tverrfaglige Kulturstudier, NTNU; Trondheim. 2018-09-06 - 2018-09-06.
- (2017) Paneldeltakere i debatt om "Verdien av et liv". Verdien av et liv . Litteraturhuset; Trondheim. 2017-05-03 - 2017-05-03.