Biopolitics and biotechnology - Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Biopolitics and reproduction
In this interdisciplinary research group, we engage in a variety of questions related to reproduction and the ways in which the production of life is regulated in a historical, international and contemporary Norwegian perspective. Topics that are of interest for us is for example how biopolitical regulations are justified and if and how these justifications are related to certain understandings of gender and body, how innovative biotechnology is producing new understandings of nature and normality, and how conceptions of demography and national fertility numbers relate to international migration and the climate crisis.
Current Projects
Articulations of surrogacy on the web sites of transnational surrogacy agencies in Russia
Contact person: Maria Kirpichenko
The aim of this project is to explore what has – until quite recently – been a politically and publicly tacit relation between national reproduction and climate change, but which is an emerging topic both in politics and in the general public. In the first phases of the project we analyse public discourses on fertility and family planning in contemporary Norway. The next step is to interview various experts, stakeholders and interest groups, as well as Norwegian lay people. The project has a comparative dimension which is operationalized through a collaboration with gender researchers at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo (Norway-Japan: Bridging Research and Education in Gender Equality and Diversity).
Contact person: Guro Korsnes Kristensen
Completed Projects
Associated researchers
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Deniz Akin Postdoctoral fellow
+47-73598715 deniz.akin@ntnu.no -
Maria Kirpichenko PhD Candidate
+47-73591765 maria.kirpichenko@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Nora Levold Professor
+47-73591787 nora.levold@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Merete Lie Affiliated
+47-73591722 merete.lie@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Kari Melby Affiliated
+47-73413054 +47-91897154 +47-73410354 kari.melby@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Sofia Moratti Postdoctoral Researcher
+47-73413064 sofia.moratti@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Marit Svingen PhD Candidate
+47-73413066 +47-93436658 marit.svingen@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture