Reproductive Governance in East Asia

Session Submission Type: Traditional (Closed) Panel

Abstract

This panel is engaged with the reproductive governance in East Asia. Each of the five papers analyzes how diverse stakeholders, including the state, medical societies, activist groups, media, and lay users, negotiate the meaning and build public action of reproductive technologies. Following the analytical approach of technoscientific governance, we emphasize the making of new knowledge and new ways of doing technology along with the governance. The cases range from prenatal testing as bio-capital in China, assisted reproduction financing as pronatalist policy in South Korea, egg donation regulation in East Asia, first IVF within the sociotechnical imaginaries in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, to the population quality control for China’s recent two-child policy. With the emphasis on the comparative studies, we aim to demonstrate the sharp contrast in reproductive governance within East Asia, and to better capture an East Asian bio-power.

Sub Unit

• Closed Panels

Individual Presentations

• Winning the “Second Chance”: Prenatal Genetic Testing, Personal Choices and National Future - Jianfeng Zhu, Fudan University, China

• Yousheng Policies and Technologies: Population Quality Control in Contemporary Urban China - Dong Dong, Hong Kong Baptist University

• When Population Policy Meets ART - Jung-Ok Ha, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History

• Considering the Impact of Socio-Cultural Factors on the Regulation of ART regarding Egg Donation in East Asia - Azumi Tsuge, Meijigakuin University; Hyunsoo Hong, Department of Public Policy, Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University o; Minori KOKADO, Osaka University, Japan

• First Test-Tube Babies as Technopolitical Tuners - Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University

Session Organizer

• Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University