scholarly journals Future Child: Pedagogy and the Post-Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lakind ◽  
Chessa Adsit-Morris
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
Future Orientations

For many, the Anthropocene foreshadows the apocalypse: a fertile terrain to speculate about the future, which can displace the now. We aim to reconceptualize this era, drawing inspiration from those working to imagine possible eras for the post-Anthropocene—imaginaries that do not deny the material histories and urgencies of the present. In particular, we seek to transform the ways children are figured in this epoch. In this conceptual essay, we (re)consider the Anthropocene, explore how figurations of the child tap into environmental futurism, and call for a pedagogy of the post-Anthropocene which rejects future-orientations that negate children as bearers of their own experience and agents of their own purpose.

scholarly journals ‘Your Womb, The Perfect Classroom’: Prenatal Sound Systems and Uterine Audiophilia

2020 ◽  
pp. 014177892095867
Author(s):  
Marie Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
The Common ◽  
Culture Technology ◽  
Maternal Obligation

In this article, I explore the auditory technopolitics of prenatal sound systems, asking what kinds of futures, listeners and temporalities they seek to produce. With patents for prenatal audio apparatus dating back to the late 1980s, there are now a range of devices available to expectant parents. These sound technologies offer multiple benefits: from soothing away stress to increasing the efficiency of ultrasonic scans. However, one common point of emphasis is their capacity to accelerate foetal ‘learning’ and cognitive development. Taking as exemplary the Babypod and BabyPlus devices, I argue that prenatal sound systems make audible a particular figuration of pregnancy and gestational labour that combines divergent notions of responsibility and passivity. Contra the equation of neoliberalism with self-control and individualism, I argue that prenatal sound systems amplify neoliberal capitalism’s elision of personal, maternal and familial responsibility. As reproductive sound technologies, prenatal sound systems facilitate maternal–familial investment in the pre-born as future-child. Consequently, financialised notions of inheritance are substituted for biological inheritance. Drawing attention to the common rhetorical figuration of the sonic as womb-like, furthermore, I argue that prenatal sound systems exemplify what I refer to as uterine audiophilia. By treating the womb as ‘the perfect classroom’, prenatal sound systems imply an intense maternal obligation to invest in and impress upon the future-child, while also envisioning the pregnant person’s body as an occupied, resonant space. Cohering with a fidelity discourse that posits the reproductive medium as passive container and a source of noise that is to be overcome, uterine audiophilia relies upon politically regressive conceptualisations of pregnancy. I thus argue that these devices mark the hitherto under-theorised convergence of auditory culture, technology and reproductive politics.

scholarly journals MOTIVATION OF ALTRUISTIC SPERM DONORS PARTICIPATING IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-54
Author(s):  
E.E. Symaniuk ◽  
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I.G. Polyakova ◽  
A.G. Andal ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Sperm Donation ◽  
Donor Motivations ◽  
Sperm Donors ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child

This article explores the motivations behind Russian men’s altruistic sperm donation using Alderfer's Existence-Relatedness-Growth (ERG) model. Among the sample of 86 men, altru-istic motivation is mostly driven by existence and relatedness. Correlations tests indicated two patterns: 1) men driven by existence needs are more willing to maintain contact with the future child and less prone to self-promotion; 2) men driven by relatedness needs demon-strate the opposite characteristics. These results contribute to further research of reproductive donor motivations in Russia.

Homebirth and the Future Child

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 807-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan de Crespigny ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Future Child

scholarly journals PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP HAK ASUH ANAK AKIBAT PERCERAIAN DALAM PRAKTIK PERADILAN DI BALI

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Sukerti
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Children Of Divorce ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
Custody Of Children ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
The Right

Our research aims to find and analyze the laws applied by judge to custody of children due to divorce related to the enactment of legal pluralism. Related to this, the issues raised in this research are: 1). What law applied by judges to child custody  of divorce related to the enactment of legal pluralism?  2). What factors are the basis for consideration of the judge in determined custody of children divorce?. The results showed that the judge in determined custody of children of divorce apply national law. That is child to custody by mother may or paternal. Children who are under the care of the mother did not lose the right to inherit the father's side. The factors on which the consideration of the judge in determining child custody is a national marriage law, the cause of the divorce, and ensuring the interests the future of children, parenting by mothers did not abort child right inherit the father's side. The conclusion that the judge in determined the custody of children due to divorce apply national law. The factors on which the consideration of the judge in determining child custody is a national law, the cause of the divorce, and ensuring the interests of future child, parenting did not abort of child in her father's right to inherit.

Mental Representations of Pregnant Nulliparous Women Having No Sex Preference

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 464-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques D. Marleau ◽  
Jean-François Saucier ◽  
Odette Bernazzani ◽  
François Borgeat ◽  
Hélène David
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Sex Preference ◽  
Nulliparous Women ◽  
First Child ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child

The objective was to elicit the mental representations about the sex of the future child of 89 nulliparous pregnant women who declared having no sex preference, using the Kelly s Repertory Grid. Analyses showed that 67% of these women had no explicit and clear representation about the sex of their first child. These data suggest that these pregnant women seemed really to have no sex preference.

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