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<h2 align="center">Gender and Cultural Studies seminar series 2011</h2>
<div align="center"><big>School of Culture, History and Language<br>
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Wednesday, </big><big>7 September 2011</big><br>
<big>Time: 3:00-4:30pm</big><br>
<big> Venue: Basham Room, BPB<br>
Speaker: Dr Sonja van Wichelen <br>
Title: Moral Economies of the Adoptee-Body in Globalization<br>
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ALL WELCOME</big> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The transnational circulation of child bodies
for the purpose of family-making increasingly occurs alongside
consumerist principles and market logic of supply and demand. In
the institutional practices regulating these forms of
reproduction, justifications are met to circumvent the mixing of
money with love. But what happens when a crisis of legitimation
takes place? Which ethical principles are adhered to and how do
they correspond to moral frameworks on the ground? How does
morality “work” or “translate” to assemblages of global practice
that involve bodies and circuits of exchange? In my presentation I
investigate such a crisis of legitimation by exploring moral
responses within a Dutch adoption agency to an adoption scandal
regarding stolen children in China. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Bio</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>Dr
Sonja van Wichelen is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural
Research, University of Western Sydney. She received her PhD in
Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and held positions
in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and in the
Pembroke Center at Brown University. Her books include <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Religion, Gender and Politics
in Indonesia: Disrupting the Muslim Body</i> (Routledge, 2010)
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Commitment and
Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice</i> (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009, co-edited with B. O. Firat and S. de Mul). Her
research and teaching interests are in science and technology
studies, cultural economy and globalization, feminist and
postcolonial theory, anthropology of law, religion and the body
politic. </p>
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