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Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India (2023)
Journal Article
Fiks, E. (2023). Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India. Ethnos, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2243398

This paper explores therapeutic interventions for subfertility as a domain where meanings and boundaries of care and violence are constituted. It centres around a fragment of one Rajasthani woman’s reproductive journey contextualised within marriage... Read More about Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India.

Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India (2023)
Journal Article
Fiks, E. (2023). Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India. Anthropology and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2022.2152634

Laparoscopic tubal ligation is the most prevalent method of contraception amongst India's rural and urban poor. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in 2012-2013, this paper investigates how rural women's perceptions of a... Read More about Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India.