‘Is it okay to have a child?’: figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change

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dc.citation.volumeOnline First
dc.contributor.authorMeynell L
dc.contributor.authorMorgan M
dc.contributor.authorVan Ommen C
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-12T01:41:47Z
dc.date.available2024-06-12T01:41:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-27
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we engage feminist theorisations of figurations as “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway 1997/2018) to trace some of the figures which are animating stories about climate change and reproduction in Global North contexts. We focus our reading on a handful of texts which circulate around the question of ‘Is it okay to have a child, given our climate conditions and futures?’ Throughout, we consider the relationship between figurations and our subjective becomings in response to environmental devastations. We critique and resist the hegemonic figuring of ‘the human subject’ as rational and unitary (Braidotti 2014), as this figure naturalises the Western social power relations of advanced capitalism, population control and human exceptionalism. Seeking multiplicity, we look for figures and subjective openings which enable us to become response-able to the pain of ecological worlds dying around us (Haraway 2016), including from our disciplinary location of psychology.
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dc.identifier.citationMeynell L, Morgan M, van Ommen C. (2023). ‘Is it okay to have a child?’: figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change. Subjectivity. Online First.
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41286-023-00168-5
dc.identifier.eissn1755-635X
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1755-6341
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69802
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.publisher.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41286-023-00168-5
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dc.rights(c) 2023 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectFigures
dc.subjectSubjectivity
dc.subjectReproduction
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectDonna Haraway
dc.title‘Is it okay to have a child?’: figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change
dc.typeJournal article
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