Lorena Anton Marie Curie CIG-Fellow & Lecturer in Social Anthropology - University of Bucharest |
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03.07.2017-15.09.2017
Lobbying for the Unborn: Anti-Abortion Discourses and Abortion Governance in Post-communist Romania
The objectives of my Brocher Residency are:
1) Processing the ethnographic data collected in Spring/Summer 2016 concerning anti-abortion lobby in contemporary Romania, and linking them with the partial results of my long-term ethnography (2013-2017) concerning reproduction control in post-communist Romania2) Developing this specific data into a scholarly publication and dissemination
3) Consulting with reproductive health and policy experts at the World Health Organization – Department of Reproductive Health and Research, on current Human Reproduction Programs/HRP (especially on family planning and contraception, and preventing unsafe abortion) and past HRP in Eastern European countries
4) Interacting with visiting researchers at the Brocher Center about the topic of health policy and regulation, especially in the area of reproductive health and abortion-care
I am currently a Marie Curie-CIG Fellow and associated Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University of Bucharest, where I develop a project on public health policies and social debates concerning reproduction in post-communist Romania. My main research interests so far have centered on reproductive health and reproductive rights, European social movements, the cultural memory of European communism and the history of anthropology in Eastern Europe.