Embodied sociotechnical imaginaries: how donor-conceived people imagine identity, family and reprodigital futures beyond regulation.

IF 2.3 Q2 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Frontiers in global women's health Pub Date : 2024-01-11 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fgwh.2023.1221913
Giselle Newton, Kerryn Drysdale, Christy E Newman
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Abstract

Sociological scholarship has begun to explore imaginaries of family and reproduction, yet less work has focused on the emerging social form of the donor family. In this article, we consider the embodied sociotechnical imaginaries of donor-conceived people, exploring their reflections, judgements, hopes, and predictions regarding donor conception. Combining reflexive thematic analysis of free-text survey responses from sperm donor-conceived (n = 90) and egg donor-conceived (n = 1) and data from semi-structured interviews with sperm donor-conceived people (n = 28), conceived in both clinical and non-clinical contexts in Australia, we analyse donor-conceived people's imaginings of family, identity, and the practice of donor conception in the digital age. Our analysis centres the donor-conceived body that imagines, and in doing so, highlights the entanglements of reproductive and digital technologies, and the humans and institutions that drive their uptake. We argue that leveraging the imaginative and political capacities of donor-conceived people is a productive approach that illuminates possible (re)directions of the assisted reproduction industry as well as illustrating potential policy futures.

具身的社会技术想象:捐献者如何想象身份、家庭和超越监管的数字化未来。
社会学学术界已开始探索家庭和生育的想象,但关注捐赠家庭这一新兴社会形态的研究较少。在本文中,我们将探讨捐精受孕者的体现性社会技术想象,探索他们对捐精受孕的反思、判断、希望和预测。通过对精子捐献受孕者(n = 90)和卵子捐献受孕者(n = 1)的自由文本调查回复进行反思性主题分析,以及对澳大利亚临床和非临床背景下的精子捐献受孕者(n = 28)进行半结构式访谈,我们分析了数字时代捐献受孕者对家庭、身份和捐献受孕实践的想象。我们的分析以想象中的捐献受孕者身体为中心,并以此强调生殖技术和数字技术之间的纠葛,以及推动其应用的人类和机构。我们认为,利用受孕捐献者的想象力和政治能力是一种富有成效的方法,它揭示了辅助生殖行业可能的(再)发展方向,并说明了潜在的政策前景。
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