Reproductive tourism: A poetic inquiry
This paper employs poetic inquiry as a form of interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of the fertility services industry in Cancun. Drawing upon interviews with the owner of a medical tourism company and a doct...
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| description | This paper employs poetic inquiry as a form of interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of the fertility services industry in Cancun. Drawing upon interviews with the owner of a medical tourism company and a doctor who runs a large fertility clinic, we adopt varied strategies of poetic inquiry as a means of listening deeply to the stories of participants. In particular, we ask who gets to tell the story, how is the story told and why does it matter? This is profoundly personal and political work. As the poems and our reflections on them reveal, we remain uncomfortable deriving any straightforward scholarly conclusions but rather see ourselves as engaged in work that is intended to be both critical and creative. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-387f9e56b5d840a798949c3e692534782022-12-21T23:14:37ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Arts & Humanities2331-19832017-01-014110.1080/23311983.2017.13711011371101Reproductive tourism: A poetic inquiryHeather Walmsley0Susan Cox1Carl Leggo2University of British ColumbiaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of British ColumbiaThis paper employs poetic inquiry as a form of interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of the fertility services industry in Cancun. Drawing upon interviews with the owner of a medical tourism company and a doctor who runs a large fertility clinic, we adopt varied strategies of poetic inquiry as a means of listening deeply to the stories of participants. In particular, we ask who gets to tell the story, how is the story told and why does it matter? This is profoundly personal and political work. As the poems and our reflections on them reveal, we remain uncomfortable deriving any straightforward scholarly conclusions but rather see ourselves as engaged in work that is intended to be both critical and creative.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2017.1371101poetic inquiryarts-based researchinfertilityreproductive tourismcross-border reproductive caresurrogacymedical tourismegg donationcancuncitiespoetryethicspoint of viewstorytellingnarrativefound poetryerasure poetrycommodification of the body |
| spellingShingle | Heather Walmsley Susan Cox Carl Leggo Reproductive tourism: A poetic inquiry Cogent Arts & Humanities poetic inquiry arts-based research infertility reproductive tourism cross-border reproductive care surrogacy medical tourism egg donation cancun cities poetry ethics point of view storytelling narrative found poetry erasure poetry commodification of the body |
| title | Reproductive tourism: A poetic inquiry |
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| title_short | Reproductive tourism: A poetic inquiry |
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| topic | poetic inquiry arts-based research infertility reproductive tourism cross-border reproductive care surrogacy medical tourism egg donation cancun cities poetry ethics point of view storytelling narrative found poetry erasure poetry commodification of the body |
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