## INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE GLOBAL JUSTICE PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm T2, 3rd Floor, Conference Room O.P. Jindal Global University

Sonipat Narela Road, Near Jagdishpur Village, Sonipat, Haryana - 131001

## ''Corporeity: Conceptualising Corporeal Citizenship in India''

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SPEAKER

PROFESSOR ADITYA BHARDWAJ

Research Professor, Anthropology and Sociology The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Aditya Bharadwaj is Research Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His research is focused on the rapid spread of Assisted Reproductive and Stem Cell Biotechnologies around the globe. He has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He co-authored Risky Relations: Family, Kinship and the New Genetics (Berg, 2006) and is the lead author of the research monograph Local Cells, Global Science: The Proliferation of Stem Cell Technologies in India (Routledge, 2009). His forthcoming research monograph is titled Conceptions: Infertility and Technologies of Procreation in India (Berghahn, 2014).

## Abstract

The paper conceptualises corporeity as an emergent form of citizenship predicated on the liquidation of physical substance or existence. Drawing on three contemporary developments in the scientific capacity to harness biogenetic substance and support its gestation - in vitro fertilization, stem cells and surrogacy - the paper shows how selective transference of neo-liberal policies is facilitating the 'birth' of a new class of corporeal subject citizens in India. The paper situates these developments on the intersections of local and global efforts to produce greater legal oversight to achieve ethical appropriation of human biogenetic substance and capacity. The argument charts the political expediency underscoring these moves and examines the frayed contours of governance structures enabling the appropriation and liquidation of citizen corporeality in an emerging global bioeconomy.

Global Justice Programme (GJP), Jindal Global Law School

Faculty Co-ordinator: Professor Ratna Kapur <rkapur@jgu.edu.in>, +91 8930110903 Global Professor of Law &amp; Director

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