The Incubation of a Social Movement ? Preterm Babies, Parent Activists and Neonatal Productions in the US Context  

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Landzelius, Kyra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 3 (Feb. 2006), page 668-682.
Topik: social movement; preterm baby; mutual help movement; USA; kinship; motherhood; cyborg

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This article explores health based activism on the part of the US parents of preemies movement, a mutual help network mobilized around babies born precariously early and acutely dependent upon life support incubators. The movement articulates two metagendas for parental empowerment : 1. the quest to access / exercise greater participatory incluivity via a vis the preterm baby within the biomedical domain, and 2. the wuest to secure / command greater representational authority over the preterm baby within the public domain. Seen in terms of the erosion of the status quo, it can be argued that the movement's tangile and intagible aims to chip away at these traditions have been softly revolutionary, hearalding new working partnerships between medical practitioners and patient's famlies, radical shifts in the technological consciousness and competences of preemie parents, and cyborg changes in conventional catefories of the person. Yet seen in terms of a normative order of things, it can be argued that the movement has largely and willingly been cooperated, meaning that it has been cooperive, but equally coopted and operated into the disciplianry trajectory of neonatal medicine as well as the historical march of biopolitics with its governance of the collective body populous. From this critical perspective, the movement qua social movement thus itself might be considered incubated, coconed, gestated, disciplined and brought into existence by the very powers and hegemonic (patriarchal machinery that viable resistance might struggle to govern instead of serve.

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