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catalyst-37920	Vertommen, Sigrid; Parry, Bronwyn; Nahman, Michal	Introduction: Global Fertility Chains and the Colonial Present of Assisted Reproductive Technologies	2022		.htm	text/html	6355	367	40	Engaging with the “colonial present” of a broad array of reproductive technologies, including surrogacy, adoption, seed saving, “slave breeding,” and in vitro fertilization in different (post)colonial sites of inquiry, including India, Korea, Australia, the United States, and the borderlands between Mexico and Guatemala, the papers in this collection draw on the foundational work of materialist, STS, Black, Indigenous, and decolonial feminists to foreground three main “relational” themes: (1) between past and present colonial materializations and imaginaries of ARTs; (2) between colonialism’s myriad, intraconnected reproductive grammars of slavery, genocide, conservation, exploitation, and extraction; (3) between ART’s life and death functions and their mutually constitutive biopolitical and necropolitical logics.     As such, the vignette also evokes some of the key themes and areas of concern that are foregrounded in this Special Section on the colonial lineages of reproductive technologies, practices, and markets, with their highly gendered and racialized regimes of labor, property, and population control, that prove life-generating for some and highly extractive or exploitative for others.	cache/catalyst-37920.htm	txt/catalyst-37920.txt