31/08/2026
“Race, Racialisation and Reproduction in the Nordic Context” SI Launch webinar
We are very happy to invite you to the launch webinar of special NORA issue (34: 2): https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/swom20/34/2 (Open Access).
Edited by Riikka Homanen (University of Lapland, Finland), Ulrika Dahl (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Mwenza Blell (Newcastle University, UK)
Friday, September 25th 2026, 4-6 pm (EEST/ UCT +3)!
About the special issue launch
We will hear from the editors and authors followed by response to the issue from Emeritus Professor Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge).
The event is hosted by Finnish Research Council funded project “Gendered Ethics of Reproductive Time: Science, Technology and the Market”, University of Lapland, Finland
Free registration: https://eoppimispalvelut.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6EJnTlcnSSqWCGFvF51ivQ
About the special issue
Race is a salient category of everyday life that plays a key role in understanding social and biological reproduction. The racist realities of our present include many dimensions directly related to reproduction, for example, the premature births and deaths of racialized men, women, and non-binary people; the racializing practices embedded in the architectures of reproductive technologies, adoption, foster care and the transnational reproductive tissue industry; the international surveillance and control of Black, brown and Indigenous reproduction; and the unequal ways migration, economic deprivation and toxic exposures affect people’s ability to produce children, make kin and sustain family relationships.
While race has been taken up widely as an analytic to explore these issues elsewhere, much remains to be examined concerning the reproduction of both race and racism in the Nordic context. As has been well documented by now, there is a strong historical idea of Nordic white homogeneity and egalitarianism that has resulted in widespread denial of persistent inequalities related to racial belonging and categorization and where whiteness is simultaneously naturalized and rendered invisible.
In the articles of the issue, interconnections of race, nation, and reproduction in the context of Nordic countries and welfare systems are explored by drawing from rich theoretical and empirical work. We continue a scholarly tradition and attend to what has thus far been missing by acknowledging that reproduction and fertility are central to both social life and social thought.
We hope to see many of you there!
