POL378H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Surrogacy, Racialization
Document Summary
Kolarova: grandpa lives in paradise now": biological precarity and the global economy of debility. Those from western europe are now looking to south for healthcare. Buying care abroad is not usually a voluntary choice --> illusion of choice sometimes. How the body becomes a commodity of exchange in transnational economic context. Visions of paradise-like renewal, no signs of disability. Thailand is somewhere where you can afford to be old and ill. Plays upon anxieties of global north in face of biological precarity. Insinuation of racialization into mundane practices of consumption - affirms colonial dominance. Land and inhabitants are feminized and racialized, space configured as that which offers diverse forms of renewal and rejuvenation. Ability to bring body and soul into harmony. Colonial master(s) / patriarchs surrounded by submissive subjects. Despite disability, reinstate power dynamic / racialized supremacy. Disabled bodies are repositioned as consumers of care. Recapacitates them for fantasy that grants affective relief in face of biological precarity.
