PhD Defence Rodante van der Waal
Summary
Through a critical analysis of reproductive violence during abortion, pregnancy, and birth, van der Waal works towards a reproductive justice to-come. Engaging with resistant activist practices of care in the Netherlands, the central thesis of this study is that reproductive justice must be achieved through a radical re-appropriation of relationality in reproductive care to safeguard the access to knowledge and care needed for safe bodily self-determination. Through empirical research as well as decolonial, feminist, midwifery, and Black theory, reproductive justice is re-imagined as abolitionist care, grounded on the abolition of authoritative obstetric institutions and restrictive abortion laws, in favour of community practices that truly are relational.
More information on her work can be found on her website.
| Contact person | pedel Yamit Gutman |
| Location | Zalen van Zeven (Boothstraat 7 3512 BT Utrecht) |
| pedel@uvh.nl | |
| Date | 10-2-2025 |
| Opening hours | Starts at 3pm sharp |