Episode 02: (In)Fertile Environments

In our second episode, Katie Dow interviews Janelle Lamoreaux about the anthropology of fertility in the age of toxic environments, epigenetic mapping and the population ‘problem’.

References mentioned in this video:

Clarke, Adele E. and Donna Haraway (eds.). 2018. Making Kin Not Population. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

Dow, Katharine and Janelle Lamoreaux. 2020 "Situated Kinmaking and the Population 'Problem'" Environmental Humanities 12(2) https://read.dukeupress.edu/environme...

Dow, Katharine. 2021. 'Bloody Marvels: In Situ Seed Saving and Intergenerational Malleability’. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 35(4): 493-510. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wi...

Dow, Katharine. 2016. Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lamoreaux, Janelle. 2016 "What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetics in a Toxic China," Cultural Anthropology 31(2): 188-214, https://culanth.org/articles/806-what...

Lamoreaux, Janelle. 2021 “Passing Down Pollution”: (Inter)generational toxicology and (epi)genetic environmental health. Special Issue, Towards Intergenerational Ethnography: Kinship, Cohorts and Environments in and beyond the (bio)social sciences. Sahra Gibbon and Janelle Lamoreaux, eds. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 35(4): 529-546

Lamoreaux, Janelle and Sahra Gibbon. 2021 Towards Intergenerational Ethnography: Kinship, Cohorts and Environments in and Beyond the Biosocial Sciences. Sahra Gibbon and Janelle Lamoreaux (eds). Medical Anthropology Quarterly 35(4): 423-440.

Lamoreaux, Janelle. 2021 "Reproducing Toxicity." Environmental History 26(2). Forum on "Toxins in Environmental History".