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From the intersection of queer studies, area studies and critical kinship studies, this groundbreaking collection explores queer (non-hetero-sexual) family practices and kinship formations from converging perspectives and in a range of geopolitical settings around the Baltic Sea region and beyond. Empirically grounded and in critical dialogue with international scholarship, the volume simultaneously places (queer) kinship and reproduction at the centre of area studies and contributes to the de-centring of Western, Anglo-American theoretical and empirical dominance within feminist and queer kinship studies. Using examples from Denmark, Finland, Greece, Norway, Poland and Sweden, this book highlights the importance of geopolitics in the understandings of queer kinship. Contributors explore the centrality of sexuality in assisted reproduction, family-making and other forms of queer/ing kinship and intimacy by focusing on equality, the role of the state, of technologies in making and breaking kinship, and further the theoretical discussion on matters of mourning, inter-generationality, embodiment, labour and citizenship. Contributors: Pako Chalkidou, Ulrika Dahl, Suraiya Jetha, Jenny Gun-narsson Payne, Anna Malmqvist, Anna Moring, Michael Neberling Peterson, Joanna Mizielińska and Antu Sorainen.

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Ulrika Dahl is a Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. Her interests are feminist and queer politics and theory, critical race and whiteness studies, decolonial pedagogies, femininity, affect, and queer kinship and reproduction. Ulrika was senior editor of lambda Nordica - Nordic journal of LGBTQ studies from 2009-2020 and she has published extensively on Nordic queer studies, gender studies and on the figure of the femme. She was Project leader for the project ""Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region"" (funded by the Founda¬tion for Baltic and East European Studies) and currently works in a Forte-funded research project (with Rikke Andreassen) entitled ""Scandinavian Border Crossings: Race and Nation in Queer Assisted Reproduction"" with a focus on biopolitics, race and nation in contemporary queer family making. She is also beginning new research on the con¬servative turn in (Nordic) feminism and gender studies and their relation to ""gender critical"" feminism and anti-gender move¬ments. With a passion for creative writing, Ulrika is currently also working on her second book in Swedish, a lyric essay on queer kinship, desire and embodied knowledge. Joanna Mizielińska holds a D.S.s (habilitation) in sociology, from the University of Warsaw and a Ph.D. in Feminist Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, she works at the Institute of Sociology, Collegium Civitas. She was the Principal Investigator of the project Families of Choice in Poland (2013-2016). Raili Uibo holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Södertörn Uni¬ver¬sity. Her PhD project was part of the international research project ""Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region"" and explores how LGBTQ+ people in Estonia are doing close relationships, care and intimacy. She received her MA in Gender Studies from Lund University and BA in Sociology from Tallinn University. Her research interests are queer and feminist theory and activism, post-socialist and decolonial Studies.

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