‘Bodies that birth’ and the violence it bears: In conversation with Rachelle Chadwick

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Kaveri Mayra

KAVERI MAYRA is a midwifery, nursing and public health researcher with experience in nursing and midwifery workforce policies and care provision, mainly in India and internationally. She is a global speaker on obstetric violence, nursing and midwifery governance, and gender-based challenges underlying all these issues. She is currently pursuing her PhD on Global Health at the University of Southampton, UK, exploring the determinants of obstetric violence in India. Email: [email protected]

Rodante van der Waal

RODANTE VAN DER WAAL is a PhD candidate in care-ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, and an independent midwife in Amsterdam. Her PhD study investigates obstetric violence from feminist, postcolonial and care-ethical perspectives. She has a BA and MA in Philosophy (cum laude), and wrote her MA thesis on the ontology of pregnancy and Pregnant Posthuman subjectivity (see the lemma in: Posthuman Glossary (2018), eds Braidotti and Hlavajova). She is the editor of the podcast Contractions: The Politics of Midwifery. For more information see: www.rodantevanderwaal.nl. Email: [email protected]

Rachelle Chadwick

RACHELLE CHADWICK is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Pretoria. She has written and published widely on the feminist politics of birth, obstetric violence, and feminist theory more broadly. Her book Bodies that Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics was published by Routledge in 2018. She is currently Principal Investigator of the research project titled ‘The Birth Archive: Against Reproductive Silencing’ funded by the National Research Foundation. As part of this project, she also leads the ‘Gestational Justice Research Hub’. Email: rachelle.[email protected]