ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the reconfiguration of reproduction and production of life is achieved through medicalisation and technologisation, through fragmentation and extraction of body parts and biological material and through a Taylorised division of labour involved in re/production. It focuses on the ongoing transformation of bodily natureculture and the political-economic and scientific reconfiguration of re/production in transnational markets with a focus on the surrogate motherhood in India. The chapter argues that surrogacy breaks up the naturecultural nexus of sexuality, intimacy and re/production. It focuses on the surrogate mother acts at an interface of three interactive and intertwined power regimes, the repro-medical-industrial complex, biopolitics and the hegemonic heteronormative re/productive regime in society. The chapter explores a multi-scalar approach to surrogacy, merging local, national and transnational dimensions and links structural analysis and discourse analysis with an analysis of agency and subjectivities.
