Panel “Investigating reproduction and activism as engaged researchers: political, methodological and moral challenges” – II Congreso Internacional de Antropología Feminista.
Organized by Bruna Alvarez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Lieta Vivaldi (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) y Silvia de Zordo (Universitat de Barcelona).
In this panel, in which we presented the results of REPROMOB subproject 2, we investigated the pro and anti-sexual and reproductive rights debates on different topics – sexual education, abortion, ARTs – and reflected on the one hand on how the political debate and legal context can shape our research, especially when one walks the fine line between being a researcher and an activist, and, on the other hand, on how our research findings can lead us to take a critical position vis à vis political activism, challenging our double role as academic and activist.