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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255305603321

Autore

Nahavandi Firouzeh

Titolo

Commodification of Body Parts in the Global South : Transnational Inequalities and Development Challenges / / by Firouzeh Nahavandi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-50584-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 134 p.)

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Comparative politics

Economic development

Social change

Poverty

Comparative Politics

Development and Social Change

Development Aid

Regional Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Commodification of the Human Body Parts -- Chapter 2: Transnational Hair Trade -- Chapter 3: Transnational Surrogacy -- Chapter 4: Transnational Kidney Transplant -- Chapter 5: Transnational Attraction of Brains -- Chapter 6: The Commodification of the Human Body Parts in a Development-Related Perspective -- Ending Remarks .

Sommario/riassunto

This book proposes the introduction of a development-related perspective to scholarly critique of the human body’s commodification. Nahavandi contends that the commodification of human body parts reflects a modern form of such well-known historical phenomena as slavery and colonization, and can be considered a new and additional form of appropriation and extraction of resources from the Global South. What are the commonalities between hair trade, surrogacy, kidney sale and attraction of brains? The author argues that these all characterize a world where increasingly everything can be traded or is considered to be tradeable. A world where, similar to any other goods,



body parts have entered the global market either legally or illegally. Through a series of multidisciplinary comparative studies, the book explores how forms commodification of the human body are fuelled by issues of poverty in the Global South, and inequality in transnational relations. .