PROJECTS
EUROPE

RESEARCH ON POST-SOCIALISM
(1) Jelena Tošic | Global Rights and Local Contexts: The Discourse of Human Rights, Democratization and Globalization in Post-socialist Transformations in Serbia and Montenegro.
(2) Andrea Strasser-Camagni | Global Rights and Local Contexts: Human Rights for Women and their Transformation in the Daily Lives of Women in Armenia.
(3) Johanna Riegler | The Transformation of Labor: An East-West Comparison.
 
 GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY RESEARCH IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
 (4) Susanne Binder | Cross Cultural Learning from the Perspectives of Ethnicity- and Socialization- Research Techniques.
 
 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, GENDER AND SOCIETY
 (5) Eva-Maria Knoll | Techno-Medical Developments in Social and Cultural Contexts.
 
 METHODOLOGICAL CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE
 (6) Susanne Binder and Gebhard Fartacek | Alpine Popular Culture, Seen from Outside: The Austrian Musikantenstadl.
 
 
 
 EVA-MARIA KNOLL | TECHNO-MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Techno-Medical Developments in Social and Cultural Contexts.
  
Advances in medical technology, particularly in reproduction technology are deeply embedded in the globalization process. This project used the example of reproductive tourism to demonstrate the complex relationship between transnational participants in reproductive medicine.
 
Interactions between science, technology, and society in new fields of research and development, such as fertility treatment, continue to grow. This is a process that brings several sensitive and weighty social/political issues to light: The questions of human dignity and selection, legislative restrictions within individual nation states, and differing concepts of the individual, the family and the body. Gender roles and differing notions of sickness and health are also part of this discussion. Now that reproductive technologies are available on a global scale, and different national states have different legal systems, a new space has been created in which participants in reproductive medicine can move. Some treatments are now carried out in precisely those countries possessing a more liberal set of parameters for a wider range of treatments.
 
Eva-Maria Knoll used the example of reproductive tourism to examine the techniques, social contexts, motives and activities of transnational actors in this “Business with Hope.” Reproductive technologies, including fertility treatment are a visible expression of the transnational dynamics of bodies, technologies, and societies.

Awarded with the Theodor-Körner-Förderungspreis 2006.
 
 
 
Knoll, Eva-Maria (2005): Transnationale AkteurInnen im Geschäft mit der Hoffnung. Österreichische Momente globaler Verflechtungen der In-Vitro-Fertilisation. In: Riegler, Johanna (ed.): Kulturelle Dynamik der Globalisierung. Ost- und Westeuropäische Transformationsprozesse aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 203-232
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Knoll, Eva-Maria (2006): Rituale der künstlichen Befruchtung: Dimensionen eines Erfolgsdiskurses und dessen Schattenseiten. In: Sauer, Birgit & Knoll, Eva-Maria (ed.): Ritualisierungen von Geschlecht. Vienna: WUV. 69-86
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