Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.53

万事-LSE讲座系列第53期

Title/题目: 

Fertility exhaustion in the 21st century

生育能力枯竭的21世纪

Speaker/主讲人: 

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Working in the field of social studies of (bio)medicine, his research has focused on the modernization of traditional herbal medicine (in Vietnam and the United Kingdom), reproductive and genetic technologies (in China and Denmark), health metrics (in clinical trials and global health) as well as chronic living (through a multi-country study entitled The Vitality of Disease - Quality of Life in the Making). Ayo is the author of the award-winning book Good Quality – the Routinization of Sperm Banking in China and co-editor of Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century.

讲座内容/ Abstract: 

Throughout the world, fertility rates are falling while infertility rates are rising as women give birth to fewer children. The global fertility rate is estimated to have halved from 4.7 in 1950 to 2.4 in 2017. In this talk, rather than pointing to women’s increasing use of contraception, educational attainment and participation in paid labour (Vollset et al. 2020), I will argue that we might better understand the empirical demographic phenomena of fertility decline and low fertility by exploring which cultural, juridical and socio-economic factors are generative of what might be termed fertility exhaustion.