Global Public Health Unit, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Reproductive Sociology Research Group, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Med Anthropol. 2022 Sep-Oct;41(6-7):659-673. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2083510. Epub 2022 Jun 15.
Climate change is altering the horizon of a liveable future and as a result giving rise to a host of anxieties: ecological, demographic, reproductive, and existential. The BirthStrike for Climate collective was a group of people who were reconsidering reproduction as a result of the climate crisis. In exploring the case of BirthStrike we consider how these decisions were used as a tool for "existential" activism and how the campaign was encountered and discredited in the public realm. We argue the campaign ignited numerous anxieties, resulting in an inability to "hear" the existential threat BirthStrikers aimed to call into focus.
气候变化正在改变未来的宜居前景，由此引发了一系列的焦虑：生态、人口、生殖和存在。生育罢工气候集体是一群因为气候危机而重新考虑生育的人。在探讨生育罢工的案例时，我们考虑了这些决定如何被用作“存在主义”激进主义的工具，以及该运动在公共领域是如何被接受和诋毁的。我们认为这场运动引发了许多焦虑，导致人们无法“听到”生育罢工者试图引起关注的生存威胁。
