Intimate Uncertainties

In: Anthropological journal of European cultures: AJEC, Band 27, Heft 2, S. v-xv

Abstract

For this special issue we are bringing together six ethnographic cases
of intimate uncertainties that are situated within different regimes of
reproduction, healthcare and borders in and beyond Europe. These
ethnographic inquiries exemplify unprecedented settings of moral
ir/responsibility shaping the intimate on different scales and in various
sites of power (agencies, clinics, borderlands). These uncertainties
in times of major transitions from old to new moral orders, from
industrial to postindustrial, from welfare to austerity spark off a
renewed debate on moral economy. The authors of these contributions
all focus the theoretical lens of moral economy squarely onto
the intimate.