REPROAB

Controlling Reproduction in Post-communist Romania: The Abortion Issue

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI    more  Organization address address: MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU STREET 36-46 SECTOR V city: BUCURESTI postcode: 50107 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Liviu Cognome: Papadima Email: send email Telefono: 40213077363 Fax: 40213077385
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Romania [RO]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-10-01   -   2017-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI  Organization address address: MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU STREET 36-46 SECTOR V city: BUCURESTI postcode: 50107 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Liviu Cognome: Papadima Email: send email Telefono: 40213077363 Fax: 40213077385	RO (BUCURESTI)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The abortion ban (1966-1989) during Ceausescu’s regime is considered one of the most repressive reproduction policies of the twentieth century. Immediately after the fall of the communist regime, the new Romanian government legalized abortion on request. Studies have documented the demographic consequences of the communist pronatalism in the early 1990s, but very little research has focused specifically on controlling reproduction in postcommunist Romania between the State and the individual. Based on long-term ethnography of the abortion issue in post-communist Romania, this research project seeks to understand the legacy of the former abortion ban in terms of institutional norms and individual practices. Interdisciplinary in nature, and primarily qualitative, it combines a social anthropology and Memory Studies approach in order to (1) inventory the public policies concerning abortion after 1989, as well as associated debates, and (2) analyze the individual practices of the medical profession, and their evaluation by the patients, both in a synchronic (participatory observation in abortion- providing facilities) and diachronic perspective (in-depth interviews, following a social memory approach). The associated fieldwork will be situated in south-central contemporary Romania (Bucharest and Prahova jurisdiction) and will involve several case studies in urban and rural settings. The overall scientific goal of the project is to provide, from a social anthropology point of view, a comprehensive understanding of the relations between past and present when dealing with biopolitics in a post-totalitarian regime. In this sense, postcommunist Romanian realities will be taken as a case-study, but insights will be made in the nature, the scope and the practice of biopower at the European level after 1989, between national agendas and international norms.'