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Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment : abortion rights and democracy today

Drążkiewicz, Ela LU orcid ; Strong, Thomas ; Scheper-Hughes, Nancy ; Turpin, Hugh ; Saris, A. Jamie ; Mishtal, Joanna ; Wulff, Helena ; French, Brigittine ; Garvey, Pauline and Miller, Daniel , et al. (2020) In Social Anthropology 28(3). p.561-584
Abstract

In 2018, the Irish public voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which since 1983 banned abortion in the country. While this was a watershed moment in Irish history, it was not unconnected to wider discussions now taking place around the world concerning gender, reproductive rights, the future of religion, Church–State relationships, democracy and social movements. With this Forum, we want to prompt some anthropological interpretations of Ireland's repeal of the Eighth Amendment as a matter concerning not only reproductive rights, but also questions of life and death, faith and shame, women and men, state power and individual liberty, and more. We also ask what this event might mean (if anything) for other... (More)

In 2018, the Irish public voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which since 1983 banned abortion in the country. While this was a watershed moment in Irish history, it was not unconnected to wider discussions now taking place around the world concerning gender, reproductive rights, the future of religion, Church–State relationships, democracy and social movements. With this Forum, we want to prompt some anthropological interpretations of Ireland's repeal of the Eighth Amendment as a matter concerning not only reproductive rights, but also questions of life and death, faith and shame, women and men, state power and individual liberty, and more. We also ask what this event might mean (if anything) for other societies dealing with similar issues?

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Abstract in French

En 2018, le peuple irlandais a voté l’abrogation du huitième amendement de la Constitution irlandaise interdisant l’avortement dans le pays depuis 1983. L’Irlande vivait alors un moment décisifde son histoire, qui n’était pas sans lien avec de plus vastes débats, aujourd’hui en cours dans lemonde entier, portant sur le genre, le droit à la procréation, l’avenir de la religion, les relationsentre l’Église et l’État, la démocratie et les mouvements sociaux. Dans ce Forum, nous voulonsencourager une lecture anthropologique de l’abrogation du huitième amendement par l’Irlande,car elle concerne non seulement le droit à la procréation, mais aussi la vie et la mort, la foi et lahonte, les femmes et les hommes,... (More)
Abstract in French

En 2018, le peuple irlandais a voté l’abrogation du huitième amendement de la Constitution irlandaise interdisant l’avortement dans le pays depuis 1983. L’Irlande vivait alors un moment décisifde son histoire, qui n’était pas sans lien avec de plus vastes débats, aujourd’hui en cours dans lemonde entier, portant sur le genre, le droit à la procréation, l’avenir de la religion, les relationsentre l’Église et l’État, la démocratie et les mouvements sociaux. Dans ce Forum, nous voulonsencourager une lecture anthropologique de l’abrogation du huitième amendement par l’Irlande,car elle concerne non seulement le droit à la procréation, mais aussi la vie et la mort, la foi et lahonte, les femmes et les hommes, le pouvoir étatique, la liberté individuelle et plus encore. Nousnous interrogeons également sur la signification que cet événement pourrait avoir (s’il en a une)aux yeux d’autres sociétés traversées par des questions analogues (Less)
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L’abrogation du huitième amendement de la Constitution irlandaise : le droit à l’avortement et la démocratie aujourd’hui (French title)
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keywords
abortion, Ireland, Repeal the 8th, reproductive rights, social change, citizen assembly, referendum, social movements
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Social Anthropology
volume
28
issue
3
pages
24 pages
publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
external identifiers
  • scopus:85091832434
ISSN
0964-0282
DOI
10.1111/1469-8676.12914
language
English
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no
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Publisher Copyright: © 2020 European Association of Social Anthropologists
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82bc6520-cad3-4ed5-8b74-201034e6a936
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2023-08-23 22:33:33
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