Name
Abortion Mobilities and Health Inequities in Rural Canadian Communities: The Case of Niagara West, Ontario
Date & Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Description
In recent years, reproductive healthcare has become particularly contentious and constrained as neoconservative discourses become more dominant in several countries, particularly in the United States (Robinson et al., 2023; Shurgerman, 2024). While feminist research investigates the intersections of neoconservatism and gendered citizenship across different spaces (Chouinard, 2020; Fenster, 2005; Lister, 2003), few have been conducted in Canada. Consequently, there is a lacuna in understandings of gendered citizenship, neoconservatism, and access to reproductive healthcare as they operate in and across rural geographies (Lutfiyya et al., 2012; Paynter, 2022; Pini et al., 2020). Building on the literatures of critical mobilities studies, rural geographies, and health geographies, this paper highlights the case of Niagara West, Ontario, which has recently experienced intensified tensions between local anti- and pro-choice groups. In this presentation, I utilize the emerging concept of “abortion mobilities” (Engle, 2022) which expands to reproductive justice frameworks to capture embodied politics of intersectional feminist subjectivities in Niagara West.
Location Name
Mackenzie (ME) 3356
Session Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract ID
285
Speaker Name
Emily Mills
Speaker Organization
Brock University
Session Name
CS102 Geographies of care and mobility