Johanna Gondouin

Short presentation

I am employed as Senior lecturer at the Centre for Gender Research since February 2025. This semester my teaching includes cultural representations and methodology at the undergraduate level and the courses Family, Kinship and Reproduction and Race, Globalization and Privilege on the master program.

Biography

I have a background in literary studies and cinema studies. For more than a decade I have been researching the global politics of reproduction, with a specific focus on transnational adoption and transnational surrogacy.

Research

Areas of expertise

My research is situated within the broader fields of postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory, critical race and whiteness studies, political economy, feminist cultural studies and critical kinship studies.

Ongoing research

I am currently Principal Investigator of the three year project “Expanding Markets in Life, Exploring Emerging ART Practices in India and East Africa”, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR 2021-04822).

Previous research projects

”From Waste to Profit. Gender, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism in Indian Commercial Surrogacy” (VR 2016-01644). Principal Investigator.

”Mediating Global Motherhood On Swedish Media Reprsentations of Transnational Surrogacy and Transnational Adoption” (VR 2012-0538). Individual project.

”Robert Bresson, the Dardenne Brothers and Performative Realism” (VR, postdoc.). Individual project.

Recent publications

Gondouin, J., Eriksson, Å., Thapar-Björkert, S. 2024. ”Chains of extraction: shifting bioeconomies in India and East Africa”. Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 9, 2024.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1149368

Gondouin, J, & Thapar_Björkert, S. 2023. "Motherland Without Women: Caste, Class and Patriarchy in Manish Jha's Matrubhoomi". Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 43(2–3): 174–195. 

http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.14860

Thapar-Björkert, S., Majumdar, A., & Gondouin, J. 2023. “There are two sides to everything”: Re (locating) vulnerability in the surrogacy industry in India. Feminism & Psychology, 33(3), 335-356.

https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535231172592

Thapar-Björkert, S., Eriksson, Å., Stevens, M, Gondouin, J. 2023. ”Silences and Vulnerabilities: Sex Work and Gender Based Violence in South Africa and Sweden”. The Thinker, June 2023.

https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/2518

Gondouin, Johanna. 2022. “Therese Svensson, Vithetens koagulerade hjärta. Om avkoloniserade läsningars möjlighet. Avhandlingar framlagda vid institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet 61, Göteborg 2020”. [The Congealed Heart of Whiteness. On the Possibility of Decolonial Readings]. Review of doctoral thesis (7 p.).

Gondouin, Johanna and Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi. 2022. “Indian native companions and Korean camptown women: Unpacking coloniality in transnational surrogacy and adoption”. Catalyst. Feminism, theory, technoscience, Spring 2022.

https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/37003

Gondouin, Johanna, Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi and Rao, Mohan. 2022. ”Caste and the stratification of reproductive labour: Dalit feminist voices from the field”. Birth Controlled: Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics, eds Amrita Pande et al, Manchester UP.