The article co-authored by the ReproCit team Kate Antosik-Parsons, Catherine Conlon, Fiona Bloomer (Ulster University) and Emma Campbell (Ulster University) "Gender, nation and reproduction in the afterward of repeal and decriminalisation" has been published in the Special Issue: After the Review: What Next for Irish Abortion Services? in the Irish Journal of Sociology.
This article sketches out a conceptual framework for Reproductive Citizenship, expanding upon Bryan Turner's initial formulation of reproductive citizenship to encompass abortion. It features a second iteration of analysis of qualitative data-capturing experiences of accessing abortion in the Republic of Ireland between 2019 and 2021 alongside qualitative datasets from Northern Ireland to look at abortion experiences on an all-island basis. It proposes reproductive citizenship as generative in facilitating conceptualising abortion as lived, relational, embodied or fleshy when mobilised as a reproductive capacity.
The article is drawn from the larger Reproductive Citizenship study, an all-island research study looking at abortion on the island of Ireland, bringing together datasets for secondary analysis complemented with primary data collection.
The ReproCit Project was a HEA-funded North South Research Programme Project.
Citation: Antosik-Parsons, K., Conlon, C., Bloomer, F., & Campbell, E. (2025). Gender, nation and reproduction in the afterward of repeal and decriminalisation. Irish Journal of Sociology, 33(1-2), 30-47. https://doi.org/10.1177/07916035251342136
Other outputs from the ReproCit project can be found here.