Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) In Turbulent Times

This open session documents, investigates and explores SRHR in globally turbulent times; moving beyond conventional public health framings; to engage with politico-sociological discourses, debates, methodologies and questions. Recognized as human rights and central to SDGs, SRHR is critical to gender equality, bodily autonomy, dignity, and development. Recently, armed conflicts; forced migrations; wars; COVID 19 pandemic; resurgent conservative, authoritarian and religious regimes; misinformation; and exclusionary techno-digital SRHR initiatives, have pushed back SRHR globally. Simultaneously, socio-political movements (My Voice My Choice: For Safe and Accessible Abortion), institutional endeavours (France constitutionalizing abortion rights, UNHRC holding Nicaragua and Ecuador accountable for sexual violence and forced motherhood), recognition of menstrual rights (Scotland's Period Products Act), civil society interventions and others are challenging this backsliding.

This session examines how political regimes, institutions, movements, civil society actors and emerging technologies reshape, contemporary SRHR discourse and praxis, enabling/ constraining reproductive autonomy. It views SRHR as a lens for understanding broader concerns about gender, power, demographic control, political culture and colonial histories; and as a site of contestation and resistance. With increasing complex interdependence (Keohane and Nye, 1977), it reflects on SRHR's transnationalization. It seeks novel methodologies, frameworks and vocabularies to capture SRHR complexities. Papers are invited, particularly for women, adolescents, migrants, indigenous peoples, LGBTIQA+ and Global South communities, on (not limited to):

• Sexual and reproductive politics, autonomy and justice.
• Political regimes, movements, institutions, civil society and SRHR.
• Transnationalizing SRHR.
• Biopolitical, intersectional, decolonial and novel frameworks/ methodologies.
• GBV, sexual violence, abortion, menstrual and other SRHR.
• Techno-digital innovations and SRHR.