Schantz Clémence, Hancart Petitet Pascale. (2023). Circulation and exportation of the Japanese childbirth model in Southern-East Asia : preliminary insights from Cambodia. In :
Ciesielska-Klikowska J. (ed.). Rethinking Asia in world politics. Lodz : Lodz University Press, 253-265. (Contemporary Asian Studies). ISBN 978-83-8331-310-8.
Titre du document
Circulation and exportation of the Japanese childbirth model in Southern-East Asia : preliminary insights from Cambodia
Année de publication
2023
Type de document
Partie d'ouvrage
Auteurs
Schantz Clémence, Hancart Petitet Pascale
In
Ciesielska-Klikowska J. (ed.), Rethinking Asia in world politics
Source
Lodz : Lodz University Press, 2023,
253-265 (Contemporary Asian Studies). ISBN 978-83-8331-310-8
Globally, maternal health matters and birthing ideologies and practices still generate much controversy. On the one hand, those who are promoting the medicalization of childbirth argue that the mortality and morbidity risks justify the imposition of biotechnological standards and practices. On the other hand, activists for demedicalization of birth are denouncing gynecological and obstetric violence, and pointing the pathologies induced by overuse of technologies. These movements, which are part of the current's feminist calls, advocate a women's reappropriation over their own bodies. The paper, based on long term and more recent ethnographical investigations aims to explore these political, cultural and social controversies by examining the recent initiatives in reproductive health domain carried by Japanese cooperation in South-East Asia. Since the 2000s, JICA (Japanese agency for international cooperation), as part of its infrastructure development, institutional strengthening and training programs, has indeed carried out numerous initiatives. One aims at improving the quality of maternal health care with two main objectives: the reduction of cesarean section rates and the humanization of birth.
