Publications

Santos, Gonçalo. 2025 (Forthcoming). “’Why does she need to be cut open?’ Cesarean Technologies, Generational Time, and the Morality of Childbirth Medicalization in Contemporary China.” In Making People, Sustaining Life. Technology, Gender, and Reproductive Labor in Modern East Asia. Edited by Jacob Eyferth, Suzanne Gottschang and Gonçalo Santos. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press.

Language: English

Eyferth, Jacob; Suzanne Gottschang; and Gonçalo Santos. 2025 (Forthcoming). “Introduction to Making People, Sustaining Life. Rethinking Reproductive Technologies in Time and Space.” In Making People, Sustaining Life. Technology, Gender, and Reproductive Labor in Modern East Asia. Edited by Jacob Eyferth, Suzanne Gottschang and Gonçalo Santos. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press.

Language: English

Santos, Gonçalo D. 2025 (In Press). “Good Care in Childbirth: C-sections as Individual or Collective Decisions.” In The Extraordinary in the Mundane Family and Forms of Community in China. Edited by Becky Yang Hsu. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Santos, Gonçalo, Yichen Rao, Jack L. Xing, and Jun Zhang. 2021. “Capitalism, Overwork, and Polanyi’s Dialectics of Freedom: Emerging Visions of Work-Life Balance in Contemporary Urban China.” In Work, Society, and the Ethical Self. Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era. Edited by Chris Hann. Oxford, UK: Berghahn (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy), pp.132-57.

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Santos, Gonçalo. 2018. “Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization. Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in rural South China.” In Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis. Eurasian Explorations. Edited by Johann Arnason and Chris Hann. New York: State University of New York Press, pp.259-80.

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