Sticky Waddling: An Autobiography of Pregnant Embodiment in Toronto's Crypto-Economy. Issue 2 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sotoudehnia, Maral
• Is Part Of: GeoHumanities. Volume 5:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 355
• Page End: 368
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: autobiography -- cryptocurrencies -- generative power (potentia/potestas) -- on-demand economy -- pregnant embodiment; 自传 -- 加密货币 -- 生殖能力（潜在的/潜在的） -- 按需经济 -- 怀孕的化身; autobiografía -- criptomonedas -- economía de la demanda -- encarnación del embarazo -- poder generativo (potentia/potentas); Arts and geography -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2019.1655660
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-566X

Abstract

Abstract : In this article, I present autobiographical reflections to trace the power relations that stuck to my pregnant body during my doctoral fieldwork. Autobiography exposes the ways I trundled, in figurative and embodied ways, through the research process while navigating fieldwork, pregnancy and work at a cryptocurrency startup in Toronto, Ontario. Analytically, the use of autobiography reveals how generative notions of power, or potestas and potentia, diverge and intersect to produce sticky, waddling subjects: bodies stuck in the constraining flows of potestas, and/or waddling through undercurrents of potentia . Autobiographies of pregnant embodiment reveal the agentic qualities of emotions, highlighting what they do . Situated reflections demonstrate how power, emotions, and (pregnant) bodies become joyful or not. This article extends wider debates among feminist geographers interested in affirmation, emotions, and creative writing methods by demonstrating the analytical possibilities of autobiography to encourage a sustainable ethics under emerging forms of digital capitalism