Despite technical and legal innovations for certain groups’ reproduction, many people’s reproductive concerns and choices remain disparaged or unsupported. We call this assemblage ‘reproductive abandonment’ and present aspects of these conditions in this special issue. ‘Abandonment’ highlights the failure of ‘relationality’, a Pacific value and ontology that emphasises the importance of being in relations of obligation, accountability and respect. Having this central Oceanic ideal in mind highlights the weight of its opposite—‘abandonment’—and extends the conceptual terrain that anthropologists have called ‘stratified reproduction’. Reproductive abandonment refers to the failure of relations of desired reproduction, in its social, biological, infrastructural and environmental senses. It is caused mainly by economic systems and global development and population ideologies, entangled with colonialisms. Bringing reproduction once again to the centre of social analysis, this special issue reveals local actions and agendas that are taking reproduction back from global health and technological utopias to assert Indigenous logics, challenge dominant truths and continue creative struggles.

尽管对某些群体的生育进行了技术和法律创新，但许多人的生育问题和选择仍然受到贬低或得不到支持。我们将这种组合称为“生殖遗弃”，并在本期特刊中介绍这些条件的各个方面。“放弃”凸显了“关系性”的失败，这是一种太平洋价值观和本体论，强调处于义务、责任和尊重关系中的重要性。考虑到这个大洋洲中心的理想，突出了它的对立面——“遗弃”——的重要性，并扩展了人类学家称之为“分层繁殖”的概念领域。生殖遗弃是指在社会、生物、基础设施和环境意义上的理想再生产关系的失败。它主要是由经济制度和全球发展以及与殖民主义纠缠在一起的人口意识形态造成的。本期特刊再次将生殖置于社会分析的中心，揭示了当地的行动和议程，这些行动和议程正在将生殖从全球健康和技术乌托邦中带回来，以维护本土逻辑、挑战主流真理并继续进行创造性斗争。