| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; 2
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Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : to speculate intimately -- Suspect and spectral (m)others -- Protective inspections -- Temporal uncertainties -- Kinship's costs -- Closure -- Conclusion : intimacy's intricacies. |
| Summary |
"Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters, Kathryn A. Mariner develops the concept of "intimate speculation," a complex assemblage of investment, observation, and anticipation that shapes the adoption process into an elaborate mechanism for creating, dissolving, and exchanging imagined futures. Shifting the emphasis from adoption's outcome to its conditions of possibility, this insightful ethnography places the practice of domestic adoption within a temporal, economic, and affective framework in order to interrogate the social inequality and power dynamics that render adoption--and the families it produces--possible"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Interracial adoption -- United States -- 21st century.
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Interracial adoption. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mariner, Kathryn A., 1986- Contingent kinship. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520299559 (DLC) 2018046893 |
| ISBN |
9780520971240 electronic book |
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0520971248 electronic book |
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9780520299559 hardcover alkaline paper |
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