| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; 2 |
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Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 2.
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
21st century |
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adoption agency |
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adoption process |
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america |
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anticipation |
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class |
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domestic adoption |
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expectant mothers |
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family |
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ideologies |
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institutional structures |
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intimate speculation |
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investment |
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mediating relationships |
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observation |
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power dynamics |
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professionals |
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prospective adopters |
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race |
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social inequality |
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social workers |
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transracial adoption |
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united states |
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who can have a future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Interracial adoption -- United States -- 21st century
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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.
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Interracial adoption
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019016311 |
| ISBN |
9780520971240 |
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0520971248 |
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