Kate Goldfarb's Co-edited Book Difficult Attachments Published by Rutgers
Professor Kate Goldfarb's co-edited book, Difficult Attachments - Anxieties of Kinship and Care published by Rutgers University Press.
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Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity.听Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But听what about when it is not?听What about instances when kinship is anything but 鈥榳arm and fuzzy鈥櫶齜ut is characterized, instead, by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of nurturance and care?听In the three interlinked sections of this volume, the view that kinship is about 鈥渟olidarity鈥 and 鈥渃are鈥 is challenged by exploring how kin relations are not only about connection and inclusion听but听also about disconnection, exclusion, neglect, and violence.听Kinship relationships that feel 鈥減ositive鈥 and 鈥済ood鈥 take a great deal of perseverance and work; there is nothing 鈥渘atural鈥 about kinship ties as being based on positive sociality. In these chapters, the contributors take seriously the contingency of kinship relations (the moments when kinship breaks down or is a source of suffering) and how this prompts scholars to develop new theoretical and methodological perspectives.
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