Theories and Practices of Kinship - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2016/17
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	04.10.2016 - 10.11.2016 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Mi	16:00 bis 18:00	wöchentlich	19.10.2016 bis 08.02.2017	1.19.0.13		21.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 28.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. Research on kinship, its forms and meanings, has traditionally been the domain of anthropology, in which kinship studies played a large part for most of the 20th century. Starting in approximately the 1970s, some anthropologists began to question the assumptions of kinship studies, suggesting that, in the words of David Schneider, kinship should be understood as forms of "doing" rather than "being" - that is, as enacted practices, rather than fixed structures. In recent decades, such analysis has been taken up by cultural theorists, particularly queer theorists, who have considered what may be defined as kinship, its relationship to social, political and economic contexts, the range of practices that constitute it, how kinship works to define subjects and communities, and the political potential of claiming and performing various kinds of kinship. This seminar will consider theorizations of kinship in recent decades, look at the representation of kinship in a range of texts, and consider case studies from recent and current debates over kinship, such as those related to marriage laws, adoption rights, reproductive technologies, migration policies, welfare payments and more.
Literatur	Readings will be provided on Moodle

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

Research on kinship, its forms and meanings, has traditionally been the domain of anthropology, in which kinship studies played a large part for most of the 20th century. Starting in approximately the 1970s, some anthropologists began to question the assumptions of kinship studies, suggesting that, in the words of David Schneider, kinship should be understood as forms of "doing" rather than "being" - that is, as enacted practices, rather than fixed structures. In recent decades, such analysis has been taken up by cultural theorists, particularly queer theorists, who have considered what may be defined as kinship, its relationship to social, political and economic contexts, the range of practices that constitute it, how kinship works to define subjects and communities, and the political potential of claiming and performing various kinds of kinship. This seminar will consider theorizations of kinship in recent decades, look at the representation of kinship in a range of texts, and consider case studies from recent and current debates over kinship, such as those related to marriage laws, adoption rights, reproductive technologies, migration policies, welfare payments and more.

Literatur

Readings will be provided on Moodle

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2016/17 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024