Critical Kinship Studies An Introduction to the Field
This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices. Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the normative assumptions that often underpin how caring rela
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CRITICAL KINSHIP STUDIES AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD
Critical Kinship Studies
Damien W. Riggs • Elizabeth Peel
Critical Kinship Studies An Introduction to the Field
Damien W. Riggs School of Social and Policy Studies Flinders University Adelaide, Australia
Elizabeth Peel Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University Loughborough, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-50504-0 ISBN 978-1-137-50505-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50505-7
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To Harry, one of the true loves of my life. —Damien To Rosie, Katie, Bramble, and Frodo. —Liz
Acknowledgements
Damien and Liz would like to thank Nicola Jones, our commissioning editor at Palgrave Macmillan, her editorial assistant Eleanor Christie, and the rest of her team for their help and support during the writing and production of this book. Damien would like to begin by acknowledging the sovereignty of the Kaurna people, the First Nations people upon whose land he lives and works. Damien would like to thank Liz for such an enjoyable experience of collaboration, Nik Taylor for her breadth of knowledge on critical animal studies and her kindness and generosity in talking through the topics contained within this book, as well as sharing the journey of living with non-human kin, and Victoria Clarke for inspiring me to begin working in the field of kinship studies over a decade ago, and more recently for her knowledge of the study of childlessness. I would also like to thank Clemence Due and Clare
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