Erin Raffety

Families We Need

Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China

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Produktbeschreibung

Families We Need is an ethnography of the temporary, yet transformative relationships between disenfranchised, older foster mothers and disabled, orphaned foster children in China, and the power of these seemingly marginal relationships to confront state power, disrupt intercountry adoption, and challenge our assumptions about the limits of foster kinship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829305
• ISBN-10: 1978829302
• Artikelnr.: 66141295

Autorenporträt

Erin Raffety is a research fellow at the Center for Theological Inquiry, an empirical research consultant at Princeton Theological Seminary, and an associate research scholar at Princeton Seminary’s Institute for Youth Ministry. Raffety researches and writes on disability, congregational ministry, and church leadership and is an advocate for disabled people.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Glossary of People, Places, and Concepts
Introduction: Needy Kinship
1 Abandonment, Affinity, and Social Vulnerability
2 Fostering (Whose) Family?
3 Needy Alliances
4 Envying Kinship
5 Replaceable Families?
6 Disruptive Families
Conclusion: Families We Need
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index