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Thinking Through Family

Narratives of Care Experienced Lives

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Buch | Softcover
196 Seiten
2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1472-7 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Drawing from longitudinal research, this book shows how the perspectives of people who have been in care can help us redefine the concept of family. Through a narrative analysis of the complexity of family lives, the author challenges the idea that some families are 'ordinary', while others are troubled, problematic and 'other'.
Understanding what ‘family’ means – and how best to support families – depends on challenging politicized assumptions that frame ‘ordinary’ families in comparison to an imagined problematic ‘other’.


Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book helps redefine the concept of family. Linking two longitudinal studies involving young adults in England, it reveals important new insights into the diverse and dynamic complexity of family lives, identities and practices in time – through childhood and beyond.


Paving the way for future policy and practice, this book makes an important contribution to the theorization of family in the 21st century.

Janet Boddy is Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Sussex and Adjunct Professor in the Childhood, Family and Welfare Division of NOVA at Oslo Metropolitan University. Fidelma Hanrahan is Senior Research Officer at Research in Practice. Bella Wheeler is Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.

1, Why Think Through ‘Family’?


2. Learning From Care Experienced Perspectives


3. Doing Family: The Significance of the ‘Ordinary'


4. Re/Configuring Boundaries: Who Counts as ‘Family’?


5. ‘How Can we Not Talk About Family When Family’s All That We’ve Got?’: Care and Connectedness


6. Understandings and Experiences of Parenthood


7. Thinking Through Family: Implications for Theory and Practice

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.3.2025
Reihe/Serie Sociology of Children and Families
Mitarbeit Anpassung von: Fidelma Hanrahan, Bella Wheeler
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5292-1472-6 / 1529214726
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-1472-7 / 9781529214727
Zustand Neuware
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