Seminar: BA: Families at the Margins - Details

Seminar: BA: Families at the Margins - Details

General information

Course name Seminar: BA: Families at the Margins
Course number BA_SE: SO/I
Semester WiSe 2024/25
Current number of participants 26
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Tuesday, 15.10.24, 12:00 - 14:00 o'clock Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch

Rooms and times

Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum

  • Tuesday, 12:00 - 14:00, Weekly (from 15.10.24)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

How are families made, unmade, and remade in view of inequality, precarity, uncertainty and conflict? How do families and individual family members cope with the social, economic, and political fragility of intimate lives and networks? Who defines what families at the margins are and how does the state (fail to) care for families at the margins? This course offers theoretical as well as ethnographic insights into the anthropology of social relationships with a specific focus on kinship in crisis.
Literaturempfehlung: Bamford, Sandra. Hg. 2019. The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carpenter Elizabeth 2023. Families on the Edge. Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England. Massachusetts: MIT Press. Modulleistung: Hausarbeit