How to Define Situated and Ever-Transforming Family Configurations? A New Materialist Approach
- Autor(en)
- Cornelia Schadler
- Abstrakt
Within the past few decades, the configuration “family” has included diverse living arrangements, yet traditional definitions of family persist. Accordingly, family studies scholars have discussed research strategies and theoretical approaches to define the shifting boundaries of family. In this article I propose the approach of new materialism for a contemporary definition of family that focuses on situated processes and the complex interplay of material-discursive differentiation processes. This perspective enriches current debates on defining family by adding concepts of intracontextual posthuman practices and multilocal forms of agency to the discussion, thus allowing for a definition of family that helps make comprehensible today's ever-transforming configurations.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Soziologie
- Journal
- Journal of Family Theory & Review
- Band
- 8
- Seiten
- 503-514
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- ISSN
- 1756-2570
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12167
- Publikationsdatum
- 12-2016
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 504014 Gender Studies, 504011 Familienforschung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Health(social science), Social Psychology, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3a0bf500-1a11-4766-8c56-cd3902c1f5db