Recognising Adoptee Relationships

Christine A. Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-49494-0 (ISBN)

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With a triadic perspective, this autoethnographic narrative explores the temporal, situated nature of interactions between the author as an adoptee with her adult adopted children as well as those between herself and her birth father and mother.

The epiphanic adoptive family narratives that are foregrounded seek to deepen and challenge understanding of how kinship affinities are experienced. The autoethnographic narratives are written in a critical, evocative style which is valuable for two reasons. Firstly, the processes of reflexive self-introspection, self-observation and dialogue with relational others have established a critical connection between recognising and responding to kinship affinities and personal growth. Secondly, lying at the intersection of the self and other this narrative contributes to deepening insights around epistemic in/justice in adoptive kinship.

This book will be of interest to educators and scholars of adoption in offering an insider perspective on unique family relationships as well as how the author undertakes critical evocative autoethnography. Adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents will also find the narratives in Part II of this book of particular interest in informing an understanding of kin relationships and how these may be subject to change over time.

Christine A. Lewis is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. She is an adoptee, adoptive mother, and birth daughter. Her research interests include autoethnographic, autobiographic, and narrative accounts of adoption, and estrangement in families. Her recent chapter on family estrangement is entitled "Blood is thicker than water!" (2022).

Part I – An Adoptee’s Critical Autoethnography

1. In-between-ness and belonging

2. Autoethnography

Part II – Stories of Adoptive Kinship

3. “You’re not my real mum!”

4. Recognition as love

5. Darkest February

6. Five years later

7. My lineage

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-49494-9 / 0367494949
ISBN-13	978-0-367-49494-0 / 9780367494940
Zustand	Neuware