Children are everywhere

conspicuous reproduction and childlessness in reunified Berlin

Meghana Joshi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-166-1 (ISBN)

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Children are Everywhere engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of social inclusion and exclusion in a low fertility Western European context. This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities. This is the first ethnographic work by a South Asian author on demographic anxieties and reproduction in Germany and reverses the anthropological gaze to study Europe as the ‘Other.’

Meghana Joshi has been Clinical Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York since 2018. She is an ethnographer of reproduction, childlessness and masculinity. Her research interests include demographic anthropology and parenting.

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Raum and Ruhe: Creating “Child-Friendly” Spaces in “Child-Unfriendly” Berlin

Chapter 2. Let Me through, I am the Kinderwagenmafia: “Swabian Mothers” and Conspicuous Reproduction in Reunified Berlin

Chapter 3. Constituting the Childless: Narratives of Reproductive Exclusions, and Belonging in Reunified Berlin~

Chapter 4. Becoming Fathers in a Child-Friendlier Germany: Active Fatherhood, Male Infertility and the Labor of Paternity

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-166-6 / 1805391666
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-166-1 / 9781805391661
Zustand	Neuware