Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children's Homes in Late Socialist Hungary - Tapa dura

Rasell, Jennifer

 
9783030494834: Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children's Homes in Late Socialist Hungary
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ISBN 10: 3030494837 ISBN 13: 9783030494834
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Sinopsis

Care of the State blends archival, oral history, interview and ethnographic data to study the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary. It advances anthropological understanding of kinship and the workings of the state by exploring how various state actors and practices shaped kin ties. Jennifer Rasell shows that norms and processes in the Hungarian welfare system placed symbolic weight on nuclear families whilst restricting and devaluing other possible ties for children in care, in particular to siblings, friends, welfare workers and wider communities. In focussing on care practices both within and outside kin relations, Rasell shows that children valued relationships that were produced through personal attention, engagement and emotional connections. Highlighting the diversity of experiences in state care in socialist Hungary, this book's nuanced insights represent an important contribution to research on children's well-being and family policies in Central-Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Jennifer Rasell received her Ph.D. in 2018 from the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. From 2016 to 2018 she coordinated the research group Kinship and Politics at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her work explores the state, childhood, parenting and relatedness with an area focus on Hungary.

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Care of the State blends archival, oral history, interview and ethnographic data to study the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary. It advances anthropological understanding of kinship and the workings of the state by exploring how various state actors and practices shaped kin ties. Jennifer Rasell shows that norms and processes in the Hungarian welfare system placed symbolic weight on nuclear families whilst restricting and devaluing other possible ties for children in care, in particular to siblings, friends, welfare workers and wider communities. In focussing on care practices both within and outside kin relations, Rasell shows that children valued relationships that were produced through personal attention, engagement and emotional connections. Highlighting the diversity of experiences in state care in socialist Hungary, this book s nuanced insights represent an important contribution to research on children s well-being and family policies in Central-Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Editorial
Palgrave Macmillan
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3030494837
ISBN 13 
9783030494834
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
184
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Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
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