Overview
- Questions previous categories of 'human' and 'kinship' and builds on research in posthumanism and kinship studies
- Opens up new avenues for understanding what it means to be in relationships with others
- Challenges human exceptionalism and western human kinship practices
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Reviews
“Riggs and Peel provide an excellent introduction and nuanced analysis of how kinship operates as ‘a technology’. They provide an engaging critique of naturalization processes and the ways these underpin social structures and situate ‘the human’ centre stage in the kinship saga. The authors successfully use their critical posthumanist vantage point to unpick power, kinship and the ‘natural order of things’. Critical Kinship Studies is thus invaluable reading for students and researchers interested in how lives and loves become solidified in complex webs of relating.” (Professor Jacqui Gabb, Professor of Sociology and Intimacy, The Open University, UK)
“Insightful and comprehensive, this book is a well-written and timely contribution to understanding the ’critical’ in critical kinship studies. Damien W. Riggs and Elizabeth Peel use a diverse mix of empirical material to persuasively and eloquently illustrate how practices of kinship naturalizations operate in various institutional and cross species contexts.” (Professor Charlotte Kroløkke, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Elizabeth Peel is a Professor of Communication and Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. She is author of over 100 publications in critical social psychology, sexuality and health. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Chair of its Psychology of Sexualities Section.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Kinship Studies
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to the Field
Authors: Damien W. Riggs, Elizabeth Peel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50505-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50504-0Published: 17 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70051-6Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50505-7Published: 15 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour