Inimkond: prof. Jeanette Edwards
14.02.2013 kell 14.00 - 14.00
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Järgmine Inimkonna sarja seminar toimub neljapäeval, 14. veebruaril kl
18-20 Nova ruumis N315. Esineb Manchesteri Ülikooli professor Jeanette
Edwards teemal "Undoing kinship".Vaata ka:
https://www.facebook.com/events/471287126252592/Ettekande
kokkuvõte:One message that came out of the anthropology of kinship and
assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) was that kinship is
proliferating. As gamete donation creates new kin figures – donor
mothers, fathers and siblings, for example – and embryos, like children,
can be adopted, the kin universe is imagined as expanding. Anthropologists
have, understandably, been intrigued by the way in which ARTs create
kinship and how the biomedical 'assistance' of conception also 'assists'
the making of kin. In practice, however, kin can be 'cut-off' and 'cut out'
and kinship links do not proliferate ad infinitum. This paper focuses on
how kinship is undone and whether the concepts of kinning and de-kinning
are useful in our understanding of how 'blood' is not always and everywhere
'thicker than water'. Biographical background:Jeanette Edwards is professor
in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester,
having previously held posts at the Public Health Research and Resource
Centre in Salford and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Keele University. She has worked as visiting scholar/professor at the
University of Balamand in Beirut (2007, 2008 and 2009), the École des
Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris (2006), the Universitat
Autonoma in Barcelona (1998), and the University of California at Berkeley
(1998).On her website she writes: “My research interests revolve around
kinship, gender and biotechnology. I am interested in the anthropology of
science more broadly and in the relationship between science and its
various publics more specifically. My original fieldwork was in the north
of England where I focused on notions of social class, 'community' and
belonging and I am still keenly interested in the ethnography of
Britain. Since my PhD research I have carried out extensive fieldwork
in England in both community and organisational settings. More recently I
have been working with teams in seven European countries looking at kinship
in the light of new reproductive and genetic technologies.”***About the
seminar series:Inimkond/ Current issues in anthropology and beyondThis
seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and
fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It
aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at
Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from
a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on
anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series
will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory,
sociology, and history, among others. Lisainfo: Franz Krause,
franz@tlu.ee
18-20 Nova ruumis N315. Esineb Manchesteri Ülikooli professor Jeanette
Edwards teemal "Undoing kinship".Vaata ka:
https://www.facebook.com/events/471287126252592/Ettekande
kokkuvõte:One message that came out of the anthropology of kinship and
assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) was that kinship is
proliferating. As gamete donation creates new kin figures – donor
mothers, fathers and siblings, for example – and embryos, like children,
can be adopted, the kin universe is imagined as expanding. Anthropologists
have, understandably, been intrigued by the way in which ARTs create
kinship and how the biomedical 'assistance' of conception also 'assists'
the making of kin. In practice, however, kin can be 'cut-off' and 'cut out'
and kinship links do not proliferate ad infinitum. This paper focuses on
how kinship is undone and whether the concepts of kinning and de-kinning
are useful in our understanding of how 'blood' is not always and everywhere
'thicker than water'. Biographical background:Jeanette Edwards is professor
in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester,
having previously held posts at the Public Health Research and Resource
Centre in Salford and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Keele University. She has worked as visiting scholar/professor at the
University of Balamand in Beirut (2007, 2008 and 2009), the École des
Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris (2006), the Universitat
Autonoma in Barcelona (1998), and the University of California at Berkeley
(1998).On her website she writes: “My research interests revolve around
kinship, gender and biotechnology. I am interested in the anthropology of
science more broadly and in the relationship between science and its
various publics more specifically. My original fieldwork was in the north
of England where I focused on notions of social class, 'community' and
belonging and I am still keenly interested in the ethnography of
Britain. Since my PhD research I have carried out extensive fieldwork
in England in both community and organisational settings. More recently I
have been working with teams in seven European countries looking at kinship
in the light of new reproductive and genetic technologies.”***About the
seminar series:Inimkond/ Current issues in anthropology and beyondThis
seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and
fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It
aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at
Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from
a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on
anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series
will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory,
sociology, and history, among others. Lisainfo: Franz Krause,
franz@tlu.ee