Kathryn E Goldfarb
Biographic Data
| ID | 130854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn E Goldfarb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn E |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldfarb |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDFARB K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0310-7180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Uncommon Sense
This article introduces tōjisha kenkyū in Japan, a type of research practice wherein people with difficulties become researchers themselves, collaborating with peers who share similar difficulties to explore the mechanisms of their challenges and coping strategies. Tōjisha kenkyū is used by members of diverse populations who struggle with a compromised capacity to explain, to themselves and others, the conditions and characteristics of their own …
Fragile Kinships
This book shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often produce people who are alone. By centering relationality in theorizing social forms of care, the book offers …
Fragile Kinships
In Fragile Kinships , Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often produce people who are alone. By centering relationality in theorizing social…
Difficult Attachments
Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment
This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand the concept of “rights”—both those of the biological parent(s) and the child—construe kinship relationships as problems to be managed, but with a particular orientation toward what i…
Family at the Margins
The articles in this special section address the stakes for welfare and well-being when normative ideas surrounding family intersect with state policy and practice in Japan. The central argument mo
Self-Responsibility’ and the Politics of Chance
Youth who grow up in Japanese child welfare institutions (‘children’s homes’ or ‘orphanages’) are socially and structurally marginalized, and many have pasts characterized by neglect and abandonment. In a contemporary context in which young people in Japan are encouraged to think of themselves as agentive, ‘self-responsible’ subjects, I argue that Japan’s child welfare system disproportionately depends on chance in shaping positive or negative ou…
Coming to Look Alike
In contemporary Japan, non-biological family ties are not easily legible as kinship. This article examines how parents of adopted and fostered children in Japan mobilize material similarity to represent their kinship relationships as existing objectively in the world, untainted by socially suspect desires. Material resemblance is taken up as a semiotic framework through which people self-reflexively interpret the signs that are understood as rela…
Introduction
Although kinship studies have traditionally focused on 'solidarity' and 'mutuality', dis-alignment, exclusion, and difference are equally crucial foci for analysis. In this introduction, we explore articulations of mutuality and difference through the lens of materiality, particularly the matter of politics and value and the semiotics of material life. We suggest that non-mutuality and exclusion are especially apparent in contexts where kinship i…
The Japanese Family
In The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling, Diana Adis Tahhan’s research questions emerge out of a sustained encounter with difference: the fact that expressions of intimacy in Tahhan’s own native Australia (particularly through hugs and kisses) differ from expressions of intimacy in Japan. Tahhan highlights a significant puzzle involving how parenting practices in Japan change as children grow older. Relationships between Japanese paren…
Developmental logics
Introduction
Although kinship studies have traditionally focused on 'solidarity' and 'mutuality', dis-alignment, exclusion, and difference are equally crucial foci for analysis. In this introduction, we explore articulations of mutuality and difference through the lens of materiality, particularly the matter of politics and value and the semiotics of material life. We suggest that non-mutuality and exclusion are especially apparent in contexts where kinship i…
Self-Responsibility’ and the Politics of Chance
Youth who grow up in Japanese child welfare institutions (‘children’s homes’ or ‘orphanages’) are socially and structurally marginalized, and many have pasts characterized by neglect and abandonment. In a contemporary context in which young people in Japan are encouraged to think of themselves as agentive, ‘self-responsible’ subjects, I argue that Japan’s child welfare system disproportionately depends on chance in shaping positive or negative ou…
Coming to Look Alike
In contemporary Japan, non-biological family ties are not easily legible as kinship. This article examines how parents of adopted and fostered children in Japan mobilize material similarity to represent their kinship relationships as existing objectively in the world, untainted by socially suspect desires. Material resemblance is taken up as a semiotic framework through which people self-reflexively interpret the signs that are understood as rela…
Developmental logics
Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment
This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand the concept of “rights”—both those of the biological parent(s) and the child—construe kinship relationships as problems to be managed, but with a particular orientation toward what i…
The Japanese Family
In The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling, Diana Adis Tahhan’s research questions emerge out of a sustained encounter with difference: the fact that expressions of intimacy in Tahhan’s own native Australia (particularly through hugs and kisses) differ from expressions of intimacy in Japan. Tahhan highlights a significant puzzle involving how parenting practices in Japan change as children grow older. Relationships between Japanese paren…
Developmental logics
Family at the Margins
The articles in this special section address the stakes for welfare and well-being when normative ideas surrounding family intersect with state policy and practice in Japan. The central argument mo
Self-Responsibility’ and the Politics of Chance
Youth who grow up in Japanese child welfare institutions (‘children’s homes’ or ‘orphanages’) are socially and structurally marginalized, and many have pasts characterized by neglect and abandonment. In a contemporary context in which young people in Japan are encouraged to think of themselves as agentive, ‘self-responsible’ subjects, I argue that Japan’s child welfare system disproportionately depends on chance in shaping positive or negative ou…
Coming to Look Alike
In contemporary Japan, non-biological family ties are not easily legible as kinship. This article examines how parents of adopted and fostered children in Japan mobilize material similarity to represent their kinship relationships as existing objectively in the world, untainted by socially suspect desires. Material resemblance is taken up as a semiotic framework through which people self-reflexively interpret the signs that are understood as rela…
Introduction
Although kinship studies have traditionally focused on 'solidarity' and 'mutuality', dis-alignment, exclusion, and difference are equally crucial foci for analysis. In this introduction, we explore articulations of mutuality and difference through the lens of materiality, particularly the matter of politics and value and the semiotics of material life. We suggest that non-mutuality and exclusion are especially apparent in contexts where kinship i…
Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment
This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand the concept of “rights”—both those of the biological parent(s) and the child—construe kinship relationships as problems to be managed, but with a particular orientation toward what i…
Difficult Attachments
Fragile Kinships
This book shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often produce people who are alone. By centering relationality in theorizing social forms of care, the book offers …
Fragile Kinships
In Fragile Kinships , Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often produce people who are alone. By centering relationality in theorizing social…
Uncommon Sense
This article introduces tōjisha kenkyū in Japan, a type of research practice wherein people with difficulties become researchers themselves, collaborating with peers who share similar difficulties to explore the mechanisms of their challenges and coping strategies. Tōjisha kenkyū is used by members of diverse populations who struggle with a compromised capacity to explain, to themselves and others, the conditions and characteristics of their own …
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)