Barbara Yngvesson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3618871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara Yngvesson |
| NOMBRES | Barbara |
| APELLIDO | Yngvesson |
| FIRMA | YNGVESSON B |
| AFILIACIONES | Hampshire College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 607 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Documenting Impossible Realities
This book explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. The authors speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an “above ground” inhabited by dominant groups and an “underground” to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustai…
Documenting Impossible Realities
Introduction
Law and Community in Three American Towns
Placing the “Gift Child” in Transnational Adoption
In this article I focus on discourses of freedom and exclusive belonging that structure the conventions of giving in transnational adoption, and I examine state practices for regulating the production and circulation of children in a global market economy. I argue that while the gift child, like the sold child, is a product of commodity thinking, experiences of giving a child, receiving a child, and of being a given child are in tension with mark…
Disputes, Social Construction and Transformation of
Migrant bodies and the materialization of belonging in Sweden
Immigration and transnational adoption are both manifestations of the pervasive dislocations that characterize the contemporary era. Each illuminates as well the double movement of assimilation and internal exclusion through which racisms that are a heritage of colonialism are expanded and reactivated in the metropolitan centers of western Europe and North America. In this process, race is spatialized, different forms of migrant bodies are produc…
Fixity and fluidity - circulations, children, and childhood
Circulation is often essentialized as a prescribed, limited, and closed form of movement, 'fixed' in origins and destination, in intent and outcome. However, circulation may also be understood as a form of flexible movement, non-fixity or multiple stabilities (the act of living life in multiple physical and social locations). This special issue of the journal Childhood examines a plurality of circulations as metaphors and catalysts for unsettling…
The child who was left behind
This article draws on psychological theory relating to the emergence of self and subjectivity to examine transnational adoptee experiences of their own circulation as children. The article juxtaposes state policies and adoptive parent discourses that standardize adoption as a unidirectional process that requires a clean break from the past, and more complex renditions by the adopted themselves of subjectivity as a temporally dynamic and open-ende…
The Traffic in Babies
Adopted Territory
Belonging in an Adopted World
Transnational Adoption, Technologies of Exclusion, and the Promise of 'Hom
Petri Hautaniemi's provocative essay focusing on Finland as a case study of European immigration politics illuminates the ways that the application of more exclusive understandings of household, home and family by the nation state work to limit the immigration of refugees who claim the right to do so on grounds of family reunification. Hautaniemi's research contributes to a rethinking of approaches to kinship and nationhood by anthropologists ove…
Technologies of Knowledge Production
Schrödinger's Cat and the Ethnography of Law
Drawing on research regarding undocumented immigration and transnational adoption, this essay argues that legal and ethnographic accounts retroactively instantiate potential realities that were there all along but are only made visible by official recognition. In this sense, the "field" that is at the center of ethnographic inquiry is brought into being by the activities of the ethnographer, just as the field of (un)documented bodies is brought i…
From the Associate Editor for Sociocultural Anthropology
Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption
International conventions and domestic adoption laws in Euro-American nations regulate the construction of adoptive families through a series of legal fictions. The most significant of these is the principle of the legal clean break, which cancels a child's ties to pre-adoptive kin and incorporates him or her into the adoptive family (and adoptive nation) "as if" s/he were the family's (the nation's) "own." Drawing on research with transnationall…
Parentesco reconfigurado no espaço da adoção
Nesse artigo, inspiro-me em pesquisas realizadas na Suécia, Índia, Colômbia, Equador, Bolívia, Chile e Estados Unidos, entre 1995 e 2004, para enfocar o que Laurel Kendall descreve como "a plasticidade assim como a força do parentesco idiomático" no contexto da adoção transnacional. Tanto na Europa como na América do Norte, adoções transnacionais (que tendem a ser transraciais, dado que a maioria das crianças adotadas vem de regiões não-européias…
Backed by papers
Deportations of long-term U.S. residents to El Salvador and roots trips that Swedish transnational adoptees make to their countries of birth attempt to reconnect individuals to their origins. As they (re)connect, however, such journeys dismantle, reconfiguring the original departure-emigration or adoption-in ways that can destabilize current, future, and past selves and the national and familial belongings in which these selves are embedded. By e…
Cultures of Transnational Adoption
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
"Going "Home
Research Article| March 01 2003 Going "Home": ADOPTION, LOSS OF BEARINGS, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF ROOTS Barbara Yngvesson Barbara Yngvesson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 7–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-1_74-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Yngvesson; Going "Home": ADOPTION, LOSS OF BEARINGS, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF ROOTS. Social Text…
In the Mirror
This essay examines the legitimation work of globalization by bringing into dialogue the authors' research on immigration, finance, and intercountryadoption. It is concerned with the practices that produce, define, and preclude both movement and connection, such as “naturalizing” some border crossings while criminalizing others; denying the histories and policies that allow some parents to “choose” babies while others must abandon them; and chall…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Placing the "Gift Child" in Transnational Adoption
In this article I focus on discourses of freedom and exclusive belonging that structure the conventions of giving in transnational adoption, and I examine state practices for regulating the production and circulation of children in a global market economy. I argue that while the gift child, like the sold child, is a product of commodity thinking, experiences of giving a child, receiving a child, and of being a given child are in tension with mark…
Language, Audience, and the Transformation of Disputes
This article develops an analytic framework for comparing dispute processing within a single institution and across different cultures, by focusing on the transformation of disputes. Case studies from diverse nonwestern and western settings are examined to show how disputes change as they are processed in response to the interests of various participants. Disputants, supporters, third parties, and relevant publics seek to rephrase and thus transf…
Backed by papers
Deportations of long-term U.S. residents to El Salvador and roots trips that Swedish transnational adoptees make to their countries of birth attempt to reconnect individuals to their origins. As they (re)connect, however, such journeys dismantle, reconfiguring the original departure-emigration or adoption-in ways that can destabilize current, future, and past selves and the national and familial belongings in which these selves are embedded. By e…
Making Law at The Doorway
This paper analyzes the politics of disputing in complaint hearings held by the court clerk in a district criminal court in Massachusetts. By examining struggles over the meaning of local conflicts, it suggests the implications of detailed studies of dispute processing for our understanding of how systems of legal and social meanings are constituted and reproduced. The paper argues that the work of the court, the roles played by court officials, …
As One Should, Ought and Wants to Be
This article examines identity narratives of adult adoptees who have undergone dislocations which make impossible the construction of a seamless narrative of origin. Focusing on the dynamic between their experience of uprootedness and the modernist compulsion for a 'fundamental ground' that is 'beyond the reach of play', we argue that the pressure to fix identity operates to expose both the tenuousness of the concept of a center or ground and the…
Placing the "Gift Child" in Transnational Adoption
In this article I focus on discourses of freedom and exclusive belonging that structure the conventions of giving in transnational adoption, and I examine state practices for regulating the production and circulation of children in a global market economy. I argue that while the gift child, like the sold child, is a product of commodity thinking, experiences of giving a child, receiving a child, and of being a given child are in tension with mark…
Negotiating Motherhood
Drawing on interviews with birth and adoptive parents who have remained in contact with each other following placement of an adopted child, this article examines the dynamic of motherhood that emerges in these relationships. Moving back and forth from legal and social event to women's subjective experiences of these events, it argues that open adoption constitutes a "potential space" where two familiar "truths" about motherhood-as an experience o…
In the Mirror
This essay examines the legitimation work of globalization by bringing into dialogue the authors' research on immigration, finance, and intercountryadoption. It is concerned with the practices that produce, define, and preclude both movement and connection, such as “naturalizing” some border crossings while criminalizing others; denying the histories and policies that allow some parents to “choose” babies while others must abandon them; and chall…
Inventing Law in Local Settings
T]erms like popular culture or popular art . . .assume the existence of two kinds of culture, high and popular, which are so different that they cannot be compared, thus positing an initial dichotomy which then shapes all subsequent analysis. I. INTRODUCTIONLike the notion of "popular culture," popular legal culture implies the existence of an official culture of law distinct from everyday legal practices and understandings.Ethnographic studies o…
Interpretive Sociolegal Research
A major challenge for scholars seeking new directions in sociolegal research is the persistence of old paradigms and assumptions about law. The challenge for the new is not to be cast as part of the old by efforts that assimilate its methods, goals, and results to earlier approaches. Such efforts, aimed at comparison and clarification, tend to “domesticate” the new, or in Boa Santos's words “doubly institutionalize” a developing project by readin…
Parentesco reconfigurado no espaço da adoção
Nesse artigo, inspiro-me em pesquisas realizadas na Suécia, Índia, Colômbia, Equador, Bolívia, Chile e Estados Unidos, entre 1995 e 2004, para enfocar o que Laurel Kendall descreve como "a plasticidade assim como a força do parentesco idiomático" no contexto da adoção transnacional. Tanto na Europa como na América do Norte, adoções transnacionais (que tendem a ser transraciais, dado que a maioria das crianças adotadas vem de regiões não-européias…
The Construction of Subjectivity and the Paradox of Resistance
"Going "Home
Research Article| March 01 2003 Going "Home": ADOPTION, LOSS OF BEARINGS, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF ROOTS Barbara Yngvesson Barbara Yngvesson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 7–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-1_74-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Yngvesson; Going "Home": ADOPTION, LOSS OF BEARINGS, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF ROOTS. Social Text…
Scarcity and Disputing
This paper examines critically the ways in which the concepts "compromise" and "zero-sum game" have been used to describe the outcomes of disputes. In particular, it questions the assumption that disputants with multiplex ties will try to compromise their differences, because their goal will be maintenance of the relationship, rather than "winning." A re-analysis of case materials from three societies indicates that many persons in multiplex rela…
Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption
International conventions and domestic adoption laws in Euro-American nations regulate the construction of adoptive families through a series of legal fictions. The most significant of these is the principle of the legal clean break, which cancels a child's ties to pre-adoptive kin and incorporates him or her into the adoptive family (and adoptive nation) "as if" s/he were the family's (the nation's) "own." Drawing on research with transnationall…
Migrant bodies and the materialization of belonging in Sweden
Immigration and transnational adoption are both manifestations of the pervasive dislocations that characterize the contemporary era. Each illuminates as well the double movement of assimilation and internal exclusion through which racisms that are a heritage of colonialism are expanded and reactivated in the metropolitan centers of western Europe and North America. In this process, race is spatialized, different forms of migrant bodies are produc…
Mapping Difficult Terrain
By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next to her and she said to me early in the afternoon, what is the answer? I was silent. In that case, she said, what is the question? Then the whole afternoon was troubled, confused and very uncertain. ... (Toklas, 1963: 173
The child who was left behind
This article draws on psychological theory relating to the emergence of self and subjectivity to examine transnational adoptee experiences of their own circulation as children. The article juxtaposes state policies and adoptive parent discourses that standardize adoption as a unidirectional process that requires a clean break from the past, and more complex renditions by the adopted themselves of subjectivity as a temporally dynamic and open-ende…
Schrödinger's Cat and the Ethnography of Law
Drawing on research regarding undocumented immigration and transnational adoption, this essay argues that legal and ethnographic accounts retroactively instantiate potential realities that were there all along but are only made visible by official recognition. In this sense, the "field" that is at the center of ethnographic inquiry is brought into being by the activities of the ethnographer, just as the field of (un)documented bodies is brought i…
Fixity and fluidity - circulations, children, and childhood
Circulation is often essentialized as a prescribed, limited, and closed form of movement, 'fixed' in origins and destination, in intent and outcome. However, circulation may also be understood as a form of flexible movement, non-fixity or multiple stabilities (the act of living life in multiple physical and social locations). This special issue of the journal Childhood examines a plurality of circulations as metaphors and catalysts for unsettling…
Technologies of Knowledge Production
Leadership and consensus
Responses to Grievance Behavior
Recent work in anthropology of law has focused on the dispute settlement process and the factors influencing choice of one form of settlement over another. This paper questions this focus and suggests alternative categories through which law as a process can be examined. Analysis of cases collected by the author in an Atlantic fishing community indicated that for many cases no settlement process could be identified, although some involved a lengt…
Contextualizing the Court
This comment argues that to understand the role of trial courts in maintaining a particular order of differences in society, attention must be directed beyond official legal arenas and official rules to the actions of ordinary citizens and of “marginal” legal officials who make law and shape the court through practices that are excluded from official accounts. This move provides an account of the meaning of courts, of cases, and of law that is re…
Small Claims, Complex Disputes
We take it as a matter of course that a judge should be a mere umpire, to pass upon objections and hold counsel to the rules of the game, and that the parties should fight out their own game in their own way without judicial interference ... The idea that procedure must of necessity be wholly contentious disfigures our administration of justice at every point. Pound, 1906:404-5 The possibility that any given problem might be handled in more than …
Scarcity and Disputing
This paper examines critically the ways in which the concepts "compromise" and "zero-sum game" have been used to describe the outcomes of disputes. In particular, it questions the assumption that disputants with multiplex ties will try to compromise their differences, because their goal will be maintenance of the relationship, rather than "winning." A re-analysis of case materials from three societies indicates that many persons in multiplex rela…
Responses to Grievance Behavior
Recent work in anthropology of law has focused on the dispute settlement process and the factors influencing choice of one form of settlement over another. This paper questions this focus and suggests alternative categories through which law as a process can be examined. Analysis of cases collected by the author in an Atlantic fishing community indicated that for many cases no settlement process could be identified, although some involved a lengt…
Law in Preindustrial Societies
The Atlantic Fishermen
Leadership and consensus
Language, Audience, and the Transformation of Disputes
This article develops an analytic framework for comparing dispute processing within a single institution and across different cultures, by focusing on the transformation of disputes. Case studies from diverse nonwestern and western settings are examined to show how disputes change as they are processed in response to the interests of various participants. Disputants, supporters, third parties, and relevant publics seek to rephrase and thus transf…
Mapping Difficult Terrain
By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next to her and she said to me early in the afternoon, what is the answer? I was silent. In that case, she said, what is the question? Then the whole afternoon was troubled, confused and very uncertain. ... (Toklas, 1963: 173
Disputing Alternatives
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Disputing Alternatives
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Making Law at The Doorway
This paper analyzes the politics of disputing in complaint hearings held by the court clerk in a district criminal court in Massachusetts. By examining struggles over the meaning of local conflicts, it suggests the implications of detailed studies of dispute processing for our understanding of how systems of legal and social meanings are constituted and reproduced. The paper argues that the work of the court, the roles played by court officials, …
Inventing Law in Local Settings
T]erms like popular culture or popular art . . .assume the existence of two kinds of culture, high and popular, which are so different that they cannot be compared, thus positing an initial dichotomy which then shapes all subsequent analysis. I. INTRODUCTIONLike the notion of "popular culture," popular legal culture implies the existence of an official culture of law distinct from everyday legal practices and understandings.Ethnographic studies o…
Interpretive Sociolegal Research
A major challenge for scholars seeking new directions in sociolegal research is the persistence of old paradigms and assumptions about law. The challenge for the new is not to be cast as part of the old by efforts that assimilate its methods, goals, and results to earlier approaches. Such efforts, aimed at comparison and clarification, tend to “domesticate” the new, or in Boa Santos's words “doubly institutionalize” a developing project by readin…
Contextualizing the Court
This comment argues that to understand the role of trial courts in maintaining a particular order of differences in society, attention must be directed beyond official legal arenas and official rules to the actions of ordinary citizens and of “marginal” legal officials who make law and shape the court through practices that are excluded from official accounts. This move provides an account of the meaning of courts, of cases, and of law that is re…
The Construction of Subjectivity and the Paradox of Resistance
Virtuous citizens, disruptive subjects
"In Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects, Barbara Yngvesson provides an illuminating discussion about the place of a county court as a force for moral order. The book focuses on complaints about neighborhood trouble brought to the court clerk by working class and poor complainants, and on the transformation of these complaints into "garbage cases" by the clerk. Yngvesson illustrates how these transformations reaffirm hierarchies of class, knowl…
Justice as Translation
Internal Space and International Law
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Negotiating Motherhood
Drawing on interviews with birth and adoptive parents who have remained in contact with each other following placement of an adopted child, this article examines the dynamic of motherhood that emerges in these relationships. Moving back and forth from legal and social event to women's subjective experiences of these events, it argues that open adoption constitutes a "potential space" where two familiar "truths" about motherhood-as an experience o…
As One Should, Ought and Wants to Be
This article examines identity narratives of adult adoptees who have undergone dislocations which make impossible the construction of a seamless narrative of origin. Focusing on the dynamic between their experience of uprootedness and the modernist compulsion for a 'fundamental ground' that is 'beyond the reach of play', we argue that the pressure to fix identity operates to expose both the tenuousness of the concept of a center or ground and the…
In the Mirror
This essay examines the legitimation work of globalization by bringing into dialogue the authors' research on immigration, finance, and intercountryadoption. It is concerned with the practices that produce, define, and preclude both movement and connection, such as “naturalizing” some border crossings while criminalizing others; denying the histories and policies that allow some parents to “choose” babies while others must abandon them; and chall…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Placing the "Gift Child" in Transnational Adoption
In this article I focus on discourses of freedom and exclusive belonging that structure the conventions of giving in transnational adoption, and I examine state practices for regulating the production and circulation of children in a global market economy. I argue that while the gift child, like the sold child, is a product of commodity thinking, experiences of giving a child, receiving a child, and of being a given child are in tension with mark…
Culture through Crime Spring 2002
"Going "Home
Research Article| March 01 2003 Going "Home": ADOPTION, LOSS OF BEARINGS, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF ROOTS Barbara Yngvesson Barbara Yngvesson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 7–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-1_74-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Yngvesson; Going "Home": ADOPTION, LOSS OF BEARINGS, AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF ROOTS. Social Text…
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