K De Graeve
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5713 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K De Graeve |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | De Graeve |
| ASSINATURA | DE GRAEVE K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6177-390X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Older women’s later life sex and aging
This study advances sexualities studies and critical aging studies by examining the experiences of sex and intimacy in later life among older women who have faced financial precarity and violence. We argue that fully understanding women’s fragmented lives on society’s margins requires an analytical lens that highlights disrupted temporalities and the reconfiguration of time and space. We use Critical New Materialist (CNM) approaches to analyze em…
Heteronormativity revisited
Unpartnered heterosexual women constitute a significant demographic within nursing home populations, yet their sexuality remains largely understudied. Although recent healthcare policies and research focus on improving residents' sexual wellbeing, they often reflect heteronormative assumptions, for instance by prioritizing life-long sex for heterosexual monogamous couples. While the heteronormativity of nursing home spaces has been highlighted in…
Unruly temporalities
In this paper, we explore queer temporalities in relation to queer women and non-binary people's sexuality later in life. Drawing on 30 interviews with 32 queer women and non-binary people aged 49-72 about sexuality and intimacy in later life, we highlight the participants' stories about the instability and non-linearity of sexuality across the life course. First, we examine how our participants narrated later-life changes in their sexual subject…
(Un)Doing gender norms in postfeminist China
In response to the growing trend of male beauty influencers, this article examines the case of Li Jiaqi, known in mainland China as the "Lipstick King". Based on a critical multimodal discourse analysis, we combine (post)feminism and queer theories to decode the contested processes in which Li (re)negotiates and (re)constructs the dominant gender regime in postfeminist beauty culture. Our analysis shows that Li's gender performance is shaped by a…
From allochronism to generationality
This paper looks into ageist and generationalist assumptions that penetrate queer spatio-temporal imageries and explore how to resist oppressive temporalities. It draws on fieldwork in a queer advocacy group and qualitative interviews with trans-, lesbian-, and women-identifying participants in Belgium to explore notions of age and ageism in queer communities. The research relates to feminist generationalism and searches for more complex notions …
The end or the revival of love
Drawing on ethnographic methods, this paper investigates the cultural and emotional dynamics of contemporary Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) in relation to late-modern conditions of "the end of love". It establishes a dialogue between the two fields of sociology of love and non-monogamies studies by asking whether emerging CNM represents the dissolution of romantic commitment in late modernity or an attempt to revive or reanimate love by seeking mo…
Beyond the crazy ex-girlfriend
In this article, I reflect on the process of understanding and my strategies of reporting in the context of a three-year ethnographic study on non-monogamous sex and relationships in Belgium, which included interviews and participant observation in various dating sites and in support groups for people in consensual non-monogamous relationships. I draw the contours of what a research ethics that creates space for the researcher's embodied learning…
Ageing and unruliness
In prevailing Western media discourses, older women’s anger and resistance are often portrayed as a result of the physical and mental decline inherently associated with ageing. These representations reinforce the image of older women as vulnerable subjects who are weak, frail and excluded from society. This article proposes an alternative reading of expressions of unruliness related to ageing, gender and sexuality in Western media and visual cult…
Ageivism Roundtable
In spite of the increased attention to the intersection of people’s various social, cultural, economic and political locations, the discriminations that come with old age are often neglected in gender studies. Some have even pointed to the inadvertent ageism in the field (e.g. Calasanti et al., 2006). While in social gerontology there is considerable attention to older women, this is not necessarily from a feminist or intersectional perspective, …
From primal to colonial wound
This paper provides a critical analysis of the narratives of Bolivian adoptees in Belgium. We discuss how the adoptees look back upon the imagery of family and culture invoked by their parents and wider social environment and how this imagery has affected their sense of self and belonging. We argue that the adoptees’ narratives testify of a discursive struggle to reclaim control over their lives and histories. While they draw upon prevailing disc…
Menopausal rage, erotic power and gaga feminist possibilities
This study focusses on discourses on menopause through a critical reading of a selection of nine self-help books on the topic in the context of Dutch-speaking Belgium and the Netherlands. The aim is to explore whether self-help books constrain or facilitate the development of emancipatory discourses on menopause. We combine feminist critiques that identify the experience of menopause as a site of potential for revolt with insights from queer and …
‘No expectations’
This article juxtaposes the discursive strategies of two groups of heterosexual men in the context of non-monogamous internet-mediated dating in Belgium, notably men who are open about their extra-dyadic sexual practices and ‘cheating’ men. The analysis shows that regardless of the men's use of openness or discretion to construct narratives of sexual identity, morality and care, their accounts seem to be deeply intertwined with monogamist and gen…
Caringscapes and belonging
Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people…
Imageries of family and nation
Drawing on empirical research completed in Belgium, this article presents a comparative analysis of the care regimes for two categories of children: transnational adoptees and unaccompanied minors. Although state immigration policies consider the two groups of minors as humanitarian exceptions that require preferential treatment, the kind of humanitarian help and social investment they are believed to deserve differs dramatically. Ideologies of r…
Classed Landscapes of Care and Belonging
Drawing on interviews with guardians of unaccompanied minor foreigners in Belgium, this article investigates the inequalities underlying the care relationships between guardians and their pupils. It does so by analysing the beliefs and practices of the guardians and considers how they both resist and reproduce dominant discourses on the minors’ presumed needs and rights in terms of care and protection. First, this article examines the way these g…
Geographies of migration and relatedness
Current transnational adoptive parenting is characterized by ambiguous practices of (1) discursively distancing adoptive children from immigrants, while (2) symbolically or actually reconnecting newly constituted families to children's birth countries through charity and culture work. This ambiguity reveals the ubiquity of contradictory and essentialist understandings of categories of familial and national belonging. However, adoptive parents’ st…
Generational Experience and National Substance
A rapidly growing body of work in immigration studies concentrates on children, documenting the experiences of both child immigrants and immigrant offspring. A focus on the category of children – b
They Have Our Culture
Migration studies have so far largely failed to include transnational adoption and left the study of this phenomenon to other disciplines, such as kinship and family studies. This article aims at bridging this disciplinary divide. By looking through the lens of transnational adoption, it explores the ideological values that bolster the discourse on immigrants. Furthermore, it investigates how the migratory movement of adoptees is being negotiated…
Queering the family? A multi-layered analysis of relations of inequality in transnational adoption
This paper explores the tensions between the (equal) parental right claims in adopting countries and the global inequalities in class, race and geographical location that shape transnational adoption. It uses the story told by a Belgian couple who disguised their lesbian relationship from the authorities involved to explore the narratives of child, family and nation that undergird transnational adoption. The paper discusses the potential and limi…
From Happy to Critical Diversity
Festive gatherings and culture work in Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families
Although there has been growing academic interest in the tendency among transnational adoptive parents in the West to incorporate aspects of the child’s so-called ‘birth culture’ into their lives, much less attention is paid to the role that this culture work plays in families’ quest for full and good citizenship. By drawing on fieldwork among Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families in a range of different settings, this article frames this practice …
Mothering as a citizenship practice
In this article, a comparative analysis is presented of two ethnographic case studies on mothering practices in Belgium. Interviews with, and participant observation among, both undocumented migrant mothers from the South and Belgian white adoptive mothers of black Ethiopian-born children provide an insight into the way in which mothering plays an important role in the pursuit of citizenship. In our analysis, we draw on critical theorizations of …
Making families”
The goal of this PhD project is to address major gaps in the present research by providing a theoretical and empirically-informed account of the narratives and performances of transnational adoptive parents. By exploring how adoptive parents both normalize and problematize the perceived differences of their children and families, and by examining what work is done and which imaginations are drawn upon in relation to that difference, it aims to ga…
Making families”
Familles flamandes ayant adopté des enfants éthiopiens
« Je ne crois pas que l’on doive... en faire abstraction. Mais je crois que c’est un peu... enfin, c’est drole de parler de culture alors qu’en faitils n’en ont pas. Et c’est la ou je voulais en venir. La seule chose qu’ils ont,c’est leur pays de naissance. Par exemple, lorsqu’un enfant americain nait en Coree [de parents americains] et qu’il quitte la Coree trois mois plus tard pour rejoindre les Etats-Unis, cet enfant n’a aucun lien avec la cul…
Mothering as a citizenship practice
In this article, a comparative analysis is presented of two ethnographic case studies on mothering practices in Belgium. Interviews with, and participant observation among, both undocumented migrant mothers from the South and Belgian white adoptive mothers of black Ethiopian-born children provide an insight into the way in which mothering plays an important role in the pursuit of citizenship. In our analysis, we draw on critical theorizations of …
Caringscapes and belonging
Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people…
They Have Our Culture
Migration studies have so far largely failed to include transnational adoption and left the study of this phenomenon to other disciplines, such as kinship and family studies. This article aims at bridging this disciplinary divide. By looking through the lens of transnational adoption, it explores the ideological values that bolster the discourse on immigrants. Furthermore, it investigates how the migratory movement of adoptees is being negotiated…
From Happy to Critical Diversity
Festive gatherings and culture work in Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families
Although there has been growing academic interest in the tendency among transnational adoptive parents in the West to incorporate aspects of the child’s so-called ‘birth culture’ into their lives, much less attention is paid to the role that this culture work plays in families’ quest for full and good citizenship. By drawing on fieldwork among Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families in a range of different settings, this article frames this practice …
Menopausal rage, erotic power and gaga feminist possibilities
This study focusses on discourses on menopause through a critical reading of a selection of nine self-help books on the topic in the context of Dutch-speaking Belgium and the Netherlands. The aim is to explore whether self-help books constrain or facilitate the development of emancipatory discourses on menopause. We combine feminist critiques that identify the experience of menopause as a site of potential for revolt with insights from queer and …
Imageries of family and nation
Drawing on empirical research completed in Belgium, this article presents a comparative analysis of the care regimes for two categories of children: transnational adoptees and unaccompanied minors. Although state immigration policies consider the two groups of minors as humanitarian exceptions that require preferential treatment, the kind of humanitarian help and social investment they are believed to deserve differs dramatically. Ideologies of r…
Classed Landscapes of Care and Belonging
Drawing on interviews with guardians of unaccompanied minor foreigners in Belgium, this article investigates the inequalities underlying the care relationships between guardians and their pupils. It does so by analysing the beliefs and practices of the guardians and considers how they both resist and reproduce dominant discourses on the minors’ presumed needs and rights in terms of care and protection. First, this article examines the way these g…
Geographies of migration and relatedness
Current transnational adoptive parenting is characterized by ambiguous practices of (1) discursively distancing adoptive children from immigrants, while (2) symbolically or actually reconnecting newly constituted families to children's birth countries through charity and culture work. This ambiguity reveals the ubiquity of contradictory and essentialist understandings of categories of familial and national belonging. However, adoptive parents’ st…
Ageing and unruliness
In prevailing Western media discourses, older women’s anger and resistance are often portrayed as a result of the physical and mental decline inherently associated with ageing. These representations reinforce the image of older women as vulnerable subjects who are weak, frail and excluded from society. This article proposes an alternative reading of expressions of unruliness related to ageing, gender and sexuality in Western media and visual cult…
Familles flamandes ayant adopté des enfants éthiopiens
« Je ne crois pas que l’on doive... en faire abstraction. Mais je crois que c’est un peu... enfin, c’est drole de parler de culture alors qu’en faitils n’en ont pas. Et c’est la ou je voulais en venir. La seule chose qu’ils ont,c’est leur pays de naissance. Par exemple, lorsqu’un enfant americain nait en Coree [de parents americains] et qu’il quitte la Coree trois mois plus tard pour rejoindre les Etats-Unis, cet enfant n’a aucun lien avec la cul…
Making families”
The goal of this PhD project is to address major gaps in the present research by providing a theoretical and empirically-informed account of the narratives and performances of transnational adoptive parents. By exploring how adoptive parents both normalize and problematize the perceived differences of their children and families, and by examining what work is done and which imaginations are drawn upon in relation to that difference, it aims to ga…
Making families”
Festive gatherings and culture work in Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families
Although there has been growing academic interest in the tendency among transnational adoptive parents in the West to incorporate aspects of the child’s so-called ‘birth culture’ into their lives, much less attention is paid to the role that this culture work plays in families’ quest for full and good citizenship. By drawing on fieldwork among Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families in a range of different settings, this article frames this practice …
Mothering as a citizenship practice
In this article, a comparative analysis is presented of two ethnographic case studies on mothering practices in Belgium. Interviews with, and participant observation among, both undocumented migrant mothers from the South and Belgian white adoptive mothers of black Ethiopian-born children provide an insight into the way in which mothering plays an important role in the pursuit of citizenship. In our analysis, we draw on critical theorizations of …
Queering the family? A multi-layered analysis of relations of inequality in transnational adoption
This paper explores the tensions between the (equal) parental right claims in adopting countries and the global inequalities in class, race and geographical location that shape transnational adoption. It uses the story told by a Belgian couple who disguised their lesbian relationship from the authorities involved to explore the narratives of child, family and nation that undergird transnational adoption. The paper discusses the potential and limi…
From Happy to Critical Diversity
Classed Landscapes of Care and Belonging
Drawing on interviews with guardians of unaccompanied minor foreigners in Belgium, this article investigates the inequalities underlying the care relationships between guardians and their pupils. It does so by analysing the beliefs and practices of the guardians and considers how they both resist and reproduce dominant discourses on the minors’ presumed needs and rights in terms of care and protection. First, this article examines the way these g…
Geographies of migration and relatedness
Current transnational adoptive parenting is characterized by ambiguous practices of (1) discursively distancing adoptive children from immigrants, while (2) symbolically or actually reconnecting newly constituted families to children's birth countries through charity and culture work. This ambiguity reveals the ubiquity of contradictory and essentialist understandings of categories of familial and national belonging. However, adoptive parents’ st…
Generational Experience and National Substance
A rapidly growing body of work in immigration studies concentrates on children, documenting the experiences of both child immigrants and immigrant offspring. A focus on the category of children – b
They Have Our Culture
Migration studies have so far largely failed to include transnational adoption and left the study of this phenomenon to other disciplines, such as kinship and family studies. This article aims at bridging this disciplinary divide. By looking through the lens of transnational adoption, it explores the ideological values that bolster the discourse on immigrants. Furthermore, it investigates how the migratory movement of adoptees is being negotiated…
Caringscapes and belonging
Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people…
Imageries of family and nation
Drawing on empirical research completed in Belgium, this article presents a comparative analysis of the care regimes for two categories of children: transnational adoptees and unaccompanied minors. Although state immigration policies consider the two groups of minors as humanitarian exceptions that require preferential treatment, the kind of humanitarian help and social investment they are believed to deserve differs dramatically. Ideologies of r…
‘No expectations’
This article juxtaposes the discursive strategies of two groups of heterosexual men in the context of non-monogamous internet-mediated dating in Belgium, notably men who are open about their extra-dyadic sexual practices and ‘cheating’ men. The analysis shows that regardless of the men's use of openness or discretion to construct narratives of sexual identity, morality and care, their accounts seem to be deeply intertwined with monogamist and gen…
Ageivism Roundtable
In spite of the increased attention to the intersection of people’s various social, cultural, economic and political locations, the discriminations that come with old age are often neglected in gender studies. Some have even pointed to the inadvertent ageism in the field (e.g. Calasanti et al., 2006). While in social gerontology there is considerable attention to older women, this is not necessarily from a feminist or intersectional perspective, …
From primal to colonial wound
This paper provides a critical analysis of the narratives of Bolivian adoptees in Belgium. We discuss how the adoptees look back upon the imagery of family and culture invoked by their parents and wider social environment and how this imagery has affected their sense of self and belonging. We argue that the adoptees’ narratives testify of a discursive struggle to reclaim control over their lives and histories. While they draw upon prevailing disc…
Menopausal rage, erotic power and gaga feminist possibilities
This study focusses on discourses on menopause through a critical reading of a selection of nine self-help books on the topic in the context of Dutch-speaking Belgium and the Netherlands. The aim is to explore whether self-help books constrain or facilitate the development of emancipatory discourses on menopause. We combine feminist critiques that identify the experience of menopause as a site of potential for revolt with insights from queer and …
Ageing and unruliness
In prevailing Western media discourses, older women’s anger and resistance are often portrayed as a result of the physical and mental decline inherently associated with ageing. These representations reinforce the image of older women as vulnerable subjects who are weak, frail and excluded from society. This article proposes an alternative reading of expressions of unruliness related to ageing, gender and sexuality in Western media and visual cult…
Beyond the crazy ex-girlfriend
In this article, I reflect on the process of understanding and my strategies of reporting in the context of a three-year ethnographic study on non-monogamous sex and relationships in Belgium, which included interviews and participant observation in various dating sites and in support groups for people in consensual non-monogamous relationships. I draw the contours of what a research ethics that creates space for the researcher's embodied learning…
Unruly temporalities
In this paper, we explore queer temporalities in relation to queer women and non-binary people's sexuality later in life. Drawing on 30 interviews with 32 queer women and non-binary people aged 49-72 about sexuality and intimacy in later life, we highlight the participants' stories about the instability and non-linearity of sexuality across the life course. First, we examine how our participants narrated later-life changes in their sexual subject…
(Un)Doing gender norms in postfeminist China
In response to the growing trend of male beauty influencers, this article examines the case of Li Jiaqi, known in mainland China as the "Lipstick King". Based on a critical multimodal discourse analysis, we combine (post)feminism and queer theories to decode the contested processes in which Li (re)negotiates and (re)constructs the dominant gender regime in postfeminist beauty culture. Our analysis shows that Li's gender performance is shaped by a…
From allochronism to generationality
This paper looks into ageist and generationalist assumptions that penetrate queer spatio-temporal imageries and explore how to resist oppressive temporalities. It draws on fieldwork in a queer advocacy group and qualitative interviews with trans-, lesbian-, and women-identifying participants in Belgium to explore notions of age and ageism in queer communities. The research relates to feminist generationalism and searches for more complex notions …
The end or the revival of love
Drawing on ethnographic methods, this paper investigates the cultural and emotional dynamics of contemporary Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) in relation to late-modern conditions of "the end of love". It establishes a dialogue between the two fields of sociology of love and non-monogamies studies by asking whether emerging CNM represents the dissolution of romantic commitment in late modernity or an attempt to revive or reanimate love by seeking mo…
Older women’s later life sex and aging
This study advances sexualities studies and critical aging studies by examining the experiences of sex and intimacy in later life among older women who have faced financial precarity and violence. We argue that fully understanding women’s fragmented lives on society’s margins requires an analytical lens that highlights disrupted temporalities and the reconfiguration of time and space. We use Critical New Materialist (CNM) approaches to analyze em…
Heteronormativity revisited
Unpartnered heterosexual women constitute a significant demographic within nursing home populations, yet their sexuality remains largely understudied. Although recent healthcare policies and research focus on improving residents' sexual wellbeing, they often reflect heteronormative assumptions, for instance by prioritizing life-long sex for heterosexual monogamous couples. While the heteronormativity of nursing home spaces has been highlighted in…
Sociology (21 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Aesthetics (7 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras)