A wondrous adventure
Mutuality and individuality in Internet adoption narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2267995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paloma Gay Y Blasco (University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 330-348 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01746.x |
| OpenAlex | W4255154944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 42 |
In this article, I analyse the narratives that American adopters of Chinese children put up on Internet family websites in the early 2000s. I focus on what these narratives reveal about the complex articulation of notions of kinship and of individuality in twenty-first-century America. These website accounts illustrate both the relational nature of middle-class American individualism and its embeddedness in a deeply racialized world-view and a political economy of desire that turns Chinese children into vehicles for the assertion of American personal and communal selves.RésuméLe présent article analyse les récits mis en ligne au début des années 2000, sur des sites Web consacrés à la famille, par des parents américains ayant adopté des enfants chinois. L'auteure se concentre sur ce que ces narrations révèlent de la complexe articulation des notions de parenté et d'individualité dans l'Amérique du XXIème siècle. Ces récits en ligne illustrent à la fois la nature relationnelle de l'individualisme américain des classes moyennes et son enracinement dans une vision du monde profondément racialisée et dans une économie politique du désir qui transforme des enfants chinois en moyens d'affirmer le moi personnel et communautaire des Américains
Art · Ethnology · Humanities · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Making Sex
People Out of Place
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
Reproducing the future
Cultures of Relatedness
Habits of the heart
Children and Material Culture
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Images of “Waiting Children”
Individualism and Commitment in American Life
The Kinning of Foreigners
Trends in intercountry adoption
Scenes of Misrecognition
Mother, Child, Race, Nation
Nourishing Kinship Theory
Intercountry Adoption as a Migratory Practice
They're All My Children
Korean Adoptee Auto‐Ethnography
Surrogate motherhood
The Origins of English Individualism
Of Sonograms and Baby Prams
Placing the "Gift Child" in Transnational Adoption
Transnational Adoption
Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas
Autobiography and the American Myth
American Kinship
Language and Self-Transformation
On moving children
Backed by papers
Concepts of parenthood
Our Adoptee, Our Alien
As One Should, Ought and Wants to Be
Blood and desire
What kinship is (part two)
What kinship is (part one)
Kinning
Making 'bad' deaths 'good
To kin a transnationally adopted child in Norway and Spain
My blog is me
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |