A Feminist and Decolonial Approach to Kinship

An Ambiguous and Ambivalent Account

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4079172
AutoresRuthanne Soohee Crapo Kim (0000-0001-6585-7337, Minneapolis College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen19
Número2
Fecha de publicación2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12961
OpenAlexW4391508381
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas64

This article briefly traces newer kinship studies at the edges of kinship formations and argues that a feminist, decolonial examination of kinship interrupts cultural relatedness as a capital set of social relations meant to satiate the ache to belong to or progenerate a group. Examining the coordinated relationship between kinning and de-kinning, the author exposes the suffering the social contract fails to register but reinscribes. Central to this analysis is kinship's global colonizing matrix dominated by white-heteronormative ableism that shapes and prices commodified belonging and generation. This global colonizing matrix is the focus of this inquiry, examined through a cursory consideration of the author's lived experience as a transnational and transracial adoptee and racial minority scholar who teaches majority BIPOC students. This account theorizes a specific experience of kinship to broaden the analysis for others to locate their narratives and ongoing contributions to the deformation and reformation of kinship studies

Ambivalence · Epistemology · Kinship · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues