Yazar: Tatjana Thelen

Within the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as opera …

Stategraphy—the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors—offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions …

During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post- …

»Care« ist in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt öffentlicher Diskussionen gerückt. Vor dem Hintergrund der deutschen Wiedervereinigung führt Tatjana Thelen dieses zentrale Thema mit der …

Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the ‘globalization’ of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child provides a timely intervention to the scholarship …

Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the ‘globalization’ of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child provides a timely intervention to the scholarship …

Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often tho …

Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often tho …

Begriffe wie ‘Willkommenskultur’, ‘Asyl’ oder ‘Islam’ sind Bestandteil unseres täglichen Sprachgebrauchs und transportieren bestimmte Bedeutungen und Konnotationen. Was meinen darüber hinaus Ausdrück …

»Open source, file-sharing, crowdfunding, peer production« – die Welt der digitalen Kommunikation ist voller Wirtschaftspraktiken, die dem Geben und Schenken näher sind als dem Marktkauf. Im Horizont …

»Open source, file-sharing, crowdfunding, peer production« – die Welt der digitalen Kommunikation ist voller Wirtschaftspraktiken, die dem Geben und Schenken näher sind als dem Marktkauf. Im Horizont …

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship …