Thinking Through Family: Narratives of Care Experienced Lives 9781529214741

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Series page
Thinking Through Family: Narratives of Care Experienced Lives
Copyright information
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Table
Acknowledgements
1 Why Think Through ‘Family’?
Introduction
The studies
Conceptualizing ‘family’
‘Doing’ family: practices and display
Thinking beyond childhood
Austerity and ‘the other’
Thinking beyond the ‘troubled’ family?
Thinking through ‘family’ in care experienced lives
The structure of this book
Summing up
2 Learning From Care Experienced Perspectives
Hearing a different story?
Care experienced lives in context
Childhood and placement experiences
Early adulthoods
Becoming a parent
Summing up
Politics and ethics: researching ‘family’ in care experienced lives
A narrative perspective on care experienced family lives
The studies
Against All Odds?
Evaluation of Pause
Bringing the studies together
3 Doing Family: The Significance of the ‘Ordinary’
Introduction
What do we mean by ‘ordinary’?
The significance of the mundane
(Un)remarkable practices?
The role of the everyday in understanding complex family connections
What is (extra)ordinary?
Rituals and celebrations
Informal celebrations
Weddings and funerals
Conclusion
4 Re/Configuring Boundaries: Who Counts as ‘Family’?
Introduction
Defining ‘family’
Family structures
Enduring kinship?
Ineffable connections and boundary moves
Family and ‘not-family’
Shifting boundaries and ‘chosen’ kin
Conclusion
5 ‘How Can We Not Talk about Family When Family’s All That We’ve Got?’: Care and Connectedness
Introduction
Sibling connections
Complex and dynamic connections
Parenting responsibilities?
Austerity and interdependence
The possibilities and limits of family support
Conclusion
6 Understandings and Experiences of Parenthood
Introduction
The state as ‘corporate grandparent’?
Stigma and intersectionality
Becoming a parent
Stigma and instability
Misrecognition of motherhood?
And fatherhood?
Support and recognition
Practicing family-at-a-distance
Family display
Enabling the practice of motherhood when children are in care
Future imaginaries
Children growing up
Uncertain possibilities?
Conclusion
7 Thinking Through Family: Implications for Theory and Practice
Why ‘thinking through family’?
Conceptualizing family: thinking beyond the ‘single story’
Family practices and family display
Practicing family with a lifeworld orientation
The value of the concept of family
Reflections on family-minded policy and practice
Family-minded approaches in precarious times?
Supporting relational interdependency
Supportive siblings?
Chosen family
The limits of loving networks – and the need for continuing professional support
Conclusion
Notes
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
References
Index

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