Conversations about Place in American Culture: An International Network Discussion

Introduction: The Politics of Family Secrecy

“…With the purpose of examining these intricate power dynamics of family secrecy and the shifting social attitudes toward secrecy and disclosure in a variety of geographical contexts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an online international workshop entitled "The Politics of Family Secrecy" was held at the University of Copenhagen in January 2021, organized by the research group behind a collective project with the same name. 4 This special issue contains five of the ten thought-provoking papers that were presented and discussed in that forum. Together, they examine new aspects of family history and its political contingencies.…”