Fatherhood on My Mind

Aoki, Eric

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“…Moreover, in recent years the relevance of autoethnography as methodological insight has also gained relevance in visual and audiovisual approaches, from autobiographical comics (El Refaie 2010) to participatory videos (Zoettl 2012). Whatever the chosen format, some recurring themes comprise the ekphrasis and the complicated connection between the representation and those who are represented (Zeitlyn 2010; Adams and Bochner 2011), identity and self-identification (Kim 2000;Chaney 2001;Aoki 2007), ethical issues (Roth 2009;Tamas 2009), and self-commitment in research (Rangan 2011). All of them demonstrate the potential of audiovisual enquiry combined with ethnographies of the self that would also be worth exploring in other international adoption studies.…”

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Imaginarios situados: contribuciones del análisis audiovisual a la comprensión de la adopción

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2017

Rev. Dialectol. Trad. Popul.

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SUMMARYIn this article, I inquire about the kind of new knowledge audiovisual insights could provide in the field of International Adoption studies, and how these outcomes could give rise to new ways of approaching that subject. In doing so, I tackle the centrality of cultural imaginaries in International Adoption and the prolificacy of audiovisual research in anthropology to gain a better understanding. Hence, I consider adoptive itineraries as culturally situated contexts that render folk ideologies visible and may become foundational imaginaries that demand the encompassment of academic research with a more general ethnographic comprehension of such cultural representations and ideologies.Key words: Audiovisual Research; Anthropology; International Adoption; Adoptive Imaginaries. RESUMENEn este artículo reflexiono acerca de los nuevos conocimientos que la investigación audiovisual podría aportar al ámbito de los estudios en adopción internacional y en cómo sus resultados pueden iluminar nuevas formas de aproximarse al problema. Para ello, parto de la centralidad de los imaginarios culturales en la adopción internacional y de la fecundidad de la investigación audiovisual en antropología para su mejor comprensión. De este modo, considero los itinerarios adoptivos como contextos culturalmente situados que visibilizan ideologías populares y pueden devenir imaginarios fundacionales que reclaman la imbricación de la investigación académica con una comprensión etnográfica más general de estas ideologías y representaciones culturales.

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confidence: 99%

Imaginarios situados: contribuciones del análisis audiovisual a la comprensión de la adopción

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2017

Rev. Dialectol. Trad. Popul.

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“Let's Go to the Movies”: Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents

Riggs

2011

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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As a growing body of research evidence demonstrates, increasing numbers of gay men across the world are choosing to become foster or adoptive parents. Most important, the families that these men form are continually found to be supportive and positive environments in which to raise children. Yet despite these positive findings, other empirical evidence from examinations of popular media representations of gay parents highlights the negative assumptions that continue to be perpetuated against gay men who are parents. More specifically, these findings suggest that print and popular media promote an account of gay parents that is often either normalising or pathologising. The findings presented in this article extend this latter body of research by exploring filmic portrayals of gay men variously engaged in fostering and adoptive arrangements. Through an analysis of five recently released films, four dominant themes are elaborated: (1) the capacity of gay men to parent and under what circumstances; (2) the relationship between gay men's sexual identities and their identity as parents; (3) the agency of children who are cared for by gay men; and (4) constructions of kinship in the films. Implications are explored for what these themes tells us about the representations of gay men deemed acceptable or intelligible at present, and the identities the films offer to gay parent viewers. KEYWORDS gay father, gay adoptive father, gay foster father, children of gay foster parent, children of gay adoptive parent, film representationsThe author acknowledges the sovereignty of the Kaurna people, the First Nations people upon whose land he lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Learning Difference

Riggs

Augoustinos

2007

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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Fatherhood on My Mind

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Imaginarios situados: contribuciones del análisis audiovisual a la comprensión de la adopción

Imaginarios situados: contribuciones del análisis audiovisual a la comprensión de la adopción

“Let's Go to the Movies”: Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents

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