The Ontological Choreography of (Good) Parenthood

Sparrman, Anna; Cardell, David; Lindgren, Anne-Li; Samuelsson, Tobias

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46774-0_10

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“…This mutual process even creates a bond of togetherness when the family invests both money and emotions (cf. Sparrman et al, 2016).…”

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Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money

Gustafsson

2020

Tourist Studies

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Through a focus on the planning and making of family adoption return trips, this paper explores how the social meanings of money are entangled with family-making practices and family holidays. Adoption return trips are a global phenomenon, and travel agencies offer tailored adoption return-trip packages marketed as a type of family tourism. The new trend towards conducting adoption return trips as a family when children are still young is growing and has implications for families’ finances because return trips are expensive endeavours. Still, families prioritise these trips, raising them above purely economic values so they stand out as ‘priceless’. The empirical material consists of interviews with 10 Swedish transnational adoptive families. The analyses show that family adoption return trips, despite their original features, are yet one more way of doing family holidaying. Money becomes an important contribution for understanding how family life is being done in and through parental, child and family-holiday ideals, as well as family intimacy.

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“…This mutual process even creates a bond of togetherness when the family invests both money and emotions (cf. Sparrman et al, 2016).…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is important to note that children are always part of how families are constructed and how the values of the family, money and even parenthood, are constituted (cf. Sparrman et al, 2016). This is equally true when studying family holidaying or, as in this case, adoption return trips.…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money

Gustafsson

2020

Tourist Studies

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“…Schoolbags are thus part of parents' continuous sensitive screenings of how children cope with school life. As other studies point out, parents' orientation towards and use/consumption of child‐related things and places is part of enacting parenthood (Miller, ; Sparrman, Cardell and others, ). Parents' practices with regard to schoolbags are not merely a way to actualise school in the family, but also a way to make themselves a parent.…”

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The Materialisation of School in Families' Everyday Lives

Dannesboe

2019

Children & Society

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This article explores how school is materialised within Danish families and the significance for both children and parents. Based on ethnographic research and inspired by materiality studies and by family and childhood studies, the analysis describes how school-related objects, such as schoolbags, actualise school within the family and create intensive 'school parenting'. The article also illustrates how the materialisation of school both entangles with family routines, becoming part of being a family and feeds into processes of demarcation and ways of reducing the importance of school in family routines.

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“…So ... just knowing that I'll be notified if something happens, or be allowed to be there for my daughter if something happens, that would have helped a lot. Sparrman et al (2016) show how, when cohabiting families engage in child-centred activities, 'togetherness' is often done through a complex interdependence of proximity and distance. Thus, physical proximity and an experience of real-time cohesion are not always characteristic of how parents and children who are not part of a high-conflict divorce situation practice their lives.…”

Section: The Ideal Of Devotionmentioning

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Staying with the conflict – parenting work and the social organization of post-divorce conflict

Bertelsen

2021

Journal of Family Studies

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When addressed from the third-person perspective of professional and academic expertise, parents in high-conflict divorce are often described in polarized and individualized ways. This is at odds with the complex picture arising from studies exploring parents' own experience of high-conflict divorce. Inspired by the research strategy of institutional ethnography, this article explores how the work of parents in enduring post-divorce conflicts relates to particular socially organized ways of doing parenthood. It draws on interviews with 20 Norwegian mothers and fathers experiencing a high-conflict divorce situation. The analysis connects parents' experiences to dominant discourses about symmetrically shared parenting and the importance of parental devotion vis-a-vis their children. Through authoritative documents like laws, policies, and professional guidelines, these discourses are materially present in parents' everyday lives, contributing to the coordination of experience. The findings show how parents' struggles to care for their children in accordance with norms for good parenting can sometimes work to keep conflicts alive. It is suggested that organizing policy and professional responses around objectified understandings of post-divorce conflict as instances of parental neglect risks distancing policy and helping initiatives from the experiences of those parents they are meant to address.

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The Ontological Choreography of (Good) Parenthood

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money

Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money

The Materialisation of School in Families' Everyday Lives

Staying with the conflict – parenting work and the social organization of post-divorce conflict

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