New Times: New Families

ISBN-13: 9789048159628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 161 str.

V. Carrington

Opis

The most pressing challenge facing contemporary educators and social theorists is how to deal with new configurations of family without slipping into nostalgia or deficit models. New Times: New Families reframes the nuclear family in a way that will challenge traditional theorizations. It takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey towards a new kind of family, drawing upon theorists such as Bourdieu, Wilden, and Deleuze & Guattari. Unlike other family' oriented texts, this book reframes family in provocative and unexpected ways. As a result it has the potential to elicit vigorous debate amongst postgraduate students and other researchers involved in family and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part One: Contextualizing Family. 1. Reconstituting Traditional Family. Introduction; Neoliberal reconstruction of 'traditional' family in Australia. 2. Apolitical Accounts of the Family. Introduction; Social Darwinism; Structural Functionalism and the nuclear family; Systems theory. 3. The Pre-1970s Politicized Family. Introduction; Patriachy and the Western nuclear family-a gift from God; Marxist approaces; Feminist theory and family. 4. Critiques from within: Post-1970s Modernist Critiques and the Nuclear Narrative. Introduction; An Ecosystemic analysis of the nuclear family; Wilden's family; Habitus and symbolic violence. Part Two: From Fordist Keynesianism to Neoliberal New Economies. 5. The Boom Years: 1945-1973. Introduction; Nation building; The keynesian social contract; Family narratives. 6. Capitalism After 1973. Introduction; After 1973; the information Society-fast, late, globalizing capitalism. Part Three: New Times: New Families. 7. Ethnicity and Race to Interethnicity. Introduction. 8. Interethnicity and Globalization. Introduction; The Australian Context; A generational Shift; Geographies of interethnicity. 9. Globalization, Family and Community.Introduction; Globalization and community; Imagined community; Glocalization; New ethnicities and old framings. 10. Symbolic Violence: The Shape(ing) of Things to Come. Introduction; The nationstate response. 11. Landscaping `Family'. Introduction; Conclusion. Reference List. Index.