09.12.2022Neuerscheinung: The Politics of Making Kinship

THE POLITICS OF MAKING KINSHIP. Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, herausgegeben von Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher und Tatjana Thelen ist bei Berghahn Books erschienen. 

“This is a powerful volume that argues for kinship and politics to be studied and analyzed in conjunction and not separately, as is still common within the social and political sciences. …What makes the volume particularly strong is that it combines discussions of semantic shifts, political contestations, and philosophy and theory of house(hold), kin, and family relations.” - Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Although long excised from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order, kinship never completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West. The Politics of Making Kinship explores how political processes shaped various concepts of kinship, and highlights how specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship have impacted political projects in return. From the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin wall and beyond, kinship takes centerstage, as these international scholars skillfully reintegrate it with political theory.