02-07/07/2017 - Summer School on Kinship, Politics and Boundaries (Γερμανία)

The summer school’s goal is to re-examine the relationship between politics and kinship. Organised by the ZiF 2016/17 research group on Kinship and Politics, the summer school intends to intervene in these debates by getting doctoral students and early career scholars to focus on this major conceptual problem. The summer school will revolve around two core theoretical perspectives: (a) “kinship” and “family” as analytical categories and (b) uses of kinship in political practice. The panels aim at bridging critical historical epistemology and empirical case studies. They are organised around four problem areas that should be examined from perspectives beyond a single discipline, region, or historical period:

1. Property and kin relations;
2. Conceptualising, implementing and negotiating the nuclear family;
3. Boundary work: kinning the state – state kinning;
4. The (re)making of political order, in particular through children.

Accommodation and travel costs (basic economy flights and second-class train tickets) of the participants will be covered. There are no fees for the summer school.

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