Practicing the Family

Sabine Bollig

ISBN 10: 3837662810 / ISBN 13: 9783837662818

Published by Transcript Verlag Mär 2025, 2025

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Neuware -How 'family' is construed on a material and discursive level has gained increasing interest among educational and social work professionals. The contributors to this volume address that question in relation to the diverse everyday practices of 'doing family' by its heterogeneous members. The contributions build a transdisciplinary bridge between research on family life on the one hand and research on the formatting of family in welfare state contexts on the other. Fundamental to this is a decentred and fluid understanding of family that conceives itself as a contested set of relational activities in people's everyday lives that are socially recognized as 'familial'. 262 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practicing the Family
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Mär 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837662810
• ISBN 13: 9783837662818
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 144H x 23D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 144 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 442 grams

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Synopsis

How »family« is construed on a material and discursive level has gained increasing interest among educational and social work professionals. The contributors to this volume address that question in relation to the diverse everyday practices of »doing family« by its heterogeneous members. The contributions build a transdisciplinary bridge between research on family life on the one hand and research on the formatting of family in welfare state contexts on the other. Fundamental to this is a decentred and fluid understanding of family that conceives itself as a contested set of relational activities in people's everyday lives that are socially recognized as »familial«.

About the Authors

Sabine Bollig, (Prof. Dr.), born in 1971, is a professor of social pedagogy at Universität Trier. Her research and teaching focus on welfare- and practice-analytical approaches to childhood, youth and family as well as research on institutions and borders/spaces in the field of early childhood education and care.

Lisa Groß (Dr.), born in 1990, works as a social pedagogue with young people in foster care and as an external lecturer at Universität Trier. From 2016 to 2021, she was a research assistant at Universität Trier, where she also completed her doctorate in 2021. Her research and teaching focus on the field of child and youth care, especially residential care and the field of early intervention.