Imagined families, contested childhoods: Doing gender as subversive deviances of children’s agency
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2023
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Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
Recent ethnographies of childhood have shown that the current politics
of family and children led to new epistemological frameworks and
intersectional methodologies. These scholarly works have broadened
the scope of ethnographic inquiry beyond the household or caregiver
level to encompass a wider socio-political and economic context. They
consider the interruptions of state regulations and political economy on
the welfare of children in examining the gendered parental practices of
child-rearing. This critical review, first, seeks to explicate scholarly work
on the intersectionality of gendered parenting and the embodiment of
gender, which unveils the peculiarities and intricate nature of childrearing practices in the Turkish context. Second, it distinguishes itself
by drawing attention to children’s agency as a locus of deviation and
resistance vis-à-vis the moralizing ideologies and regulative discourses.
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Anthropology of childhood, child-rearing practices, children’s agency, gendered parenting