Making Down Syndrome

Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan

Christine Sargent (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2026
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4102-4 (ISBN)

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Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan’s capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for understanding broader family dynamics and choices, the book argues that practices and ideologies of care play a central role in making Down syndrome’s embodied and political realities. They do so through the momentum of kinship futures, or futures imagined through the prism of kinship roles and relations, which shape how families organize and distribute care between and beyond kinship networks and under conditions of economic and political uncertainty. By approaching everyday life in Jordan through the lends of disability, Making Down Syndrome offers new insights into how people navigate structures of family, gender, power, inequality, and precarity, all while trying to maintain hope for and cultivate better futures.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Medical Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	2 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-4102-7 / 1978841027
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4102-4 / 9781978841024
Zustand	Neuware