Philosophies of Adoption

Perspectives and Reflections

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666933567 (ISBN)

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This book explores the philosophical analysis of adoption by providing insight into the emerging and underexplored topics within the implications and realities of adoption. Showcasing a range of styles, this book provides first-hand accounts of adult-adoptees through diverse standpoints, voices, perspectives, and relationships to adoption.

Edited by Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz, Philosophies of Adoption: Perspectives and Reflections explores contemporary philosophical analysis of adoption, providing insight into new and underexplored topics in the field. Three scholarly developments are central to the emerging philosophical discourse on adoption explored in this volume: a problematizing of the adoption triangle or "triad", a critique of the so-called “bio-normative family", and an attention to specific issues in transracial and First Nations adoption. The book’s contributors expand on all three of these areas by addressing a range of questions—How does being adopted shape self-knowledge and identity? What challenges arise at the intersection of race and adoption? What can be learned about epistemic justice, identity, and belonging from transracial adoption? What are the narratives told about adoption?—to show how current conditions and lived adoptee experiences give new shape, meaning, and importance to philosophical thinking about adoption. Showcasing a diversity of styles and standpoints, and organized into three core themes—situating adoption, knowing adoption, and telling adoption—this book grapples with the adoption experience, historical and recent developments in adoption practice, and emerging directions in philosophical scholarship.

Lisa Cassidy is associate professor of philosophy at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Mianna Lotz is associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University.

Introduction
Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz

Part I: Situating Adoption: Histories, Contexts, Boundaries

Chapter 1: Adoption, Race, and Rescue: Transracial Adoption and Lesbian/Gay Ascendency to Whiteness
Bonnie Mann
Chapter 2: Racist Structures of American Indian Interracial Adoption
Susan Devan Harness
Chapter 3: ‘Unsettling’ Adoption: Rethinking Parenting in the Shadow of Colonialism
Mianna Lotz, Colin Macleod, and Taylor-Jai Mcalister

Part II: Knowing Adoption: Epistemic Justice and Injustice

Chapter 4: Adopting Silence: On Adoptee Disenfranchisement and Epistemic Injustice
Ryan Gustafsson and Michele Merritt
Chapter 5: Adoption Stories and Epistemic Neglect
Cara O’Connor
Chapter 6: Racial Belonging and Identity: Impacts on Transracial Adoptees’ Epistemic and Moral Agency
Nabina Liebow and Ryan Gustafsson

Part III: Telling Adoption: The Stories We Tell

Chapter 7: Heavy with Child: Infertile Attachments, Existential Racism, and Geneticism
Frances Latchford
Chapter 8: Adoption in New Media: Changing the Narrative?
Lisa Cassidy
Chapter 9: Excerpt from The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Shannon Gibney
Chapter 10: “It’s So Very Layered”: In Conversation with Shannon Gibney
Shannon Gibney, Lisa Cassidy, and Mianna Lotz

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2024
Co-Autor	Bonnie Mann, Susan Devan Harness, Taylor-Jai McAlister
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 237 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781666933567 / 9781666933567
Zustand	Neuware