Imagined families, contested childhoods: Doing gender as subversive deviances of children’s agency

Year 2023, Issue: 45, 34 - 43, 30.06.2023

Ozan Can Yılmaz

https://doi.org/10.33613/antropolojidergisi.1123573

Cited By: 1

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 child-rearing 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.

Keywords

Anthropology of childhood, child-rearing practices, children's agency, gendered parenting

Supporting Institution

University of Vienna

Thanks

I want to express my sincere gratitude to my former supervisor, Dr. habil. Patricia Zuckerhut, for her invaluable guidance and unwavering support during my doctoral research. Her expertise and insights were crucial in shaping and navigating my future research.

Çocuk failliğinin bir direnişi olarak cinsiyetin ifadesi

Abstract

Yakın zamanda yapılan çocukluk etnografileri, aile ve çocuklara ilişkin mevcut politikaların yeni epistemolojik çerçevelere ve kesişimsel metodolojilere yol açtığını göstermiştir. Son dönemdeki akademik çalışmalar, etnografik araştırmanın kapsamını ev içi veya ebeveynlik düzeyinin ötesine taşıyarak daha geniş bir sosyo-politik ve ekonomik bağlamda ele almaya başlamıştır. Bu yaklaşım, çocuk yetiştirmenin cinsiyetlendirilmiş ebeveyn pratiklerini incelerken, devlet düzenlemelerinin ve ahlakileştiren söylemlerin çocukluğun regüle edilişindeki etkilerini göz önünde bulundurmaktadır. Bu inceleme makalesi, Türkiye bağlamında çocuk yetiştirme pratiklerinin özelliklerini ve karmaşık doğasını ortaya çıkaran, cinsiyetlendirilmiş ebeveynlik ve toplumsal cinsiyetin somutlaştırılmasının kesişimselliği üzerine yapılan akademik çalışmaları incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın önemi, hegemonik ideolojiler ve düzenleyici söylemler karşısında bir sapma ve direniş noktası olarak çocukların failliğine yönelik yapmış olduğu vurgudur.

Keywords

Çocuk antropolojisi, çocuk yetiştirme pratikleri, çocuk failliği, cinsiyetlendirilmiş ebeveynlik

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