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14 nov 2018 ... ... Kath Weston draws on ethnographic writing with intimacies and animacies that emerge in what she calls our “high-tech, ecologically damaged ...Bio: Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia and British Academy Global Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her books include Families We Choose; Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor; and Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World.Long, Slow Burn, a powerful collection of essays by Kath Weston, argues that social science has been talking about sex all along; to deny this one would have to overlook …Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor; Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age; and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.Families and Ancestry. In one of my graduate school courses, we read a book called Families We Choose, Kath Weston's 1991 study of how gay and lesbians create family ties. This was particularly enlightening in the 1990s, when the concept of LGBT families seemed like an oxymoron to many people. I had never given much thought to what ...The Strathern Lecture. The Strathern Annual Lecture was established in 2011 to celebrate the many-facetted achievements of Dame Marilyn Strathern FBA, who was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College (1998-2009), and whose writings have been profoundly and widely influential in anthropology and on cognate disciplines.Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, Slow Burn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s…11 Kath Weston, Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age (London: Routledge, 2002). 12 12 On 'thinking otherwise' see Robyn Wiegman, Women's Studies on It's Own, (Duke University Press, 2003); Anthony Burke, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against the Other, (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 30-1; Jacques DerridaD'Augelli, 1998;Weston,1991).ManyLGBT peopleexperi-ence some form of isolation from biolegal relationships; thus, friendships play a more important support role in the lives of sexual minorities than of heterosexuals (Carrington, 1999; Lucco, 1987;Nardi,1999; Weeks, Heaphy, & Donovan, 2001). LGBT people form Bchosen families^ (Weston,Kath Weston is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Her current work focuses on political economy, political ecology and environmental issues, historical anthropology, and science studies. She has also published widely on kinship, gender, and sexuality.Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age - Ebook written by Kath Weston. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age.We’ll see your Derrida and raise you one.†GLQ, Vol. 2, pp. 347-349 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by license only 0 1995 Kath Weston Published in The Netherlands under license by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA Printed in Canada Then there is the issue of the linguistic accessibility of ...Kath Weston's (1991) ethnographic study of the construction of gay and lesbian families in San Francisco in the 1980s, Families We Choose, revealed the ways chosen families can take on the characteristics of stability, continuity, endurance, and permanence to become "real" when biologically related families are inadequate or fail.Not surprisingly, chosen families come in many shapes and ...A feminist anthropologist shares observations gathered during seven years of crisscrossing the United States by bus. Between 1999 and 2006, Weston (Women’s Studies/Univ. of Virginia, Gender in Real Time, 2002, etc.) traveled from Albuquerque to Missoula, from Boston to Milwaukee, from New York to St. Augustine, from El Monte to …

Still, contributors also describe the liveliness and inventiveness of people’s efforts to “muddle through” (as one of Andrew McDowell’s interlocutors put it): the calculations of note conversion; the rush to gold; the distribution of deposits across the accounts of family and friends; the deployment of alternative payment instruments (with …Kinship, Controversy, and the Sharing of Substance: The Race/Class Politics of Blood Transfusion / Kath Weston 6. Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic / Charis Thompson 7. Self-Conscious Kinship: Some Contested Values in Norwegian Transnational Adoption / Signe Howell 8. Practicing Kinship in Rural North China / Yunxiang YanKath Weston, . . Beacon, $24.95 (262pp) ISBN 978--8070-4137-6. In this accessible gem of a narrative, Weston makes a special contribution to the conversation (and glut of ethnographies) that seek ...From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what ...

In "Families We Choose," Kath Weston draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology. She presents interviewees' stories of coming out and of their subsequent relations with straight families. She also ...Dans le cadre du deuxième épisode de la série d'été « Les métamorphoses de l'amitié », la professeure d'anthropologie revient, dans un entretien au « Monde », sur les « familles choisies », ces groupes d'amis et d'amants pensés par les personnes LGBTQ+ comme des alternatives à la famille nucléaire.Although appealing to some, the liberal focus on “choice” [in choosing a queer-friendly family of friends and lovers] in [Kath] Weston’s model presupposes a range of cultural, social ...…

Reader Q&A - also see RECOMMENDED ARTICLES & FAQs. According to Kath Weston , "chosen families" are the fam. Possible cause: Talking Kinship with Kath Weston | The contributors to this volume assert the im.