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Contested parenting and its affective economies: A commentary

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract In stringing together the fine‐grained ethnographic studies that comprise this special issue of Ethos, “Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves,” our commentary is designed to go beyond the micro‐setting of daily routines to the emotional entanglements of family relationships within wider economic and political networks. Calling on the
Claudia Fonseca
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Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves: An introduction

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract Interrogating what constitutes “good parenting” captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse ...
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanze N'Guessan
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Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract According to the notion of “parental determinism,” parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills.
Konstanze N'Guessan
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Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract The article explores how the moralization of women mothers in contemporary Brazil reinforces structural inequalities. The analysis focuses on two forms of communication: reprimands and advice directed from experts toward mothers or circulated between mothers of young children in two different social contexts in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes
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