Contrasting and Re-Imagining Margins of Kinship

Out now - you are very welcome, it is Open Access!
Reimagining the Margins of Kinship
- Special Issue by the Journal of Feminists at Law FeministsatLaw
Edited by Antu Sorainen and Heidi Harkonen
The Final Contribution of - Academy of Finland Research Project ❤️‍🔥💖💖
Contents:
- Introduction to the Special Section
Heidi Härkönen
- (Re)Defining Legal Parenthood and Kinship: The Limits of Legal Change in the Finnish Child Custody Act of 2019
Anna Moring
- Babushkas between Le***an-Headed Families and the Russian State: Making an Intelligible Model of Extended Mothering
Alisa Zhabenko
- “Thank God, I have a Separate Dwelling”: Restructuring Kinship through Grandmaternal Sidelining in the Heterosexual Families of Russian Natural-Parenting Mothers
Anna Avdeeva
- Marginalisations and Redefinitions of Kinship in Contemporary Cuba
Heidi Härkönen

Introduction to the Special Section | feminists@law Introduction to the Special Section Heidi Härkönen University of Helsinki DOI: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1143 Abstract Introduces the Special Section on Reimagining the Margins of Kinship, explaining its origins, the questions it addresses, and the four papers that make up the Sectio...

A new topical CoreKin blog entry by Heidi Härkönen, on why the contemporary demands for data management are in many ways in contradiction with holistic embeddedness:

"What if we would start to think of our research processes and the kinds of materials that they create, as profoundly personal, intimate and relational, a something that demands careful consideration in how and to whom it can be opened, if at all?"

The Intimacy of Ethnography by Heidi Härkönen, Helsinki Nowadays, most research funders and institutions place for researchers particular demands for data management. These contemporary demands are in many ways in contradiction with the kind of holistic embeddedness that has traditionally characterised ethnographic research, at least in how it has been u...

The CoreKin Project congratulates Anna Avdeeva for a successful PhD defence today, 14 August 2020, on NATURAL PARENTING IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: WHEN ‘NATURE’ MEETS KINSHIP, at The Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki, with Professor Laurie Essig as the Opponent.

The link to the text of dissertation on our website:

Congratulations to Anna Avdeeva for a successful PhD defence The CoreKin Project congratulates Anna Avdeeva for a successful PhD defence today, 14 August 2020, on NATURAL PARENTING IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: WHEN ‘NATURE’ MEETS KINSHIP, at The Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki, with Professor Laurie Essig as the Opponent.

We are warmly welcoming everyone to open the intellectual year by the Public Talk “Next of Kin” by Prof. Jenny Gunnarsson Payne (Södertörn University, Ethnology).

Time: 14 January 2020, Tuesday, 4-6pm
Venue: Helsinki University, Topelia Building, Lecture Hall C120 (Unioninkatu 38C)
Organizers: CoreKin Research Project /Christina Advanced Research Seminar / SKY Doctoral Program/Gender Studies, Helsinki University

Open for all! Free of charge, a very friendly event!
Please share widely!

“Next of Kin”, public talk by Prof. Jenny Gunnarsson Payne, Södertörn University, Sweden at Christina Research Seminar, Helsinki University We are warmly welcoming everyone to open the intellectual year by the Public Talk “Next of Kin” by Prof. Jenny Gunnarsson Payne (Södertörn University, Ethnology). Time: 14 January 2020, Tuesday, 4-6pmVenue: Helsinki University, Topelia Building, Lecture Hall C120 (Unioninkatu 38C)Organizers: C...

Some Summer 2019 Research News:
“Shifting Kinship Relations: Workshop on Marriage, Sexuality and Family”, a KinLab workshop at the Aegean University, on 23-24 May 2019

The brilliant hosts of the event, Prof. Venetia Kantsa and Dr. Aspa Chalkidou provided space for important discussion on kinship, marriage, relationships and state between Prof. Janet Carsten's ERC advanced research project “A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage – AGATM” (University of Edinburgh) and Corekin Team members Alisa Zhabenko and Director Antu Sorainen.

Check here the workshop program and some nice pictures! :-)

CoreKin attended the Marriage, Sexuality and Family Workshop with Janet Carsten’s Team at the KinLab of the Aegean University, 23-24 May 2019, Mytilene, Greece Check here the workshop program and some nice pictures! The Corekin Project Team Director Antu Sorainen and junior member Alisa Zhabenko presented their research in the KinLab workshop “Shifting Kinship Relations: Workshop on Marriage, Sexuality and Family”, at the Aegean University, on 23-24 Ma...

The remarkable, brilliant scholar Anna-Maria Mari Tapaninenn and her ground-breaking journal article on age analyses as a political target and tool in assessing refugee children in Finland, and on how assumptions transform to ’knowledge’ or ’facts’ in these processes has won a 25 000e award by one of the Finnish private funding bodies!!!
The project congratulates the genius intellectual we have been so happy to work with for three productive years, and also my most delighted personal wishes to the amazing and brave colleague!
(Koneen Säätiö - Kone Foundation)

Vuoden Tiedekynä -voittaja tarttuu ikäepäilyn kulttuuriin maahanmuuton hallinnassa Vuoden Tiedekynä -palkinnon saa dosentti Anna-Maria Tapaninen artikkelillaan, joka käsittelee iän määrittämistä tilanteissa, joissa turvapaikkaa hakevilta nuorilta puuttuvat luotettavat asiakirjat. Tapaninen osoittaa, että iän määrittelystä on tullut yksi työkalu Suomen tiukan turvapaik...

We are happy to present photos and a short video from the Public Talk given by Professor Davina Cooper (King's College, London), 27 March 2019.
It features Prof. Tuija Pulkkinen (Helsinki University) as the Discussant.

The Talk was the second part of the Dialogue series on The Future of Gender, Sexualities, Kinship and Inheritance.
The first Public Talk in the series was given by Professor J. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University, New York) 4 February 2019.
Organized by and ***rWills Research Projects at Helsinki.

Contains links to the article “A Very Binary Drama: The Conceptual Struggle for Gender’s Future” that Prof. Cooper´s talk was based on, and to Halberstam's talk.

“A Very Binary Drama”, a public dialogue by Prof. Davina Cooper with Prof. Tuija Pulkkinen (discussant) and Dr. Antu Sorainen (mod.) at Think Corner, University of Helsinki: photos and a short video clip At the end of March 2019, the Corekin and Q***rWils Research Projects welcomed Professor Davina Cooper (king’s College, London) at Think Corner, Helsinki University with Public Talk “A Very Binary Drama: the Conceptual Struggle For Gender´s Future”. The talk was followed by a discussion with ...

"Le****ns and The Law", the new Special Issue of the Journal of Le***an Studies is out :-)
It includes project researcher Alisa Zhabenko's article:
"Russian le***an mothers: Between “traditional values” and human rights"

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See online from the link below:

Russian le***an mothers: Between “traditional values” and human rights (2019). Russian le***an mothers: Between “traditional values” and human rights. Journal of Le***an Studies. Ahead of Print.

A perfect day to submit your abstract for the Workshop "Q***r Grief, Death as Violence?" with Dr. Paul Boyce and Antu Sorainen.

The workshop is part of the Gender Studies Conference "On Violence", 24th of October – 26th of October 2019, University of Helsinki, Finland.
The Call is open until the 30th of April, 2019.
We warmly invite scholars from a variety of locations in the Global North and South to participate in the discussions on violence.

More info on the conference program and the wide array of exciting workshops from this link below.
Looking forward to see you in Helsinki! :-)

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Call for Papers | University of Helsinki CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN 21st of March 2019 – 30th of April Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence 24th of October – 26th of October 2019 University of Helsinki, Finland We welcome paper proposals for the Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence. The Call is open until the 30th of April, 201...