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Tools of Critique

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This chapter offers three tools of critique that we see as central to critical kinship studies. These are an understanding of kinship as a technology, a discursive account of subjectivity, and a focus on affective ambivalence. Having outlined our points of critique in Chapter 2 and tools for examining them, the subsequent analytic chapters explore in detail how the latter can help us understand a truly diverse range of practices of western human kinship.

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  1. School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    Damien W. Riggs

  2. Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    Elizabeth Peel

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Riggs, D.W., Peel, E. (2016). Tools of Critique. In: Critical Kinship Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50505-7_3

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