Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family, Frances J. Latchford

Автор: Latchford Frances J.
Название: Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
ISBN: 0773556818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773556812
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us, sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the absence of blood.

Автор: Latchford Peter
Название: The Resilient Cultural Organisation
ISBN: 0956623522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780956623522
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Описание: With ever decreasing funding, the word which abounds in the cultural sector is 'resilience'. But what does it mean to 'be resilient'? How can organisations become resilient? An expert in enterprise, Professor Peter Latchford has been working internationally with cultural organisations including museums, galleries, theatres, archives, libraries and heritage sites to enable them to achieve a state of resilience and succeed in challenging times. In The Resilient Cultural Organisation, Latchford reveals his tried and tested methodology and a range of tools to maximise success in cultural organisations. "An excellent primer on culture and enterprise and one that you will return to again and again. Peter Latchford provides a very helpful mix of theory and practice which will enable cultural leaders both to understand where they are and to shape the future directions of the organisations they lead. He gets to grips quickly and effectively with what enterprise really means in a cultural organisation and provides ideas that you can use in practice." -Iain Watson, Director of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (Winner of the Collections Trust 'Enterprise in Museums' award, 2014). "This book raises quite profound questions for the operational paradigm. Easy to follow and compelling." -Simon Cane, Director of Public and Cultural Engagement, UCL