Dear colleagues, With apologies for cross posting.
Please find below details of an event which may be of interest.
Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research / BSA Families and Relationship Study Group
‘Mothering and the New Politics of Parenting’
Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University - Thursday 9th May 2013
Over the last few decades the concept of ‘parenting’ as a distinct and measurable practice has taken on huge political significance. As globalisation and neoliberal economic restructuring policies advance discourses of individualism and self-responsibility it is parents, specifically mothers, that are held accountable for their children’s success or failure with regards to social (im)mobility, and in becoming ‘good citizens’. As part of a shift from welfare state to a social investment model the female dominated practice of childcare has been redrawn as an essential motor of meritocracy. Parenting interventions are now routinely imposed as solutions to longstanding social problems associated with poverty and inequality, ensuring disadvantaged mothers are implicated and targeted for regulation. Meanwhile an ideology of ‘intensive parenting’ has seeped into everyday culture profoundly re-shaping expectations and experiences of mothering in particular.
This event seeks to explore current political and personal landscapes of mothering, highlighting the intersections and contours of gender, class, ‘race’/ethnicity, and sexuality on the new politics of parenting. Speakers confirmed include:
Kim Allen – Manchester Metropolitan University
Rosie Cox – Birkbeck, University of London
Umut Erel – Open University
Charlotte Fairclough – Kent University
Val Gillies – London South Bank University
Tracey Jenson – Newcastle University
Tracey Reynolds – London South Bank University
Yvette Taylor – London South Bank University
ImogenTyler – Lancaster University
Glenda Wall – Wilfrid Laurier University
The event will culminate with a reception and book launches for:
Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics (Edited by
Charlotte Faircloth, Diane M. Hoffman, Linda L. Layne)
Militant Lactivism? Infant Care and Maternal Identity Work in the UK and France’ (by Charlotte Faircloth)
Revolting Subjects. Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (by Imogen Tyler)
Register at: http://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10277
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