Call for Papers-14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures (20-23 July 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan,
Italy)Panel P011: Family and Kinship in contemporary Southern Europe:transformations, convergences and variations in a macro-regional perspective:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4165
Short Abstract:
The panel will focus on new forms of families and kinship (adoptions, fictive kinship, new forms of relatedness, new parenting styles) in Southern Europe, while also exploring cultural convergences and divergences with respect to both northern Europe and the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
Long Abstract:
The panel will investigate new forms of family and kinship (adoptions, fictive kinship, new forms of relatedness, new parenting styles) in Southern Europe. While focused on Mediterranean Europe, discussion will keep a comparative eye on neighbouring macro regions: Northern Europe and the southern shore of the Mediterranean. Southern Europe lays in the middle not only from a geographical point of view, as it displays a number of cultural features which may alternately converge and diverge with respect to Northern Europe and Southern Mediterranean societies. In the realm of kinship, Southern Europe is now sharing with the countries to the North some significant socio-demographic trends (e.g. the loss of centrality of marriage and the increase of cohabitation). At the same time some persistent features of Mediterranean Europe (e.g. strong kinship ties) point to long-lasting commonalities with the societies on the southern shore, which are themselves undergoing socio-demographic changes that are exerting a major impact on kinship and family relations and deserve attention by anthropologists. One such change is population ageing, which is posing unprecedented problems to societies that are simultaneously
experiencing a decline in fertility and the "nuclearization" of households. Another change is a tendency towards delayed marriages (hence the spreading of so-called "waithood"), and the increasing number of people who do not marry at all.
We ask participants to reflect on both continuities and changes in kinship
in Southern Europe as well as on the usefulness and/or the drawbacks of
macro-regional comparisons
Convenors:
Javier Gonzalez Diez [log in to unmask]
Francesca Nicola (University of Milano Bicocca) [log in to unmask]
Pier Paolo Viazzo (University of Turin)
Discussant: Rossana Di Silvio (University of Milano Bicocca)
Deadline: 15 th of February 2016
To propose a paper, please follow this link
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4123pose and submit through the online system on the web site. For any inquires, do not hesitate to email the panel convenors.
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Francesca Nicola
PhD | Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca (Italy)
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