Critical Kinship Studies

Charlotte Kroløkke is Professor in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.Lene Myong is Associate Professor at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.Stine Willum Adrian is an Associate Professor at the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University.Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen is a Professor of Anthropology at the Danish National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark.

• Acknowledgements / Introduction: Critical Kinship Studies: Kinship (Trans)Formed , Charlotte Kroløkke, Lene Myong, Stine W. Adrian, and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen /Part I: Kinship as Substance / 1. The Milk of Human Kinship: Donated Breast Milk in Neonatal Intensive Care, Katherine Carroll / 2. Mattering Kinship: Inheritance, Biology and Egg Donation, Between Genetics and Epigenetics, Jenny Gunnarsson Payne / 3. Keeping up Appearances: Resemblance Talk amongst Permanent and Foster Carers in Australia, Damien W. Riggs / 4.“It’s Not My Eggs, It Is Not My Husband’s Sperm, It Is Not My Child”: Surrogacy and “Not Doing Kinship” in Ghana, Trudie Gerrits / Part II: Kinship as Consumption / 5. Migrant Care and the Production of Fictive Kin, Antía Pérez-Caramés and Raquel Martínez-Buján / 6. Feminist Global Motherhood: Representations of Single Mother Adoption in Swedish Media, Johanna Gondouin / 7. Documentaries on Transnational Surrogacy in India: Questions of Privilege, Respectability and Kinship, Karen Hvidtfeldt / 8. Family Re-imagined: Assisted Reproduction and Parenthood in Mozambique, Inês Faria / 9. ART in the Sun. Assembling Fertility Tourism in the Caribbean, Charlotte Kroløkke / Part III: Kinship as Political Economy / 10. Towards a Political Economy of Egg Cell Donations: “Doing it the Israeli Way”, Sigrid Vertommen / 11. Subversive Practices of Sperm Donation: Globalising Danish Sperm, Stine Willum Adrian / 12. The Risk of Relatedness: Governing Kinship in Swedish Transnational Adoption Policy, Malinda Andersson / 13.Real Versus Fictive Kinship: Legitimating the Adoptive Family, Kimberly McKee / Part IV: Kinship (Re)Imagined / 14. Re-imag(in)ing Life-Making, or Queering the Somatechnics of Reproductive Futurity, Nikki Sullivanand Sara Davidmann / 15. When Medicalisation is (Not) Needed. Single Women and Lesbian Couples’ Choices of Transnational Donor Conception, Giulia Zanini / 16. I Never Knew: Adoptee Remigration to South Korea, Lene Myong / 17. Kinning Animals. Animals as Kin, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen / Index

This interdisciplinary and impressive collection of works represents a refreshing contribution to critical kinship studies, and is in all respects up-to-date with our time’s diverse ways of creating and sustaining kinship on both a national and transnational level and whether it is about various ART techniques, adoption or surrogacy.