New Times, New Families

by Carrington, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781402004810
• ISBN10: 1402004818
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The most pressing challenge facing contemporary educators and social theorists is how to deal with new configurations of family without slipping into nostalgia or deficit models. New Times: New Families reframes the nuclear family in a way that will challenge traditional theorizations. It takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey towards a new kind of family, drawing upon theorists such as Bourdieu, Wilden, and Deleuze & Guattari. Unlike other 'family' oriented texts, this book reframes family in provocative and unexpected ways. As a result it has the potential to elicit vigorous debate amongst postgraduate students and other researchers involved in family and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Part One. Contextualizing Family	1	(62)
Reconstituting Traditional Family	3	(10)
Introduction	4	(1)
Neoliberal reconstitution of `traditional' family in Australia	4	(9)
Apolitical Accounts of the Family	13	(16)
Introduction	13	(2)
Social Darwinism	15	(3)
Structural Functionalism and the nuclear family	18	(6)
Systems theory	24	(5)
The pre-1970s politicized family	29	(14)
Introduction	29	(1)
Patriarchy and the Western nuclear family-a gift from God	29	(2)
Marxist approaches	31	(7)
Feminist theory and the family	38	(5)
Critiques from within: Post-1970s modernist critiques and the nuclear narrative	43	(20)
Introduction	43	(1)
An ecosystemic analysis of the nuclear family	43	(3)
Wilden's family	46	(1)
Habitus and symbolic violence	47	(4)
Oedipus and colonization	51	(12)
Part Two. From Fordist Keynesianism to Neoliberal New Economies	63	(30)
The Boom Years: 1945-1973	65	(12)
Introduction	65	(1)
Nation building	66	(4)
The Keynesian social contract	70	(3)
Family narratives	73	(4)
Capitalism after 1973	77	(16)
Introduction	77	(1)
After 1973	77	(5)
The Information Society-fast, late, globalizing capitalism	82	(11)
Part Three. New Times: New Families	93	(52)
Ethnicity and Race to Interethnicity	95	(6)
Introduction	95	(6)
Interethnicity and Globalization	101	(14)
Introduction	101	(1)
The Australian Context	101	(2)
A generational shift	103	(8)
Geographies of interethnicity	111	(4)
Globalization, Family and Community	115	(12)
Introduction	115	(2)
Globalization and community	117	(1)
Imagined community	117	(3)
Glocalization	120	(2)
New ethnicities and old framings	122	(5)
Symbolic Violence: The shape(ing) of things to come	127	(8)
Introduction	127	(1)
The nationstate response	128	(7)
Landscaping `Family'	135	(10)
Introduction	135	(7)
Conclusion	142	(3)
Reference List	145	(14)
Index	159