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Doing, Undoing, and Redoing “Family” in Uncertain Times: Kinship as a Site of Struggle, Resistance, and Hope

Table of Contents

Editors’ Corner

Editorial: Doing, Undoing, and Redoing “Family” in Uncertain Times: Kinship as a Site of Struggle, Resistance, and Hope
Rebecca Sanford and Jennifer Shaw    PDF | HTML

ACYIG Advisory Board Update
Ida Fadzillah Leggett     PDF | HTML

CFP for Spring 2023 Issue: Girlhood and Sexuality at Intersections of Performance, Relations, and Representations     PDF | HTML

Doing and Undoing “Family” in Uncertain Times

Commentaries
Decolonizing Relatedness and Kinship: Kyle’s Grandchildren
Pamela Downe    PDF | HTML

Mobilizing Care Work Amid Uncertain and Unequal Times: The Linked Lives of Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Cheryll Alipio     PDF | HTML

Mothers, Children, Families and Housing: The Ongoing Crisis
Cheryl R. Rodriguez     PDF  | HTML

Original Research Articles
Food and Family: Cultivating Kinship through Cooking in Times of Uncertainty
Stephania Rovira Ochoa and Anastasia Badder     PDF | HTML

“Doing Household”: An Anthropological Study on Adoptive Family in Romania
Naoki Asada     PDF | HTML

Social Reproduction in Precarious Times: A Youth Perspective from Trinidad and Tobago
Shelene Gomes, Antonia Mungal, and Krystal Gopeesingh     PDF | HTML

Doing Family while in Recovery from Opiate Addiction
Mãdãlina Alamã     PDF | HTML

Central American Mothers’ Perspectives on their Recently Arrived Children’s New Sibling Relationships
Sandra Castro     PDF | HTML

Constellations: Connections Across Childhoods

Original Research Article: Standing Column on Equity and Anti-Racism
“I’m Comfortable in My Own Skin”: Reflections on Mixed-Race Identities and Family-making in (Post)Apartheid Cape Town
Sebastian Jackson     PDF | HTML

Original Articles and Complements
Reclaiming Indigenous Kinship Education: Lessons from the Sapsik’ʷałá Program
Michelle M. Jacob and Leilani Sabzalian     PDF | HTML

Indigenous Kinship in Education: An Interview with Michelle M. Jacob and Leilani Sabzalian
Michelle M. Jacob, Leilani Sabzalian and Chloe Bozak     PDF | HTML

Queering Kinship: Biopolitics, the Death Function, and Transcendent Capacity
Ari S. Gzesh     PDF | HTML

Teaching Tool for Queering Kinship: Biopolitics, the Death Function, and Transcendent Capacity
Chloe Bozak and Ari S, Gzesh     PDF | HTML

About US

About NEOS

NEOS is the flagship publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG), American Anthropological Association. The bi-annual publication consists of peer-reviewed original short-form research articles as well as editor-reviewed commentaries and feature pieces.  NEOS relies on the work of many volunteers, including the full editorial board, peer reviewers, the ACYIG communications team, and a multitude of advisory board members for both NEOS and ACYIG. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact acyig.editor@gmail.com.

About Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG)

Launched in 2007 as an Interest Group within the American Anthropological Association, the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) now boasts more than 1200 members in over ten countries. Members include academics and practitioners who publish on and work with, children all over the world. The need for an anthropological interest group concerned with children and childhood continues to center on the fact that, despite growing interest in the area of cross-cultural research on childhood, children’s experiences, and children’s rights, there are very few established places to discuss and publicize such work, especially outside the realm of education and health disciplines.

NEOS Editorial Board

Anne-Marie Bedard, MA
Developmental Editor

Chloe Bozak
Digital Scholarship Intern

Chelsea Cutright, PhD
Assistant Editor and Developmental Editor

Alexea Howard, MA
Assistant Editor and Peer-Review Coordinator

Manya Kagan, PhD Candidate
Assistant Editor and Developmental Editor

Chang Liu, PhD
Developmental Editor

Rebecca L. Sanford, PhD, RCSW
Co-Editor

Jennifer Shaw, PhD
Co-Editor

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