Rethinking Kinship and the Family

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel proposes a return to questions of kindship and the family in political theory. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including classics, philology, anthropology, history and philosophy, these essays also argue for the central significance of kinship and the family to political theories of citizenship, justice, and the state. Each engages feminist literatures but also theoretical perspectives on the family from the ancient Greeks to Marx and Marxism to decolonial theory and Africana philosophy.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Individual Presentations

• The Family that Roams - Demetra Fannie Kasimis, University of Chicago

• Defining Social Reproduction - Robyn Marasco, CUNY, Hunter College

• Becoming-sisters, Becoming-daughters: The Construction of Kinship in Antigone - Valentina Moro, Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici, Naples, Italy

• Subaltern Maternals: Domestic Reason, Emancipation and the Maternal Contract - Elva Fabiola Orozco Mendoza, Texas Christian University

Chair

• Kathi Weeks Duke University