Frances Bartkowski – In Praise of Mixing
25 Feb, 2009
Professor Fran Bartkowski (Rutgers U) ‘In Praise of Mixing’
This talk takes up the questions surrounding contemporary ideas of kinship. How in times of constantly expanding knowledge from the biological sciences, neurosciences, and genetics do we continue to determine in our daily lives those whom we invest with intimacy? Who counts as our kin? What are the forms of care to which we commit ourselves? What about our relations with our pets, or companion animals, as some suggest we call them?
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