Overview
- Demonstrates the usefulness of care as an analytical concept to open innovative perspectives on mutual cooptation and constructions of state, families, and individuals
- Highlights the complexity and diversity of relationships based around care, demonstrating the ambivalence of kin relations
- Increases scholarly understanding of Central European societies and state socialism more generally through the under-studied case of Hungary
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Book Title: Care of the State
Book Subtitle: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary
Authors: Jennifer Rasell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49484-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49483-4Published: 29 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49486-5Published: 29 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49484-1Published: 28 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 169
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Political Sociology, Russian, Soviet, and East European History