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Beyond binaries – embodiment, adoption and emotional labour

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Beyond binaries – embodiment, adoption and emotional labour
ByJessica Walton
BookKorean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
Imprint Routledge
Pages 4
eBook ISBN 9781351132312

ABSTRACT

This chapter reflects on the usefulness of theories of embodiment when examining issues of identity, belonging and memory in the context of transnational adoption. I argue that the process through which experiences of adoption and identity are made meaningful needs to be understood by viewing the body as central to those experiences. By examining the lived experience of “feeling identity” as a complex ongoing process, adoption discussions can move outside normative frameworks of identity loss or gain and dualistic understandings of self and body. In doing so, this book aims to contribute to a productive discussion about adoptee experiences that goes beyond binaries of positive vs. negative adoptee experiences, or adoptee identities as incomplete vs. complete.

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