During the months of May and June 2024, numerous scientific articles co-authored by members of the AFIN Group have been published in prestigious journals, most of which can be downloaded for free (open access). Below are some of them in alphabetical order:
- Álvarez, Bruna, Vera, Edith, Contreras, Edgard & Marre, Diana(2024). Between surveillance and self-surveillance: What institutionalized girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12870
The authors describe how girls aged 7 to 12 from Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) talk about sexuality in workshops led by them, focusing on how surveillance and self-surveillance operate in a context in which the research framework opens up new norms for forms socially acceptable to talk about sexuality. They analyze the data obtained in 13 drawings that answered the question “What is sexuality?
- Desy, Alexandra & Marre, Diana (2024). The Reproductive Journeys of French Women over 40 seeking Assisted Reproductive Technology Treatments in Spain. Social Science & Medicine.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116951
The authors analyze the experience of French women over 40 years of age who cross the Spanish border to access reproductive treatments in order to fulfill their desire to have children. Through ethnographic data emerging from six years of participant observation and in-depth interviews with 15 women, they explore why they remain excluded from the French system of reproductive governance and the obstacles they face during their reproductive journey.
- Gallego Molinero, Aranzazu, Medina Rodríguez, Maria del Valle & Clemente Martínez, Chandra(2024). Irregular adoptions in the Ethiopian-Spanish context: Strategies to redress the adoption triad. Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682241253682
The article draws on the experiences of Spanish adoptive families, offering evidence of irregularities and other abuses documented by these adoptive families during their “search for origins” or reconnection with their children’s biological families. The article maintains that, in the absence of government responses, these searches and contacts within the adoptive triad constitute informal reparative initiatives undertaken by Spanish adoptive families.
- Gesteira, Soledad (2024). Searching mothers: from suspicion to legitimacy. Feminist Studies Magazine 32 (1). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2024v32n192826
The author describes and analyzes the emergence of activism of a group of women who denounce the theft of their children at birth in Argentina and are searching for them. Based on observations and interviews with these seeking mothers, she analyzes, on the one hand, the notions to which they appeal to give legitimacy to their claims and oppose the suspicion that arises over them as bad mothers who gave up and/or abandoned their children. children. And, on the other hand, the conditions of possibility for the emergence of this activism and the particularities that the local configuration of human rights and women’s rights imprints on it. Finally, she hypothesizes that the child theft practices reported by these women constitute specific forms of violence inscribed in social fabrics of gender, class and age inequality.
- Malgosa, Estel (2024). “My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children’s conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain). Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12884
Through a new feminist materialist approach, the author analyzes the narratives of primary school children (aged 9 to 11) about pleasurable bodily sensations to explore their capacity for pleasure and the assembly of elements that facilitate it. Furthermore, she describes the forces that stabilize these sets and those that destabilize them. The conclusions suggest that leaving pleasure out of relationships and sexual education reproduces gender and age inequalities, making visible the need to recognize children as subjects of sexuality and pleasure.
- Malgosa, Estel, Alvarez, Bruna & Marre, Diana (2024). ‘We haven’t even been able to talk!’: gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools. Gender and Education, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2024.2354857
This article examines the articulation of the social constructions of sexuality and gender with the pictorial and narrative representations of boys and girls aged 9 to 11 from four public schools in the province of Barcelona in the 2020-2021 school year. The results suggest that hegemonic social constructions of masculinity and femininity guide children’s practices and narratives about sexuality, (re)producing differences between ‘boys’ and ‘girls’. The desire to fit into these hegemonic models pressures boys to make their genitals and bodies visible and talk about sexuality jokingly, while female genitalia are made invisible and girls have quiet conversations about sexuality. The article shows how children navigate, negotiate or resist this governmentality and the inequalities that arise from it.
- Remorini, Carolina (2024). With instead of about: Toward an Anthropology that is Critically Integrated into Global Early Childhood Development Interventions. Ethos, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.1243
This comment raises questions and opens discussions around the recent article by Scheidecker et al. based on the author’s experience in anthropological research and applied work in child development in the Global South. A critical review of the way in which anthropologists from the Global South conduct and disseminate their research is advocated, with the aim of expanding audiences beyond academia. Finally, it is argued that for anthropological evidence to have a place at the Global Early Childhood Development (ECD) table, anthropologists must commit to practices, methodologies and forms of collaboration that make our findings and perspectives heard. To do this, anthropologists must actively participate in institutions and areas of work that they tend to avoid. Only in this way can we positively influence children and families by incorporating the diversity inherent to ECD beyond the parameters and values of normality that predominate in the so-called world of minorities.
- Salvo Agoglia, Irene, LaBrenz, Catherine & Bilbao, Marian (2024). “Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2024.2347900
Using a self-administered survey of 301 Chilean adoptive families, the authors examine their perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption sibling contact. Types and frequency of contact were examined and a thematic analysis approach was used to analyze open-ended responses. Although most adoptive parents were in favor of keeping siblings together, few had initiated sibling contact after adoption. Barriers included misinformation, professional discouragement, questioning developmental appropriateness, and hesitancy to contact birth families. Implications for research and practice are explored.
- Salvo Agoglia, I. & Gesteira, Soledad (2024). «Je m’appelle…» : Récits sur les noms propres des personnes adoptées au Chili et en Argentine», Enfances Familles Générations 45. http://journals.openedition.org/efg/19968
In order to deepen knowledge about (re)naming processes, the specific objective of this study was to explore the narrative that adopted people in Chile and Argentina had about their name and surname (from birth and adoption), the meanings that they gave to the appointment processes and the operations that they actively carried out in this regard. The authors analyze the identity operations that adopted people carry out on their own name to contribute to the understanding of the identity work that they develop throughout their lives as a consequence of their double affiliation.