Reconsidering Kinship: Beyond the Nuclear Family with Deleuze and Guattari

Laurie, T; Stark, HS

Reconsidering Kinship: Beyond the Nuclear Family with Deleuze and Guattari

Laurie, T

Stark, HS

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Publisher:: UTSePress
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cultural Studies Review, 2012, 18 (1), pp. 19 - 39
Issue Date:: 2012-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Laurie, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3453-775X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Stark, HS	en_US
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dc.identifier.citation	Cultural Studies Review, 2012, 18 (1), pp. 19 - 39	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Deleuze and Guattari have often received attention for their criticisms of bourgeois families in Anti-Oedipus, but their speculations about non-heteronormative kinship practices have rarely been addressed in Deleuze studies and are yet to be taken up in the study of kinship and the family more generally. This paper is then the first to offer their work on the family to a general academic audience as a useful tool in polarised debates about contemporary family practices. It begins with a close reading of the relationship between desire, capitalism and the private nuclear family in Anti-Oedipus before extending the political use-value of this with the concept of the ‘majoritarian’ taken from A Thousand Plateaus. The second half of the paper brings Deleuze and Guattari into engagement with the larger critical field of kinship studies as an entry point into topical debates about the ‘normative’ family and its alternatives.	en_US
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dc.title	Reconsidering Kinship: Beyond the Nuclear Family with Deleuze and Guattari	en_US
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Abstract:

Deleuze and Guattari have often received attention for their criticisms of bourgeois families in Anti-Oedipus, but their speculations about non-heteronormative kinship practices have rarely been addressed in Deleuze studies and are yet to be taken up in the study of kinship and the family more generally. This paper is then the first to offer their work on the family to a general academic audience as a useful tool in polarised debates about contemporary family practices. It begins with a close reading of the relationship between desire, capitalism and the private nuclear family in Anti-Oedipus before extending the political use-value of this with the concept of the ‘majoritarian’ taken from A Thousand Plateaus. The second half of the paper brings Deleuze and Guattari into engagement with the larger critical field of kinship studies as an entry point into topical debates about the ‘normative’ family and its alternatives.

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