Children Are Everywhere - Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin

Children are Everywhere engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of social inclusion and exclusion in a low fertility Western European context. This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of 'ethnic' Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities. This is the first ethnographic work by a South Asian author on demographic anxieties and reproduction in Germany and reverses the anthropological gaze to study Europe as the 'Other.'

About the author

Meghana Joshi has been Clinical Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York since 2018. She is an ethnographer of reproduction, childlessness and masculinity. Her research interests include demographic anthropology and parenting.

Product details

• Authors: Meghana Joshi
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2023
• EAN: 9781805391661
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-166-1
• No. of pages: 177
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, Population & demography, Population and Demography