The Politics of Family Secrecy
A Research Blog
Martina Koegeler-Abdi Anecdotes, gossip, and hearsay are not sources in a scholarly sense. However, we should not entirely dismiss or ignore that they may play a role in informal knowledge production that can shape researchers’ relations to their subjects— for better or worse. As researchers looking into the politics of family secrecy in 20th century …
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By Caroline Nyvang & Karen Vallgårda During the final 2020 presidential debate, Donald J. Trump brought up the son of his opponent, Joe Biden. Once again, Trump accused Hunter Biden of wrongdoings in Ukraine and China and then alluded to Hunter’s bouts with addiction. Biden responded to the allegations by declaring, “It’s not about his …
Keeping secrets All families have secrets, from the innocent to the deeply sinister. Are there good reasons to keep them under wraps? Read here this new publication by Karen Vallgårda
Guest post by Johanna Sköld, Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal and Klara Andersson. Child Studies Unit, Department of Thematic Studies and the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. E-mail: johanna.skold@liu.se In her famous work Dust: Archive and the Cultural History (2001), Carolyn Steedman stated that “the Historian who goes to the Archive must always …
Reflections on Family Secrecy around Danish German Children Born of War Martina Koegeler-Abdi Danish mothers often hid the identity of a biological father from their child, if the father in question was a German soldier during the WWII Occupation. Even as adults many of these children born of war (chibows) did not know about their …
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