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 […]
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Aeon essay on family secrecy
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
Letters Intended for Someone Else: Ethical Reflections on Access to Historical Experience in Private Collections
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 […]
Do Mothers have a Right to Secrecy rather than Privacy?
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 […]