TY - JOUR AU - Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine PY - 2009/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - HJEM UDEN BØRN JF - Tidsskriftet Antropologi JA - TA VL - 0 IS - 59/60 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/ta.v0i59/60.106838 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskriftetantropologi/article/view/106838 SP - AB - <p align="LEFT">This article explores how childless men and women in Denmark connect their</p><p align="LEFT">longings for children and their purchase of a house with notions of home and</p><p align="LEFT">kinship. It investigates thereby how their stories about hopes and longings for</p><p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">children stage and con</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">fi </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">gure relationships between materiality and sociality. I draw</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">primarily upon an ethnographic study of inter</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">fi </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">le men and women in Denmark in</span></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">the late nineties and their encounter with procreative technologies. The </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">fi </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: medium;">eldwork</span></p><p align="LEFT">was centred on three local groups of the National Association for Involuntary</p><p align="LEFT">Childless. Taking part in their meetings and social gatherings over a period of</p><p align="LEFT">two years gave me an opportunity to obtain insights in how infertility affected</p><p align="LEFT">and challenged their lives and plans, and it opened a window to a multi-faceted</p><p align="LEFT">understanding of kinship in Denmark. This article thus focuses on the material</p><p align="LEFT">dimensions of kinship and relatedness from a childless perspective. The childless</p><p align="LEFT">people are in a particular empirical position because what they think and</p><p align="LEFT">say about children and family life exists primarily as hopes, longings and future</p><p align="LEFT">projections. The aspirations for children nevertheless contain things and materiality</p><p align="LEFT">and they epitomize how physicality, locality, dwelling, things and consumer</p><p align="LEFT">goods are part and parcel of kinship thinking.</p><p>Keywords: Kinship, involuntary childlessness, things, house/home.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -