家庭技术:摄影与亚洲跨国收养中的亲属关系形成

IF 0.5 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI:10.1353/aq.2022.0063

L. Johnson

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摘要：本文从理论上阐述了转介摄影在亚洲跨国收养中亲属关系的形成和种族化中的作用。由于这种做法在国内和跨国收养中都有使用，来自亚洲的收养提供了一个案例研究，可以了解像摄影这样的系统如何发挥作用，我称之为一种家庭技术，它不仅有潜力记录或代表亲属关系，而且有潜力以新的种族化方式积极参与其构建。本文利用来自中国的收养档案，以及韩国被收养人Deann Borshay Liem的电影《Cha Jung Hee的事》，分析了在亲属关系形成过程中扮演特殊角色的推荐照片，这种角色有助于孩子在情感上融入家庭，同时在可交换的体系中对孩子进行种族化。我还展示了这些照片是如何超越最初的功能来发现新形式的“收养”亲属关系的。

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A Technology of Family: Photography and Kinship Formation in Transnational Adoption from Asia

Abstract:This essay theorizes the role of referral photography, photographs sent to prospective adoptive parents upon assignment of a child, in the formation and racialization of kinship within transnational adoption from Asia. Because the practice is used across domestic and transnational adoption, adoption from Asia offers a case study for which to understand how systems like photography can function as, what I call, a technology of family that has the potential not only to record or represent kinship but also to actively participate in its construction in new and racializing ways. Using archival accounts of adoption from China alongside Korean adoptee Deann Borshay Liem's film In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, this essay analyzes referral photographs as narrative objects that perform a particular role in the kinship formation process, one that facilitates the affective inclusion of the child into the family while racializing the child within a system of interchangeability. I also show how these photographs can be used beyond their initial function to discover new forms of "adoptive" kinship.

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期刊介绍： American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.