Description
Book Synopsis 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.’
Trade Review “There are some unique and important discussions [in this book] that I have not seen elaborated elsewhere and certainly not brought together in one place.” • Heide Castañeda, University of South Florida
Table of Contents Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Raum and Ruhe: Creating “Child-Friendly” Spaces in “Child-Unfriendly” Berlin
Chapter 2. Let Me through, I am the Kinderwagenmafia: “Swabian Mothers” and Conspicuous Reproduction in Reunified Berlin
Chapter 3. Constituting the Childless: Narratives of Reproductive Exclusions, and Belonging in Reunified Berlin~
Chapter 4. Becoming Fathers in a Child-Friendlier Germany: Active Fatherhood, Male Infertility and the Labor of Paternity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
