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Geographies of relatedness
Catherine Nash
This paper explores the analytic purchase and substantive concerns of what I am
which has reconsidered kinship as classificatory system and practice, and highlighting
the attentiveness to sites, scales and contexts within this work, I suggest ways in which
concern in human geography. I consider first the foundational status but flexible
meaning of 'blood' in kinship thinking, and the ways the flexibility of kinship can be
curtailed and its foundational status reinstated in relation to the nation and the state.
Second, I consider the geographies of relatedness that are constituted through and
difference, mapping human 'diversity' and defining personal, collective and human
connections move between and connect categories of relatedness with different sizes,
foundational, original or primal in the natural order of the social, to ideas of 'place of
origin': personal, national, ethnic, racialized, universal in their familiar and emergent
forms.
email: c.nash@qmul.ac.uk
Opening
ISSN 0020-2754 ? Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) 2005
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She writes:
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geography.
Natural families
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disrupted.
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asked.
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effects.
Mapping origins
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differentiated effects.
human origins and difference, population genetiAustralian state, but in the context of indigenous
Nash 2003).
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differentiate.
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racialization of relatedness.
To close
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Acknowledgements
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