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Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan

Sargent, Christine

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Series: Medical Anthropology

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1978841027
ISBN13: 9781978841024
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for understanding broader family dynamics and choices, the book argues that practices and ideologies of care play a central role in making Down syndrome's embodied and political realities. They do so through the momentum of kinship futures, or futures imagined through the prism of kinship roles and relations, which shape how families organize and distribute care between and beyond kinship networks and under conditions of economic and political uncertainty. By approaching everyday life in Jordan through the lens of disability, Making Down Syndrome offers new insights into how people navigate structures of family, gender, power, inequality, and precarity, all while trying to maintain hope for and cultivate better futures.

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