William Muth

Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry (eBook, ePUB)

Presencing as a Framework and Method

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry: Presencing as a Framework and Method asks scholars, policy makers, advocates, and practitioners to rethink family reentry in a new light, to seek to understand both the urgent and intolerable loss as well as the real and present potential of families. There are almost one million parents of minor-aged children currently serving time in U.S. prisons-most of them fathers. Based on post-phenomenological analyses, William Muth offers a new framework for conceptualizing family reentry as a present phenomenon. It seeks to reveal the intense ways incarcerated fathers and their families live their present-absence, and draws on these intensities to define a new role for researchers and practitioners: nurturing the potential of families in the here and now. The current situation is intolerable. A credible family reentry approach is urgently needed. This book is an attempt to address these families as they potentially are, and might become, if we would be willing to "meet them half-way," in the words of the poet Alice Fulton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498547796
• Artikelnr.: 56797893

Autorenporträt

William Muth is professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Presencing of Families
1. Sleepwalking or Wide Awake?
2. The Context of Family Absence and Presence
3. Presencing: Framework as Method
4. Being Father
5. Becoming Family
6. The Potentiality of Being and Becoming
7. Futurity as False Policy
8. Family Presence in European Prisons
9. Family Presence in American Prisons
Conclusion: Ten Postulates for Family Presencing