Märchen aus aller Welt

Im Zusammenhang mit zwei anderen Vorträgen richtet die Anthropologin Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Istanbul) ihren Blick auf Vaterschaft und Männlichkeiten.
This lecture presents a chunk of my on-going research in Germany, where I had been working with fathers with a migration background from Turkey. Situated at the intersection between the new fatherhood debate and the migration from Turkey to Germany, today's presentation focuses on different responses to and experiences of masculinity and fatherhood as they are extracted and interpreted in the framework of an intersubjective dialogue. Specifically, while maintaining an inter-generational perspective, I aim to analyze the subjective accounts of fathers and the ways in which they respond to different claims of the politics of fatherhood and masculinity vis-à-vis the German State, NGOs and fatherhood programs, cultural, social and religious contexts, both in Germany and in Turkey.