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‘Is this a joke?’ Exploring how care experienced people feel their way through inheritance and what their emotions ‘do’,

Delyth Edwards & Rosie Canning

2023

The article explores how care-experienced people navigate the emotions tied to inheritance. Inheritance is often a way of making or unmaking family bonds, yet for care-experienced people it frequently provokes exclusion, loss, and anger, as seen in social media responses. The authors argue that inheritance acts as a source of feeling for this group, who, though marginalized in conventional inheritance practices, use their emotions to reimagine and create alternative forms of inheritance. Drawing on Ahmed’s notion of “what emotions do,” the article shows how care-experienced people transform feelings of being othered into new ways of forging inheritance.

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


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