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Academic Articles
‘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.
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