Mission and Cosmopolitan Mothering : Saving Armenian Mothers and Orphans, 1902-1947
(2017) In Social Sciences and Missions 30(1-2). p.44-73- Abstract
- This article discusses and analyzes mothering that crosses boundaries of care in spite of differences of nationality, culture and religion. Swedish missionary Alma Johansson was one of a remarkable number of women missionaries who volunteered as relief workers during the Armenian refugee crisis. These women missionaries were often seen as mothers who were ‘saving a whole generation’. The article shows how Johansson acted as an external mother and created transnational bonds of solidarity between Swedish and Armenian mothers. The close relationships became a foundation for Armenian children and women to help themselves. However, in this mothering were also ambivalences.
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- author
- Småberg, Maria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- humanitarianism, transnationalisme, mothering, maternage, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitisme, genre, humanitarisme, génocide arménien, Armenian Genocide, gender, transnationalism
- in
- Social Sciences and Missions
- volume
- 30
- issue
- 1-2
- pages
- 30 pages
- publisher
- Brill
- external identifiers
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- wos:000399013300004
- scopus:85016937570
- ISSN
- 1874-8937
- DOI
- 10.1163/18748945-03001007
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f980b274-df97-4dff-8bf6-a4fb5ee678c0
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- 2017-05-04 09:42:27
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