Parenting as/in Crisis. Transcultural constructions of parenting and parenthood – A Report

In December 2023, the Centre for Culture and the Mind (DNRF Centre of Excellence) at the University of Copenhagen held a half-day workshop, where researchers from all across Denmark gathered together to discuss Parenting and Parenthood in crisis.
This workshop was informal, designed to generate new ideas and collaborations around parenting as a central part of the immigrant, refugee and ethnic minorities' experience, and a key site of cultural difference and cross-cultural understanding. It gathered a cross-disciplinary group of scholars who engaged with conceptualizations and ideologies of parenting and childhood, parental child healthcare, family violence, responsibility, and mental illnesses in different socio-cultural contexts, from anthropological, historical, linguistic, literary, psychological and psychiatric perspectives.