• Login
    View Item 
    •   Maryland Shared Open Access Repository Home
    • KnowledgeWorks@UBalt
    • UBalt Faculty Scholarship
    • View Item
    •   Maryland Shared Open Access Repository Home
    • KnowledgeWorks@UBalt
    • UBalt Faculty Scholarship
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration

    Thumbnail
    Files
    Orphan Myths and Public Administration.pdf (272.6Kb)
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/11603/194
    Collections
    • UBalt Faculty Scholarship
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Author/Creator
    Edlins, Mariglynn
    Date
    2015
    Type of Work
    Text
    Subjects
    public administration
    children
    popular culture
    Abstract
    Children who are separated from their parents, whether temporarily or permanently, become dependent on representatives of the state to make the day-to-day decisions of their care. In these interactions with vulnerable children, these representatives rely on their own discretion to guide them in how to approach the children they are responsible for. What stories exist that might influence how street-level bureaucrats think about children who are separated from their parents? What narratives might inform the discretion and judgment they use in their work? In this paper, I explore the narratives of superhero stories, romance novels, and horror films in order to identify the orphan archetypes they portray and consider how these myths might impact the interactions between orphans and public administrators.


    Robert L. Bogomolny Library
    University of Baltimore
    1420 Maryland Ave.
    Baltimore, MD 21201
    Email: knowledgeworks@ubalt.edu


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.

     

     

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Browse

    This CollectionBy Issue DateTitlesAuthorsSubjectsType

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics


    Robert L. Bogomolny Library
    University of Baltimore
    1420 Maryland Ave.
    Baltimore, MD 21201
    Email: knowledgeworks@ubalt.edu


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.