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Id like to see adoption and kinship studies persistently question the stilldominant framing of reproductive politics in terms of choice. Shelley Park Normativity and Belonging Reflections about Critical Adoption Studies Formations Adoption Kinship and Culture In the past two decades the study of adoption and culture has developed rapidly as a scholarly publishing field in the humanities and social sciences. An interdisciplinary series Formations Adoption Kinship and Culture seeks to foster and accelerate this growth by gathering diverse works in one place for heightened visibility and more centralized interactions. The series welcomes scholarship across various disciplines that have a stake in using a variety of theoretical approaches that scholars have brought to studies of kinshipincluding trauma and affect critical race studies queer kinship womens studies literary close readings and archival research in the United States Canada Korea and Germany.