Critical Adoption Studies 'At the very center': A Conversation with John McLeod

In this conversation, John McLeod and Emily Hipchen discuss how adoption is to be found at the center of wider social and historical circumstances (and in literature, which represents them). Adoption exposes to critique assumptions about class, race, kinship, family-making, gender, and biocentric relations. Unfamilied and adoptable people are not historically exceptional and Critical Adoption Studies for the same reasons is not peripheral to the arts and humanities. We've never been niche. We've always been necessary.