The awkward spaces of fathering

Introduction The awkward spaces of fathering Modes of encounter The poetics of becoming other Partially remembered stories Ethnopoetry and everyday emotions Embodied collective memory Spatial framing Differentiated spatial stories of fathering PART I FRAMING Fathering frames: some histories and geographies Forgotten histories and geographies of fathering An attack on patriarchy and praise for passion Fathers are citizens like everybody else, just older and richer Contingent fathering and the communal household Ideological Fatigue Recovering fatherhood The emotional work of fathering The domestication of difference and the non-representation of fathers A more productive politics PART II CLOSING IN Cinematic landscapes and leaking bodies Thumbnail sketches The face of the dead father Embodying fatherhood The skin is f than the word Facades and expressions Embodiment as illness and remedy The inevitable father Oral trajectories "Fatherhood was just something I expected" Throwntogetherness The nature of fathering and other awkward emotions Stretching the imagination Naming the father Affective fathering The power of repetitions and becoming other

PART III MOVING

Tactics, strategies and lines of flight

Moving journeys

A journey across Texas

Tender mappings

A journey from and to Texas

The awkward journeys of fathering

Migrant moves

Un buen padre es hombnre pero no macho

Elsewhere and otherwise

Movement and reproduction

Covert cultural norms

Movement and emotional unfoldings

Truth is revealed only by giving space or giving place to non-truth

Los hombres

Re-situating boundaries

PART IV STOPPING

Geographic solutions and trials by space

The trouble with space

Spatial search

The coming community

Punctured domesticity

Mapping the domestic

A final destination

Utopian imaginaries

Searching beyond the suburban idyll

Father as superhero

Broaching the leaks

Coming home

Mobile geographies of home

Dwelling as a political event in space

The spacing of fathering relations

Moving on

Conclusion: fathers beside themselves

Becoming father

Comning communities.