Arranged Marriage

The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2282-5 (ISBN)

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Shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures.

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women.

PÉTER BERTA is an honorary research associate at University College London SSEES and a senior research fellow at Budapest Business School. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, and the founding editor of The Politics of Marriage and Gender book series at Rutgers University Press.

Series Foreword
PÉTER BERTA

Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage–
From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency
PÉTER BERTA

PART ONE
Regulating Arranged Marriage

1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage
Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage
SERENA PETRELLA

2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters:
The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians
NOORFARAH MERALI

PART TWO
(Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage

3 Arranged Marriage as a Process:
From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged
Divorce and Arranged Remarriage
PÉTER BERTA

4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia
HELENA ZEWERI

5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based
Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent
CHRISTINA JULIOS

PART THREE
Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage

6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among
Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach
YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE

7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt:
Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China
PAN WANG

PART FOUR
Modernizing Arranged Marriage

8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India:
Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility
SHALINI GROVER

9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and
the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka
ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA

10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage
Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel
SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK

PART FIVE
Diasporizing Arranged Marriage

11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in
Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians
RAKSHA PANDE

12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the
South Asian Diaspora in Chicago
FARHA TERNIKAR

Afterword
MARIAN AGUIAR

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Co-Autor	Asha L. Abeyasekera, Marian Aguiar, Péter Berta, Shalini Grover
Zusatzinfo	3 color illustrations, 4 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	64 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2282-0 / 1978822820
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2282-5 / 9781978822825
Zustand	Neuware