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"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, international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women"--264

Why hasn't polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures, and laws affecting marriage, and situates polygamy within structures of inequality that shape marital options, especially for young Malian women. Through an approach of cultural relativism, the book offers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested form of marriage. Without shying away from questions of patriarchy and women's oppression, it presents polygamy from the everyday vantage points of Bamako residents themselves, allowing readers to make informed judgments about it and to appreciate the full spectrum of human cultural diversity

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Transcription Symbols -- Series Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About -- 3. Atrocity Stories about Divorce -- 4. Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown -- 5. Being Responsible: Providing for Family -- 6. Doing Responsibility: Caring for Family -- 7. Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis -- 8. Regendering Somaliness in the British Context -- 9. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

Winner of the 2021 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award from the American Association of Geographers​ 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist - Politics and Social Sciences Intimate Geopolitics begins with a love story set in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India's Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is also a story about territory, and the ways that love, marriage, and young people are caught up in contemporary global processes. In Ladakh, children grow up to adopt a religious identity in part to be counted in the census, and to vote in elections. Religion, population, and voting blocs are implicitly tied to territorial sovereignty and marriage across religious boundaries becomes a geopolitical problem in an area that seeks to define insiders and outsiders in relation to borders and national identity. This book populates territory, a conventionally abstract rendering of space, with the stories of those who live through territorial struggle at marriage and birth ceremonies, in the kitchen and in the bazaar, in heartbreak and in joy. Intimate Geopolitics argues for the incorporation of the role of time-temporality-into our understanding of territory

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Living and Loving in North India -- PART ONE. Localizing Marriage -- 1. Civil Marriage in Postindependence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea -- 2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens -- 3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World -- PART TWO. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Postagrarian North India -- 4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions -- 5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions -- 6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change through Conformity -- PART THREE. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Livable Future -- 7. Toward an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility -- Conclusion: Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After? -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Sinhala Marriage: Then and Now -- 2. Making the "Right" Choice -- 3. Structuring the "Right" Choice -- 4. The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages -- 5. The Valued Self: Singleness -- 6. The Vindicated Self: Divorce -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

"How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture--such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories--play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects--defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania--is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption."--

Muslim marriages have been the focus of considerable public debate in Europe and beyond, in Muslim-majority countries as well as in settings where Muslims are a minority. Most academic work has focused on how the majority Sunni Muslims conclude marriages. This volume, in contrast, focuses on Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. The volume makes an original contribution to understanding the global dynamics of Shi'a marriage practices in a wide range of contexts--not only its geographical spread but also by providing a critical analysis of the socio-economic, religious, ethnic, and political discourses of each context. The book sheds light on new marriage forms presented through a bottom up approach focusing on the lived experiences of Shi'a Muslims negotiating a diverse range of relationships and forms of belonging

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights -- PART ONE. Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management -- 1. The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930-2020) -- 2. "A Necessary Evil"? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974-1993 -- 3. "All the Time, Hard Time": Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants -- PART TWO. Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights -- 4. What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark -- 5. "I'm Not a Bad Guy, I Swear": Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men's Participation in "Fake Wedding" Arrangements -- 6. Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights -- PART THREE. Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies -- 7. Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada -- 8. Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France -- 9. He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations -- PART FOUR. Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy -- 10. "I Don't Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore": Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility -- 11. Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan -- 12. Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State -- 13. Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index