Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora - Couverture rigide

Pande, Raksha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813599644 ISBN 13 : 9780813599649

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as "modern and progressive migrants"-ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RAKSHA PANDE is a lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University in the UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813599644
• ISBN 13: 9780813599649
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 154
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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