The Relationship People (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD, 2022

1498594204 / 9781498594202

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Hardcover. Japan has often been portrayed as a mysterious, sexless, troubled land. Birth rates and marriage rates have been decreasing for decades, and national surveys show that Japanese people are simply having less sex overall. But Japan is not so different from anywhere elseits simply on the leading edge of worldwide demographic shifts. Because of rigid norms around gender, marriage, childbearing, and work, and relatively strict immigration policies, Japan is also experiencing these shifts more acutely. In The Relationship People, Erika R. Alpert starts by exploring some of the factors that have contributed to later and less marriage and childbearing in Japan and elsewhere. Alpert then goes on to explore the disjuncture between what Japanese singles report as preventing them from getting married and popularly proposed solutions to this problem. Japanese singles point to economic factors, such as low income, as one of their most significant barriers to marriage. However, much of the popular discourse aimed at Japanese singles elides these economic concerns; instead, it encourages them to exert more personal effort to meet people in order to get married. These marriage activities (konkatsu) may take the form of signing up with a professional matchmaker, using an online dating site, or going to singles parties. By examining konkatsu from the perspective of matchmakers, clients, and online daters, Alpert looks at the linguistic processes of connection that underpin konkatsu and its successesor more often, failures. Institutions of matchmaking and technological structures such as databases and online profiles give shape to the ways singles connect. As this research shows, understanding this linguistic connective tissue enables us to answer questions about what constitutes attractive and marriageable in Japan, what kind of consciousness konkatsu is supposed to instill in singles, and what role Japans various partner matching industries might be able to play in alleviating the countrys demographic crisis. The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry professionals are promoting to ease Japans low rates of marriage and childbirth, what singles are actually doing, and whether focusing on introducing more singles to each other can effectively solve Japans millennial woes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
The Relationship People (Hardcover)
Auteur
Erika R. Alpert
Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD
Année de publication
2022
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1498594204
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781498594202

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