Contributor
Berta, Péter, 1972- editor.
ImprintNew Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
Descriptionx, 264 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: conceptualizing arranged marriage: From binary oppositions to hybridity, processuality, and contextual dependency / Péter Berta -- Part one. Regulating arranged marriage -- Nothing "celestial" about it: trafficking underage brides between Canada and the United States for the purposes of arranged marriage / Serena Petrella -- From family safety net to the World Wide Web of immigration fraudsters: The evolution of arranged marriages among South Asian Canadians / Noorfarah Merali -- Part two. (Re)Conceptualizing arranged marriage -- Arranged marriage as a process: From premarital normalization of arranged marriage to arranged divorce and arranged remarriage / Péter Berta -- Configuring arranged marriage as a foil to forced marriage in multicultural Australia / Helena Zeweri -- Forced marriage and "honor"-based violence in Britain: issues, debates, and the question of consent / Christina Julios -- Part three. Revitalizing and reinventing arranged marriage -- Revisiting transnational arranged marriages among Syrian refugees in Germany: a relational approach / Yafa Shanneik and Schirin Vahle -- From patriarchal call to digital hunt: Transforming "arranged marriages" in China / Pan Wang -- Part four. Modernizing arranged marriage -- Family-arranged marriages in globalizing India: Shifting scripts of desire, infidelity, and emotional compatibility / Shalini Grover -- Progressive traditions, repressive Victorians, and the modern present: arranged marriage and gender in Sri Lanka / Asha L. Abeyasekera -- "I wanted to choose for myself": changing marriage patterns in the ultra-orthodox society in Israel / Sima Zalcberg Block -- Part five. Diasporizing arranged marriage -- Wedded to tradition? Continuity and change in arranged marriage practices among British Indians / Raksha Pande -- The changing face of arranged marriage in the South Asian diaspora in Chicago / Farha Ternikar -- Afterword / Marian Aguiar.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
