ISBN:
9780745679921
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (190 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.85
Schlagwort(e):
Families
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call 'world families', by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- 1: Globalization of Love and Intimacy: The Rise of World Families -- 1 Comedies and Tragedies of Distant Love -- 2 The Landscape of World Families -- 3 World Families Turn Established Notions Upside Down -- 4 Towards a Definition of 'World Families' -- 2: Two Countries, One Couple: Tales of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding -- 1 Do 'Mixed Relationships' Differ from Others? -- 2 Lives in Transition -- 3 Decoding Intercultural Differences -- 4 Rediscovering the Roots -- 3: Love Has Two Enemies: Distance and Closeness -- 1 The Social Anatomy of Distant Love -- 2 Lost in Translation -- 3 Love, Marriage and Happiness: Multiplied, Divided, Inverted and Recombined -- 4: Cosmopolitan Communities of Fate -- 1 Fresh Kidneys, or Global Inequality Embodied -- 2 The Power of Capital -- 3 Outsourcing Jobs -- 4 Competing World Religions -- 5 Climate Change: A Threat to Humanity -- 6 Risk Communities as Imagined Communities -- 7 The Cosmopolitanization of Everyday Life -- 5: Intimate Migrations: Women Marrying for a Better Life -- 1 Dreams of Migration Versus Barriers to Migration -- 2 Border Artists -- 3 Commercial Matchmaking -- 4 Matchmaking Via Transnational Family Networks -- 5 Tragic Stories: Migrants as Victims -- 6 More Tragic Stories: Migrants as Perpetrators -- 7 What Future? -- 6: Love Displaced: Migrant Mothers -- 1 A New Wave of Economic Migration -- 2 Living in the Shadows -- 3 Broken Care Chains -- 4 Motherly Love and Other Emotions -- 5 Asymmetrical Gains -- 7: Male Hegemony in Decline? Why Women Gain Power in World Families -- 1 Geographies of Migration -- 2 Strategies for Choosing a Partner -- 3 Different Horizons -- 4 Loss and Gain -- 8: Transnational Family Networks: Winners of Globalization? -- 1 Are Transnational Family Enterprises Anachronistic?.
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