Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Changing Kin and Security Networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Risseeuw, Carla I. und Kamala Ganesh:

ISBN 10: 0761992707 / ISBN 13: 9780761992707

Published by SAGE PUBN, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Changing Kin and Security Networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
• Publisher: SAGE PUBN
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761992707
• ISBN 13: 9780761992707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Befriedigend
• Weight: 522 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Romane/Erzählungen: Erzählungen, Romane, Essays

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Synopsis

An AltaMira Press Book

Deviating significantly from the existing discourses on family and kinship, this volume of original essays (a companion to SHIFTING CIRCLES OF SUPPORT, AltaMira Press, 1996) offers a fresh conceptualization which views individuals and, then, relationships as crucial elements.Through a combination of macro and micro perspectives, it provides a comparative and gendered analysis of shifts within marriage, family kin and social networks of people who live in societies undergoing substantial change in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The analysis develops a critique of certain hegemonic qualities of the term "family," its supposedly unchanging character, as well as its assumed harmonious nature. In fact, the family is viewed as a primary social arena where relationships are constantly renegotiated and which, while providing valuable security and support, also contains exploitation and violence. Overall, the volume articulates a fresh approach to kinship and family through which subtle erosions in the security of vulnerable individuals--not only women, but also children and the elderly--can be uncovered. It highlights the importance of the comparative perspective and the urgency of adopting such an approach for policy initiatives.

About the Author

Carla Risseeuw is in the Department of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Leiden. Kamala Ganesh is in the Department of Sociology, University of Bombay, Mumbai.