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(Suffering) For The Family - The Mediated Structure Of Feeling Among The Rural Elderly In Post-Reform China

by Hao Wu

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 From the vantage point of rural grandparentsâ€™ mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media.
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Lives In Motion - The Transnational Making Of Population Between Morocco And Italy

by Francesca Decimo

~~43,71€~~ 39,34€ 10% OFF

 This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations.
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Queer Kinship And Comparative Literature - New Approaches

~~184,84€~~ 166,36€ 10% OFF

 This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinshipâ€"encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individuals choose (or are compelled) to establishâ€"through its representation in literature over time and across cultural contexts.
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Mobility, Agency, Kinship - Representations Of Migration Beyond Victimhood

~~158,99€~~ 143,09€ 10% OFF

 <p>This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive victims. It provides one of the first investigations that assembles multidisciplinary contributions to look beyond individual acts of migrant agency and toward the entanglements of individual and collective agency, formations of kinship structures, and feelings, expressions, and representations of community and (multiple) belonging(s).<br><br>The contributions explore the interplay between agency, kinship, and migration from various fields, including sociology, psychology, philosophy, border studies, gender and queer studies, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, film and media studies, and literary and cultural studies - with a special focus on interdisciplinary narrative theory. They address real and imagined assertions of migrant agency and kinship formations; draw on empirical research, interviews, and accounts of lived experiences; and analyze the role of narrative, media, and technologies in artistic, literary, and cinematic representations of migrant agency and kinship. By probing migrant identity discourses in different cultural and medial contexts, the contributions examine how narratives negotiate and challenge the unequal distribution of mobility, resources, and vulnerability that preconfigures many migrant lives; they also discuss narrative devices, storytelling techniques, and other representational strategies that migrants employ, as well as technologies that they draw on, to lay powerful claims on space and citizenship and to eschew established scripts of victimhood. As such, the volume addresses and embraces the tensions between vulnerability and agency that come to the fore when we try to understand the different ways in which migrants shape, and are shaped by, their (trans)local, material, economic, affective, social, cultural, and political realities. </p>
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Hidden Lives Of Big Beautiful Women

by Crystal Kotow

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW "bashes"—multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of feminist theories of embodiment and affect, the project is guided by autoethnography and in-depth interviews with twelve participants. Participant experiences are first analyzed with a key focus on experiences that cause grief and disenfranchisement; subsequently, the book looks at experiences that may be radical or revelatory. The book does not seek to either villainize or valorize BBW spaces but instead sheds a bright light on the experience of this cultural subspace and all it may offer to analyses of fat life.
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Kinship In The Age Of Mobility And Technology - Migrant Family Mobilities In The Contemporary Global Novel

by Lamia Tayeb

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 This volume aims to address kinship in the context of global mobility, while studying the effects of technological developments throughout the 20th century on how individuals and communities engage in real or imagined relationships. Using literary representations as a spectrum to examine kinship practices, Lamia Tayeb explores how transnational mobility, bi-culturalism and cosmopolitanism honed, to some extent, the relevant authors’ concerns with the family and wider kinship relations: in these literatures, kinship and the family lose their familiar, taken-for-granted aspect, and yet are still conceived as ‘essential’ spheres of relatedness for uprooted individuals and communities. Tayeb here studies writings by Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini and Nadia Hashimi, working to understand how transnational kinship dynamics operate when moved beyond the traditional notions of the blood relationship, relationship to place and identification with community.
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Creative Families - Gender And Technologies Of Everyday Life

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 First, it addresses creativity in the context of the family, by exploring changing and newly emergent family forms and ways of creating and maintaining intimate relationships.
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The Melancholy Of Kinship In Post-Reform China And Postcolonial Literature

by Yawen Li

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Queer Kinship And Comparative Literature - New Approaches

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