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Distant Love - Personal Life in the Global Age' (Paperback, New)
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Distant Love - Personal Life in the Global Age' (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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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.
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