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In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often
pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and
scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of
younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the
greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this
perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are
constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how
they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The
aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to
aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future,
preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and
self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in
Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different
regions of the world, offering original insights into how
aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued
in contexts of translocal mobility. This book is also freely
available online as an open-access digital edition.​
Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced
ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle
on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions
that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where
marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers
into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances
in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes
humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in
this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so
consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic
stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled,
does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across
diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America,
this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they
escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.
In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often
pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and
scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of
younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the
greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this
perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are
constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how
they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The
aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to
aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future,
preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and
self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in
Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different
regions of the world, offering original insights into how
aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued
in contexts of translocal mobility. This book is also freely
available online as an open-access digital edition.​
In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common.
However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined
significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when
only few marry. Although marriage rates have dropped sharply, the
value of weddings and marriages has not. To marry has become an
indicator of upper-class status that less affluent people aspire
to. Using the appropriation of marriage by a rural Namibian elite
as a case study, the book tells the entwined stories of class
formation and marriage decline in post-apartheid Namibia.
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