![]() | Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Subjects: Arranged marriage -- South Asia; Arranged marriage -- Great Britain; Arranged marriage -- United States; Arranged marriage -- Canada; South Asians -- Great Britain; South Asians -- United States; South Asians -- Canada; The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context Aguiar interprets depictions of South Asian arranged marriage to show we are in a moment of conjugal globalization, identifying how narratives about arranged marriage bear upon questions of consent, agency, state power, and national belonging. Aguiar argues that these discourses illuminate deep divisions in the processes of globalization constructed on a fault line between individualist and collectivist agency and in the process, critiques neoliberal celebrations of "culture as choice" that attempt to bridge that separation. Aguiar advocates situating arranged marriage discourses within their social and material contexts so as to see past reductive notions of culture and grasp the global forces mediating increasingly polarized visions of agency. Marian Aguiar is associate professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility (Minnesota, 2011). |
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