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Care and Resistance
Author(s) -
Mody Perveez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12301
Subject(s) - kinship , perspective (graphical) , resistance (ecology) , ethnography , sociology , gender studies , set (abstract data type) , kinship care , anthropology , ecology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology , programming language
Summary I consider the ways in which acts of kinship among British South Asians such as the suitable arrangement of a child’s marriage can be rejected by the child as an act of care and reframed as acts of force. Drawing on ethnographic research with people who have experienced “forced marriage,” I examine the processes through which they come to re‐examine the meanings of kinship and care from their own perspective and through their own life course. I argue that acts of care are not stable givens but rather constitute a constantly shifting set of configurations evolving through changing life experiences.