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Love Apocalypse: New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Editat de Alex J. Nelson, Victor C. De Munck Contribuţii de William Jankowiak, Heidi Härkönen, Shelly Volsche, Anna Romanowicz, Inés Torras, Mary Elena Wilhoit, Meghana Joshi, Birgit Herrmann, Erika R. Alpert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2026 – vârsta ani
Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-altering demographic shift, drawing on their research into the ways love, romantic relationships, and family are being transformed by cultural, social, and economic forces. Each case study in this volume examines a unique cultural context from either Asia (China, South Korea, Japan, India), Europe (Germany, Lithuania), or Latin America (Cuba, Peru), grounded in years of ethnographic research into how communities’ experiences and perceptions of love, marriage, and family are changing in response to economic precarity, shifting gender relations, status competition, and diversifying cultural norms. It is increasingly clear that marriage and two-parent nuclear families will not be the universal norm of the twenty-first century even if this arrangement was largely idealized a mere generation ago. However, this does not mean the end of love, intimacy, or family but rather its transformation and the emergence of new intimate relationships and adaptations to the challenges and opportunities of life in the twenty-first century.
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ISBN-13: 9781978847675
ISBN-10: 197884767X
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 3 color and 3 B-W images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts


Notă biografică

ALEX J. NELSON is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Indianapolis. His research explores the ethnology of romantic love, erotic entrepreneurship in commercial sexual economies, and the transformation of love, marriage, and gender relations in South Korea, where he has been conducting ethnographic field research since 2013.
VICTOR C. DE MUNCK is a professor of anthropology at Vilnius University in the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies. He has conducted field work in Sri Lanka, Macedonia, Lithuania, Russia, and the US He is the author of Romantic Love in America (2019) and coauthor of Cultural Models (2014).
WILLIAM JANKOWIAK is a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has authored more than 124 articles/book chapters and nine books (five edited). His research is conducted primarily in Northern China and in the US. His most recent book is Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community (2023).

Cuprins

Series Foreword by Péter Berta ix
Introduction: Global Concerns About Marriage and
Fertility Decline 1
ALEX J. NELSON, VICTOR C. DE MUNCK,
AND WILLIAM JANKOWIAK
PART ONE
Transformations of Intimacy:
Individualization and Declines
in Marriage and Fertility
1 Gendered Obstacles of Love and Fertility in
Contemporary
Cuba 23
HEIDI HÄRKÖNEN
2 Love’s Fallout: Fertility Decline and the Individualization
of Intimacy in South Korea
43
ALEX J. NELSON
3 China’s Independent
Women
and the Decline in Fertility 66
WILLIAM JANKOWIAK AND SHELLY VOLSCHE
4 Individual Choice? On the Rise of Love and the Decline
of Fertility in Urban Middle-Class
India 87
ANNA ROMANOWICZ
5 From Courtship to Contingent Intimacies in Lithuania:
Love Nomads and Porous Dyads 109
VICTOR C. DE MUNCK AND INES TORRAS
PART TWO
Intimate Innovations: Emerging Adaptations
to the Individualization of Intimacy
6 Women’s
Householding
in the Rural Andes:
Othermothering, Chosen Families, and Demographic
Transition 133
MARY ELENA WILHOIT
7 Becoming Childless in Reunified Berlin: Narratives of
Low Fertility and Emergent Intimacies in Berlin 155
MEGHANA JOSHI
8 Choosing a World of Two: Childfree Intimacies in
Contemporary
Urban China 177
BIRGIT HERRMANN
9 Seeking a Spouse at the End of the World: “Marriage
Hunting” and Neoliberal Capitalism in Japan 196
ERIKA R. ALPERT
Notes on Contributors 217
Index 000

Recenzii

"Drawing on rich ethnographic research from diverse global contexts, Love Apocalypse reveals how transformations in intimacy are driving declines in marriage and fertility while giving rise to new forms of family life. This timely collection offers fresh insights into cultural and socioeconomic forces shaping fertility decline and shifting configurations of intimate relations."

"An excellent collection of case studies from a variety of world areas. The distinction of this volume is that it offers a broad sweep of variables in considering marriage delays and fertility challenges in societies around the world and brings the issue of delayed/non-marriage, declining fertility, and new intimacies up to date. Convincingly argued and thought-provoking, Love Apocalypse offers timely insights into these pressing issues."

Descriere

Marriage and fertility are declining all around the world, threatening to upend our economic and social systems. The authors of this book explain why and how new possibilities of intimacy are transforming the world from China and South Korea to Germany, India, Cuba and Peru.