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Reece, Koreen:
“The wife is the mother of the husband” : Marriage, Crisis, and (Re)Generation in Botswana's Pandemic Times.
In: Comparative Studies in Society and History.
(24 März 2025)
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- S. 1-23.
ISSN 1475-2999
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417525000040
Abstract
Forty years into Botswana’s AIDS epidemic, amidst persistently low rates of marriage across southern Africa, an unexpected uptick in weddings appears to be afoot. Young people orphaned in the worst years of the epidemic are crafting creative paths to marriage where—and perhaps because—their parents could not. Taking the lead of a pastor’s assertion that the wife is mother of her husband, I suggest these conjugal creativities turn on an understanding of marriage as an intergenerational relationship. Casting marriage in intergenerational terms is an act of ethical (re)imagination that creates experimental possibilities for reworking personhood, pasts, and futures in ways that respond closely to the specific crises and loss the AIDS epidemic brought to Botswana. This experimentation is highly unpredictable and may reproduce the crisis and loss to which it responds; the multivalences of marriage-as-motherhood can be sources of failure and violence, as well as innovation and life. But it also recuperates and reorients intergenerational relationships, retrospectively and prospectively, regenerating persons and relations, in time. While different crises might invite different sorts of ethical re-imagination, marriage gives us a novel perspective on how people live with, and through, times of crisis. And marriage emerges as a crucial if often overlooked practice by which social change is not only managed but sought and produced.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie Profilfelder > Advanced Fields > Afrikastudien |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Eingestellt am: | 08 Apr 2025 06:36 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 08 Apr 2025 06:36 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/93244 |