Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Books

Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways in which Western bishops and theologians during the first millennium A.D. affirmed that marriage is holy condition, and it shows how the doctrine of indissolubility both dominated and limited the Western Church's conception of marriage. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.Trade Review'...the laws of Caesar are different from the laws of Christ'. The book by Reynolds is a scholarly contribution to mapping out this difference.' Robert Ombres OP, , 1995. 'La création d'une liturgie de noces à l'époque carolingienne aurait fortement contribué à la consolidation de cette théologie.' I.Z.B.G., 1993-1994. '...Reynolds...has presented a very valuable survey with a plenitude of detailed insights and information.' Bernd Wannenwetsch, Studies in Christian Ethics. 'Reynolds' account of Augustine and the Western tradition is balanced and fair-minded. It should become the standard English survey of legal developments in the patristic and early medieval periods...Reynolds has produced a compilation of Western materials which is likely to remain unsurpassed for some time to come.' David G. Hunter, Theological Studies, 1995. '...well-written, thorough and illuminating book...' Roger Wright, Early Medieval Europe, 1996. '...Dr. Reynold has performed a notable service in exemplary fashion.' C.N.L. Brooke, Journal of Theological Studies, 1996. 'This is a very important work…it is a necessary source for any serious study of the history of Christian marriage.' Béla Somfai, Studies in Religion, 1999.

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Book SynopsisThe annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.Table of ContentsSPECIAL FOCUS: DOING FAMILIES IN HONG KONG Introduction: Doing Families in Hong Kong: Values, Relations and Strategies - Ng Chun-hung, Thomas W.P. Wong and Anita Chan Kit-wa Family in Flux: Benchmarking Family Changes in Hong Kong Society - Anita C. Koo and Thomas W. P. Wong Doing Families in Hong Kong: Strategy, Morality and Emotion - Ng Chun-hung, Ng Bo-sze and Anita Chan Kit-wa Who Should Care? Perceptions of Caregiving Responsibility within the Household - Odalia M. H. Wong Single Working Women in Hong Kong: A Case of ‘Normal Deviance’? - Evelyn G. H. Ng and Catherine W. Ng Where Is My Brokeback Mountain? - Travis S.K. Kong Familial Ideology and Family Policy in Hong Kong - Shae Wan-chaw and Wong Pik-wan Articles Sketching the Discursive Outlines of Cosmopolitan Hybridity in Postwar Hong Kong: City Magazine in the Emergence of 1980s Popular Culture and Culture Industry - Allen Chun Indigenization and the Study of Chinese Religion and Society - Chan Shun-hing ‘Missing Girls’ in an Era of ‘High Quality’: Governmental Control over Population and Daughter Discrimination in Contemporary China - Leslie K. Wang Book Reviews Notice to Contributors Notice to Subscribers

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award This book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of “new women" and “good wife, wise mother,” women’s roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award: "Kyoto University (Japan) sociologists Ochiai (with Barbara Molony, Asia's New Mothers, 2008) and Aoyama (Thai Migrant Sexworkers, 2009) have compiled a formidable volume on the construction of Asian women as skillful at intimate work, and how women live within this construction. The study stands out for its elucidation of the viewpoints of Asian women engaged in intimate labor, which the contributors define and investigate in capitalist and postsocialist states. Sociologists based in Asia and writing in Asian languages (translated into English) contribute 11 chapters that explore intimate work in India, China, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and Holland. The book's three parts cover the historical formation of intimate work, the emergence and transformation of the ideal image of Asian women as good wives and wise mothers, and the international migration of Asian women. The forms of intimate work treated include housework, sex work, elder care, childcare, and marital duties. Much of this labor occurs transnationally as well as, increasingly, within Asia. Authors underscore the fact that more than half of all international labor migrants are women, the majority of whom engage in intimate work, which makes this volume an important addition to the scholarship. Summing Up: Essential.Upper-division undergraduates and above." -T. L. Loos, Cornell University [This review appeared in the February 2014 issue of Choice. Copyright 2014 American Library Association]Table of ContentsList of Figures, Photographs and Tables ... vii Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian Women ... 1 OCHIAI Emiko PART ONE IMAGINING INTIMATE WORK 1. Housewives’ Work / Mothers’ Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society ... 37 NAKATANI Ayami 2. The “Housewife” and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes ... 63 OSHIKAWA Fumiko PART TWO MULTIPLE FACES OF THE GOOD WIFE/WISE MOTHER 3. Troubles of the “New Women” in the Emergence of Modern Korea: Focusing on the Interrelationship between “Women’s Liberation” and the Image of “Wise Mother and Good Wife” ... 93 SUH Ji Young 4. Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s ... 107 WU Yongmei 5. The Gender Norms of Chinese Women in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers ... 139 ZHENG Yang 6. “To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands”: The Dilemma of Vietnamese “Modern” Women ... 167 KHUAT Thu Hong, BUI Thu Huong and LE Bach Duong PART THREE WIVES AND WORKERS CROSSING BORDERS 7. From Farmers’ Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam ... 191 Danièle BÉLANGER and TRAN Giang Linh, with LE Bach Duong and KHUAT Thu Hong 8. Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women ... 217 HAO Hongfang 9. Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore ... 239 UENO Kayoko 10. Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan ... 263 AOYAMA Kaoru 11. The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy ... 289 LEE Hye-kyung Index ... 313

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Book SynopsisThe role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.Table of ContentsPreface ... xi List of Figures ... xiii List of Tables ... xv Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender ... 1 1. A Sociology of Gender ... 1 2. The Meaning of Comparison ... 1 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject ... 2 PART ONE 1. What is Patriarchy? ... 7 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy ... 7 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology ... 8 3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West ... 14 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy ... 18 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position ... 27 1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor ... 27 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife ... 30 3. Socialist Models ... 46 PART TWO 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy ... 53 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations ... 55 2. Background for Emergence of Japan’s Modern Patriarchy—Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother ... 60 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife ... 85 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions—Motherhood Emphasized Once Again... 96 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan ... 99 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization ... 99 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms ... 105 3. How the Agent has Responded ... 108 4. The Contemporary Housewife in Japan ... 113 5. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Patriarchy ... 133 PART THREE 5. South Korean Patriarchy ... 137 1. Industrialization in South Korea ... 138 2. The Background of South Korean Patriarchy ... 141 3. Forms of South Korean Women’s Employment ... 149 4. South Korean Patriarchy ... 160 6. Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 171 1. Industrialization in Taiwan ... 171 2. The Background of Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 177 3. Forms of Women’s Employment in Taiwan ... 182 4. The Taiwanese Model of Patriarchy ... 195 7. Patriarchy in North Korea ... 203 1. Socialist Construction ... 205 2. Indigenization ... 210 8. Patriarchy in China ... 223 1. Building Socialism ... 223 2. Moving away from Socialism or Indigenization, Compromising with Tradition ... 233 3. Gender Issues in China—Now and in the Future ... 237 9. Recent Social and Political Changes in East Asia ... 247 1. Declining Birth Rates and Destabilization of Marriage ... 248 2. Patterns of Women’s Labor ... 253 3. Employment Patterns among Older Citizens ... 258 4. North Korea Pushes ahead with its Own Line ... 267 5. Life in China under a Socialist Market Economy ... 274 10. Conclusions ... 281 1. Comparative Sociology of Gender in East Asia ... 282 2. Looking for Approaches to Resolving Women’s Issues in Contemporary Japan ... 285 Afterword: A Man Concerned About Gender Equality? ... 299 Afterword to the English edition ... 302 Bibliography ... 305 Index ... 325

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The famous ryōsai kenbo or ‘good wife, wise mother’ role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct – its first appearance in Japan being the latter half of the nineteenth century. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing to not just the family but to the formation of the state. Koyama’s discovery has transformed how we see modern women’s history in Japan and East Asia as a whole.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Shizuko (Kyoto Univ., Japan) has produced a major contribution to the study of modern Japanese women. Originally published in Japanese in 1991, this important work has now been brought into crystal-clear English by Stephen Filler. There is much to admire in this book. First, the argument is invariably laid out with great clarity, careful distinctions among categories, and sensitivity to seemingly small adjustments in nuance that nonetheless produce major changes over time. Second, the author provides clear and easily accessible explanations of the ways in which the meaning of the key phrase of the title has gradually evolved, as Japanese national experience moved through 150 years since the Meiji Revolution. Rather than falling into the many traps available for overgeneralization, Shizuko instead shows with sharp and clear examples how one or another steps led toward what became evolving new directions. This clarity is remarkable in its readability, and makes a convincing case for the author's argument. It is not too much to claim that this is a very important contribution not only to Japanese gender history, but also to the worldwide struggle for improved relationships between men and women. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries. - R. B. Lyman Jr., emeritus, Simmons College [This review appeared in the June 2013 issue of Choice. Copyright 2013 American Library Association]Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition ... vii Preface ... xi List of Tables ... xv List of Key Words ... xvii Introduction: Approach to the Issues ... 1 1 The Formation of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 11 1. The View of Women in Edo-Period Instructional Texts for Girls (Jokunsho) ... 12 2. “Wise Mother” Theory in the Meiji Enlightenment Period ... 21 3. The Emergence of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 35 2 Ryōsai Kenbo Thought and the Public Education System ... 53 1. The Emergence of a Discourse on “Home Education” ... 54 2. Home Education and the Public Education System ... 60 3 The Causes of Change ... 75 1. The Emergence of the “Woman Problem” ... 76 2. The Shock of World War I ... 89 4 The Reconfiguration of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 97 1. The Reform of Girls’ Education ... 98 2. A New Image of Ryōsai Kenbo ...120 3. Revision of the Girls’ Middle School Act ...137 5 The Evolution of the Concept of Ryōsai Kenbo in Morality Textbooks ...157 1. Morality Textbooks up to 1911 ... 158 2. Morality Textbooks between 1912 and 1920 ... 165 3. Morality Textbooks between 1921 and 1932 ... 168 Epilogue: The Meaning of Ryōsai Kenbo Thought ... 181 Appendix 1: List of Morality Textbooks (Shūshin Kyōkasho) Consulted for this Study ... 187 Bibliography ... 193 Index of Persons ... 211 Index of Subjects ... 215

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Book SynopsisThe role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.Table of ContentsPreface ... xi List of Figures ... xiii List of Tables ... xv Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender ... 1 1. A Sociology of Gender ... 1 2. The Meaning of Comparison ... 1 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject ... 2 PART ONE 1. What is Patriarchy? ... 7 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy ... 7 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology ... 8 3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West ... 14 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy ... 18 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position ... 27 1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor ... 27 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife ... 30 3. Socialist Models ... 46 PART TWO 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy ... 53 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations ... 55 2. Background for Emergence of Japan’s Modern Patriarchy—Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother ... 60 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife ... 85 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions—Motherhood Emphasized Once Again... 96 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan ... 99 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization ... 99 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms ... 105 3. How the Agent has Responded ... 108 4. The Contemporary Housewife in Japan ... 113 5. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Patriarchy ... 133 PART THREE 5. South Korean Patriarchy ... 137 1. Industrialization in South Korea ... 138 2. The Background of South Korean Patriarchy ... 141 3. Forms of South Korean Women’s Employment ... 149 4. South Korean Patriarchy ... 160 6. Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 171 1. Industrialization in Taiwan ... 171 2. The Background of Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 177 3. Forms of Women’s Employment in Taiwan ... 182 4. The Taiwanese Model of Patriarchy ... 195 7. Patriarchy in North Korea ... 203 1. Socialist Construction ... 205 2. Indigenization ... 210 8. Patriarchy in China ... 223 1. Building Socialism ... 223 2. Moving away from Socialism or Indigenization, Compromising with Tradition ... 233 3. Gender Issues in China—Now and in the Future ... 237 9. Recent Social and Political Changes in East Asia ... 247 1. Declining Birth Rates and Destabilization of Marriage ... 248 2. Patterns of Women’s Labor ... 253 3. Employment Patterns among Older Citizens ... 258 4. North Korea Pushes ahead with its Own Line ... 267 5. Life in China under a Socialist Market Economy ... 274 10. Conclusions ... 281 1. Comparative Sociology of Gender in East Asia ... 282 2. Looking for Approaches to Resolving Women’s Issues in Contemporary Japan ... 285 Afterword: A Man Concerned About Gender Equality? ... 299 Afterword to the English edition ... 302 Bibliography ... 305 Index ... 325

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Book SynopsisIn China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries’ orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.Table of ContentsForeword: A Fascination with China, by David Fasenfest Preface Introduction: The Goal of this Book 1. Familism: A Threat to the Environment The “Public Sphere:” Rights without Obligations Two types of Personal Association Personalization of the Law 2. Exchanges of Threats: The Opium Wars International Relations: Britain Russia, Japan, and Germany The Chinese Experience: Threat and Disappointment Why Did China not Defend herself? 3. China and the US: A Balance of Power? Why follow Thucydides? Promises and Threats Based on Economic Interests Real and Imagined Military Threats 4. Religions: Core Components of Cultures The Task at Hand: What is a Religion? Shared Origins of Contemporary Religions Governmental Interference with Religious Affairs 5. Religious Vitality in Contemporary China Types of Atheism in Party Politics Ancestor Worship: The Religion of China 6. Max Weber’s View of Religion in China 7. Daoism: China’s Native Religion The Fundamentals of Daoism Nature and Life Everlasting in Daoism Daoism as seen by Confucians and Buddhists 8. Oracle-Bones: The Mandate of Heaven How to Change – forward or backward? The Splendid Age of the Oracle Bones 9. Confucius: Recapture the Lost Splendour The Heavenly Mandate Shared by Relatives Finding Options for the Future The Party or the Family as “Church” in China? 10. The West: Individualism at its Limits The Western Family as Tragedy Cultural Evolution of Kinship in the West 11. China: The Kinship Society Granet and the Analects: Evolution of Kinship in China Fei Xiaotong: Field Work on Types of Family Life Altruism and Selfishness: A precarious Balance 12. China: A Threatening Promise to the West Summaries of the Chapters Concluding Queries about Threats and Promises Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGender Relations in an Indonesian Society offers a comprehensive ethnography of Bugis marriage through an exploration of gender identity and sexuality in this bilateral, highly competitive, hierarchical society. Nurul Ilmi Idrus considers the fundamental concept of siriq (honour; shame) in relation to gender socialization, courtship, sex within marriage, the regulation of sexuality between genders, the importance of kinship and status in marriage, and the dynamics of marriage, divorce, and reconciliation. This analysis considers the practical combination of Islamic tenets with local adat (custom; customary law) and the effect of contemporary Indonesia’s national ideology on cultural practices specific to Bugis society.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface List of Maps, Tables, Plates, and Diagrams Chapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Siri’, Gender and Sexuality Chapter III: Asseajingeng: Marriage, Family and Social Status Chapter IV: Assikalaibinéngeng: The Couple, the House and the Household Chapter V: Beliefs and Sexual Manners: Islam, Lontara’ and Everyday Practices Chapter VI: Marriage, Divorce and Reconciliation: between Islamic Court and Customary Law Chapter VII: Family Dynamics in Urban Life: Violence, Media and the State Chapter VIII: The Ethnography of Marriage: Understanding Bugis Domestic Life Appendices Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of friendship is more easily valued than it is described: this volume brings together reflections on its meaning and practice in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western, Euro-American world. The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds—solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword  Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place  Carla Risseeuw and Marlein van Raalte SECTION : Classical Asian Sources and Traditions 1 The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China  Ping Wang 2 The Concept of Friendship in the Jātaka Tales  Ranjini Obeyesekere SECTION : Western/European Traditions 3 Friendship after Money: The Case of Classical Greece  Tazuko van Berkel 4 The Road to Wisdom: A New Conceptualization of Friendship in Fourth-Century bce Athens  Albert Joosse 5 Historical Moments of Friendship Ideals: David & Jonathan, Montaigne, Adam Smith  Allan Silver 6 Friendship in the European Enlightenment: The Rationalization of Intimacy?  Adam Sutcliffe SECTION 3: Friendship in Contemporary East and West 7 The Utility of ‘Translated’ Friendship for the Sinophone World: Past and Present  Wei-cheng Chu 8 Intimate Relationships between Women as Romantic Love in Modern Japan  Kanako Akaeda 9 Impartiality, Close Friendships and the Confucian Tradition  Andrew Lambert 10 The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India  Nita Kumar 11 Shades of Friendship among Thai Women in the Netherlands  Panitee Brown Suksomboon 12 On Family, Friendship and the Need for ‘Cultural Fuss’: Changing Trajectories of Family and Friendship in the Netherlands  Carla Risseeuw 13 Civil Friendship: A Proposal for Legal Bonds Based on Friendship and Care  Natascha Gruver Index Nominum General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the ‘right’ parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction  Baatombu Peasants  National and Regional Embeddedness  Social Relations  Kinship Terminology  Fieldwork and Methods  Field Research  Thick Participation  Childhood Studies  Norm, Practice, Emotion 1 Theoretical Approaches and Concepts on Child Fostering  A Structural-functionalist Perspective: Parenthood and Social Reproduction  Bearing and Begetting: Birth Parenthood  Status Entitlement: Legal Parenthood  Nurturance, Training and Sponsorship: Social Parenthood  Delegation of Parenthood: Types, Reasons and Functions  Discussion  A Structuralist Perspective: The Circulation of Children  Discussion  Other Perspectives  The Turn to the Actor  Transfers of Imagined Belonging 2 Parenthood in Rural Borgu  Birth Parenthood  An Open Secret  Birth  Giving Birth in the Health Centre  Rites of Transition  Everyday Practices  Acquiring Knowledge  Yearning  Happy Foster Children  Conceptions of Parenthood  Motherhood  Fatherhood  Child Fostering  Decisions  Transferring a Child  Possible Foster Parents  Same Sex  Kinship  Hierarchy  Order of Siblings  Reasons for Child Fostering  Kinship Cohesion  Preventing Regressive Behaviour in Children  Social Parenthood Supports the Hierarchies  Children as Workers  Childlessness  Crisis Fostering  Women’s Interests  Child Fostering, Gender and Marriage  Exchanging Children and Women  Conflicts  Avoidance and Indirect Communication  Open Conflicts  Self-reliance  Foster Parents  Running Away  Arguments against Child Fostering  Kinship Conflicts  Schooling  A Bad Investment 3 Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century  Precolonial Times  Everyday Realities  Violence and Gifts  Oedipus in Africa?  Colonial Changes  End of the Raids  New Conceptions  Sero Toro Tuunku and his Foster Son  New Life Courses  Christian Missions  The Introduction of Schools  State Policy  The Post-colonial Period  Urban Baatombu Households  Expansion of Educational Facilities  Between Town and Village: A Conflict  Child Fostering in Urban Areas: Cotonou and Parakou  Urban Households  Mobility and Education  Household Composition  Fostering and Education  Belonging  Well-being  Exploitation?  Generations  Child Fostering in the Villages of Tɛbɔ, Kika and Yarɔ  Frequency of Child Fostering  Birth Rate and Child Mortality  Gender  Schooling and Fostering  Family Relationship between Children and their Foster Parents  On the threshold of the 21st Century: Two Conflicts  Rafa  Djamila  Conclusion Appendix  Names and Interviews  Interviews Cited References Index

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Book SynopsisCare Relations in Southeast Asia: The Family and Beyond, edited by Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Jo-Pei Tan, examines the care relations and transactions within and beyond the family network across three middle-income Southeast Asian countries, namely the Federation of Malaysia, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the national and sub-national level. On the national level, changes and continuity in care relations along the changing demographic, socio-economic and political contexts of each country are addressed. On the sub-national level, the complex dimensions of care relations are analyzed by looking at the attitude towards and practice of elderly and child care within, between and beyond the family system. These regional analyses are based on merged data of three most recent family surveys in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok Metropolis, and Hanoi. Alternative and innovative policy recommendations for current and future challenges are also offered. Contains contributions by: Asmidawati Ashari, Ki Soo Eun, Tengku Aizan Hamid, Rahimah Ibrahim, Thuttai Keeratipongpaiboon, Nguyen Huu Minh, Pataporn Sukontamarn, Jo-Pei Tan, Tran Thi Minh Thi, Kua Wongboonsin and Patcharawalai WongboonsinTable of ContentsPreface  Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Jo-Pei Tan List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Jo-Pei Tan Part 1: Cultural, Demographic and Socio-economic Background of Care Relations 2 Cultural, Demographic, Socio-economic Background and Care Relations in Malaysia  Rahimah Ibrahim, Jo-Pei Tan, Tengku Aizan Hamid and Asmidawati Ashari 3 Changes in Family Composition and Care Relations in the Kingdom of Thailand  Patcharawalai Wongboonsin, Thuttai Keeratipongpaiboon and Kua Wongboonsin 4 Changes in Family Structure and Care Relations in Vietnam  Nguyen Huu Minh Part 2: Attitudes and Practices in Care 5 Care Relations Within the Family  Jo-Pei Tan and Rahimah Ibrahim 6 Care Relations Among Non-coresident Families  Nguyen Huu Minh, Tran Thi Minh Thi, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin, Jo-Pei Tan and Rahimah Ibrahim 7 Main Elderly and Child Care Provider: Who is and Who Should Be?  Patcharawalai Wongboonsin and Pataporn Sukontamarn Part 3: Synopsis and Way Forward 8 Convergence versus Divergence: Care Relations across Three Societies  Jo-Pei Tan, Ki Soo Eun, Patcharalawai Wongboonsin, Kua Wongboonsin, Rahimah Ibrahim and Nguyen Huu Minh 9 Synopsis and Way Forward  Patcharawalai Wongboonsin, Rahimah Ibrahim, Jo Pei Tan and Tengku Aizan Hamid Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisChinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational dynamics. Supported by ethnographic findings from the latest field research, novel interpretations of neo-familism address critical issues from fresh perspectives, such as the ambivalence in grandparenting, the conflicts between individual and family interests, the remaking of the moral self in the face of family crises, and the decisive influence of the Chinese state on family change. The book is an essential read for scholars and students of China studies in particular and for those who are interested in the present-day family and kinship in general.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  The Inverted Family, Post- Patriarchal Intergenerationality and Neo-Familism 1   Yunxiang Yan 2 “We Do”  Parental Involvement in the Marriages of Urban Sons and Daughters   Deborah S. Davis 3 The “Leftover” Majority  Why Urban Men and Women Born under China’s One- Child Policy Remain Unmarried through Age 27   Vanessa L. Fong, Greene Ko, Cong Zhang, and Sung won Kim 4 United in Suffering  Rural Grandparents and the Intergenerational Contributions of Care   Erin Thomason 5 Floating Grandparents  Rethinking Family Obligation and Intergenerational Support   Xiaoying Qi 6 Families Under (Peer) Pressure  Self-Advocacy and Ambivalence among Women in Collective Dance Groups 123   Claudia Huang 7 Intimate Power  Intergenerational Cooperation and Conflicts in Childrearing among Urban Families   Suowei Xiao 8 Losing an Only Child  Parental Grief among China’s Shidu Parents   Lihong Shi 9 The Chinese Proto Neo-Family Configuration  A Historical Ethnography   William Jankowiak 10 The Statist Model of Family Policy Making   Yunxiang Yan 11 Three Discourses on Neo-Familism   Yunxiang Yan Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is ninkatsu? Who promotes and governs this “active pursuit of pregnancy?” Trying to answer these questions, this unprecedented publication exhibits how mass media, policymakers, and biomedical science-corporate capitalism govern the individual’s reproductive choices in contemporary Japan through gendered discourses of self-improvement, life planning, and biomedical technology. Analyzing a broad range of media, popular science, and government material, it links historical and social processes with an original theoretical framework on self-governance, neoliberalism, and postfeminism. While deeply engaging with Japanese sources, this rich scholarship takes the study of reproductive politics beyond Japan. This book is not only of interest for Japanese studies scholars but more broadly also those curious about neoliberal government strategies, gender, and biomedical capitalism.Trade ReviewActive Pursuit of Pregnancy is a deeply intelligent, easily accessible and empirically precise and detailed book that adds an innovative perspective to an old, much-discussed topic. The book improves our theoretical understanding of (neoliberal) politics of reproduction – underlying and interwoven dynamics of power, control and interests – and provides detailed insights into several aspects of contemporary Japanese society, in particular the persistence of the highly gendered postwar family ideology. Nora Kottmann in: Contemporary Japan, vol. 34, issue 2 (2022)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures 1 Introduction: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan  1 Literature Review  2 Research Design  3 Corpus of Analysis  4 Structure of the Book part 1 Theoretical Framework and Historical Background 2 The “Reproductive Entrepreneur” Theorizing Neoliberal Politics of Reproduction  1 The Entrepreneurial Self  2 Biomedicalization, Experts and Scientific Knowledge  3 The “Entrepreneurial Self” within the “Culture of Uncertainty” in Contemporary Japan  4 The “Reproductive Entrepreneur” in the Network of Technologies of the Self, Biomedicalization and Postfeminist Healthism 3 Women’s Bodies as Battlefields From “Beget and Multiply” to the “Active Pursuit of Pregnancy”  1 Women’s Bodies and State Politics: From “Beget and Multiply” to “Family Planning”  2 Women Claiming Back Their Bodies: The Women’s Health Movement  3 Politics of Reproduction and the Low Birth Rate Crisis in Japan  4 Gender Backlash and Sex Education  5 Assisted Reproductive Technology and Adoption in Contemporary Japan  6 Japan as a “Reproductive Gap Society”? part 2 “Active Pursuit of Pregnancy” in Contemporary Japan 4 Mass Media and Postfeminist Politics of Reproduction “Reproductive Entrepreneurship” and Ninkatsu  1 The “Active Pursuit of Pregnancy” Appears on Stage  2 Marketing the “Active Pursuit of Pregnancy”  3 The “Active Pursuit of Pregnancy” in Newspapers  4 The Fantasy of the “Reproductive Entrepreneur”: From Family Planning to Ninkatsu? 5 The Politics of Science in the Discourse of “Ageing Reproductive Cells” The Gaze of Technology, Happiness and the “Fear of Regret”  1 Close-Up Present’s “Unfulfilled Desire to Have Children” – The Shock of Ageing Egg Cells  2 Governing the Soul: “Ovarian Ageing” in the Matrix of “Happiness” and “Regret”  3 A Remedy for the “Fear of Regret”? A Woman’s “Life Game” and Social Freezing in Japan  4 The Contemporary “Sperm Crisis”, the “Fear of Emasculation” and the “Molecular Gaze”  5 Gender, Technology and the “Politics of Science” in Discourses on Ageing Reproductive Cells 6 Neoliberal State Politics of Reproduction “Correct Knowledge” and Life Planning as Pronatalist Strategy  1 “Correct Knowledge” and Life Planning as Government Strategy in the Context of the Low Birth Rate: An Overview  2 Educating the “Reproductive Entrepreneur”: Choices and Life Planning  3 The Stork Is Back: Infertility Treatment over Contraception in Sex Education  4 “A Healthy Life” and Dwindling Egg Reservoirs  5 From “Beget and Multiply” to the Strategy of Knowledge Promotion and Life Planning 7 Conclusion: Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan  1 Governing the Population: From “Beget and Multiply” to Life Planning  2 Using Technology and Science to Protect the “Normal” Social Order  3 (Self-)Governing Body and Soul: Postfeminist Healthism, “Happiness” and “Regret”  4 Concluding Remarks Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on historical demography to elucidate the regional diversity of the Japanese family and its convergence toward an integrated national family model that heralded the modern era, providing a new image of the family in pre-industrial Japan. The volume challenges the idea of early modern (1600-1870) Japan as a monolithic nation based on the ie, – the stem-family household so often mentioned as the fundamental form of Japanese social organization and enshrined in the Meiji Civil Code – which, in fact, came into being at various locales, at various speeds in the latter half of the 18th and the earlier half of the 19th centuries. In addition, there are several chapters which examine the role of women, either centrally or tangentially. With contributions by Mary Louise NAGATA, YAMAMOTO Jun, Hiroko COSTANTINI, Stephen ROBERTSON, MIZOGUCHI Tsunetoshi, NAKAJIMA Mitsuhiro, TSUBOUCHI Yoshihiro and MORIMOTO Kazuhiko.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Original Publications Notes on Contributors Introduction: Regional Diversity and the Emergence of a National Family Model at the Verge of Modernity   Ochiai Emiko (落合 恵美子) part 1 The Revival of North-Eastern Japan 1 Emergence of the Ie in North-Eastern Japan, 1720–1870   Hirai Shoko (平井 晶子) 2 Balancing Family Strategies with Individual Choice: Name Changing in North-Eastern and Central Villages   Mary Louise Nagata (永田 メアリー) 3 Absolute Primogeniture (Anekatoku) in Demographic Perspective   Yamamoto Jun (山本 準), Hiroko Costantini and Stephen Robertson 4 Marriage and Childbirth among Female Servants in a North-Eastern Village: Reconciliation between Work and Reproduction in Japanese Labour History   Ochiai Emiko (落合 恵美子) part 2 Maritime Populations of South-Western Japan 5 Tsumadoi: Visiting Marriage and Household Structure on Yakushima Island   Mizoguchi Tsunetoshi (溝口常俊) 6 Population, Marriage, and Extramarital Births in a South-Western Maritime Village   Nakajima Mitsuhiro (中島 満大) 7 The Love and Life of a Centenarian Woman: Historical Demography Meets Oral History in a Coastal Village in South-Western Japan   Ochiai Emiko (落合 恵美子) part 3 Samurai Norms and Life Courses 8 Samurai Children’s Prospects: Evidence from Tokuyama Domain   Tsubouchi Yoshihiro (坪内 良博) 9 From Farmer to Samurai: The Effect of Status Change on Demographic Behaviour and Family Life   Yamamoto Jun (山本 準), Hiroko Costantini and Stephen Robertson part 4 Registration Systems and the Creation of the Ie 10 The Notional View of the Family Expressed in Population Registers: Shūmon aratame-chō and Ninbetsu aratame-chō   Hirai Shoko (平井 晶子) 11 Ancestral Worship and Women: From “Split-Parish Households” to “Single-Temple Households”   Morimoto Kazuhiko (森本 一彦) Index

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Book SynopsisThis book conveys a unique, unrivaled, and moving insight into the life of Monty Howell, the little-know eldest son of Leonard Howell, regarded as the Father of Rastafari. Opening several files, over the pages, the man is revealed behind the son. Being both an actor and storyteller of History, Monty Howell blends anecdotes, reflections, and revelations, avoiding no subject, even the most delicate and scorching. With confidence, he takes you through his childhood memories, his conflicts with Jamaica, and his reconciliations on behalf of his father’s legacy. With bold, mature, incisive, and provocative assertions, he even reframed the Rasta experiences and the development of Rastafari, altering the terms of the knowledge and the subsequent discourse.Table of ContentsForeword: Rastafari and the Howell Legacy Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction section 1 Genealogy of Intimacies 1 Setting the Scene 2 Once Beaten, Twice Shy 3 My Father, My Old Man section 2 Values and Rastafari 4 Broaden My Horizons 5 Seeking Out Opportunities 87 6 Rekindling Leonard Percival Howell Legacy 7 Inwardness   Conclusion   Epilogue Appendix   1 Historical Context   2 Important Dates   3 Illustrations References Index

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Book SynopsisChina, Laos, and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, especially for their large rural populations. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their aspirations and desires are articulated as projects involving both citizens and the state. This produces a politics of development that happens through and around the state as people navigate discourses of betterment to imagine and make new futures at individual and collective levels.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future  Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen 2 Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos  Ian G. Baird, Santi Piyadeth and Chanthavisouk Ninchaluene 3 Hmong Christianisation, the Will to Improve and the Question of Neoliberalism in Vietnam’s Highlands  Seb Rumsby 4 Staying or Moving  Government Compliance in Post-Zomian Laos  Guido Sprenger 5 Good Baby, Good Life  Exploring a New Akha Way of Life Free from Abnormal Birth  Ruijing Wang 6 Single Mothers’ Livelihoods in Rural North Central Vietnam: Struggles for a Good Life  Tuan Anh Nguyen, Cam Ly Thi Vo and Binh Minh Thi Vu 7 Rural Schooling and a Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, Sketches and Moments of Good Time  Roy Huijsmans and Mr Piti 8 Translocal Households and Family Visions in Contemporary Vietnam: A Neoliberal Shift?  Hy V. Luong 9 Making a Good Life by Building a Good House: A Case Study of Baikou New Village in Southeastern China  Lan Wei 10 A Good Life Postponed: Working in the Countryside, Retiring in the City in Contemporary China  Catrina Schwendener 11 Tradition, Habitat, and Well-Being: Polygamous Marriage in a Tibetan Village  Li Zhi-nong and He Shu-qing Index

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Book Synopsis‘Famille, je vous ai (encore et toujours à l’esprit?), je vous aime un peu, beaucoup, ou je vous hais énormément?’ What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) cohesion, (fake) coherence, (carefully planned or subversive) deconstruction, loss (of love, confidence or credibility), or, even (utter) chaos and (alarming) confusion? Which media revamp old stereotypes, generate alternative reinterpretations, and imply more ambiguous answers? What images, scenes or frames stand out in contemporary representations of the family? Uneasy contradictions and ambiguities emerge in this bilingual collection of approaches and genre studies. The family plot seems to thicken as family ties appear to loosen. Has ‘the family’ been lost from sight, or is it being reinvented in our collective imaginary? This book proposes a new series of perspectives and questions on an old and ‘familiar’ topic, exploring the state and status of the family in contemporary literature, culture, critical and psychoanalytic theory and sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction Marie-Claire BARNET I. Les Femmes d’abord Michael SHERINGHAM: The Law of Sacrifice: Race and the Family in Marie Ndiaye’s En famille and Papa doit manger Shirley-Ann JORDAN: Figuring Out the Family: Family as Everyday Practice in Contemporary French Women’s Writing Nathalie MORELLO: Maudire, dire les maux ou chercher les mots pour le dire? L’écriture du souvenir dans la fiction de Lorette Nobécourt II. Contes familiaux Catherine RODGERS: Dans la pente du toit d’Anne-Marie Garat: élaboration, déconstruction du conte familial Owen HEATHCOTE: Coming Out of the Family? Julien Green’s Jeunesse (1974), Hervé Guibert’s Mes Parents (1986) and Christophe Honoré’s L’Infamille (1997) Loraine Day: Ordinary Shameful Families: Annie Ernaux’s Narratives of Affiliation and (Mis)alliance III. Histoires d’Art Annie RICHARD: La Famille autofictive de Sophie Calle Nigel Saint: Pascal Convert and the Family: History, Conflict and Creativity IV. Les Enfants en plus Robert SILHOL: Le Nom du Père: la métaphore paternelle chez Lacan Philippe MET: Horreur du noir: les nouveaux ‘enfants terribles’ du Cinéma Français Jane WALLING: ‘Les enfants d’abord’: Home and Alternative Schooling in Contemporary France V. La Famille au cinéma Carrie TARR: Family Differences: Immigrant Maghrebi Families in Contemporary French Cinema Fiona HANDYSIDE: Girls on Film: Mothers, Sisters and Daughters in Contemporary French Cinema Georgiana COLVILE: Où va le roman familial? Chaos de Coline Serreau (2001) VI. Ordre et désordre familiaux Kathryn ROBSON: Family Histories: Reproduction, Cloning and Incest in Louise Lambrichs Gill RYE: Family Tragedies: Child Death in Recent French Literature Phil POWRIE: La Famille (du cinéma) en désordre: Roudinesco and Contemporary French Cinema Marie-Claire BARNET: Scènes de remue-(ménage): Les airs de famille de Valérie Mréjen Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and comparative. The theme of the volume – Birth and Death – is one with particular resonance for nineteenth-century French studies, since the nineteenth century is commonly perceived as an age of new life and renovation. It is the epoch that witnessed an efflorescence of industrial and artistic progress, the birth of the individual and the birth of the novel, and the creation of an urban population in the major demographic shift from the rural provinces to Paris. At the same time, however, it is the century of Decadence and degeneration theory, marked by a prominent morbid aesthetic in the artistic sphere and a fascination with criminality, moral decay and the pathologization of racial and sexual minorities in the scientific discourses. It is also the century in which reflection on processes of artistic creation begins to problematize concepts of mimetic representation, the function of the author and the status of the text. In the context of the dialectical quality of nineteenth-century French culture, caught between an obsession with the new and innovative and a paranoid sense of its own encroaching decay, the twin themes of birth and death open onto a variety of issues – literary, social, historical, artistic – which are explored, interrogated and reassessed in the essays contained in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction On Textual Genesis, Translation and Resurrection Claudine GROSSIR: George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans Stephen GODDARD: Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme Larry DUFFY: Perdue en traduction: Translation, Betrayal and Death in Mérimée’s Carmen David EVANS: Le Tombeau de la Poésie: Strategies of Textual Resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville Narratives of Birth and Death Peter COGMAN: Wilde’s Salomé: Tenses, Tension and Progression in Salomé’s Final Monologue Isabelle MICHELOT: Figures de l’artiste et comédiens du réel: de la difficile naissance à l’implacable mort dans La Comédie humaine Barbara GIRAUD: Soeur Philomène ou comment la mort s’invite à l’hôpital Kiera VACLAVIK: Death for Beginners: Nineteenth-Century Katabatic Narratives for Young Readers Problematizing Maternity and Femininity Maria SCOTT: Stendhal’s Rebellious Mothers and the Fight Against Death-by-Maternity Catherine DUBEAU: La Mort de Madame de Vernon et les deux dénouements de Delphine: invention romanesque et réminiscences maternelles chez Madame de Staël Carmen K. MAYER-ROBIN: Midwifery and Malpractice in Fécondité: Zola’s Fictional History of Problematical Maternities Nathalie DUMAS: L’Érotisme cristallin de Théophile Gautier: étude de la figure de la ‘morte amoureuse’ dans les contes fantastiques Aestheticizing Bodily Death Philippe BERTHIER: L’Évangile de la pourriture selon Saint Huysmans: Lydwine de Schiedam Isabelle DROIT: Une esthétique de la mort au dix-neuvième siècle: Alphonse Daudet Pascal CARON: Selon Max Nordau: le poème naturel du corps de Mallarmé Claire MORAN: The Aesthetics of Self-Skeletonization in James Ensor Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises contributions from several fields of study in the social sciences. The different disciplinary angles intersect at the level of the research subjects: families, households and consumers. Together they reflect a broad field of study that always had its particular niche in Wageningen as ‘household and consumer studies’. The five separate parts: the formation and dissolution of families; stratification and inequality; consumer and household behaviour; leisure time; and hygiene, health and society, nicely reflect the broadness of this field. The eighteen contributions in this volume were purposefully selected, not only based on their contents and quality, but also because of their relationship to the work of Kees de Hoog, who retired this year. Although Kees de Hoog is a professor of family sociology and family policy, his work throughout the years has extended far beyond that and covers the fields that are captured by the different parts in this book. Therefore the contributions in this volume comprise an interesting read for scholars all over the world who have an interest in families, consumers, households, and the ways they interface.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introducing Muslim youth in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2: Negotiating Piety and Popular Culture: Muslim Youth in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 3: Muslim Youth Music and Popular Culture in Indonesia.- Chapter 4: Muslim Youth and Cosmopolitanism in the Blogosphere.- Chapter 5: Expressing Rituals Through Social Media: Muslim Youth in Contemporary Indonesia.- Chapter 6: Empowering Voices: Social Media, Islamist Youth, and Political Participation in Malaysia.- Chapter 7: Contested Meanings of the Veil’s Resurgence among Thai Muslim Youth.- Chapter 8 : From Ideological to Economic Hijrah: Young Salafi Muslims in Indonesia and Their Turn to the Halal Economy.

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Book Synopsis1:Introduction.- Part I The art of qualitative longitudinal research – theoretical and methodological perspectives.- 2:  Working with cases in qualitative longitudinal research – a personal journey.- 3: Cross-contextual temporal analysis – Experiences with collaborative analyses of qualitative longitudinal data from four countries.- 4:  The unique ethical dimensions of longitudinal qualitative research with rural young people.- 5: Insights into the dynamics of belonging and livelihood for young adults in rural Australia.- 6:- Multiple temporalities in longitudinal and cross-generational research – Mobility and rural youth futures.- Part II Explorations of youth in the Nordic rural regions.- 7: Trajectories of belonging among Nordic rural youth – Strengthening, weakening, or conflicting belonging over time.- 8: Rural Leisure Time in the Making – Self-Created Youth Activities and Leisure Time in Sparsely Populated Rural Finland.- 9: Rural Nordic Youth’s Transition to Upper Secondary School – Challenges and Dilemmas.- 10: Understanding rural young women’s pathways towards settledness in Norway – A longitudinal perspective.- 11: Future expectations – Young people’s dreams, hopes, and plans living in rural Nordic countries.

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