Divorce Portals
The Postdivorce in Asian Contexts
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2026
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-1-9788-4725-5 (ISBN)
Description
Across Asia and its global diasporas, marriage remains a dominant and public institution, and divorce generates widespread comment and concern. Drawing from sensitive and compelling ethnographic portrayals drawn from diverse geographic contexts, Divorce Portals reveals divorce to be generative of transformations in individual intimate lives and wider societies."."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-9788-4725-5 (9781978847255)
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SHALINI GROVER is an assistant professorial research fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published widely on marriage, love, kinship, legal pluralisms, labour relations and globalized care. She is the author of Marriage, Love, Caste, and Kinship Support: Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in India (Routledge, 2018).
KAVERI QURESHI is a senior lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science and co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh. Kaveri Qureshi works on how gender, race/ethnicity, class, caste and religion shape experiences of health and intimate/personal life. She is the author of two monographs: Marital Breakdown among British Asians: Conjugality, Legal Pluralism and New Kinship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Chronic Illness in a Pakistani Labour Diaspora (Carolina Academic Press, 2019).