Each of the chapters in this volume offers important insights into the family as a mediating structure of globalization. In their work on father presence in South Africa, Townsend, Madhavan and Garey describe the changing role of fathers in relation to the South African labor market and its emerging position in the global economy. And in a study of refugee families in Sierra Leone, Andrews notes the critical role played by children in how families cope with the dislocations of war and conflict. Children serve as cultural nodes for these families, serving to maintain a sense of cultural continuity and tradition for them. The theme of cultural transmission also runs through the paper by Srinivas on packaged food consumption among middle-class Indian families in Bangalore, India and in Boston, United States. She describes how food consumption in these families is grounded in a larger project of asserting and maintaining authentic "Indian-ness" in the face of the cultural challenges of globalization. The chapters in this volume, while certainly distinct in focus, all affirm the value and importance of a renewed focus on family in globalization studies.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sunil Kukreja
Sunil Kukreja is Professor of Sociology, and currently Chair of the Department of Comparative Sociology at the University of Puget Sound. He is a recipient of the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award (University of Puget Sound, 2000), the John Lantz Fellowship, the Martin Nelson Jr. Fellowship, and a Fulbright-Hays Award. His primary areas of interest include Race/Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Change, South and Southeast Asian Studies, and International Political Economy. He has published in various scholarly journals, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Review of Modern Sociology and the International Journal of Sociology of the Family. In addition, he is a contributing member of the interdisciplinary Asian Studies and International Political Economy program at the University of Puget Sound.
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Globalization and the Family
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Edition
1st ed.
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Ashwin-Anoka Press, 2007
ISBN
8190475013
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viii+162p., Figures; Tables.
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