我为什么要在这里结婚？研究印度北部农村单身汉的婚姻迁移，他们无法在当地结婚，他们在印度各地旅行，寻找与自己不同种姓、种族、语言或习俗的新娘。Reena Kukreja将丰富的人种学证据与达利特女权主义和政治经济学框架相结合，将新自由主义的宏观政治暴力过程与微观个人层面的婚姻和亲密的性别关系联系起来，分析这组移民新娘在印度北部农村占主导地位的种姓印度教徒和Meo穆斯林跨地区婚姻中的生活现实。
我为什么要在这里结婚？揭示了掠夺性资本主义如何与父权制联系在一起，剥夺了印度边缘化的达利特和穆斯林社区许多贫穷妇女在当地社区的婚姻选择。它揭示了在资本主义关系日益蔓延的背景下，这些女性为结婚而进行的务实的跨地区迁移需要如何被重新定义为她们的代理行为，同时使她们暴露于新形式的性别从属和内部其他形式的种姓歧视和婚姻社区中的种族中心主义。我为什么要在这里结婚？提供了当代新自由主义力量如何重塑结构性压迫的有力例子，这些压迫迫使世界各地边缘化社区的贫困女性对自己的身体、劳动和生活做出妥协性选择。
Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India
Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India.
Why Would I Be Married Here? reveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy to dispossess many poor women from India’s marginalized Dalit and Muslim communities of marriage choices in their local communities. It reveals how, within the context of the increasing spread of capitalist relations, these women’s pragmatic cross-region migration for marriage needs to be reframed as an exercise of their agency that simultaneously exposes them to new forms of gender subordination and internal othering of caste discrimination and ethnocentrism in conjugal communities. Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives.
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