爱的倦怠:喀麦隆雅温得的年轻女性、手机和延迟结婚

IF 1.1 2区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Ewa Majczak
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本文探讨了爱情婚姻的承诺是如何耗尽的。文章聚焦生活在喀麦隆雅温得的年轻都市女性,她们试图利用数字技术 "抓住 "丈夫,而照片在其中占据了重要位置。我以约会档案的视觉制作为重点,展示了手机如何将年轻女性置于自己追逐丈夫的中心。通过数字行动,这些年轻女性创造了爱情婚姻的承诺,但与此同时,她们的行动需要付出更多的情感努力。由于手机不断迫使年轻女性加大追逐丈夫的努力,放大爱情婚姻的承诺,但却很少带来预期的结果。因此,年轻女性在维持这一承诺所需的情感工作的重压下,会出现某种形式的爱情倦怠,暂停行动,推迟结婚。本文强调了在以技术为媒介的世界中,亲密关系中的情感劳动,指出了爱情婚姻承诺的传播方式的局限性,并指出了新自由主义的情感经济是如何暂时中止的。
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Love burnout: young women, mobile phones, and delayed marriage in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Love burnout: young women, mobile phones, and delayed marriage in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Love burnout: young women, mobile phones, and delayed marriage in Yaoundé, Cameroon

This article examines how work towards the promise of love marriage comes to be exhausted. It focuses on young urban women living in Yaoundé, Cameroon, trying to ‘catch’ a husband using digital technologies in which photographs figure prominently. Focusing on the visual production of dating profiles, I show how mobile phones place young women at the centre of their own husband-catching pursuits. Through digital actions, these young women produce the promise of love marriage, but at the same time their actions require increased volumes of emotional work. As phones constantly compel young women to intensify their husband-catching efforts and amplify the promise of love marriage, they rarely bring the desired results. Thus, young women, burdened by the emotional work necessary to sustain this promise, experience a form of love burnout, suspend their actions, and delay marriage. In highlighting the emotional laboriousness of intimate relations in technologically mediated worlds, this article draws out the limitations of the way in which the promise of love marriage is circulated and points to how neoliberal economies of affect may be temporarily suspended.

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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world. It has attracted and inspired some of the world"s greatest thinkers. International in scope, it presents accessible papers aimed at a broad anthropological readership. It is also acclaimed for its extensive book review section, and it publishes a bibliography of books received.
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