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SUMMARY:Diasporic Romance\; Marriage\, Consumerism and Ghanaian Experience
 s in Botswana  - Rijk van Dijk\,  ASC Leiden\, AISSR Amsterdam\, Centre of
  Excellence University of Konstanz
DTSTART:20141201T170000Z
DTEND:20141201T180000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:Building on the current scholarly interest in romantic migrati
 on and romantic diasporas\, this paper starts by exploring forms of mobili
 ty but does not take the movement of people as the paradigmatic point of d
 eparture. Instead\, it highlights the travelling of ideas\, models and obj
 ects\, especially the way these are informed by romantic notions concernin
 g relationships and how they can be styled in global consumerist fashions.
  By looking at Ghanaian migration to Botswana and how certain romantic ide
 als concerning beauty have been exchanged with the local society and the w
 ay Ghanaians have started to marry Batswana partners in recent years\, a m
 obility of ideas\, objects and images can be analyzed. While a new marital
  economy has emerged in Botswana as a result of the growth of middle-class
 -oriented consumerist lifestyles\, Ghanaian immigrants have both contribut
 ed to the new models of romance as much as they have also become subject t
 o such models in their engagement with Botswana society. This paper argues
  that the notion of diasporic romance implies more than just people migrat
 ing for romantic reasons and it calls for further exploration of the diasp
 oric nature of the modeling and consumerist styling of marriages in a mode
 rn African society.    
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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