04/12/2012 - Le 14 et 15 décembre, le Laboratoire d'anthropologie culturelle et
sociale (Université de Lausanne) organise des journées d'études
intitulées: The Trouble of Love in the Arab World. Romance, Marriage and the Shaping of Intimate Lives.
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Organisateurs: Corinne Fortier, Aymon Kreil, Irène Maffi et Samuli Schielke
Extraits du descriptif: Until recently, love has often been too
neglected when studying gender dynamics outside Europe and northern
America. Especially in regard to the Middle East and North Africa – and
by extension, Middle Eastern and/or Muslim migrants outside the region –
gender has become a major field of research while love has gained only
little attention. This absence is especially striking given the fact
that both in present and past times, love, seduction, romance, and
courtship have been major preoccupations in the lives of people of all
social classes and religious communities and all around the Arab World.
Furthermore, all these aspects of life are well documented in poetry,
prose, music, and mass media. (...) First of all, how do people
experience the tensions between romantic attachment, sexual intimacy,
and marital union? What kind of gender relations are involved in
seductive and romantic encounters when women and men do not have the
same options to express their affection? How do these experiences
interact with social and religious norms like gender segregation,
kinship and family, and, in many locations, with middle class ideals of
individual success in all their diverse possible forms? How do
individuals cope with the uncertainties about their desires, and what
strategies can they mobilise to deal with their social environment
according to their supposed needs through confrontation or/and
negotiation?
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