Congratulations to CHD faculty member Jennifer Cole, who received a Guggenheim fellowship for 2013-14. "A cultural anthropologist, Cole studies the interplay between historical change and individual experience. She has long worked in Madagascar, a former French colony, and more recently in France, focusing on how the historical legacies of the colonial encounter are worked out in everyday life. Intimate relations will be the focus of her work during her Guggenheim Fellowship. ... Her new book, based on work supported by the Guggenheim fellowship, will be No Longer the Bachelor’s Ball: Malagasy Marriage Migrants and the Making of a Hybrid Transnational Culture. She will write about an unusual migration stream: women from Madagascar, a former French colony, who marry men in rural and semi-rural areas of France. These French men seek Malagasy brides because their social and economic position in France hinders their ability to meet and marry French women. Malagasy women turn to such marriages to solve the problems posed by increasing economic hardship and deteriorating gender relations. In the context of rising xenophobia and the French government’s efforts to regulate immigration, these bi-national, bi-cultural couples marry and have children, adopt children from Madagascar, return to Madagascar to build homes, engage in ancestral ceremonies, and support family members back home, Cole notes. They also work on French farms, revive depopulated French villages, make regular pilgrimages to Lourdes and help fill the emptying parishes of the French Catholic church. They create a hybrid culture, says Cole, which reaches from rural Madagascar to the small towns and villages of southwest France and back to Madagascar. Cole will examine the emergence of this new, transnational social formation, how it works, and its consequences for notions of family and national belonging in the contemporary world." news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/05/10/two-faculty-members-receive-guggenheim-fellowships
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:53:12 +0000
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