Mobile Persons: Cell phones, Gender and the Self in North India
Mobile Persons: Cell phones, Gender and the Self in North India
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DOI：
10.1080/14442213.2012.726253
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
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0.6
通讯作者：
Doron, Assa
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作者：
Doron, Assa
在这篇文章中，我分析了移动的手机融入低收入人群日常生活的各种方式，以及对求爱行为、婚姻关系和亲属关系的影响。我的人种学研究并没有对移动的手机的赋权效应进行庆祝性的分析，而是揭示了一个更复杂的故事，一个显示移动的手机的存在如何既强化又削弱性别角色和权威机构的故事。从概念上讲，我认为，移动的通信提供了深入了解印度北部的人格为“奴隶”，同时也刺激新的做法和意识形态，使这项技术的核心斗争（和超过）权力和统治。
In this article I analyse the varied ways mobile phones are integrated into the daily lives of low-income people and the implications for courtship practices, marriage relations and kinship ties. Rather than offer a celebratory analysis of the mobile phone's empowering effects, my ethnographic research reveals a more complex story, one that shows how the presence of the mobile both reinforces and undermines gender roles and institutions of authority. Conceptually, I argue that mobile communication provides insights into north Indian personhood as 'nodal', while also stimulating new practices and ideologies that render this technology central to the struggle for (and over) power and domination.