Michael W Yarbrough
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3685973 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael W Yarbrough |
| NOMBRES | Michael W |
| APELLIDO | Yarbrough |
| FIRMA | YARBROUGH M W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2802-3365 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Queering Legal Pluralism
A New Twist on the "Un-African" Script
Gay Priori
Queer Families and Relationships after Marriage Equality
Something old, something new
This article examines contemporary struggles over same-sex marriage in the daily lives of black lesbian- and gay-identified South Africans. Based primarily on 21 in-depth interviews with such South Africans drawn from a larger project on post-apartheid South African marriage, the author argues that their current struggles for relationship recognition share much in common with contemporaneous struggles of their heterosexual counterparts, and that …
Very Long Engagements
This article examines the persistent authority of lobola , the customary practice for forming marriages in many South African communities. South African marriage rates have sharply fallen, and many blame this on economic challenges completing lobola. Using in-depth, qualitative research from a village in KwaZulu-Natal, where lobola demands are the country's highest and marriage rates its lowest, I argue that lobola's authority survives because la…
South African Marriage in Policy and Practice
Law forms one of the major structural contexts within which family lives play out, yet the precise dynamics connecting these two foundational institutions are still poorly understood. This article attempts to help bridge this gap by applying sociolegal concepts to empirical findings about state law's role in family, and especially in marriage, drawn from across several decades and disciplines of South Africanist scholarly research. I sketch the b…
Toward a Political Sociology of Conjugal-Recognition Regimes
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2015
When Symbolic Action Fails
This article extends the cultural-pragmatics model of symbolic action developed by Jeffrey Alexander and his associates, which observes that symbolic action has become difficult in contemporary, highly differentiated societies. When symbolic action succeeds, the cultural-pragmatics approach argues it does so by re-“fusing” the elements of social performance, which have been disaggregated by the effects of social differentiation. Fusion produces a…
Very Long Engagements
This article examines the persistent authority of lobola , the customary practice for forming marriages in many South African communities. South African marriage rates have sharply fallen, and many blame this on economic challenges completing lobola. Using in-depth, qualitative research from a village in KwaZulu-Natal, where lobola demands are the country's highest and marriage rates its lowest, I argue that lobola's authority survives because la…
Toward a Political Sociology of Conjugal-Recognition Regimes
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2015
A New Twist on the "Un-African" Script
When Symbolic Action Fails
This article extends the cultural-pragmatics model of symbolic action developed by Jeffrey Alexander and his associates, which observes that symbolic action has become difficult in contemporary, highly differentiated societies. When symbolic action succeeds, the cultural-pragmatics approach argues it does so by re-“fusing” the elements of social performance, which have been disaggregated by the effects of social differentiation. Fusion produces a…
South African Marriage in Policy and Practice
Law forms one of the major structural contexts within which family lives play out, yet the precise dynamics connecting these two foundational institutions are still poorly understood. This article attempts to help bridge this gap by applying sociolegal concepts to empirical findings about state law's role in family, and especially in marriage, drawn from across several decades and disciplines of South Africanist scholarly research. I sketch the b…
Toward a Political Sociology of Conjugal-Recognition Regimes
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2015
Very Long Engagements
This article examines the persistent authority of lobola , the customary practice for forming marriages in many South African communities. South African marriage rates have sharply fallen, and many blame this on economic challenges completing lobola. Using in-depth, qualitative research from a village in KwaZulu-Natal, where lobola demands are the country's highest and marriage rates its lowest, I argue that lobola's authority survives because la…
Queer Families and Relationships after Marriage Equality
Something old, something new
This article examines contemporary struggles over same-sex marriage in the daily lives of black lesbian- and gay-identified South Africans. Based primarily on 21 in-depth interviews with such South Africans drawn from a larger project on post-apartheid South African marriage, the author argues that their current struggles for relationship recognition share much in common with contemporaneous struggles of their heterosexual counterparts, and that …
Gay Priori
A New Twist on the "Un-African" Script
Queering Legal Pluralism
Sociology (8 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 obras) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Legal Issues in South Africa (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)