Roberta Zavoretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Zavoretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Zavoretti |
| SIGNATURE | ZAVORETTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Not before Twenty-Five
This article explores how women of different class backgrounds contest the imperative to enter heteronormative marriage in urban China. While the state and the market propose marriage as the only path to the good life, these women describe it as a risky enterprise and an unequal partnership. The social pressure they face highlights the continuing exclusionary role of marriage in present-day Chinese society, as their stand challenges the state-spo…
Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China, written by Wang Xiying, 2017
Get Yourself an Insurance! Negotiating Family and Intergenerational Care in Post-Mao Urban China
In urban China, the demise of the employment-based welfare system dovetails with the commoditization of service provision and the state-led promotion of ‘family values’. Disadvantaged labourers invest most of their resources in their children, who are expected to become their future ‘insurance’. Notwithstanding their emotional and material investment in the upbringing of daughters, informants recast the birth of sons as a sign of success and cont…
Beyond the Global Care Chain
Revisiting the Global Care Chain literature, we reflect on the ways in which care functions as a moral discourse that simultaneously resonates with local people and helps to promote neoliberalization in contexts that are often left out of the literature. We argue that care, both as concept and practice, inflects the broadest moral contradiction, ambivalence and hybridity of our social and political world today. Critiques of inequalities in global…
Is it Better to Cry in a BMW or to Laugh on a Bicycle? Marriage, 'financial performance anxiety', and the production of class in Nanjing (People's Republic of China)
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the city of Nanjing, China, the article analyses discursive practices of courtship and marriage in the context of post-Mao and post-Deng economic, social, and legal developments. Informants' discussions often revolve around the tension between the idea that marriage should be about love and the increasing material demands that prospective grooms face upon marriage in a market-led consumer society. This te…
My Generation Had It All Easy
In urban China, young people are under increasing pressure to embody the ideal of a financially secure 'match'. At the same time, their parents define marriage as 'a family matter' and provide a large part of the starting fund for their children's new family. This situation often leads to inter-generational tensions, which can be fully appreciated only by looking back at the life experiences of the parents. Many members of this older generation w…
Beyond the Global Care Chain
Revisiting the Global Care Chain literature, we reflect on the ways in which care functions as a moral discourse that simultaneously resonates with local people and helps to promote neoliberalization in contexts that are often left out of the literature. We argue that care, both as concept and practice, inflects the broadest moral contradiction, ambivalence and hybridity of our social and political world today. Critiques of inequalities in global…
Is it Better to Cry in a BMW or to Laugh on a Bicycle? Marriage, 'financial performance anxiety', and the production of class in Nanjing (People's Republic of China)
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the city of Nanjing, China, the article analyses discursive practices of courtship and marriage in the context of post-Mao and post-Deng economic, social, and legal developments. Informants' discussions often revolve around the tension between the idea that marriage should be about love and the increasing material demands that prospective grooms face upon marriage in a market-led consumer society. This te…
Not before Twenty-Five
This article explores how women of different class backgrounds contest the imperative to enter heteronormative marriage in urban China. While the state and the market propose marriage as the only path to the good life, these women describe it as a risky enterprise and an unequal partnership. The social pressure they face highlights the continuing exclusionary role of marriage in present-day Chinese society, as their stand challenges the state-spo…
Get Yourself an Insurance! Negotiating Family and Intergenerational Care in Post-Mao Urban China
In urban China, the demise of the employment-based welfare system dovetails with the commoditization of service provision and the state-led promotion of ‘family values’. Disadvantaged labourers invest most of their resources in their children, who are expected to become their future ‘insurance’. Notwithstanding their emotional and material investment in the upbringing of daughters, informants recast the birth of sons as a sign of success and cont…
My Generation Had It All Easy
In urban China, young people are under increasing pressure to embody the ideal of a financially secure 'match'. At the same time, their parents define marriage as 'a family matter' and provide a large part of the starting fund for their children's new family. This situation often leads to inter-generational tensions, which can be fully appreciated only by looking back at the life experiences of the parents. Many members of this older generation w…
My Generation Had It All Easy
In urban China, young people are under increasing pressure to embody the ideal of a financially secure 'match'. At the same time, their parents define marriage as 'a family matter' and provide a large part of the starting fund for their children's new family. This situation often leads to inter-generational tensions, which can be fully appreciated only by looking back at the life experiences of the parents. Many members of this older generation w…
Is it Better to Cry in a BMW or to Laugh on a Bicycle? Marriage, 'financial performance anxiety', and the production of class in Nanjing (People's Republic of China)
Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the city of Nanjing, China, the article analyses discursive practices of courtship and marriage in the context of post-Mao and post-Deng economic, social, and legal developments. Informants' discussions often revolve around the tension between the idea that marriage should be about love and the increasing material demands that prospective grooms face upon marriage in a market-led consumer society. This te…
Get Yourself an Insurance! Negotiating Family and Intergenerational Care in Post-Mao Urban China
In urban China, the demise of the employment-based welfare system dovetails with the commoditization of service provision and the state-led promotion of ‘family values’. Disadvantaged labourers invest most of their resources in their children, who are expected to become their future ‘insurance’. Notwithstanding their emotional and material investment in the upbringing of daughters, informants recast the birth of sons as a sign of success and cont…
Beyond the Global Care Chain
Revisiting the Global Care Chain literature, we reflect on the ways in which care functions as a moral discourse that simultaneously resonates with local people and helps to promote neoliberalization in contexts that are often left out of the literature. We argue that care, both as concept and practice, inflects the broadest moral contradiction, ambivalence and hybridity of our social and political world today. Critiques of inequalities in global…
Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China, written by Wang Xiying, 2017
Not before Twenty-Five
This article explores how women of different class backgrounds contest the imperative to enter heteronormative marriage in urban China. While the state and the market propose marriage as the only path to the good life, these women describe it as a risky enterprise and an unequal partnership. The social pressure they face highlights the continuing exclusionary role of marriage in present-day Chinese society, as their stand challenges the state-spo…
Sociology (5 works) · China (4 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Economics (2 works)