Perveez Mody
Biographic Data
| ID | 128679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Perveez Mody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Perveez |
| FAMILY NAME | Mody |
| SIGNATURE | MODY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enduring violence, times of care: “Forced-marriage” in the UK
This paper is concerned with the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007. It raises questions around contextualizing “forced marriage” within other forms of force and abuse both before and after the act of “forced marriage” itself. Such context is called for particularly because, on numerous occasions, informants prefaced their stories about their marriage with narratives about pr…
Kinship and Love
This chapter explores the ethical tension between kinship and love in the realm of self-chosen marriages or ‘love-marriages’ in India. Central to the discussion are notions of personal autonomy as revealed in the deliberations of young people who must contend with normative ideas about acquiescing to marital ‘arrangement’ (by parents, elders, or kin) and who appear to eschew them by seeking to base their self-made kinship on love. In contrast, so…
Intimacy and the Politics of Love
This review provides an overview of the anthropology of love and some of the main bodies of ethnographic work and theoretical debates around studies of love. It surveys specific studies that make the politics of intimacy and love central to their analysis and that seek to make theoretical sense of its meaning and broader significance. This discussion is followed by work that draws together an example of the politicization of love in the shape of …
A Suitable Girl. Directed by Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra: Portland, Or: Collective Eye Films, 2018. 1 DVD (94 Min.). us$295.00. In English
Care and Resistance
I consider the ways in which acts of kinship among British South Asians such as the suitable arrangement of a child's marriage can be rejected by the child as an act of care and reframed as acts of force. Drawing on ethnographic research with people who have experienced "forced marriage," I examine the processes through which they come to re-examine the meanings of kinship and care from their own perspective and through their own life course. I a…
Marriage
Love Jurisdiction
This article examines claims about the substantive importance of black letter law for those having marriages of choice in India and offers a critique of the ways in which legal procedure is manipulated. The law is 'bent' not only by the courts and the police to undermine the intentions of legislators and to uphold conservative communal values but also by ordinary people who seek to promote their own agendas and to make moral and instrumental clai…
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
Love and the Law: Love-Marriage in Delhi
In the late 1860s, the colonial state received a petition signed by Keshub Chandra Sen of the Brahmo Samaj to legislate for marriages amongst their members, such that they could freely marry according to their 'rites of conscience'. Paying little attention to the specific demands and circumstances of the Keshubite petition, the Governor General's Legislative Council began to consider the introduction of a civil marriage law for all Indians, so th…
Love and the Law: Love-Marriage in Delhi
In the late 1860s, the colonial state received a petition signed by Keshub Chandra Sen of the Brahmo Samaj to legislate for marriages amongst their members, such that they could freely marry according to their 'rites of conscience'. Paying little attention to the specific demands and circumstances of the Keshubite petition, the Governor General's Legislative Council began to consider the introduction of a civil marriage law for all Indians, so th…
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Care and Resistance
I consider the ways in which acts of kinship among British South Asians such as the suitable arrangement of a child's marriage can be rejected by the child as an act of care and reframed as acts of force. Drawing on ethnographic research with people who have experienced "forced marriage," I examine the processes through which they come to re-examine the meanings of kinship and care from their own perspective and through their own life course. I a…
Love Jurisdiction
This article examines claims about the substantive importance of black letter law for those having marriages of choice in India and offers a critique of the ways in which legal procedure is manipulated. The law is 'bent' not only by the courts and the police to undermine the intentions of legislators and to uphold conservative communal values but also by ordinary people who seek to promote their own agendas and to make moral and instrumental clai…
Love and the Law: Love-Marriage in Delhi
In the late 1860s, the colonial state received a petition signed by Keshub Chandra Sen of the Brahmo Samaj to legislate for marriages amongst their members, such that they could freely marry according to their 'rites of conscience'. Paying little attention to the specific demands and circumstances of the Keshubite petition, the Governor General's Legislative Council began to consider the introduction of a civil marriage law for all Indians, so th…
The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
The anthropological fixation with reciprocity leaves no room for love: 2009 Meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory
Love Jurisdiction
This article examines claims about the substantive importance of black letter law for those having marriages of choice in India and offers a critique of the ways in which legal procedure is manipulated. The law is 'bent' not only by the courts and the police to undermine the intentions of legislators and to uphold conservative communal values but also by ordinary people who seek to promote their own agendas and to make moral and instrumental clai…
Marriage
A Suitable Girl. Directed by Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra: Portland, Or: Collective Eye Films, 2018. 1 DVD (94 Min.). us$295.00. In English
Care and Resistance
I consider the ways in which acts of kinship among British South Asians such as the suitable arrangement of a child's marriage can be rejected by the child as an act of care and reframed as acts of force. Drawing on ethnographic research with people who have experienced "forced marriage," I examine the processes through which they come to re-examine the meanings of kinship and care from their own perspective and through their own life course. I a…
Intimacy and the Politics of Love
This review provides an overview of the anthropology of love and some of the main bodies of ethnographic work and theoretical debates around studies of love. It surveys specific studies that make the politics of intimacy and love central to their analysis and that seek to make theoretical sense of its meaning and broader significance. This discussion is followed by work that draws together an example of the politicization of love in the shape of …
Kinship and Love
This chapter explores the ethical tension between kinship and love in the realm of self-chosen marriages or ‘love-marriages’ in India. Central to the discussion are notions of personal autonomy as revealed in the deliberations of young people who must contend with normative ideas about acquiescing to marital ‘arrangement’ (by parents, elders, or kin) and who appear to eschew them by seeking to base their self-made kinship on love. In contrast, so…
Enduring violence, times of care: “Forced-marriage” in the UK
This paper is concerned with the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007. It raises questions around contextualizing “forced marriage” within other forms of force and abuse both before and after the act of “forced marriage” itself. Such context is called for particularly because, on numerous occasions, informants prefaced their stories about their marriage with narratives about pr…
Sociology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Kinship (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 works)