Isha's Wait
Money, Love, and Kinship in the Wake of Domestic Violence in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2435807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Garima Jaju (0000-0002-9068-843X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360 |
| Publisher | American Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14506/ca40.1.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4407871868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Isha waits in her low-income parents' home for her estranged husband, charged for dowry and domestic violence, to pay her the legally mandated maintenance money. I listen to her as she talks about pyaar, or love, and domestic violence as arising from the absence of its ehsaas, or feeling/realization, by the abusive husband. The awaited money is infused with the hopeful imagination that it will generate both pyaar and its ehsaas. I argue that money becomes a substance of kinship assigned an agentive role in engendering the ethical transformation of a "bad" husband to create "good" kinship. Exploring the ways in which the tenuous legal promise of money sustains imaginations of reformed kinship futures, I outline how centrally money shapes the experience of domestic violence and its aftermath
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |