Love and Sexual Relationships in a Globalized World

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  • Marion Bottero UFRGS

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2238-152X.53672

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With the development of globalized exchanges, sexual and/or sentimental relationships between developed and developing countries are becoming more and more frequent. Through the comparative study of relationships between Occidental and Thai or Malay people, we will see how Occidental and Oriental actors use hierarchies of gender, class and race to try to valorise their economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital. In Thailand, lower-class women seek access to financial stability while in the neighbouring country, upper-class women aspire to freedom from local culture. For Occidental men, what hides behind their desire of the “other” is a rejection of "Occidental values", especially sexual equality, and a return to values considered more "stable", "traditional", and "hierarchical". We will see how love interactions in a globalized context are an instrument to valorise the different forms of capital, in Bourdieu’s sense, and a way to redefine social hierarchies.

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Marion Bottero, UFRGS

Marion Bottero é doutora em antropologia na Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, Françae. É membro do grupo de pesquisa FIRA. 

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2015-02-20

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Bottero, M. (2015). Love and Sexual Relationships in a Globalized World. Revista Polis E Psique, 5(1), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.22456/2238-152X.53672

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