TY - BOOK
T1 - Relative Distance
T2 - Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
AU - Fesenmyer, Leslie
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Relative distance is a multi-sited ethnography of transnational kinship between Kenya and the United Kingdom. Rather than focusing on structural explanations like changing modes of economic production, ‘push-pull’ factors, and globalization as drivers of familial change and transformation, Leslie Fesenmyer focuses on the micro-spaces of transnational familial life, revealing how, through quotidian interactions, exchanges, and practices, those who move and those who stay contribute to the ongoing transformation of kinship. She argues that the distance – physical, social, and phenomenological – migration generates between kin is where they express and negotiate what being related entails. In asking who is responsible for whom, the book reveals how questions of care and responsibility are not only family matters, but are also central to relations between individuals, societies, and states.
AB - Relative distance is a multi-sited ethnography of transnational kinship between Kenya and the United Kingdom. Rather than focusing on structural explanations like changing modes of economic production, ‘push-pull’ factors, and globalization as drivers of familial change and transformation, Leslie Fesenmyer focuses on the micro-spaces of transnational familial life, revealing how, through quotidian interactions, exchanges, and practices, those who move and those who stay contribute to the ongoing transformation of kinship. She argues that the distance – physical, social, and phenomenological – migration generates between kin is where they express and negotiate what being related entails. In asking who is responsible for whom, the book reveals how questions of care and responsibility are not only family matters, but are also central to relations between individuals, societies, and states.
KW - kinship
KW - Migration
KW - TRANSNATIONALISM
KW - Kenya
KW - United Kingdom
KW - Christianity
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/relative-distance/D3B0176E913C944E3D382C073BED2D07
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/african-history/relative-distance-kinship-migration-and-christianity-between-kenya-and-united-kingdom
U2 - 10.1017/9781009335096
DO - 10.1017/9781009335096
M3 - Book
SN - 9781009335072
T3 - The International African Library
BT - Relative Distance
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
ER -