Distant Love

By Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim and Ulrich Beck

Book Overview

In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call 'world families', by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families - they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. -- Provided by publisher.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745661807
• ISBN13: 9780745661803
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"