442nd
Meeting at the Alliance Française, Chiang
Mai: “Not just about money! Thai-Farang marriages and intimate relationships”.
Tuesday, 29 January 2019.
A talk by Patcharin Lapanun (พัชรินทร์ ลาภานันท์).
The Talk: In
locations around the world, transnational marriages and intimacies
become a viable option of women and men. Patcharin Lapanun explores
Thai women –farang men marriages and complicates the bimodal views
about materiality and intimacy within global intimacies. The sentiments
and life stories of women and men engaging in these transnational
relationships highlight the complexities of the associations that are
shaped and reshaped by ‘love,’ money and gender obligations on the one
hand and the dynamics of socio-cultural and historical contexts on the
other. Transnational marriages also challenge
gender relations, perception on sexuality, marriage and family as well
as the existing class division in rural Thai communities. Focusing on
the ‘local end’ of transnational connections, Lapanun states that women
with farang husbands have created a new ‘class’ determined by their
distinctive consumption patterns and life styles. This dynamic
challenges the village hierarchical structure and puts the village
elites in a vulnerable position. Her in-depth examination highlights
the important of women’s
agency and the strength and creativity of
people seeking to forge meaningful lives in the processes of social
transition in the face of local and global encounters.
The Speaker:
Dr.
Patcharin Lapanun is a lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology and chair
of the MA program in Sociology, Khon Kaen University (KKU). She earned
her PhD in Anthropology from Vrije University, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Her research interests include gender and development,
migration and ‘the leftbehind’;transnational marriage and migration,
global care regime and cross-border studies. Patcharin’s forthcoming
book is “Love, Money and Obligations: Transnational Marriage in a
Northeastern Thai Village” (NUS Press); she is also a co-author of
“Cross-Cultural Marriage: Stage of Knowledge” (2007-Thai Language)
and
“Village-based Silk Production in Transition, Northeast Thailand” (2012
- White Lotus Press). Her recent research articles in academic journals
and book chapters include “Masculinity, Marriage and Migration: Farang
Migrant Men in Thailand” (2018, Asian Journal of Social Science);
Masculinity, Matrilineality and Transnational Marriage (2018, Journal
of Mekong Society); “Mia farang: An Emergence of a New ‘Class’ in
(Rural) Thai Society” (2015, a book chapter, Culture is Power, Chiang
Mai University -Thai Language); “It’s Not Just about Money:
Transnational Marriage of Isan Women” (2012, Journal of Mekong
Society); “Social Relations and Tensions in Transnational Marriage for
Rural Women in Isan Thailand” (2012, a book chapter: The Family in Flux
in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice, Kyoto University
and Silkworm Books).
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