Facebook and urban kinship in Suva, Fiji
Facebook both reflects and reinforces emerging patterns in kinship among urban indigenous Fijians created by challenges to age and gender stratification posed by younger and female relatives with good jobs in town. Changes are also created by an emerging indigenous Fijian middle class who identify w...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jso, |
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2017
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Facebook both reflects and reinforces emerging patterns in kinship among urban indigenous Fijians created by challenges to age and gender stratification posed by younger and female relatives with good jobs in town. Changes are also created by an emerging indigenous Fijian middle class who identify with a transnational middle class and have aspirations to migrate overseas in the wake of three decades of political instability. Facebook posts reflect and reinforce movements away from traditional age and gender hierarchies and toward social class stratification. These changes are also found in changing modes of sociality outside of Facebook. |
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