Transnational geographies of the heart : intimate subjectivities in a globalising city
By: Walsh, Katie
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BookSeries: RGS-IBG book series.Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2018.Description: viii, 180 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781119050445Subject(s): British -- Social life and customs -- United Arab Emirates | Interpersonal relations | Aliens -- United Arab EmiratesDDC classification: 305.82105357 WA TR Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 305.82105357 WA TR (Browse shelf) | Available | May2018 | T0059862 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transnational Geographies of the Heart explores the spatialisation of intimacy in everyday life through an analysis of intimate subjectivities in transnational spaces.
Draws on ethnographic research with British migrants in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during a phase of rapid globalisation and economic diversification in 2002–2004
Highlights the negotiation of inter–personal relationships as enormously significant in relation to the dialectic of home and migration
Includes four empirical chapters focused on the production of expatriate subjectivities, community and friendships, sex and romance, and families
Demonstrates that a critical analysis of the geographies of intimacy might productively contribute to our understanding of the ways in which intimate subjectivities are embodied, emplaced, and co–produced across binaries of public/private and local/global space.