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
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Geographies of Intimacy 23
3 A Globalising Gulf Region and the British in Dubai 45
4 British ‘Expatriate’ Subjectivities in Dubai 65
5 ‘Community’, Clubs and Friendship 85
6 Sex, Desire and Romance in the Globalising City 106
7 Migration, Domesticity and ‘Family Life’ 126
8 Our Intimate Lives 145
References 155
Index 172
