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