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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

Transnational Geographies of The Heart: Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalising City

Series Editor's Preface viAcknowledgements vii1 Introduction 12 Geographies of Intimacy 233 A Globalising Gulf Region and the British in Dubai 454 British 'Expatriate' Subjectivities in Dubai 655 'Community', Clubs and Friendship 856 Sex, Desire and Romance in the Globalising City 1067 Migration, Domesticity and 'Family Life' 1268 Our Intimate Lives 145References 155Index 172