ISBN:
9781119050438
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
Series Statement:
RGS-IBG Book Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Walsh, Katie Transnational Geographies of the Heart : Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalizing City
DDC:
305.82/105357
Keywords:
British-United Arab Emirates-Social life and customs
;
Interpersonal relations
;
Aliens-United Arab Emirates
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction -- British Global Mobilities -- Postcolonial Histories, Cities, Migrations -- Theorising Transnationalism: From the Global to the Intimate -- Approaching Intimacy: The Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter Two Geographies of Intimacy -- Families and 'Family Life' -- Geographies of Friendship -- Couple Ties: Heteronormativity, Governance, and Love -- Intimacy and the Sociological Study of Personal Life -- Intimacies, Subjectivities, Spatialities -- Note -- Chapter Three A Globalising Gulf Region and the British in Dubai -- Migration and Development of the GCC Region -- Citizenship, Kafala, and the Temporary Migrant Worker -- Social Stratification and Migrant Subjectivities in Dubai and the Gulf -- Researching British Migration in Dubai, 2002-2004 -- A Reflexive Note -- Chapter Four British 'Expatriate' Subjectivities in Dubai -- British Imaginaries of Dubai and Emirati 'Culture' -- 'Culture Shock' and Emotional Resources of Whiteness -- The Spatialisation of an 'Expat' Lifestyle -- Encounters with Low‐income Migrants -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five 'Community', Clubs and Friendship -- 'Britishness' and Club Life -- Heterogeneity within the British 'Community' -- Belonging, Leisure, and the Significance of 'Play' -- Coffee Mornings or Adventures for 'Expat Mums' -- Transnational Mobilities and Friendships -- Friends as Family -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six Sex, Desire and Romance in the Globalising City -- Heteronormativity and the UAE's 'Decency Laws' -- Race, Affluence and Masculinity in Transnational Space -- Dubai's 'Global Nightscapes' -- Dubai: No Place for Romance? -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Migration, Domesticity and 'Family Life' -- 'Family Time' and Space for Family -- Global Work, Expatriation and Marriage
Abstract:
Adult Children and the Family Home -- Transnational Connections and Family 'Left Behind' -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight Our Intimate Lives -- Exploring the Spatialisation of Intimacy -- Changing Gulf Subjectivities: Temporalities of Intimacy -- Intimacy, Belonging and Home: Rethinking the Global City -- References -- Index -- EULA
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