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Intimate Subjectivities in a Globalising City
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Names: Walsh, Katie, author.
Title: Transnational geographies of the heart : intimate subjectivities in a globalising city / by Katie Walsh.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018. | Series: RGS‐IBG book series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017053857 (print) | LCCN 2018004091 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119050438 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119050421 (epub) | ISBN 9781119050452 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119050445 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: British–United Arab Emirates–Social life and customs. | Interpersonal relations. | Aliens–United Arab Emirates.
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The original research on which this book is based was funded by an ESRC Postgraduate Training Studentship (R42200134499).
I am enormously thankful to all the people in Dubai who shared their insights and everyday lives with me as interviewees in the research. I cannot thank you individually, unfortunately, or I would risk your anonymity. I hope that I have done enough to demonstrate both the diversity of perspectives and experiences I encountered, as well as the vulnerabilities of British residents in Dubai individually and collectively. In this book, I have tried to locate myself, however temporarily, as part of your community, not least because I felt a strong sense of belonging to this moment in Dubai, among you, and I am enormously grateful for the friendships I experienced, many of which were life‐transforming.
The idea for the ethnographic research on which this book is based emerged during my year as an MA student (2000–2001) on the Cultural Geography (Research) PGT programme at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am indebted to the intellectual environment I encountered there, especially to Philip Crang who supervised my PhD, Katie Willis who mentored my postdoctoral year, and Catherine Nash and David Gilbert who inspired and supported me at various points during my MA year and beyond. I am also thankful to Alison Blunt and Philip Jackson whose feedback on my fieldwork as examiners gave me the confidence to highlight my contribution all these years later. While studying at RHUL I also had the great fortune to be supported by the friendship of fellow students, especially Becky Fox, Fernando Garcia and Hilary Geoghegan. My mother and father deserve special mention, too, not least for providing a ‘boomerang’ home for me in the last few months of writing up my research and again before I started teaching at Sussex.
This book is also a product of reflection in the decade following my PhD. Meeting and collaborating with other people writing on migration and/or British migrants has been especially rewarding and the insights of Anne‐Meike Fechter, Anne Coles, Pauline Leonard and Karen O’Reilly have been especially helpful. I am lucky also to have worked for ten years in the Department of Geography at University of Sussex and in affiliation with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. Here I have had the privilege of learning both from those who have already shaped the field of Migration Studies – especially Russell King – as well as from doctoral students I have had the delight to co‐supervise and whose work has shaped my own. I have appreciated collegial support and encouragement from many others at Sussex and I am especially grateful to those who collaborated with running field classes to Dubai during which my enthusiasm for this monograph was re‐booted.
This book draws upon empirical material I have previously published in the following articles and book chapters (Coles & Walsh 2010; Walsh 2006a, 2006b, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).