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"Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalisation and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range of contemporary case studies, the book sheds light on the ways in which people draw on these cultural meanings in everyday life to account for their experiences and practices of intimacy in different social settings. An interdisciplinary volume, presenting the latest research on the region from experts working in diverse fields within the social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and social psychology with interests in gender and sexuality, social change and contemporary intimate relationships"--Provided by publisher

Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism and 11 international case studies, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Series editors' foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The psychological imagination -- 2. Psychology and the social organisation of power -- 3. Transnational popular psychology in Trinidad -- 4. A brief social history of marriage, love, and intimacy in Trinidad -- 5. Love, intimacy, and relationship management -- 6. Adaptation, gender roles, and the need for self-help -- 7. Popular psychology and the colonisation of intimate life in Trinidad -- 8. The psychologisation of intimate life -- Index

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- A Brief Introduction -- 1 Intimate Citizenship and Social Change in Contemporary Mexico -- 2 Intimacy in Twentieth-Century Mexico -- 3 Intimacy, Lesbian Desire and Representation in Contemporary Mexican Film: Así del precipicio -- 4 Sexual Citizenship and Youth Identities: Camino a casa. Un día en la vida de un joven mexicano by Naief Yehya -- 5 Men and Conjugal Life in Mexico: Change and Persistence -- 6 Love Matters: Couple Relationships among Young Female Professionals from Mexico City -- 7 Experiences and Understandings of Intimate Life in Tehuitzingo: Courtship, Marriage and the Dissolution of Relationships -- 8 Intimate Space, Assimilation and Divergence: An Analysis of the Reproductive Decisions of Contemporary Mexican American Women -- 9 Dual Pathways: Mexican Gay Immigrants, their US-Born Partners, and the Dynamics of Sexual Globalization

In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted transnational (infra)structures predicated on state-centric transnationalism from above, the survival and well-being of diverse transnationally mobile groups, such as refugees, transnational families, and international students, have been placed under unprecedented threat. In doing so, we reflect on the configurations of transnationalism in sociological understandings of globalisation, in and beyond the context of COVID-19. We advance an urgent call for action to address the consequences of the pandemic for vulnerable people who lead precarious lives in a transnational limbo caught in the gaps between nation-states.

In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted transnational (infra)structures predicated on state-centric transnationalism from above, the survival and well-being of diverse transnationally mobile groups, such as refugees, transnational families, and international students, have been placed under unprecedented threat. In doing so, we reflect on the configurations of transnationalism in sociological understandings of globalisation, in and beyond the context of COVID-19. We advance an urgent call for action to address the consequences of the pandemic for vulnerable people who lead precarious lives in a transnational limbo caught in the gaps between nation-states.

AbstractThis article examines recent changes in British family migration policy. It explores the reasons for these policy changes. It highlights the fact that these changes have affected the legal, financial, social, and lived experiences of transnational couples. It uses primary research to exemplify these changes. For example, it highlights the fact that the changes in policy have had some negative impacts on the ability of transnational families to have intimate relationships with each other. Some of these changes have led to the separation of couples. Other changes have led to what couples outline as an involuntary separation from the United Kingdom. This research has current and future relevance in the context of the focus of the current government and the likelihood that policy will be tightened even further in the aftermath of Britain leaving the EU, post‐Brexit.

AbstractThe migration of Chinese students to the UK has long been the focus of academic and policy‐making attention. However, what happens to their transnational mobility after their education remains understudied. This article unpacks the migration decision‐making process behind graduates' study‐to‐employment transition. We focus on individuals' on‐going reinterpretation of capital convertibility between China and the UK and examine how the meaning of mobility changes in time and in the transnational socio‐economic environment. In so doing, we draw on in‐depth interviews with graduates who have remained in the UK, as well as with returnees. Our findings reveal our participants' periodic uncertainty about professional opportunities and attendant mobility choices in the context of fast‐paced socio‐economic change in China and in the UK. The article thus calls for a more supportive post‐study work policy environment for international students in the UK, especially in the context of uncertainty about Brexit.