Doing intimacy differently: Couples Living Apart Together Transnationally

Doing intimacy differently: Couples Living Apart Together Transnationally
This GDA focuses on the relationship dynamics of couples living apart across nations but still intimately together, primarily for job or educational reasons, based on an empirical study. It fills a gap in the scholarship as there is limited research on this topic, even as the number of committed couples living apart increases due to globalisation and the forces of capitalism. Given that migration and mobility of couples are not likely to come to an end with the pandemic, a nuanced and critical analysis of digital technology use for relationship maintenance, at times across the Global North and the Global South, is covered. Moreover, the consequences of restrictive migratory regimes and spirituality for the meaning-making of this unconventional form of intimacy are also touched on, which challenge existing Eurocentric conceptualisations of intimacy and relationships.