1st Edition
The New Expatriates Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals
1. Foreword, Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex.
2. Examining ‘Expatriate’ Continuities: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals, Anne-Meike Fechter, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK; Katie Walsh, Department of Geography, University of Sussex, UK
3. ‘New Shanghailanders’ or ‘New Shanghainese’: Western Expatriates' Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai, James Farrer, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo, UK.
4. ‘Realising the Self and Developing the African’: German Immigrants in Namibia, Heidi Armbruster, Modern Languages, University of Southampton, UK
5. Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong, Pauline Leonard, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
6. Institutionalising the Colonial Imagination: Chinese Middlemen and the Transnational Corporate Office in Jakarta, Indonesia, William H. Leggett, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University, US.
7. Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism: Colonial and Corporate Expatriate Wives, Anne-Meike Fechter, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK.
8. A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India, Mari Korpela, Department of Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland.
9. From ‘Trucial State’ to ‘Postcolonial’ City? The Imaginative Geographies of British Expatriates in Dubai, Anne Coles, International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK; Katie Walsh, Department of Geography, University of Sussex, UK.
10. ‘They Called Them Communists Then … What D'You Call ‘Em Now? … Insurgents?’. Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism, Ben Rogaly, Department of Geography, University of Sussex, UK; Becky Taylor, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck University of London, UK.
Biography
Anne-Meike Fechter is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia (2007). Her current research focuses on aid workers as mobile professionals.
Katie Walsh is affiliated with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research as a lecturer in human geography in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Her ethnographic research on British migrants in Dubai explores transnational belonging and identities, with an emphasis on embodiment, emotion, intimacy, and materialities.
