Introduction : urban friendship networks : affective negotiations and potentialities of care

• Main Authors: Kathiravelu, Laavanya, Bunnell, Tim
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology; Everyday; Friendship
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138353
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Issues of integration, assimilation and the place of ‘strangers’ within metropolitan contexts have been overwhelmingly conceptualised within the larger structural frames of ethnicity, nationality, immigration status and socio-economic class. This raises and reflects important issues around strategie...