Distance Relationships : Intimacy and Emotions Amongst Academics and their Partners in Dual-Locations
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 30323427
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137003874
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137003867
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Holmes’s longitudinal study of UK based academic couples in distance relationships spans almost ten years of research on the topic. The study included a questionnaire completed by 24 couples from which 14 were chosen for the original in-depth interviews conducted between 2002 and early 2005. Thirteen of these couples were then recontacted eight years later to collect updates on their relationships since the first interview. In addition, the book includes a detailed synthesis of existing statistical analyses of global trends in intimacy, situating distance relationships within these trends.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This monograph draws on elements of the article: Holmes, M. (2010) “Distance Relationships and Emotional Care”, Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques. There is some thematic overlap and of the 14 extended quotes in the article, 6 appear in the book on pages 81, 82, 132, 137 (2), 144. However, Distance Relationships extends and revises the arguments of the earlier article, offering a much more detailed discussion about how couples use emotional reflexivity to relationally navigate the complexity of distance relationships. This differs from the article’s argument about how distance relationships encourage less gendered forms of mutual caring.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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