Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. This book elaborates this proposition by showing that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and inseparably linked within specific trajectories of modernization in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. It documents ways that rapid economic integration plays itself out in diverse communities through the types of interpersonal relationships promoted by market expansion and spreading neo-liberal sensibilities.

Introduction 1. Ethnicity, Captical and the Architecture of Mobile Hopes and Dreams 2. Frontiers and Embodied Ambitions 3. Special Zones - Anomalous Spaces 4. Intimate Safeguards and Affective Politics of the Precariat 5. Poiesis of the Intimate Encounter: Dormitory Exchanges and Bed-sit Affairs 6. First do no Harm

Chris Lyttleton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia.