Amit Desai's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. Ho...
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... Friendship is a long-term relationship of mutual affection and support (Fehr, 1996;Hruschka, 2010). It constitutes an important aspect of human nature, with people across different cultures and different times forming friendly relationships (Demir, 2015;Desai & Killick, 2010;Terrell, 2014). The universal aspect of friendship raises the question what traits people prefer their friends to have. ...
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... While debates on the public-private dichotomy on care provision set intimate care provided in private households against impersonal, "cold institutional care" (Hoschild 1995;Thelen 2015), I argue against this distinction and suggest instead that paid carers are capable of providing warm, affectionate care. Rather than staying within limiting and narrowly circumscribed categories and definitions of friends and friendships, I acknowledge different ways of friendships (Killick and Desai 2010) and closely investigate these emerging relationships. ...
