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Women in Diplomacy: Their Private Transnational Practices

Diplomats' life-style implies frequent movement across national borders, and it thus incorporates continuous practices of transnational journey of people as well as material objects. Diplomacy is migration of non-negotiable duration defined in advance, so this paper focuses on specific implications of time-limited diplomatic mandates that influence and considerably define construction of new identities and new social-networks in which complete incorporation in a present social environment is not necessary. Practices through which woman in diplomacy try to accomplish inclusion in social networks at different locations can be defined as personal creation of transnational spaces. This can partly be obtained through material objects that they bring to the country there are assigned to in order to maintain their private everyday normality in a new location. This work in progress intends to investigate similarities between the practices of female diplomats and those women who accompany their husbands ; of single woman in diplomacy as well as those who organize transnational lives also for their children. It shifts from the less privileged to the multiply privileged transnational migrants, with potential insights into the similarities of their practices of negotiating normality by the means of objects and ways of communication in different places of everyday life.

anthropology; women; diplomacy; transnational practices

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