Description: Intimate Inequalities: Performing Migrant Domestic Work mobilizes performance as both an analytic lens and a method of collaborative research in amplifying migrant domestic workers' experiences and creative expertise.
Review Quotes:
"An eloquent and engaged study of the lived worlds of domestic workers in Lebanon, refreshing in its use of performance-based research methods and acutely sensitive to detail. Parry-Davies offers a careful yet bold approach to performance ethnography." --Sruti Bala, University of Amsterdam
"Intimate Inequalities is a bold and caring study of the lives of Filipino domestic workers employed in the UK and Lebanon, interrogating power at the intersections of gender, race, political economy, domestic labour, immigration, and transnationalism. Working intimately with her collaborators through innovative performance methods, Parry-Davies works through the inequities that undergird performance research itself, and models ethical performance ethnography in foregrounding her interlocutors as agential subjects and creative interlocutors." --Royona Mitra, Brunel University