Love in the space–time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives

This article examines the changing experience of love at a time deepening inequalities. Drawing on ‘love story’ one resident London’s Royal Borough Kensington and Chelsea – arguably UK’s most unequal space it builds relational account to describe forms attachment detachment that accompany everyday life in an increasingly divided place. approach signals three wider contributions. First, by tracing through course world, this conceptualises sustained far-reaching way inequalities are lived felt life. Second, foregrounding stories as methodology highlights roles agency narrative how we tell write about In drawing these points together, thirdly inequality processual, situated contested emergent process ‘becoming unequal’ which can trace shifting relations between space, power.