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Category Archives: Arts and Health
Stepping off the ‘relationship escalator’. A spatial perspective on residential arrangements of consensually non-monogamous parents
Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The residential landscape of western societies in the 20th century was based on a nuclear and monogamous normative representation of the family. This representation contrasts with the representation of the family that some consensually non-monogamous (CNM) parents carry. How did CNM informants combine residence, parenting and multiple relationships within the hetero-mono-normative organizational legacy of society? An extensive set of exploratory and ethnographic data was gathered in francophone countries in Western Europe during 2013–2018. Informants’ dwelling configurations were interpreted as the result of their personal life paths interwoven with a web of macrostructural tensions. A comparative approach on residences, combined with life stories gathered within a strategic group of informants, contributed to understanding the various processes leading to specific forms of CNM dwellings with children. The comparison highlights five categories of CNM residential patterns, all resulting from attempts to compromise with the hetero-mono-normative dwelling tradition. The developments of transportation and communication technologies appeared as an important factor in the spatial and temporal organizations of family functions within the CNM configurations observed. These CNM family arrangements also appeared as ephemeral and versatile. These conclusions lead to new avenues of research regarding the social forces contributing to their fragility despite the intent of the actors.
The residential landscape of western societies in the 20th century was based on a nuclear and monogamous normative representation of the family. This representation contrasts with the representation of the family that some consensually non-monogamous (CNM) parents carry. How did CNM informants combine residence, parenting and multiple relationships within the hetero-mono-normative organizational legacy of society? An extensive set of exploratory and ethnographic data was gathered in francophone countries in Western Europe during 2013–2018. Informants’ dwelling configurations were interpreted as the result of their personal life paths interwoven with a web of macrostructural tensions. A comparative approach on residences, combined with life stories gathered within a strategic group of informants, contributed to understanding the various processes leading to specific forms of CNM dwellings with children. The comparison highlights five categories of CNM residential patterns, all resulting from attempts to compromise with the hetero-mono-normative dwelling tradition. The developments of transportation and communication technologies appeared as an important factor in the spatial and temporal organizations of family functions within the CNM configurations observed. These CNM family arrangements also appeared as ephemeral and versatile. These conclusions lead to new avenues of research regarding the social forces contributing to their fragility despite the intent of the actors.
Confucianism and human rights – exploring the philosophical base for inclusive education for children with disabilities in China
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No longer free to be Deaf: Cultural, medical and social understandings of d/Deafness in prison
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Are we talking the same language? Contestable discourses between university staff accommodating students with disability
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Building capacity to engage in co-produced research: reflections from a digital storytelling project
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All that is Frozen Melts into the Sea: Arctic Gas, Science, and Capitalist Natures
Quantifying sex. Sex-tracking apps and users’ practices
Sexualities, Ahead of Print.
The motivation to use apps to measure and automate intimate aspects of life, including sexual behaviours, is growing. This research qualitatively collects diaries and interviews of 21 user experiences with sex-tracking apps, which are designed to help users evaluate and manage relationships via the quantification of sexual activities. The article seeks a tripartite understanding of how the apps are used as an instrument to (1) know oneself, (2) control one’s bodies and desires and (3) mapping, ordering and collecting sexual interactions. The results reveal that participatory innovation, performance prioritisation and trophy cataloguing are they key outcomes.
The motivation to use apps to measure and automate intimate aspects of life, including sexual behaviours, is growing. This research qualitatively collects diaries and interviews of 21 user experiences with sex-tracking apps, which are designed to help users evaluate and manage relationships via the quantification of sexual activities. The article seeks a tripartite understanding of how the apps are used as an instrument to (1) know oneself, (2) control one’s bodies and desires and (3) mapping, ordering and collecting sexual interactions. The results reveal that participatory innovation, performance prioritisation and trophy cataloguing are they key outcomes.
Invisible privilege in Asia: Introduction to special section
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This introduction to the special section ‘Invisible Privilege in Asia’ suggests a framework within which studies of privilege in Asia can be situated. Animated by a global politics of Blackness and social movements that have renewed the focus on racialised inequality and hierarchy, we use this moment to urge an interrogation of the conceptual productivity of the notion of privilege. This project is particularly significant within a region that is often seen only as empirical site and not as a space for theory-building in the social sciences.
This introduction to the special section ‘Invisible Privilege in Asia’ suggests a framework within which studies of privilege in Asia can be situated. Animated by a global politics of Blackness and social movements that have renewed the focus on racialised inequality and hierarchy, we use this moment to urge an interrogation of the conceptual productivity of the notion of privilege. This project is particularly significant within a region that is often seen only as empirical site and not as a space for theory-building in the social sciences.
Understanding Socio-metabolic Inequalities Using Consumption Data from Germany
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