Ken Plummer

humanism, intimate citizenship and cosmopolitan sexualities
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Ken
    • About this web blog
    • Autobiographical fragments
    • Ken’s other web sites
    • Why Ken’s Web-Blog?
    • Contact Ken
  • Manifestos
    • A Manifesto for a Critical Humanism in Sociology
    • A Manifesto for Stories
    • A Manifesto and Poetic For Sociology
  • Montage
    • On Epigrams
    • On Essex and Sociology
    • On Ev
    • On images, poetics and writing
    • On Music and Musicals
    • On Remembered Friends: a quiet corner of the site
      • Memoriam: Michael Schofield Service
        • Timeline for Michael Schofield
      • In Memoriam: John Gagnon (1931-2016)
    • On Santa Barbara
    • Some Wivenhoe Photographs
  • Publications
    • Articles before 2000
    • Introductions, interviews and minor articles
    • Some Reviews
      • Fairies, Bears and Leathermen
      • How To Be Gay – David Halperin
      • Queer Attachments by Sally Munt
      • The Marrying Kind by Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor
      • Unlimited Intimacy by Tim Dean
    • After Recovery: Ken’s Post (2007) Illness Writings
      • List of Post 2007 publications
    • Selected Writings
      • An Interview with Howard Becker
      • Chicago Sociology
      • Critical Humanism and Queer Theory
      • Critical Sexualities
      • Farewell Sexualities from Ken Plummer
      • Gay Cultures/ Gay Rights
      • Intimate Citizenship
      • Intimate Citizenship in an an Unjust World
      • Labelling Theory
      • Male sexualities
      • Queer, Bodies and Postmodern-Sexualities
      • Rights Work: Constructing Lesbian, Gay and `Sexual Rights in Late Modern Times
      • Studying Sexualities for a Better World
      • Subterranean Traditions Rising: The Year that Enid Blyton Died
      • Symbolic Interactionism and Humanism
      • Symbolic Interactionism in the Twentieth Century
      • The Ethnographic Society (1999)
      • The Sexual Spectacle
      • The Social Reality of Sexual Rights
      • Transplants and Health
        • Transplant Hallucinations
      • Trashy Textbooks?
      • Generational Sexualities, Subterranean Traditions and the Hauntings of the Sexual World: Some Preliminary Remarks
    • Articles since 2000
      • 2017: On the Infinitude of Life Stories: Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years
      • Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in the Radical Queer Western Era
      • 2016 NARRATIVE POWER, SEXUAL STORIES AND THE POLITICS OF STORY TELLING
    • Key books and translations
  • Resources
    • Bibliographies
      • Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Basic ReadingList
      • Critical Humanism and Narrative Research: Bibliography
      • Critical Humanism: Select Reading List and Web Sites
      • Narratives and Illness: Select Bibliography
      • Global Sexualities: Building a World Bibliography
    • Presentations
      • CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GURU: RECALLING JOHN GAGNON OVER 45 YEARS
      • Cosmopolitan Sexualities (Oxford Talk)
      • Cosmopolitan Sexualities, Amsterdam, May 2014
      • Cosmopolitanism and the Sociological Imagination
      • Documents of Life: Narrative and Humanistic Research (Dublin 2011)
      • DURHAM SUMMER SCHOOL: CSGS: JULY 2015
      • Generations, Time and Sexualities (2012)
      • I will never ever drink again, ever! (BSA Talk , 2011)
      • Lecture on The Critical Humanist in Sociology (VI Congreso Andaluz de Sociologiá, Cadiz)
      • Lectures in Madrid, November 2016
      • On Narrative
      • Sociological Imaginations in the 21st Century (2012)
      • Stories of Health and Illness (2011)
      • Symbolic Interactionism, Narrative and the Sick Body: Personal Reflections
      • Tales of a Critical Humanist: BSA Presidential Lecture 2011
      • Telling Sexual Stories Twenty Years On:Fragments Towards A Humanist Politics Of Storytelling
      • The Pragmatic Imagination in Everyday Life
      • Towards a Cosmopolitan Common Ground (March 2013)
      • Madrid 2016: Narrative Humanities Seminar
      • Narrative Powers: Edinburgh April 2017
      • Before ‘Spanner’: A Sociologist Struggles to Make Sense of ‘Sadomasochism’ in the 1970s
      • 1968: Subterranean Worlds
    • Short courses
      • 2014: Narrative Research and Documents of Life
      • 2014:Narrative Research on Sickness and Illness
      • Introductory graduate power point October 2014
      • Short Course: Documents of Life 2013
      • Short Course: Stories of Health and Illness 2013
      • Symbolic Interactionism, The Self and Its Troubles 4 lectures ESSEX 2017
      • 2017: Social Psychology Course (Essex)
    • Web Links
      • Cosmopolitan Sexualities Web : Key Public Debates
  • Sociology
    • Endnotes for Chapter 1-4
    • Endnotes for Sociology Basics Part Two Chapters 5-8
    • Epigrammatic Sociology
    • Filmography: A Short Guide to Sociology and Film
    • Manifesto and Poetic for Sociology
    • Webliography: Linking to the Web
    • Acronyms
  • Transplants
  • Essex Imaginations
  • Cosmosexualities
    • What is Critical Humanism?
    • Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Contents Page
    • What is Cosmopolitanism?
    • And so what is Cosmopolitan Sexualities?
    • What are humanist values?
    • Brief guidelines for a ‘sexual ethics’ (see pages 37-8)
    • Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Web Resources
    • Brief Time Line
    • Multiple Sexualities: 100 examples

Daily Archives: July 8, 2012

  • ” Humanity begins the moment we stop being instinctively selfish and start seeing other points of view” Akira Kurosawa ( and cited in [...]

    Quoting Humanisms

    July 8, 2012
  • The simplest way to contact Ken is via e mail: plumk@essex.ac.uk

    Get in touch

    July 8, 2012

  • Top Clicks

    • questia.com/library/75999…
    • kenplummer.files.wordpres…
    • kenplummer.wordpress.com/…

  • Blogroll

    • Get Support
    • Learn WordPress.com
    • Theme Showcase

  • Ken's Links

    • All out
    • Azaaz.org

  • Sociology text books

    • Sociology : A Global Introduction (Text Book Web Site)
    • Sociology: The Basics (2010)

  • Pages

    • About
      • About Ken
      • About this web blog
      • Autobiographical fragments
      • Contact Ken
      • Ken’s other web sites
      • Why Ken’s Web-Blog?
    • Cosmosexualities
      • And so what is Cosmopolitan Sexualities?
      • Brief guidelines for a ‘sexual ethics’ (see pages 37-8)
      • Brief Time Line
      • Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Contents Page
      • Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Web Resources
      • Multiple Sexualities: 100 examples
      • What are humanist values?
      • What is Cosmopolitanism?
      • What is Critical Humanism?
    • Essex Imaginations
    • Manifestos
      • A Manifesto and Poetic For Sociology
      • A Manifesto for a Critical Humanism in Sociology
      • A Manifesto for Stories
    • Montage
      • On Epigrams
      • On Essex and Sociology
      • On Ev
      • On images, poetics and writing
      • On Music and Musicals
      • On Remembered Friends: a quiet corner of the site
        • In Memoriam: John Gagnon (1931-2016)
        • Memoriam: Michael Schofield Service
          • Timeline for Michael Schofield
      • On Santa Barbara
      • Some Wivenhoe Photographs
    • Publications
      • After Recovery: Ken’s Post (2007) Illness Writings
        • List of Post 2007 publications
      • Articles before 2000
      • Articles since 2000
        • 2016 NARRATIVE POWER, SEXUAL STORIES AND THE POLITICS OF STORY TELLING
        • 2017: On the Infinitude of Life Stories: Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years
        • Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in the Radical Queer Western Era
      • Introductions, interviews and minor articles
      • Key books and translations
      • Selected Writings
        • An Interview with Howard Becker
        • Chicago Sociology
        • Critical Humanism and Queer Theory
        • Critical Sexualities
        • Farewell Sexualities from Ken Plummer
        • Gay Cultures/ Gay Rights
        • Generational Sexualities, Subterranean Traditions and the Hauntings of the Sexual World: Some Preliminary Remarks
        • Intimate Citizenship
        • Intimate Citizenship in an an Unjust World
        • Labelling Theory
        • Male sexualities
        • Queer, Bodies and Postmodern-Sexualities
        • Rights Work: Constructing Lesbian, Gay and `Sexual Rights in Late Modern Times
        • Studying Sexualities for a Better World
        • Subterranean Traditions Rising: The Year that Enid Blyton Died
        • Symbolic Interactionism and Humanism
        • Symbolic Interactionism in the Twentieth Century
        • The Ethnographic Society (1999)
        • The Sexual Spectacle
        • The Social Reality of Sexual Rights
        • Transplants and Health
          • Transplant Hallucinations
        • Trashy Textbooks?
      • Some Reviews
        • Fairies, Bears and Leathermen
        • How To Be Gay – David Halperin
        • Queer Attachments by Sally Munt
        • The Marrying Kind by Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor
        • Unlimited Intimacy by Tim Dean
    • Resources
      • Bibliographies
        • Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Basic ReadingList
        • Critical Humanism and Narrative Research: Bibliography
        • Critical Humanism: Select Reading List and Web Sites
        • Global Sexualities: Building a World Bibliography
        • Narratives and Illness: Select Bibliography
      • Presentations
        • 1968: Subterranean Worlds
        • Before ‘Spanner’: A Sociologist Struggles to Make Sense of ‘Sadomasochism’ in the 1970s
        • CONVERSATIONS WITH MY GURU: RECALLING JOHN GAGNON OVER 45 YEARS
        • Cosmopolitan Sexualities (Oxford Talk)
        • Cosmopolitan Sexualities, Amsterdam, May 2014
        • Cosmopolitanism and the Sociological Imagination
        • Documents of Life: Narrative and Humanistic Research (Dublin 2011)
        • DURHAM SUMMER SCHOOL: CSGS: JULY 2015
        • Generations, Time and Sexualities (2012)
        • I will never ever drink again, ever! (BSA Talk , 2011)
        • Lecture on The Critical Humanist in Sociology (VI Congreso Andaluz de Sociologiá, Cadiz)
        • Lectures in Madrid, November 2016
        • Madrid 2016: Narrative Humanities Seminar
        • Narrative Powers: Edinburgh April 2017
        • On Narrative
        • Sociological Imaginations in the 21st Century (2012)
        • Stories of Health and Illness (2011)
        • Symbolic Interactionism, Narrative and the Sick Body: Personal Reflections
        • Tales of a Critical Humanist: BSA Presidential Lecture 2011
        • Telling Sexual Stories Twenty Years On:Fragments Towards A Humanist Politics Of Storytelling
        • The Pragmatic Imagination in Everyday Life
        • Towards a Cosmopolitan Common Ground (March 2013)
      • Short courses
        • 2014: Narrative Research and Documents of Life
        • 2014:Narrative Research on Sickness and Illness
        • 2017: Social Psychology Course (Essex)
        • Introductory graduate power point October 2014
        • Short Course: Documents of Life 2013
        • Short Course: Stories of Health and Illness 2013
        • Symbolic Interactionism, The Self and Its Troubles 4 lectures ESSEX 2017
      • Web Links
        • Cosmopolitan Sexualities Web : Key Public Debates
    • Sociology
      • Acronyms
      • Endnotes for Chapter 1-4
      • Endnotes for Sociology Basics Part Two Chapters 5-8
      • Epigrammatic Sociology
      • Filmography: A Short Guide to Sociology and Film
      • Manifesto and Poetic for Sociology
      • Webliography: Linking to the Web
    • Transplants
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel