A new third edition of this book is coming in the summer 2021
Author: kenplummer
Critical Humanism
Coming in September 2021
Pioneering Social Research
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation is out now from Policy Press. Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of research methodology, pioneered…
A Website on Holiday
This website was active between 2012 and 2019. It has been resting since then. But plans to take a face lift and return in the summer of 2021. Thanks for your patience.
Narrative Power
NARRATIVE POWER: A SHORT INTERVIEW In this short interview, Ken Plummer tells a little about his new book. Q: Why did you write Narrative Power? Narrative has become a contemporary buzzword: everybody’s talking about it. There’s now a vast amount of writing by academics in all kinds of different disciplines from literature and the…
12th Anniversary of Liver Transplant
THE WAY IT ISby William Stafford There’s a thread you follow. It goes amongthings that change. But it doesn’t change.People wonder about what you are pursuing.You have to explain about the thread.But it is hard for others to see.While you hold it you can’t get lost.Tragedies happen; people get hurtor die; and you suffer and…
Congratulations SEXUALITIES: Twenty Years Old!
CONGRATULATIONS SEXUALITIES! Now Twenty Years Old, the 20th Anniversary Edition depicts the enormous range and success of a growing field of research, activism and policy. Its is marvellous issue, bursting with state of the art essays from many on its editorial board. It is a must read for sexualities scholars. In a very dark world right…
Articles, Imagining Better Worlds, Politics and change, Quoting Humanisms, Sociological Imaginations
Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies
The 2nd edition of The Routledge International Handbook o COSMOPOLITAN STUDIES edited by Gerard Delanty has just been published. It contains some 50 wide ranging original essays. I have a small contribution on COSMOPOLITAN SEXUALITIES s
Researching Sex and Sexualities : Now Published
I have been interviewed by Charlotte Morris for this new and exciting book. See Ken Interview
Storytelling Conference, University of Suffolk
STORYTELLING CONFERENCE 10th and 11th July 2018 University of Suffolk, UK We are excited to announce that the call for papers for our Storytelling Conference is now open. We invite papers that theoretically and empirically engage with a broad range of disciplines reflecting the diverse nature of storytelling and stories substantively and methodologically. Keynote Speakers…