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Critical Humanism, Sociology and Intimate Citizenship
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    • About Ken
    • About this web blog
    • Autobiographical fragments
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    • Why Ken’s Web-Blog?
    • Contact Ken
    • Ken Plummer interview 2017 with Charlotte Morris
  • 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
      • Six Stories in Search of a Better World: Handout
      • Symbolic Interactionist Conference
      • 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

Category Archives: Intimate citizenship

  •   World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts Once again it is World AIDS Day. HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having [...]

    World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts

    December 1, 2017
  •   On Thursday February 11 2016, my dear friend, mentor and guru John Gagnon died at the age of 84. He had experienced problems with his leg [...]

    Remembering John Gagnon

    February 19, 2016
  •         A new book has been launched this week. The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars [...]

    Liberating Generations: a new paper in a new book

    October 28, 2015
  • Cosmopolitan Sexualities is now published My latest book was published in May 2015 by Polity Press. You can find details and a study guide for it [...]

    Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination

    May 25, 2015
  • Inequality “There’s been class warfare going on for the last twenty years, and my class has won. We’re the ones that have [...]

    On the current problem of inequality: The rich are getting richer

    May 5, 2015
  • Oh cruel world! Humanity’s inhumanity to humanity is haunting the ballot box. Welfare states tumble Health services crumble With austerity [...]

    The Ballot Box

    May 3, 2015
  • Against Austerity   Austerity is anti- humanist. It takes money and wealth as the starting point rather than people. It celebrates usury, [...]

    Against Austerity

    April 29, 2015
  •   ‘The Making of the Modern Homosexual’ Revisited  A discussion between Ken Plummer, Jeffrey Weeks and other contributors chaired by [...]

    The Making of the Modern Homosexual Revisited

    March 23, 2015
  •           Today, March 9th, marks the 10th anniversary of my ‘illness’. It is this day in 2005 I was rushed to [...]

    Transplants and the Total Life Experience: On the 10th Anniversary of ‘Becoming Ill’

    March 9, 2015
  •   Today is ‘End Violence Against Women’ Day – and runs for the next two weeks ( and forever!). The Issue To raise [...]

    End Violence Against Women

    November 25, 2014

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    • About
      • About Ken
      • About this web blog
      • Autobiographical fragments
      • Contact Ken
      • Ken Plummer interview 2017 with Charlotte Morris
      • 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
        • Six Stories in Search of a Better World: Handout
        • Sociological Imaginations in the 21st Century (2012)
        • Stories of Health and Illness (2011)
        • Symbolic Interactionism, Narrative and the Sick Body: Personal Reflections
        • Symbolic Interactionist Conference
        • 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
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