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…
Books, Articles & Research, Imagining Better Worlds, Living Humanity, Politics and change, 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…
Whose side are we on? Lancaster Conference July 2018
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) and European SSSI Lancaster University 4 , 5 and 6 July 2018 ‘Whose side are we on?’ Power, Stigma, Transgression and Exclusion in Everyday Life. Some Notes for: “Whose Side Are We On?” Revisited: On Narrative Power, Inequality and The Struggle for Human…
Annual Symbolic Interaction Conference
Whose side are we on? Power, Stigma, Transgression and Exclusion in Everyday Life 4,5,6 July 2018 University of Lancaster For more info: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sssi2018/ Ken Plummer: “Whose Side Are We On?” Revisited: On Narrative Power, Inequality and Hope ‘To have values or not to have values: the question is always with us’. And so Howard S.…
The Political in the Personal: Families and Sexualities in Times of Social Change in Europe
A Conference to be held at University of Louvain, Louvain-La- Neuve, Belgium, 26-7 April WATCH THIS SPACE OR GO TO https://sites.uclouvain.be/conference-politicalpersonal/
World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts
World AIDS Day 2017 : Everybody Counts Once again it is World AIDS Day. HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2016, 1.0 million people died from HIV-related causes globally. There were approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV at the…
50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years
To mark the 50th Anniversary Changes in the law…… a recent little piece written for the British Sociological Association Web site at: British Sociological Association: News: July 27th 50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years On 27th July 1967, the Sexual Offences Act, ‘an act to amend the law of England…
New Article: On the Infinitude of Life Stories – Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years
I have just published a new short article. This is an extract of an article published in QED: A Journal in GLBTQWorldmaking 4.1 (2017) p189-197. FROM: Tony Adams and Derek Bolen eds ‘Queer Auto/ethnographies” Forum for QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. A Story of My Stories Over the years I have told many sexual stories.…