Thanks to all the good folk at Madrid, Here are some nice photos. My handout can be found at:Lectures in Madrid, November 2016
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One day course on illness
A one day course will be run by Ken on illness stories on Friday June 14th Stories of Health and Illness: An Introduction: (Essex Short Courses in Social Research) Professor Ken Plummer from Department of Sociology, University of Essex At 09:30 in Seminar Room 3, Constable Building, Essex University, Colchester Campus . Course overview Telling…
Art and Photos, Imagining Better Worlds, Insipirations, Intimate citizenship, Poems and Poetics, Politics and change, Sociological Imaginations
Love, Loss and Laugher: Visions of Alzheimer’s
The work of the sociologist –photographer Cathy Greenblat has aimed to show the ‘active’ nature of Alzheimer’s across the world; and how ‘good care’ can be crucial in creating situations to enable a better life for people with Alzheimer’s. As she remarks: As a social scientist, I know how much expectations influence achievement, and I…
Ken’s Sickness and Transplant Story
I have today placed a 50 page account of my illness and transplant. It is an auto/ ethnography and has appeared on a separate page on my web site marked Selected Writings . More on this will gradually be placed on this page.
Article: My Multiple Sick Bodies
Below is my most recent article published in April 2012. It is my first published piece based on my illness. MY MULTIPLE SICK BODIES: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND EMBODIMENT Ken Plummer Published in Bryan S Turner ed. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies 2012: Routledge p75-93 What happens when my body breaks down…