Sasha Roseneil
Biographic Data
| ID | 265108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sasha Roseneil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Roseneil |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENEIL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0618-6892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
On Missed Encounters: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Exclusion
This article offers a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis and queer theory through the exploration of the author’s personal experience of withdrawing from contributing to the book Clinical Encounters in Sexuality. Tracing this back through the author’s biographical history of confronting institutionalized mainstream British psychoanalysis, it provides an exploration of the psychosocial dynamics of the exclusion of unacceptable s…
Broader (than psychoanalysis) and deeper (than sociology): The psychosocial promise of group analysis
Reproducing Citizens: Family, state and civil society
Book synopsis: Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and offers the first major global collecti…
Constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions of 'family' amongst people who live apart together (LATs)
This article explores how people who live apart from their partners in Britain describe and understand 'family'. It investigates whether, and how far, non-cohabiting partners, friends, 'blood' and legal ties are seen as 'family', and how practices of care and support, and feelings of closeness are related to these constructions. It suggests that people in LAT relationships creatively draw and re-draw the boundaries of family belonging in ways tha…
Relational Persons and Relational Processes: Developing the Notion of Relationality for the Sociology of Personal Life
The concept of relationality has recently found widespread favour in British sociology, particularly in the emergent sub-field of the sociology of personal life, which is characterized by its attachment to the concept. However, this 'relational turn' is under-theorized and pays little attention to the substantial history of relational thinking across the human sciences. This article argues that the notion of relationality in the sociology of pers…
Reproducing Citizens: Family, State and Civil Society
Entanglements of Economic and Intimate Citizenship: Individualization and Gender (In)Equality in a Changing Europe
This paper contributes to the ongoing refinement of citizenship as a feminist concept through the development of understandings of the relationship between economic and intimate citizenship in contemporary Europe. It draws on two crossnational research projects that each focus on a group of people who might be thought to be affected by particular processes of individualization: the economic "activation" of large numbers of women in increasingly d…
Gendered Citizenship in a Multidimensional Perspective: The Challenges Facing Norway within the Nordic Model
This article discusses the challenges that continue to exist in the struggle for full and equal citizenship in Norway, focusing particularly on the multidimensional citizenship that has been central to the overarching project of women's movements. It reports on comparative research on the social, economic, multicultural, and intimate dimensions of citizenship which offers grounds to regard Norway as an example of good practice and supportive poli…
Living Apart Relationships in Contemporary Europe: Accounts of Togetherness and Apartness
Drawing on a European cross-national biographical-narrative study of intimate life, this article discusses the complexity of experiences of ‘togetherness’ and ‘apartness’ amongst people in living apart relationships. We explore the five main ways in which interviewees spoke about and understood their current living apart relationships (as: chosen; temporary; transitional; undecided; and unrecognisable), which we argue shows the need for a broader…
On meeting Linda: An intimate encounter with (not-)belonging in the current conjuncture
Beyond Citizenship?
Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging pushes debates about citizenship and feminist politics in new directions, challenging us to think 'beyond citizenship', and to engage i
Beyond ‘the Relationship between the Individual and Society’: Broadening and Deepening Relational Thinking in Group Analysis
The question of ‘the relationship between the individual and society’ has troubled group analysis since its inception. This paper offers a reading of Foulkes that highlights the emergent, yet evanescent, psychosocial ontology in his writings, and argues for the development of a truly psychosocial group analysis, which moves beyond the individual/society dualism. It argues for a shift towards a language of relationality, and proposes new theoretic…
Why do people live apart together
Interpretations of living apart together (LAT) have typically counter-posed ‘new family form’ versus ‘continuist’ perspectives. Recent surveys, however, construct LAT as a heterogeneous category that supports a ‘qualified continuist’ position – most people live apart as a response to practical circumstances or as a modern version of ‘boy/girlfriend’, although a minority represents something new in preferring to live apart more permanently. This a…
Close encounters: Researching intimate lives in Europe
This research note aims to extend the discussion on the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life. Drawing on a comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family, it reflects on the processes of gaining access to often hard-to-reach populations which informed and influenced the empirical work that we carried out in four European countries
Changing Landscapes of Heteronormativity: The Regulation and Normalization of Same-Sex Sexualities in Europe
This paper explores transformations in institutional norms about same-sex sexualities across four European countries: Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal and the UK. Focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the present day, it examines both endogenous, path-dependent nationally specific factors at work in the changing regulation of same-sex sexualities, particularly the campaigns of lesbian and gay movements, and exogenous influences exerted by proce…
Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: Editorial Introduction
Legal rights for people who ‘Live Apart Together’
About 10% of adults in Britain have a living apart together (LAT) relationship; they are nearly always administratively and legally defined as single but in fact they have a partner who lives elsewhere. The question then arises, should LAT couples have access to legal rights and protection in the same way as proposed (in Britain) or achieved (in other jurisdictions) for unmarried cohabitants? Using both a national survey and in-depth interviews, …
Using biographical narrative and life story methods to research women's movements: Femcit
Researching women's movements: An introduction to Femcit and Sisterhood and After
Mettre l’amitié au premier plan: Passés et futurs féministes
L’amitié est un champ d’études peu exploré et cependant d’importance vitale pour les études genre et féministes. En revisitant l’histoire des écrits féministes sur les amitiés entre femmes, l’article explore l’importance qui est donnée à l’amitié par les premières générations de féministes tout au long du XX e siècle. En se concentrant sur les considérations polémiques, théoriques et empiriques à l’égard de l’amitié, l’article suggère que l’amiti…
Criticality, Not Paranoia: A Generative Register for Feminist Social Research
Social Research after the Cultural Turn
This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questi
Intimate Citizenship: A Pragmatic, Yet Radical, Proposal for a Politics of Personal Life
Federica Giardini teaches Political Philosophy at the Università Roma Tre. Her lat-est investigations use the category of difference to recombine the significa-tions of contemporary issues such as the political realm of relations between human and non human (cosmopolitics) or relations of obedience and disobe-dience. She is a member of the philosophical community Diotima; of the directory board of IAPh (Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinn…
Haunting in an Age of Individualization
This paper uses the notion of ‘haunting’ to explore how even those who might be considered to be particularly individualized are inhabited by the traces of the lives of others. The paper works with a single detailed case study taken from UK based research on the personal lives and values of people living outside the conventional cohabiting couple. It develops a psycho-social-analysis of interviews with Ben, a black English man in his 50s who is a…
Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project
This paper discusses an ongoing investigation into the material cultural legacy and memory of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. Using an autoethnographic approach it explores how a project at Greenham became an exercise in feminist practice, which aimed to stay close to the spirit and ethics of its subject of study, the women-only, feminist space of Greenham. We draw on principles from feminist and post-positivist scholarship to argue for t…
Cultures of Intimacy and Care beyond 'the Family: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century
The authors argue that if sociologists are to understand the current state, and likely future, of intimacy and care, we should decentre the 'family' and the heterosexual couple in our intellectual imaginaries. In the context of processes of individualization much that matters to people in terms of intimacy and care increasingly takes place beyond the 'family', between partners who are not living together 'as family', and within networks of friend…
Relational Persons and Relational Processes: Developing the Notion of Relationality for the Sociology of Personal Life
The concept of relationality has recently found widespread favour in British sociology, particularly in the emergent sub-field of the sociology of personal life, which is characterized by its attachment to the concept. However, this 'relational turn' is under-theorized and pays little attention to the substantial history of relational thinking across the human sciences. This article argues that the notion of relationality in the sociology of pers…
On Not Living with a Partner: Unpicking Coupledom and Cohabitation
The contemporary normative model of sexual/ love relationships assumes a teleology in which some time after getting together two people instantiate their state of coupledom by moving in together. As a consequence, those who do not cohabit with a partner are generally thought not to be coupled. Social researchers have largely shared this understanding of intimate relationships, operating with a tripartite model of relationships in which people are…
Why we should Care about Friends: An Argument for Queering the Care Imaginary in Social Policy
This paper sets out an argument for the re-imagining of care in social policy on three interrelated grounds: epistemological–theoretical, substantive socio-historical, and normative political–philosophical. It takes up the epistemological challenge offered by queer theory to propose a different gaze be cast on care which recognizes the practices of care which take place outside normative heterosexual couples and families. Following on from this, …
Changing Landscapes of Heteronormativity: The Regulation and Normalization of Same-Sex Sexualities in Europe
This paper explores transformations in institutional norms about same-sex sexualities across four European countries: Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal and the UK. Focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the present day, it examines both endogenous, path-dependent nationally specific factors at work in the changing regulation of same-sex sexualities, particularly the campaigns of lesbian and gay movements, and exogenous influences exerted by proce…
Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies: Towards an Understanding of Postmodern Transformations of Sexuality
This article aims to extend the theorization of postmodernity to consider social changes in the realm of sexuality. It offers a discussion of recent developments in queer theory, which, it is argued, can contribute significant new theoretical frameworks for the analysis of sexuality. It then traces some of the shifts in the organization of sexuality in the second half of the twentieth century, the emergence of modern sexual identities, and the ch…
The Ambivalences of Angel's 'Arrangement: A Psychosocial Lens on the Contemporary Condition of Personal Life
The aim of this article is to explore the potential of a psychoanalytically informed psychosocial approach to extend understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. It argues for the theorization of the intertwining of the social and the psychic, in order to take seriously the realm of the intra-psychic and the dynamic unconscious, without engaging in either psychological or sociological reductionism. The article offers a detailed …
Why do people live apart together
Interpretations of living apart together (LAT) have typically counter-posed ‘new family form’ versus ‘continuist’ perspectives. Recent surveys, however, construct LAT as a heterogeneous category that supports a ‘qualified continuist’ position – most people live apart as a response to practical circumstances or as a modern version of ‘boy/girlfriend’, although a minority represents something new in preferring to live apart more permanently. This a…
The Coming of Age of Feminist Sociology: Some Issues of Practice and Theory for the Next Twenty Years
Apres deux decennies passees a defier les courants dominants de la sociologie, la sociologie feministe est devenue majeure. Considerant la vigueur des luttes induites par la sociologie feministe, l'A. examine les relations de cette derniere avec la discipline toute entiere et avec la sphere interdisciplinaire des etudes feminines. Les merites respectifs des strategies « integrationiste » versus « multiculturaliste » sont evalues. La diabolisation…
Queer Individualization: The Transformation of Personal Life in the Early 21st Century
This article explores what happens to understandings of social change in the realm of personal life when an empirical investigation is carried out that begins from rather different ontological and epistemological premises from those that have underpinned recent debates. It draws on UK‐based research that was framed by an engagement with sociological theories of individualization, psychoanalytically informed psycho‐social studies and queer theory,…
Reproduction and citizenship/reproducing citizens: Editorial Introduction
Intimate Citizenship: A Pragmatic, Yet Radical, Proposal for a Politics of Personal Life
Federica Giardini teaches Political Philosophy at the Università Roma Tre. Her lat-est investigations use the category of difference to recombine the significa-tions of contemporary issues such as the political realm of relations between human and non human (cosmopolitics) or relations of obedience and disobe-dience. She is a member of the philosophical community Diotima; of the directory board of IAPh (Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinn…
Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project
This paper discusses an ongoing investigation into the material cultural legacy and memory of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. Using an autoethnographic approach it explores how a project at Greenham became an exercise in feminist practice, which aimed to stay close to the spirit and ethics of its subject of study, the women-only, feminist space of Greenham. We draw on principles from feminist and post-positivist scholarship to argue for t…
Constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions of 'family' amongst people who live apart together (LATs)
This article explores how people who live apart from their partners in Britain describe and understand 'family'. It investigates whether, and how far, non-cohabiting partners, friends, 'blood' and legal ties are seen as 'family', and how practices of care and support, and feelings of closeness are related to these constructions. It suggests that people in LAT relationships creatively draw and re-draw the boundaries of family belonging in ways tha…
Haunting in an Age of Individualization
This paper uses the notion of ‘haunting’ to explore how even those who might be considered to be particularly individualized are inhabited by the traces of the lives of others. The paper works with a single detailed case study taken from UK based research on the personal lives and values of people living outside the conventional cohabiting couple. It develops a psycho-social-analysis of interviews with Ben, a black English man in his 50s who is a…
Legal rights for people who ‘Live Apart Together’
About 10% of adults in Britain have a living apart together (LAT) relationship; they are nearly always administratively and legally defined as single but in fact they have a partner who lives elsewhere. The question then arises, should LAT couples have access to legal rights and protection in the same way as proposed (in Britain) or achieved (in other jurisdictions) for unmarried cohabitants? Using both a national survey and in-depth interviews, …
Living Apart Relationships in Contemporary Europe: Accounts of Togetherness and Apartness
Drawing on a European cross-national biographical-narrative study of intimate life, this article discusses the complexity of experiences of ‘togetherness’ and ‘apartness’ amongst people in living apart relationships. We explore the five main ways in which interviewees spoke about and understood their current living apart relationships (as: chosen; temporary; transitional; undecided; and unrecognisable), which we argue shows the need for a broader…
Using biographical narrative and life story methods to research women's movements: Femcit
Social Research after the Cultural Turn
This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questi
Postmodern Feminist Politics: The Art of the (Im)Possible
Book synopsis: Feminism has always refused compartmentalisation within any one social context, and this collection attests to its universal relevance. This is a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed in the past two hundred years. The collected works are arranged chronologically, giving readers a sense of the history of feminism, and the movement's changes and develo…
Practising Identities: Power and Resistance
Questions of identity, individual and collective, confront us at every turn at the end of the twentieth century. We are interpellated and interrogated by a multiplicity of voices to consider and reconsider our identities. How we think of ourselves and how we perform ourselves in terms of gender, nationality, ethnicity, race, sexuality and embodiment is up for grabs, open to negotiation, subject to choice to an unprecedented extent. Or so the stor…
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Backlash and the gender politics of the underclass debate
This article is concerned with an aspect of the ‘underclass debate’ which has, thus far, been largely neglected by British social scientists—its gender politics. It examines the discourse that links lone mothers, juvenile crime, and the fiscal crisis of the Welfare State, tracing the development of the discourse, in its various forms, through 1993. The article argues that a high degree of consensus developed, uniting politicians and commentators …
Close encounters: Researching intimate lives in Europe
This research note aims to extend the discussion on the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life. Drawing on a comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family, it reflects on the processes of gaining access to often hard-to-reach populations which informed and influenced the empirical work that we carried out in four European countries
Criticality, Not Paranoia: A Generative Register for Feminist Social Research
On meeting Linda: An intimate encounter with (not-)belonging in the current conjuncture
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Backlash and the gender politics of the underclass debate
This article is concerned with an aspect of the ‘underclass debate’ which has, thus far, been largely neglected by British social scientists—its gender politics. It examines the discourse that links lone mothers, juvenile crime, and the fiscal crisis of the Welfare State, tracing the development of the discourse, in its various forms, through 1993. The article argues that a high degree of consensus developed, uniting politicians and commentators …
Disarming patriarchy: Feminism and political action at Greenham
The Coming of Age of Feminist Sociology: Some Issues of Practice and Theory for the Next Twenty Years
Apres deux decennies passees a defier les courants dominants de la sociologie, la sociologie feministe est devenue majeure. Considerant la vigueur des luttes induites par la sociologie feministe, l'A. examine les relations de cette derniere avec la discipline toute entiere et avec la sphere interdisciplinaire des etudes feminines. Les merites respectifs des strategies « integrationiste » versus « multiculturaliste » sont evalues. La diabolisation…
Practising Identities
Postmodern Feminist Politics: The Art of the (Im)Possible
Book synopsis: Feminism has always refused compartmentalisation within any one social context, and this collection attests to its universal relevance. This is a guide for specialist and non-specialist readers to the many debates and discussions to which feminists have contributed in the past two hundred years. The collected works are arranged chronologically, giving readers a sense of the history of feminism, and the movement's changes and develo…
Practising Identities: Power and Resistance
Questions of identity, individual and collective, confront us at every turn at the end of the twentieth century. We are interpellated and interrogated by a multiplicity of voices to consider and reconsider our identities. How we think of ourselves and how we perform ourselves in terms of gender, nationality, ethnicity, race, sexuality and embodiment is up for grabs, open to negotiation, subject to choice to an unprecedented extent. Or so the stor…
Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies: Towards an Understanding of Postmodern Transformations of Sexuality
This article aims to extend the theorization of postmodernity to consider social changes in the realm of sexuality. It offers a discussion of recent developments in queer theory, which, it is argued, can contribute significant new theoretical frameworks for the analysis of sexuality. It then traces some of the shifts in the organization of sexuality in the second half of the twentieth century, the emergence of modern sexual identities, and the ch…
Globalization and Social Movements
Speaking of Sexuality and Subcultures: A Conversation with Judith Halberstam
Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies
an understanding of virtually any aspect of modern Western culture must be, not merely incomplete, but damaged in its central substance to the degree that it does not incorporate a critical analysis of modern home/heterosexual definition
Globalization and Social Movements
Ethical Relations - Agency, Autonomy, Care
Why we should Care about Friends: An Argument for Queering the Care Imaginary in Social Policy
This paper sets out an argument for the re-imagining of care in social policy on three interrelated grounds: epistemological–theoretical, substantive socio-historical, and normative political–philosophical. It takes up the epistemological challenge offered by queer theory to propose a different gaze be cast on care which recognizes the practices of care which take place outside normative heterosexual couples and families. Following on from this, …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Journal Article Introduction to the Special Issue Get access Sasha Roseneil, Sasha Roseneil University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fiona Williams Fiona Williams University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, September 2004, Pages 147–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Cultures of Intimacy and Care beyond 'the Family: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century
The authors argue that if sociologists are to understand the current state, and likely future, of intimacy and care, we should decentre the 'family' and the heterosexual couple in our intellectual imaginaries. In the context of processes of individualization much that matters to people in terms of intimacy and care increasingly takes place beyond the 'family', between partners who are not living together 'as family', and within networks of friend…
Kulturen von Intimität und Fürsorge jenseits der Familie - Persönliches Leben und gesellschaftlicher Wandel zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Article Kulturen von Intimität und Fürsorge jenseits der Familie - Persönliches Leben und gesellschaftlicher Wandel zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts was published on November 1, 2005 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 23, issue 2)
Viver e amar para lá da heteronorma: Uma análise queer das relações pessoais no século XXI
O presente artigo propõe-se desenvolver uma abordagem queer do estudo das relações pessoais. Inserindo-se no contexto das importantes transformações ocorridas na organização da vida pessoal ao longo dos últimos trinta anos, ele defende que os sociólogos devem desalojar a família e o casal heterossexual do lugar central que ocupam no nosso imaginário intelectual. Faz-se uma crítica à sociologia, motivada pelos quadros heteronormativos em função do…
The Ambivalences of Angel's 'Arrangement: A Psychosocial Lens on the Contemporary Condition of Personal Life
The aim of this article is to explore the potential of a psychoanalytically informed psychosocial approach to extend understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. It argues for the theorization of the intertwining of the social and the psychic, in order to take seriously the realm of the intra-psychic and the dynamic unconscious, without engaging in either psychological or sociological reductionism. The article offers a detailed …
On Not Living with a Partner: Unpicking Coupledom and Cohabitation
The contemporary normative model of sexual/ love relationships assumes a teleology in which some time after getting together two people instantiate their state of coupledom by moving in together. As a consequence, those who do not cohabit with a partner are generally thought not to be coupled. Social researchers have largely shared this understanding of intimate relationships, operating with a tripartite model of relationships in which people are…
Queer Individualization: The Transformation of Personal Life in the Early 21st Century
This article explores what happens to understandings of social change in the realm of personal life when an empirical investigation is carried out that begins from rather different ontological and epistemological premises from those that have underpinned recent debates. It draws on UK‐based research that was framed by an engagement with sociological theories of individualization, psychoanalytically informed psycho‐social studies and queer theory,…
Haunting in an Age of Individualization
This paper uses the notion of ‘haunting’ to explore how even those who might be considered to be particularly individualized are inhabited by the traces of the lives of others. The paper works with a single detailed case study taken from UK based research on the personal lives and values of people living outside the conventional cohabiting couple. It develops a psycho-social-analysis of interviews with Ben, a black English man in his 50s who is a…
Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project
This paper discusses an ongoing investigation into the material cultural legacy and memory of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. Using an autoethnographic approach it explores how a project at Greenham became an exercise in feminist practice, which aimed to stay close to the spirit and ethics of its subject of study, the women-only, feminist space of Greenham. We draw on principles from feminist and post-positivist scholarship to argue for t…
Intimate Citizenship: A Pragmatic, Yet Radical, Proposal for a Politics of Personal Life
Federica Giardini teaches Political Philosophy at the Università Roma Tre. Her lat-est investigations use the category of difference to recombine the significa-tions of contemporary issues such as the political realm of relations between human and non human (cosmopolitics) or relations of obedience and disobe-dience. She is a member of the philosophical community Diotima; of the directory board of IAPh (Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinn…
Mettre l’amitié au premier plan: Passés et futurs féministes
L’amitié est un champ d’études peu exploré et cependant d’importance vitale pour les études genre et féministes. En revisitant l’histoire des écrits féministes sur les amitiés entre femmes, l’article explore l’importance qui est donnée à l’amitié par les premières générations de féministes tout au long du XX e siècle. En se concentrant sur les considérations polémiques, théoriques et empiriques à l’égard de l’amitié, l’article suggère que l’amiti…
Criticality, Not Paranoia: A Generative Register for Feminist Social Research
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