Abstract:
This talk addresses the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life, drawing on a collaborative, comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family.

It will focus on the processes of gaining access to often hard-to-reach populations, reflecting on the different ways in which experiences and negotiations of ‘unconventionality’ in the organisation of intimate life influence the practice of doing research on intimacy in contemporary, multicultural Europe.

Biography
Dr Isabel Crowhurst is a Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex.

Her research is concerned with the shifting and contested knowledge(s) produced around non-normative sexual practices and intimate lives, how these inform and are informed by laws and policies, and how they are negotiated and made sense of in everyday lived experiences. She is chair of COST Action IS1209 ‘Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance (ProsPol)

Ticket information:
Free

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