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A most fortunate and productive convergence of research interests imported from philosophy and sociology gave conceptual birth to the umbrella research project on Persons. The initiative had the central purpose of creating a home for conferences that addressed issues linked with personhood, meaning and subjectivity. While 'Persons, Intimacy and Love' was the first one launched under this rubric, we quickly realised that there were numerous conferences that could find a very comfortable thematic home within the boundaries of this project. The project is named 'Persons' in a purposeful move away from 'Individuals' or 'Subjects'. We felt that 'Persons' would evoke and invite the most creative and productive tradition in moral philosophy, but at the same time strip the terrain of reflection away from the cold methodological drive or politically charged concepts of subjects and individuals. 'Persons' tries to call for a different tradition of thought and provoke a non-traditional way of conceiving of people, both in the singular and in the plural. While in line with the most creative and critical thought in moral philosophy we do not, however intend to morally charge the concept, the debates or the research direction. The projects are not about the morality of people, nor are they about how to trace moral behaviours or suggest moral paths for our existence. Persons emerges as a reflexive gesture to create an ethical framework within which to investigate the complex, contradictory and elusive issues of intimacy, love, sex and sexuality, friendship, madness and the erotic. The first Global Conference on Persons, Intimacy and Love took place in March of 2007, bringing numerous scholars from around the world to the legendary city of Salzburg in Austria. The launch of a new project does not come, unfortunately, with the certainty of success. It is the level of prospective delegate responsiveness that ultimately determines the future of a conference project and whether it will run annually, bi-annually or in a cycle of three years.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Under the Umbrella of Persons Alejandro Cervantes-Carson Section I Re-Conceptualising Intimacy Making Sense of Intimacy: A Contest Between Love and Friendship Pauline Johnson Challenging the Idea of Intimacy as Intimate Relationships: Reflections on Intimacy as an Analytical Concept Jessica Mjoberg Forsaking All Others: The Norm of Monogamy Bryan R. Weaver and Fiona Woollard Love is as Strong as DeathA": The Triadic Love of Franz Rosenzweig, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Gritli Huessy Wayne Cristaudo Care of Self as Demarcation: Everyday Life Practices of Self Care as the Intermediation of Work and Life Sabine Flick Section II Contextualised Intimacies Love, Sex, and In Between: Being a Woman and Middle-Class in Singapore Goh Scuzhen Masculine Indentities and Affective Equality: Exploring Love and Care in Men's Lives Niall Hanlon An Ethnographic Deconstruction of Sex and Relationships Education in Scotland Paul Gilfillan Intimacy Intervened: Happenstance and Social Norms as Determinants of Intimate Relationships among Mexican Low-Income Women Roberto Castro Perez Intimate Social Values and Economic Transformation: An Interpretation of Qualitative Interviews from Russia, China and Eastern Germany Christopher Swader Which Interests are at the Heart of Sex and Relationships in Scotland? Lorna Savage and Rebecca Mancy But is it Haram (Religiously Forbidden)? A Comparison of the Love Laws for Arabs and Americans Don Love Section III Representations of Intimacy Disarticulations: Love, Language and Knowledge in Contemporary Retellings of the Bluebeard Tale Lucy Butler No More Happily Ever After? The Representation of Intimate Culture in Contemporary Romantic Comedy Beatriz Oria Of Multiple Collisions and Interethnic Conflicts Making Sense of Personal and Interpersonal Relationsihps in Crash Olga Seco Intimacy and Absence across the Globe: The Literary Relationship between Georgiana Molloy and Captain James Mangles Jessica White Love Beyond Ethnicity: The Problematic Representation of Intercultural Relationships in British and Indian Cinema Elena Oliete Bye, Bye to Romance?: Representations of Victorian Love in David Lean's Hobson's Choice Esther Perez Villalba Section IV Challenging Intimacies Exploring Strangeness in the Plurality of the Teacher-Student Relationship Momoyo Mitsuno I'll Look After You if You Look After Me: Friendship, Family and Intimacy in a Hostel for Homeless People Rebecca Brown Animals: Friendship and Love Chad Wolf Tell It Like It Is: The Importance of Acknowledging Love as a Component of Abnormal Sexuality David White Negotiating Intimacies in an Eroticised Environment: Xiaojies in the Nightclubs, Karaoke Houses and Massage Parlors of South China Yu Ding Disturbing Intimacies: The Micro-Politics Of Interviewing the Embodiment of Political Evil Alejandro Cervantes-Carson Notes on Contributors

About the Author :
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson is Director of Research & Project Development at Inter-Disciplinary.Net (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain). His research and writing are situated at the intersection of Political Sociology, the Sociology of Intimacy and Cultural Sociology. He is currently completing a manuscript on trans-frontier and internet love entitled: Dialogos de Amor Irreverente. (Dialogues of Irreverent Love). Beatriz Oria is a lecturer at the Department of English, University of Zaragoza, Spain.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781904710479
  • Publisher: Inter/Connexions
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Disciplinary Press
  • Height: 279 mm
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1904710476
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Reading Across Disciplines


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