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Offers a conceptual approach to understanding 'personal life', which realigns empirical research with theoretical analysis. This work emphasises ideas of connectedness, relationality and embeddedness, rejecting many of the assumptions found in theories of individualisation and d…
"[Smart] gives emphasis to ideas of connectedness, relationality and embeddedness ... [H]er approach prioritizes the bond between people, the importance of memory and cultural heritage, the significance of emotions (both positive and negative), how family secrets work and change…
"[Smart] gives emphasis to ideas of connectedness, relationality and embeddedness ... [H]er approach prioritizes the bond between people, the importance of memory and cultural heritage, the significance of emotions (both positive and negative), how family secrets work and change…
"In The Craft of Knowledge experienced researchers come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing research, providing personal accounts of what can often be the trying or painful processes of creating research-based knowledge and understandings of s…
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heteros…
Over a couple of generations new possibilities have opened up for how we organize our relationships. This is especially true of same sex relationships where there is an increasing acceptance of civil unions and same-sex marriages. Many young same sex couples and partners are now…