Single People's Geographies of Home: Intimacy and Friendship beyond ‘the Family’

Jednočlenné domácnosti mladých lidí v České republice

“…Nukleární rodina je chráněna a podporována státem, naopak lidé žijící dlouhodobě sami čelí diskriminaci v oblasti sociálních dávek, daňových zvýhodnění nebo přidělování bytů. "Singlovství" je v debatách o populačním vývoji ve vyspělých zemích světa často démonizováno jako jedna z příčin stárnutí a vymírání populace (Wilkinson 2014).…”

‘You’re all so close you might as well sit in a circle … ’ Carceral geographies of intimacy and comfort in the prison visiting room

“…Most recently, Pain has developed a notion of intimacy-geopolitics which sees the intimate articulated with wider political structures in that 'domestic violence and international warfare are both multiply-scaled and sited ' (2015, 66). Despite exploring spaces for the doing of intimacy, such as home-making by mature-age gay men (Waitt and Gorman-Murray 2007), coming-out for young gay men (Schroeder 2015), or the meaning of home for singles (Wilkinson 2014), studies have seldom focused on intimacy which takes place in spaces outwith the domestic, and on the ways in which it is both contingent on, and generative of, these spaces.…”

“…Geographical research into intimacy has abounded in the past two decades, exploring intimate attachment and relocation (Gorman-Murray 2009); family detention (Martin 2012); sex work (Hubbard 2001;Kitiarsa 2008); love and sex amongst expatriates (Walsh 2007(Walsh , 2009); family, (grand)children and caring (Evans 2010;Harker 2011;Tarrant 2010); relationship breakdown (Brickell 2014); intimate nationalism (Cowen 2004); touch (Dixon and Straughan 2010); aspects of domestic intimacy (Valentine and Hughes 2012;Valentine, Jayne, and Gould 2012;Waitt and Gorman-Murray 2007;Wilkinson 2014); intimacy in the research field (Smith 2016); and intimacy online (Longhurst 2013;Valentine 2006). However, where geographers have probed the spatiality of intimacy, work has tended to focus on sexual intimacy; spaces of sexual expression/citizenship, and (the concealment of) homosexual or dissident heterosexual sexuality (Hubbard 2001), spaces of sexual assault (e.g.…”

Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

“…This is precisely because heteronormative domesticity sets a forth a series of intimate relations, identifications, behaviors and rituals which codify an imaginary of 'worthy' life (Povinelli 2006). Significantly for this article, heteronormativity mobilises distinctions between the good/perverse homosexuals (Weber 2015) but also produces other nonnormative, 'deviant' heterosexuals -single mothers, mixed-race couples, migrant families, workless households (Wilkinson 2014) -whose moral and social 'worth' is also brought into question. Given Foucault's own comments on the centrality of the household (oikos) and family to the historical emergence of biopolitics (Foucault 1998;, it is perhaps unsurprising that studies of governmentality have equally focused on how domesticity has played a central role in liberal rule (Rose 1990;Donzelot 1989;Moore 2013), security (Walters 2004;Darling 2010) and even warfare (Owens 2015;Mitropoulos 2009).…”

“…Increasingly, queer theory has treated the family home as regulatory site of heteronormativity. Specifically, how heteronormative domesticity fuses together and privileges certain practices of intimacy, familial reproduction, sexual behaviour, productivity, which are often situated in the temporal-life course of 'birth, marriage, reproduction, death' (Wilkinson 2014(Wilkinson , 2458Ramdas 2012;Bricknell 2012). To Jasbir Puar (2007) heteronormativity can only be made sense of through appeals to race, gender, sexuality and class and it is here that familial domesticity operations at a specific intersection of power relations which produce potentially violent inclusion-exclusions.…”