Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Sociology and Social Theory
Professor of Sociology and Social Theory
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Sasha Roseneil is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr). Prior to this she was Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Leeds (2000-2007), where she was also the founding Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (1997-2004).
She holds an appointment as Professor II in the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, and is Deputy Scientific Director of FEMCIT – an EU Framework 6 integrated project on “Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements” (www.femcit.org). She is one of the founding editors of the journal 'Feminist Theory'.
Research Interests
- The analysis of changing relations of gender, sexuality, intimacy and sociability
- Social theory - particularly feminist, queer, psychoanalytic and psycho-social theory
- The study of collective action, social movements, cultural politics and public cultures.
Latest Highlights
FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in a Multi-Cultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements (2007-11) (www.femcit.org)
FEMCIT is a 4 million euro EU funded Integrated Project, which involves 15 partners from across Europe. Sasha Roseneil leads a research team of 5 researchers working on a project on Intimate Citizenship in a Multi-Cultural Europe: women’s movements, cultural diversity, personal lives and policy. This is acomparative, four country study of transformations in intimate citizenship across Europe in the context of increasing cultural diversity (Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal and the UK).
CAVA: ESRC Research Group for the Study of Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (1999-2005) (www.leeds.ac.uk/cava)
Sasha Roseneil was one of the grant-holders of CAVA within which she lead three projects.
(a) Care, Friendship and Non-Conventional Partnership http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cava/research/strand3d.htm
(b) Collective Voices on Care, Diversity and Family Life http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cava/research/strand5.htm
(c) Care, Friendship and Non-Conventional Partnership Revisited http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cava/research/pilots.htm#fncp
She is currently writing a new book – Sociability, Sexuality, Self: relationality and individualization – which draws on the first and third of these projects (forthcoming, Routledge 2008)
Greenham Common
Sasha Roseneil has carried out research on the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and on its feminist and queer politics, which was published as Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham (Open University Press, 1995) and Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham (Cassell/ Continuum, 2000).
She recently took part in a Guardian Debate to explore the legacy and contemporary relevance of Greenham on the 25th anniversary of its establishment. You can hear the podcast by clicking on:http://www.guardian.co.uk/newsroom/story/0,,1865257,00.html or http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Guardian/Correspondents/2006/09/13/finalgreenham.mp3
She was also involved with making a Guardian Film about Greenham, YourGreenham (dir. Beeban Kidron, 2007), which can be viewed at: http://www.yourgreenham.co.uk/ She is taking forward this aspect of her research as part of the Common Ground Research Group. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, with archaeologist Yvonnne Marshall, and artist Lucy Orta, and partners from English Heritage, Plymouth Arts Centre and the Women’s Library, as well as women who lived at Greenham. Its aim is to carry out an archaeology and oral history of, and artistic re-engagement with, the material culture of the Peace Camps.
Principal Publications
Books
Stirring It: Challenges for Feminism London, Taylor and Francis (edited with Gabriele Griffin, Marianne Hester, Shirin Rai), 1994.
Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1995.
Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance, Basingstoke, Macmillan (edited with Jeff Hearn), 1999
Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, Basingstoke, Macmillan, (edited with Julie Seymour), 1999.
Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham, London, Cassell/ Continuum, 2000.
Globalisation and Social Movements, Basingstoke, Palgrave (edited with Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Jan Nederveen Pieterse), 2001.
Special Issues of Journals
Rethinking Citizenship: Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, November 2001 pp.101.
Gendering Ethics, The Ethics of Gender, Feminist Theory Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2001, 109pp (with Linda Hogan)
Ethical Relationality: Agency, Autonomy, Care, Feminist Theory, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2003, 115pp (with Linda Hogan).
Beyond the Conventional Family: Intimacy, Care and Community in the 21st Century, Current Sociology ,Vol. 52, No. 2,2004, pp.180 (with Shelley Budgeon)
New Contexts for Collective Action: The Politics of Parenting, Partnering and Participation, Social Politics, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp.184 (with Fiona Williams)
Recent Book Chapters
`The Global, the Local and the Personal: the dynamics of a social movement in postmodernity’, in P. Hamel, H. Lustiger-Thaler, J. Nederveen Pieterse and S.Roseneil (eds) Globalisation and Social Movements, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001, 89-110.
`The Shifting Global Frames of Collective Action’ in P. Hamel, H. Lustiger-Thaler, J. Nederveen Pieterse and S.Roseneil (eds) Globalisation and Social Movements, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001, pp.1-20 (with P.Hamel, H. Lustiger-Thaler, J. Nederveen Pieterse).
`A Moment of Moral Remaking: The Death of Diana, Princess of Wales’, in F. Webster (ed), Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics? London, Routledge, 2001, pp.96-114.
`The Heterosexual/ Homosexual Binary: Past, Present and Future’, in D. Richardson and S. Seidman (eds) The Lesbian and Gay Studies Handbook, London: Sage, 2002, pp. 27-44.'Time and Tide: Memories and Metaphors – Moments and Movement’ in B. Halsaa, H. Rømer Christensen, A. Saarinen (eds) Crossing Borders: The Re- mapping of Women’s Movements at the Turn of the 21st Century University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004, 346-353.
`Living and Loving beyond the Boundaries of the Heteronorm: personal relationships in the 21 st Century’, L. Mackie, S. Cunningham-Burley and J. McKendrick (eds) Families in Society: Boundaries and Relationships, Policy Press, 2005.
`Foregrounding Friendship: feminist pasts, feminist futures’, in M. Evans and J. Lorber (eds) The Gender and Women’s Studies Handbook, London: Sage, 2006:322-341.
`Intimate Counter-Normativities: a queer analysis of personal life in the early 21st century’, in M. O’Rourke and N. Giffney (eds) The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory Ashgate Press, 2007.
`Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: rethinking intimacy and individualization’ in C. Howard Individualization: a political sociology of contemporary personhood Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007.
`Why We Should Care about Friends: an argument for queering the care imaginary in social policy' in B. Hale, D. Pearl, E.Cooke and D. Monk (eds) The Family, Law and Society: Cases and Materials (6e) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 (reprinted from Social Policy and Society, 2005).
`Cultures of Intimacy and Care beyond “the Family”: personal life and social change in the early 21st century’, in A. Diduck (ed) Marriage and Cohabitation Ashgate Publishing, 2008 (with Shelley Budgeon) (reprinted from Current Sociology, 2004)
`The Coming of Age of Feminist Sociology: some issues of theory and practice for the next twenty years’, in S. Delamont and P. Atkinson (eds) Gender and Research London: Sage, 2008 (reprinted from British Journal of Sociology, 1995).
`Vivere ed amare oltre i confini della normatività eterosessuale. Le relazioni personali nel XXI secolo’ , in L. Trappolin (ed) Per una sociologia dell'omosessualità Rome: Carocci, 2008.
Recent Journal Articles
`Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies: Towards an Understanding of Postmodern Transformations of Sexuality’, Sociological Research Online, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000:1-19. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/5/3/roseneil.html
`Speaking of Sexuality and Subcultures: A Conversation between Judith Halberstam and Sasha Roseneil’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vo1. 3, No. 3, 2001:423–434.
`Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies: Towards an Understanding of Postmodern Transformations of Sexuality’, Kvinder, Køn & Forskning (Danish Journal of Gender Studies), 1, 2003, 18-34.
`Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond the Family: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early Twenty-First Century”’, Current Sociology , Vol. 52, No. 2, 2004:135-159 (with Shelley Budgeon).
“Public Values of Parenting and Partnering: Voluntary Organizations and Welfare Politics in New Labour’s Britain”, Social Politics, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2004:181-216 (with Fiona Williams).
`Valeurs publiques en matiere de parentalite et de couple’, Cahiers Marxistes, No. 228, Aout- Sept. 2004: 77-98 (with Fiona Williams).
“Why We Should Care About Friends: An Argument for Queering the Care Imaginary in Social Policy”, Social Policy and Society, 3:4, 2004:409-419.`Kulturen von Intimität und Fürsorge jenseits der Familie – Persönliches Leben und gesellschaftlicher Wandel zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts’, Feministischen Studien, Nov. 2005 (with Shelley Budgeon).
`The Ambivalences of Angel’s “Arrangement”: a psychosocial lens on the contemporary condition of personal life’, The Sociological Review, 54,4, 2006:846-868.
`On Not Living with a Partner: Unpicking Coupledom and Cohabitation’, Sociological Research Online, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2006.
“Viver e amar para la da heteronorma: uma analise queer das relacoes pessoias no seculo XXI”, Revista Critica de Ciências Sociais, 76: Dezembro 2006:33-51 or, in English: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-05-29-roseneil-en.html`Queer Individualization: the transformation of personal life in the early 21st century’, NORA: Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 15, Issue 2 and 3, August 2007: 84-99.
‘Neue Freundschaftspraktiken: Fursorge und Sorge um sich im Zeitalter der Individualisierung’, Mittelweg 36, Juni/ Juli 2008: 55-69.
Research Supervision
Sasha Roseneil welcomes applications from PhD students and visiting research students. She has supervised PhD students working on a range of topics, including:
- Choosing a Self? Young Women, Identity and Individualization in Late Modernity
- An Analysis of the Social Construction and Regulation of Women's Same-Sex Relationships in Finland in the 1950s
- Lesbian Genders: A Sociological Investigation of Contemporary Sexual Identities
- Modernizing Sexuality: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Regulation of Sexuality in Switzerland
- Women’s Activism and Identities in the Animal Rights’ Movement
- Identity and Representation: Disability, Gender and Soap Opera
- Gender Identities and Practices of Gender: A Study of Shopping
- Identities, Care and Intimacy in Transgender Communities
- Globalization, Work and Gender Identities: an ethnographic study of women in Indian call centres
- Identities and Experiences of Long Term HIV+ Survivors
- A History of Revolutionary Feminism in Leeds
- Sexuality and Cultural Change: Advertising and Popular Culture
- Aesthetics and the Transgender Body
- Sexuality, social movements and social change: The LGBT Movement in Portugal
- Gender and Generation: Women’s Experiences of the Transition from Socialism in Bulgaria
- Identity, Experience, Knowledge: a study of consciousness raising groups and practice 1965-1985
- The Cumulative Impact of Heteronormativity: a biographical approach
- Emotional Politics at Work:a Study of Women Employed to Care for Children inside London Homes
- Queer (in) Poland: Discursive formations of “gay identity” (in the nation/al/ist context)
- Making meaning: a study of young people turning 30
Teaching
- Personal Life: Politics and Social Change (undergraduate)
- Birkbeck Graduate Seminar in Social Research (PhD)
Current Research Projects and Networks
- Being Together: remaking public intimacies (Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo)
http://www.skk.uio.no/English/intimacies.html - FEMCIT - Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements www.femcit.org
- The Common Ground Research Group.