Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

15 p.

Publication Date

11-2008

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing (Berg)

Source Publication

Home Cultures

Source ISSN

1740-6315

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.2752/174063108X368319

Abstract

This introduction highlights what we call "Compelling Intimacies"—the multiple desires, affects, and affinities that arise at the intersection of institutions, actors, technologies, and ethical discourses to exert persuasive pressures on subjects. Each article animates different facets of the intensities born of intimacy as they operate across social and relational fields. The authors separate agency from intention in their efforts to identify the vitality of human and non-human relations. Together, the articles demonstrate how domesticities arise through diverse sets of circumstances, emerging in multiple incarnations—often in the same household—in such a way as to generate a wide range of affects and affinities. Finally, each author turns attention to the so-called "small events" that come to affirm or deny life as given form in everyday household arrangements, kin relations, friendships, and institutional settings, thereby suggesting the political stakes evoked by differing forms of care.

Comments

Accepted version. Home Cultures, Vol. 5, No. 3 (November 2008): 257-269. DOI. © 2008 Berg. Used with permission.

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