Introduction to special issue: relationality in family and intimate practices

Author(s)
Katherine Twamley, Andrea Doucet, Eva-Maria Schmidt
Abstract

This special issue explores the relational ties that shape family practices and decisions, and the ways that scholars work with relationality-theoretically, methodologically, epistemologically, ontologically-in their family research. It emerges out of a symposium at the Work and Family Research Network conference in Washington DC, held in June 2018, on the same theme. Leading that panel led us to reflect that although relationality has emerged as an increasingly popular lens and framework through which to examine family and intimate practices, there are very diverse approaches which come under the rubric of 'relationality'. These iterations have different implications for how we approach the study of families and relationships and the different foci we take up in our scholarship. This special issue of Families, Relationships and Societies brings together a selection of studies that reflect the myriad approaches to mobilising relationality in family and relationship research. In this short introduction, we reflect on the theoretical, methodological and empirical scholarship about relationality, with a particular focus on families, intimacy and gender research.

Organisation(s)
Project: Family Studies in Austria
External organisation(s)
University College London, Brock University
Journal
Families, Relationships and Societies
Volume
10
Pages
3-10
No. of pages
8
ISSN
2046-7435
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16111601166128
Publication date
03-2021
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
504014 Gender studies, 504011 Genealogy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Sociology and Political Science
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/introduction-to-special-issue-relationality-in-family-and-intimate-practices(012c8c39-fa9d-4573-bcbb-c957631270bb).html