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The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm
20 September 2021
The latest episode of 'Talking Europe', the 香港六合彩 European Institute's podcast, features Sasha Roseneil and colleagues, exploring why so many of us think they should be in a couple.
Do you have to be in a couple to be a successful adult? In this episode of Talking Europe, we ask how norms around coupledom differ across Europe and how they have changed in recent decades.
The EI鈥檚 Claudia Sternberg is joined by Prof. Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science in the IAS, and 香港六合彩鈥檚 Dean of Social and Historical Sciences, to discuss her latest book 鈥楾he Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate citizenship regimes in a changing Europe鈥� (). You鈥檒l also hear from Sasha鈥檚 four co-authors and collaborators for this book:
- , Senior Lecturer听in Sociology, University of Essex,
- , Professor in Cultural Studies, University of Bergen, Norway,
- , Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
- , Researcher, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics.
Together we explore how laws, policies and social institutions in the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal shape our听our desires and imaginations, making us want to be in a couple. You鈥檒l also encounter some life stories of individual persons and how they navigate the couple norm.
鈥楾he Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate citizenship regimes in a changing Europe鈥� is available as a free e-book and as paperback and听hardback from .
Podcast editing by Patrick Robinson.
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