Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies

The name of this project is a two-part affair, and a complicated one at that.On the one hand we have ‘non-monogamies’ (in themselves a very diverse set of practices and identities), and on the other we have contemporary intimacies. We hope to demonstrate how intimacies are changed and are changing, as well as how different spaces and times construct contemporaneity. A clean dichotomous break between pre-modern or traditional intimacies on the one side, and contemporary intimacies on the other, misses out on the (dis)continuities and the co-constitution of all intimacies, on their negotiated and dialogical dimensions. Polyamory and neoliberalism, polyamory and responsibility, polyamory and the queer movement are three major themes of exploration..