The first multi-method research project on non-heterosexual families in Poland (Web)

Venue: Zalesie, Masuria (Poland)
Time: 08.-11.06.2015
Proposals by: 15.09.2014

Studies of non-heterosexual kinship in modern societies are well established in the Anglophone countries, dating back to such ‘classical’ text as Eshter Newton’s ‘Mother Camp’ (1972) and especially Kath Weston’s ‘Families We Choose’ (1991). The once original body of work has now become ‘canonical’ and mandatory point of reference for subsequent researchers.

Canonization, however, presents us with the obvious perils of hegemonization and domination of theories that perhaps do not necessarily fit into the diverse (i.e. non-Western) social and cultural realties. At the same time, it is hard to escape the existing theoretical vocabulary, since scholars from various localities researching non-heterosexual families use them as the only pre-existing point of reference, and … read more (Web).