Interactions and intersections

Abstract

This ‘thank you note’ pays tribute, albeit briefly, to the enormous contribution Ken Plummer’s work has made to sociology and to the study of sexualities in particular. He played a pioneering role in developing social understandings of sexuality, highlighting the importance of everyday interactions and social encounters. More specifically, over his career he addressed a range of important issues including, for example, sexuality and narrative analysis, generational sexualities, the significance of queer, sexual and intimate citizenship and the need for global critical sexualities studies. Along the way, it also sketches out some of the ways his work criss-crossed and informed my own research and scholarship in enriching and stimulating ways.