Not-so-chosen loved ones. A critical approach to the rhetoric of choice
Channel: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 2018-07-10

Alessia Acquistapace, Queering Partnering International Conference (2016)

This presentation draws attention to how the process of getting attached to someone is only partly chosen, challenging the neoliberal centrality of individual choice in the post-industrialized West. In times of austerity and precariousness, care can come from “not-so-chosen loved ones” with whom we live together and share time, space, needs.