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Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times (2022)
Book Chapter
Carter, J. (2022). Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times. In M. Hviid Jacobsen (Ed.), Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Explorations. Routledge

This volume describes and analyses a series of emotions prevalent in everyday life and culture, with each chapter exploring the main facets of a particular emotion and considering the ways in which it manifests itself in and informs our culture and l... Read More about Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times.

Understanding personal lives: After individualisation (2022)
Book Chapter
Duncan, S., & Carter, J. (2022). Understanding personal lives: After individualisation. In S. Quaid, C. Hugman, & A. Wilcock (Eds.), Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21st Century: Exploring diversity, social change and inequalities. Routledge

This chapter will centrally address the second aim of the collection – to explore innovative theoretical approaches to understanding personal life. It will also seek to disrupt ‘normative’ idealisations - those made by individualisation theorists.... Read More about Understanding personal lives: After individualisation.

Intimacies and relationships (2021)
Book Chapter
Twamley, K., & Carter, J. (2021). Intimacies and relationships. In K. Murji, S. Neal, & J. Solomos (Eds.), An Introduction to Sociology. SAGE Publications

This innovative textbook introduces you to the key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and helps you to develop as a sociologist by providing comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of study. Presenting you with the his... Read More about Intimacies and relationships.

The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts (2019)
Book Chapter
Carter, J., & Smith, D. (2020). The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts. In J. Carter, & L. Arocha (Eds.), Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies' (57-79). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29256-0

Illouz (2012) claims that love has undergone a great transformation in modernity. The choice of romantic partners occurs through individual decisions disembedded from moral communities. Romantic love becomes a source of the self as one’s beloved affi... Read More about The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts.

Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England (2018)
Book Chapter
Carter, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England. . SAGE Research Methods: SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526434067

Our research methods case focuses on how, as researchers, we negotiated the topic of race in recruiting participants and conducting interviews for a study about the cultural reproduction of Whiteness at wedding fairs in the United Kingdom. Here, we d... Read More about Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England.