2022/06/09 by Catrine Andersson, Charlotta Carlström · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Islamic Finance and Banking Studies #Marriage and Sexual Relationships #Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
paper · doi:10.1177/13634607211056887
openalex publication_date 2022/06/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Polyamory means having a sexual and/or intimate relationship with more than one person at a time. In this study, we use in-depth interviews with 22 persons in Sweden who have experience of polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships to explore how polyamory can include imagining utopian relationships and spaces. Thematic analysis was done which indicated narratives of politically invested attempts to create communal living or societal change that resists capitalist and heteronormative nuclear-family arrangements as well as stories of everyday events that do not explicitly involve political ambitions. The range of utopian dreams and practices of the non-monogamous participants in our study, we argue, are examples of what Muñoz calls concrete utopias, filled with joy and laden with disappointment in the face of potentiality and reality.