Anna Heinonen
Postdoctoral Researcher
anna.heinonen@uef.fi
The key themes of my research are intimacy, sexuality, gender, and forms of close relationships organized beyond couple and nuclear family structures. I am currently studying these themes in a project focusing on the processes of separation among LGBTQIA+ people, titled Where the Rainbow Ends: The Becoming of LGBTQIA+ Separations. The project is funded by the Kone Foundation. My previous research examines intimacy in friendship and roommate relations in Finnish communal living.
I am part of the editorial team for the blog perheyhteiskunta.fi, which popularizes social research on family and close relationships. I hold a PhD in Gender Studies.
Earlier publications
- Heinonen, Anna. 2024. Queering intimacies at home : Friendship and roommate relations in Finnish small-scale communes. Väitöskirja. Helsingin yliopisto.
- Heinonen, Anna. 2022. Friendship at home: everyday in domestic space shaping friendship intimacies in Finnish small-scale communes. Gender, Place and Culture 29:8, 1183–1203.
- Heinonen, Anna. 2024. Commitments beyond coupledom: negotiating relational futures in Finnish small-scale communes. Time & Society 33:2, 149–169.
- Heinonen, Anna. 2023. Alone and together in domestic space: navigating spatial and conceptual relationship boundaries in Finnish small-scale communes. Families, relationships and societies (E-pub ahead of print).