Being Together - Remaking Public Intimacies (completed)

Public intimacies describe the current situation in which intimate, sexual and personal matters are part of the public domain.

About the project

Cultural repertoires and discourses in the form of representations and aesthetic, performative and communicative modes forge and inform about new intimate and sexual relationships.

Leading questions are:

  • What implications do the changing discourses and values concerning intimacy in the Norwegian public culture have for contemporary understandings of intimacy, sexuality and gender?

  • How do public representations of intimacy change the public landscape?

The project has three broad objectives:

  • to develop new knowledge from the perspectives of the humanities about public intimacies and the interrelations between cultural representations and the politicizing of these matters in Norway,

  • to engage in dialogue with international theories and debates in the field,

  • and to communicate with public audiences on reflections and understanding of new forms of intimacy and sexuality.

 

Financing

Financed by Norwegian Research Council Program: Cultural Values (KULVER). Period: 2008 - 2012.

Cooperation

NNI – (Nordic Network of Intimacy Research).The objective of this transdisciplinary Nordic Network is to discuss contemporary and historic conditions for intimacies in culture, society, research and politics.
 

Published Sep. 28, 2011 4:33 PM - Last modified Dec. 5, 2016 2:14 PM