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Helene Aarseth

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Phone +47 22 85 05 11
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Visiting address Nemko-bygget Gaustadalléen 30 0373 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1040 Blindern 0315 OSLO

Academic interests

  • Gender in academia
  • Gender and capitalism
  • German critical theory, alienation, resonance
  • Gender, class and socialization
  • Men and masculinities
  • Social theory, Bourdieu, feminist theory
  • Winnicott, object relations theory and psychosocial perspectives
  • Narrative methods, hermeneutics, phenomenology

Teaching

I have recently taught the following courses at STK:

Background

  • Interim Director, Centre for Gender Research, 2019-2020
  • Professor, Centre for Gender Research, 2016-
  • Research Director, Norwegian Social Research, 2015–2016
  • Researcher I, Norwegian Social Research, 2014–2015
  • Post Doctor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, 2010­–2014
  • Researcher II, Norwegian Institute for Social Research, 2010–2012
  • Junior Scholar, Centre for Advanced Studies, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2010–2010
  • Senior Researcher, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Oslo, 2008–2009
  • University Lecturer, University of Oslo, 2007–2009
  • PhD fellow, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Oslo, 2002–2007
  • Researcher, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2002–2005
  • Advisor, Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, 1995–2002

Previous projects

  • Family Cultures in the Business Elite, Post Doc project, University of Oslo
  • Personal Development and Socio-Cultural Change, Centre for Advanced Studies
  • New family cultures, Norwegian Council of Research

Positions

  • Editor, Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (Norwegian Journal of Gender Research), 2017-2018.

Awards

  • Journal article of the year, Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 2010
  • Journal article of the year, Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 2014
  • Chronicle of the year, Norsk sosiologforening 2014
  • Shortlisted for The Sociological Review's Prize for Outstanding Scholarship, 2016
Tags: Gender in academia, Masculinities, Feminist theory, Class, Family, Critical theory, Bourdieu

Publications

  • Aarseth, Helene & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2026). Retrieving Eros: The Place of Nature in Feminist Critique of Capitalism. Constellations. ISSN 1351-0487. doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.70032. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krüger, Steffen & Aarseth, Helene (2025). The debt of privilege: audit culture, universities and the depletion of mental space. Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 18(1), p. 5–21. doi: 10.1332/14786737Y2025D000000040. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen & Aarseth, Helene (2024). Theorizing Gender Inequality in Physics: Gendered Divisions of Labour in the Neoliberal University. In Leonard, Pauline; Jona, Meytal Eran; Nir, Yosef & Taylor, Marika (Ed.), Gender and Physics in the Academy: Theory, Policy and Practice in European Perspective. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529222302. p. 38–55. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene; Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum & Krüger, Steffen (2023). Freedom, Resonance, Interaction. Critical Theory and Creative Relations Between the Psyche and the Social. In Frosh, Stephen; Walsh, Julie & Vyrgioti, Marita (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030615109. p. 1–20. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2023). Emotional investments in narrative interviews: a practice theoretical contribution. In Frosh, Stephen; Walsh, Julie & Vyrgioti, Marita (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030615109. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_52-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene; Bråten, Beret & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2022). Kjønnsbalanse i tellekantenes tid. Epistemisk mangfold eller monokultur på speed? In Aarseth, Helene & Owesen, Ingeborg Winderen (Ed.), Kjønn og akademia: På vei mot BALANSE?. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245044102. p. 42–61. doi: 10.55669/oa160802. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2022). The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university. Critical Studies in Education. ISSN 1750-8487. 63(5), p. 589–605. doi: 10.1080/17508487.2022.2037680. Full text in Research Archive
  • Song, Minji & Aarseth, Helene (2021). Privilegert tilhørighet? Kosmopolitiske orienteringer i en trygg velferdsstat. In Bostad, Inga (Eds.), Å høre hjemme i verden. Introduksjon til en pedagogisk hjemstedsfilosofi.. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230402917. p. 285–310. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2020). Against the grain? The craving for domestic femininity in a gender-egalitarian welfare state. The European Journal of Women's Studies. ISSN 1350-5068. doi: 10.1177/1350506820970241. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bach, Dil & Aarseth, Helene (2019). Lyst til læring. Fra nordisk modkultur til transnational præstationsstrategi. Dansk pædagogisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0904-2393. 3, p. 55–66. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2018). Familie og intimitet i endring – sosiologiske perspektiver. Fokus på familien/ Nordisk tidsskrift for familie- og relasjonsarbeid. ISSN 0332-5415. 46(2), p. 84–102. doi: 10.18261/issn.0807-7487-2018-01-02. Full text in Research Archive
  • Olsvold, Aina; Aarseth, Helene & Bondevik, Hilde (2017). ‘I think my son is a wonderful chap’: Working-class and middle-class fathers’ narratives of their son’s ADHD diagnosis and medication. Families, Relationships and Societies. ISSN 2046-7435. 8(1), p. 105–120. doi: 10.1332/204674317X15034051559819. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2017). Fear of Falling – Fear of Fading: The Emotional Dynamics of Positional and Personalised Individualism. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. doi: 10.1177/0038038517730219. Full text in Research Archive
  • bach, Anna Sofie & Aarseth, Helene (2016). Adaptation, equality, and fairness. Towards a sociological understanding of ‘the supportive husband'. NORMA - International Journal for Masculinity Studies. ISSN 1890-2138. 11(3), p. 174–189. doi: 10.1080/18902138.2016.1217692. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lucey, Helen; Olsvold, Aina & Aarseth, Helene (2016). Working class fathers and daughters: Thinking about desire, identification, gender and education. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. ISSN 1088-0763. 21(2), p. 128–146. doi: 10.1057/pcs.2015.42. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2016). Eros in the field? Bourdieu's double account of socialized desire. Sociological Review. ISSN 0038-0261. 64(1), p. 93–109. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12348. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bøhler, Kjetil Klette & Aarseth, Helene (2016). Følelsenes politiske potensial. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. 1(1), p. 299–311. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene; Layton, Lynne & Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum (2016). Conflicts in the habitus: The emotional work of becoming modern. Sociological Review. ISSN 0038-0261. 64(1), p. 148–165. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12347. Full text in Research Archive
  • Aarseth, Helene (2015). A sound Foundation? Financial elite families and egalitarian schooling in Norway. In Maxwell, Claire & Aggleton, Peter (Ed.), Elite Education. International Perspectives. Routledge. ISSN 9781138799615. p. 79–91. doi: 10.4324/9781315755984-7. Full text in Research Archive

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