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:
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What implications do the changing discourses and values concerning intimacy in the Norwegian public culture have for contemporary understandings of intimacy, sexuality and gender?
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How do public representations of intimacy change the public landscape?
The project has three broad objectives:
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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,
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to engage in dialogue with international theories and debates in the field,
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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.