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oapen-20.500.12657-283382022-04-26T12:27:00Z Tid att städa Ambjörnsson, Fanny Feminist politics Intersectionality Queer temporality Feminist theory Care work bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences "Cleaning is central to all societies. It is an experience shared by almost everyone. A clean home is related to both respectability and status. The mere execution of the deed – whether it concerns taking care of other peoples’ dirt or ones’ own – ranks, however, strikingly low, contaminating everyone who has to perform it. Therefore, cleaning is permeated by hierarchies of for instance gender, class, sexuality and race. Even though cleaning activates several existential and politically burning questions, it is surprisingly non-existing in research. The point of departure for this study is anthropological, and the material is a number of interviews with Swedes of today about their habits and experiences of cleaning. In focus are questions of cleaning as a cultural symbol, a bodily practice, temporality, and as an expression of taking care of decay. By investigating the meaning of what cleaning means to people – how it is experienced, organized, and distributed in everyday life – I want to discuss how such a central part of our existence is regarded as something that lacks value." 2018-10-04 23:55 2019-02-05 11:05:21 2020-04-01T12:20:50Z 2020-04-01T12:20:50Z 2018 book 1001619 OCN: 1076651854 9789177750024 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28338 swe application/pdf n/a tid-att-stada.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.31394/kriterium.11 Kriterium 10.31394/kriterium.11 10.31394/kriterium.11 7b034f4a-b816-4718-88ac-63b24c8e4b24 9789177750024 248 Gothenburg open access
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"Cleaning is central to all societies. It is an experience shared by almost everyone. A clean home is related to both respectability and status. The mere execution of the deed – whether it concerns taking care of other peoples’ dirt or ones’ own – ranks, however, strikingly low, contaminating everyone who has to perform it. Therefore, cleaning is permeated by hierarchies of for instance gender, class, sexuality and race.
Even though cleaning activates several existential and politically burning questions, it is surprisingly non-existing in research. The point of departure for this study is anthropological, and the material is a number of interviews with Swedes of today about their habits and experiences of cleaning. In focus are questions of cleaning as a cultural symbol, a bodily practice, temporality, and as an expression of taking care of decay. By investigating the meaning of what cleaning means to people – how it is experienced, organized, and distributed in everyday life – I want to discuss how such a central part of our existence is regarded as something that lacks value."
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