Embodying Modern Times: Investigating Tiredness
Date: Wednesday 14 May 2008, 3-5pm
Venue: Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester
Speaker: Karin Widerberg, University of Oslo
Summary
How tired is it ‘normal’ to be? What can our way of ‘doing’ tiredness tell us about body, work and time in modernity? How should these issues be explored and investigated?
Drawing on a large-scale research project entitled The Sociality of Tiredness - The Handling of Tiredness in a Gender, Generation and Class Perspective, Karin Widerberg will present some of the project’s main findings as well as discussing the importance of using explorative qualitative approaches in such a study.
About Karin's research
Karin Widerberg is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Her main research fields are theory of science and methodology, understandings of gender (in general) and time, work and body but also sexual violence and law in a gender perspective. Among her books (published in both Norwegian and Swedish) are The Gender of Knowledge (1995), The History of a Qualitative Research Project (2001) The Times of Tiredness (2001) and Writing Social Science (2003). Her recent major research project was on ‘The Sociality of Tiredness’ and she is currently involved in an EU funded project on ‘Changing Knowledge and Disciplinary Boundaries through Integrative Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities’.
Karin is visiting the Morgan Centre in May 2008.
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Directions
The Hanson Room will be signposted from the main entrance of the Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, which is number 35 on the campus map.