Research project Time to clean. The politics, practice and temporality of everyday cleaning
Cleaning is a practice with low status. Most people single out cleaning as the least attractive of house hold chores and the people who clean as a profession are usually badly payed. This research project is an attempt to investigate the bad reputation of cleaning – in everyday life, in work, in popular culture and, not the least, in the feminist movement.
Through ethnographic data primarily based on interviews, I investigate the historically imbedded meanings tied to practices of tidying up. Drawing on theories of queer temporality, I highlight what I want to call the temporality of cleaning – the repetitiveness and direction backwards and sideways instead of forward – as one possible answer.
Project members
Project managers
Fanny Ambjörnsson
Professor
