Ann Therese Lotherington
Job description
As the academic leader of SKK, I am responsible for the research group ConGender and the center's support function towards other units at UiT.
As a researcher with a background in interdisciplinary, critical gender and feminist theory, I explore ways we can live together despite differences in age, gender, ability, nationality, ethnicity, and/or other mechanisms that create distinctions. The diversity of ways of being and living is currently under threat from many directions, both nationally and internationally. Questions about how we can promote interaction and integration in society without standardizing ways of living are therefore central to my academic work.
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Research interests
In my work, I explore ways we can live together despite differences in age, gender, ability, nationality, ethnicity, and / or other differentiating mechanisms. Questions about how we can promote interaction and integration in society without standardizing ways of living are central. These are issues that are particularly urgent for individuals and groups of people who do not have or will not be able to live up to a given standard.
In my current research, I focus on people who have developed brain failure in adulthood, often in the form of a dementia disease, and ask how everyday life can be organized to ensure that their potential contributions to social development are actualized and their citizenship maintained. I do this by investigating inter-action and intra-action through creative processes and artistic activity. The methodological approach is qualitative, while I theoretically apply material feminist theory and citizenship theory.
