Awaking ‘sleep’ from CHAT’s conceptual slumber

Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution

Description

From a CHAT point of view, sleep is arguably an activity of human relating-to the world, an activity that integrates experiences and imaginations, that can have affective effects on how a day is shaped, on what to dream for while awake, that is deeply connected to possibilities of self-caring and caring-with one another. Yet, apart from notable exceptions (e.g., Morelli, Rogoff, Oppenheim & Goldsmith, 1992), there seems to be a dearth of research on sleep from cultural-historical perspectives. The presentation explores different entry points to the study of sleep in CHAT, and discusses possible connections to Vygotsky’s work on imagination, to affective relations in institutionalized child-adult contexts, to the concept of perezhivanie, as well as to contemporary CHAT approaches to indigenous knowledges that could cast an alternative eye on the role of sleep for human living and collaborating.
Period15 Jun 2022
Event title9th Nordic-Baltic ISCAR 2022: Towards inclusice and just societies: A dialogue with, within and beyond chat
Event typeConference
Conference number9
LocationHelsinki, FinlandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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