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- Bohlin, Anna, 1970
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Re-dwelling and urban domesticity: Making place through secondhand things
- 2017
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Ingår i: 13th SIEF Congress, Göttingen, Ways of Dwelling: Crisis, Craft, Creativity.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper, based on anthropological fieldwork among Swedish urban middle-class households, focuses on the role of second-hand objects in domestic place-making activities. It argues that items acquired from second-hand markets have affordances that make them particularly attractive for the creation of urban middle-class homes, and form part of an assembled environment that enables a sensory and embodied experience of belonging and historical connection. The paper also discusses how their dual nature, retaining aspects of both gifts and commodities as these categories have been theorised, requires particular strategies to handle the intrusion of the commodity dimensions into the domestic sphere.
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- Bohlin, Anna, 1970
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Unsticky stuff: Affective energies of letting go in circular economies
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Ingår i: AAA 116th Annual Meeting, Washington, Anthropology Matters!.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Among urban, environmentally conscious Swedes, it is common to express intense affection and even love for items found in thrift stores and second-hand markets. Echoing political discourse and current interest in orientations towards objects informed by ethical relations of care, such sentiments foreground thick and long-lasting affective connections. Yet, such expressions of care are articulated against actual practices, less often spoken about, that also form part of reuse subjectivity within circular economies: the discarding and passing on of things that had just previously been loved. This paper examines the affective energies involved in such divesting, paying particular attention to how the materials of objects intersect with subjectivities of reuse. It builds on the insight that similar to objects, which acquire social and cultural biographies as they shift between contexts and regimes of value (Appadurai 1986, Kopytoff 1986), materials are entangled in shifting constellations of regulation, aesthetics and desire. They are far from ‘raw’, but reflect and embody the social relations and values of the time they were extracted or created (Drazin and Küchler 2015). Based on fieldwork in Swedish urban households and thrift shops in 2016 and 2017, the paper explores the ‘liveliness’ of materials and their implications for reuse, such as new ethical stances on sourcing (of for example endangered wood) or shifting assessments of toxicity (of for example plastic). How do materials, and the way their affordances and qualities shift and are reassessed over time, enable things to become ‘sticky’ or repellent (Ahmed 2010, Herrman 2015)?
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- Bohlin, Anna, 1970
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Building bridges? Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden and Protea Village, Cape Town
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Ingår i: Bulletin för trädgårdshistorisk forskning. - 1652-2362. ; 22, s. 15-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden is a popular tourist attraction in Cape Town, South Africa. Yet it is faced with a legacy marked by colonialism and apartheid which often goes unacknowledged. A recent land claim is changing this and Kirstenbosch is currently trying to find ways to promote more inclusive perspectives on the garden’s past. This article looks at the ways that the landscape can elicit new perspectives on history and potentially bridge social divisions stemming from the past.
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- Bohlin, Anna, 1970
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Challenging heritage in the South African countryside
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Ingår i: Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions (red. U. Kockel & M. Nic Craith). - London : Palgrave/MacMillan Press. - 9781403997487
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- Bohlin, Anna, 1970
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Idioms of Return: Homecoming and Heritage in the rebuilding of Protea Village, Cape Town
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Ingår i: African Studies. - 0002-0184. ; 70:2, s. 284-301
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses ‘heritage’ as a conceptual category among current and former residents affected by the proposed redevelopment of Protea Village, a neighbourhood in Cape Town razed during apartheid. Former residents, who were forcibly resettled in townships on the outskirts of the city on account of being coloured, won their land back through the Land Restitution Programme in 2006. Some 86 families were planning to return. Based on fieldwork conducted intermittently between 2005 and 2008, this article analyses three different idioms through which former and current residents made sense of the pending return of the community. While those who supported it hailed the proposed redevelopment as a chance to right the wrongs of the past, to reverse the spatial legacy of apartheid and to put the new democratic South Africa into practice, others feared declining property prices and the development of ‘shanty towns’ on their doorstep. However, while relationships between former and current residents were fraught, various activities and events related to the return have resulted in new connections being forged between the returnees and the current residents. This article argues that the idiom of return as the reclamation of heritage served as a relatively uncontested and mutually intelligible frame of understanding to which both groups could relate.
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