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- Lantz, Björn, 1967
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Giles Land – a mystery for S.A. Andrée and other early Arctic explorers
- 2019
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Ingår i: Polar Research. - : Norwegian Polar Institute. - 1751-8369 .- 0800-0395. ; 38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the initial discovery of Giles Land (Kvitøya, Svalbard) by Cornelis Giles in 1707, it was most likely never seen by anyone again until 1876. During this lengthy period, Giles Land evolved into an enigma as various explorers and cartographers came to very different conclusions about its probable location, character or even existence. In 1897, when the engineer Salomon August Andrée tried to return over the ice after his failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a balloon, he passed through an area approximately 160 km north of Kvitøya where Giles Land was indicated on his map. Andrée searched for it, but there was no land in sight. The main reason why Giles Land was erroneously positioned too far north was due to a conjecture by a German cartographer August Petermann in 1872. While there was some distrust of Petermann’s conjecture at the time, many also believed it. The erroneous understanding that Giles Land was in the far north was only finally dismissed in the 1930s. This article examines how this misunderstanding regarding the identity and location of Giles Land could arise and become entrenched.
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- Andersson, Claes, 1973
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Paleolithic Punctuations and Equilibria: Did Retention Rather Than Invention Limit Technological Evolution?
- 2011
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Ingår i: PaleoAnthropology. - 1545-0031. ; , s. 243-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the ability to add knowledge and the ability to retain knowledge are both (trivially) preconditions of cumulative evolution, the latter has so far been largely neglected in cultural evolution. As we here focus on the ability of cultures to retain a long-term memory, what emerges is that the propensity for introducing error in information transmission between generations strictly bounds the volume of information that can be stably maintained over time. What is argued and demonstrated here is how this phenomenon could provide key insights about tempo and mode in Paleolithic technological evolution. The application of this patch to the basic Darwinian frameworkcauses its predictions to shift in an interesting way: 1) a large and growing body of archaeological finds that seemoutright mysterious today begin to make theoretical sense, and, 2) the importance and role of cognitive capabilitieschanges considerably as the ability to learn and teach (rather than to invent and comprehend) is emphasized.
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Architecture, Photography and the Contemporary Past
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As traces left behind by the last two hundred years of profound historical change, architecture and photography contribute both to our contemporary skyline and to our image of the past. Their common history thus provides an indispensable background to every discussion of what has been called the contemporary past – that is, to modernity considered as an open problem rather than a closed historical period. Architecture can be seen as a kind of “macromodernity,” a social scope where the diverse discourses of modernity have assumed their most large-scale form. In analogy, photographic media constitute a “micromodernity”, where the underside of modern society has been registered, identified, classified, and archived. In both cases, we trace out the irregular borderline between the discursive and its opposite, the “material”. At this point of intersection, an interesting confrontation between traditional academic historiography and an artistic application of historical perspectives might be staged. What contribution can architecture and photography make to the exploration of our contemporary past? In his afterword, Victor Buchli underlines the potential of such confrontations: ”Translation always betrays the original intention, but what might be described as the infelicities of the translation that are inherently treacherous […] are precisely what constitute its productive capacities.” Contributors: Ana Betancour, Peter Christensson, Anders Dahlgren, Patrik Elgström, Katarina Elvén, Klas Grinell, Alyssa Grossman, Cecilia Grönberg, David Kendall, Helena Mattson, Astrid von Rosen, Staffan Schmidt, Hendrik Zeitler.
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- Landzelius, Michael, 1958
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A House of Commons? Symbolic Excavations of a Museum cum Villa cum Tombstone
- 1999
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Ingår i: Glyfer och arkeologiska rum — en vänbok till Jarl Nordbladh. - Göteborg : Göteborg University. - 9185952214 ; , s. 569-591
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article is a symbolic excavation of the Vänersborg Museum, located in the town of Vänersborg, Sweden. The museum opened in 1891 and re-opened as a ‘museum of museum history’ a hundred years later. Through a theorized recontextualization, the museum is displayed as a polysemic spatio-patriarchal marker for the rich donor on par with the buildings of the national state and church; as a token of a private villa; and as a public museum. In this multi-layered object, the practice of bourgeois flânerie in the central part of town is repeated by the gazing flâneur in the museum exhibits. The spatialized elevation of the museum function and of the individual donor and practices of his class are related to possible effects on the asymmetries of museum practices with regard to the ‘social’ other within the local context, and with regard to the framing of the colonized ‘cultural’ other exhibited and domesticated in the museum. The article suggests that forgotten and repressed effects and meanings should be unveiled in a ‘museum of museum history’ in a politicized effort to understand the role of the museum in producing social inequalities and racialized prejudices in Sweden, past and present.
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- Landzelius, Michael, 1958
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Dis(re)membering Spaces: Swedish Modernism in Law Courts Controversy
- 1999
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dissertation addresses the public controversy, as reflected in newspaper coverage, over the 1936 Law Courts Annex in Göteborg, Sweden. The controversy is conceived as a tension-filled, multi-layered conjuncture of urban rivalry within the nation-state. The politico-differential pair modernism/conservatism and the spatio-differential pair Stockholm/Göteborg are traced out and shown to be formative for subject positions both in the controversy, and in scholarly work during the subsequent six decades.To disentangle the conjuncture, subjects’ spatial sense-making is contextualized with respect to a politicized built environment, and to practices characterized by polysemy, contestation and resemanticization, through which volatile meanings and identity effects are continuously renegotiated. This understanding is elaborated in relation to a notion of power as concerning asymmetries of spatial reach with regard to individuals’ influence and control over practices.From this position, the law courts controversy is unfolded through a multi-factor analysis on several spatial scales, from the nation-state to architectural solutions. It is demonstrated that in the Swedish 1930s, no building but the Law Courts Annex was executed in overt modernism on a site of key symbolico-political significance. The established projection of modernism onto Stockholm and conservatism onto Göteborg is deconstructed. The study shows how the law courts project crystallized into a unique conjuncture entangled in questions of: national and local struggles between fractions of the dominant class; governmental efforts to impose new norms and forms of dwelling and discipline; aesthetic purification and élitism; and conjoined interests of real estate capitalists, functionalist planners, and reformist politicians.The law courts controversy is shown to have been embedded in transpositions of ethics, politics, space and aesthetics. New spaces of commoditized visibility were related to the Law Courts Annex, and a gendered imagery of buildings and female human bodies as homologous were invoked together with notions of sexual and bodily hygiene. The controversy is unfolded as concerned with conditions of identity formation and subjectivity in a space of unseen visibility, and the building is unveiled as a classed and gendered space for the production of humans as mass ornaments with apractic postural models.In conclusion, established scholarly discourse on the Law Courts Annex and the controversy is unveiled as a third-order simulacrum through which the annex since the late 1930s has been produced and preserved as a counterfeit, as a historical simulacrum of the particular imagery of a discourse disconnected from existing traces of the past.
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- Landzelius, Michael, 1958
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Layers of Meaning, Layers of Space: City Strolling and the Museum Gaze
- 2002
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Ingår i: The Construction of Built Heritage: A North European Perspective on Policies, Practices and Outcomes. Angela Phelps, Bengt Johansson, Gregory Ashworth (eds). - Aldershot : Ashgate. - 0754618463 ; , s. 207-222
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- Åberg, Anna, 1978, et al.
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Rising Seas: Facts, Fictions and Aquaria
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Ingår i: Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change. Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming. There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.
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- Black, John, et al.
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Port and Hinterlands: The combined infrastructure costs of seaports, intermodal terminals and transport access, Port Botany, Sydney
- 2019
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Ingår i: Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports. - 9781783748211 ; , s. 113-154
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Chapter 5: Port and Hinterlands: The Combined Infrastructure Costs of Seaports, Intermodal Terminals and Transport Access, Port Botany, Sydney The fifth chapter commences with a review of the literature on intermodal terminals (dry ports). It then examines the symbiotic relationships between port and hinterland, including investment costs (in current Australian dollars using an inflation calculator), with an historical case study that focuses on Port Botany in Sydney, Australia’s second largest container port. The historical backdrop is important for researchers to understand the social, economic and environmental effects of port locational decisions on its hinterland. Specifically, the development of Port Botany has been associated with environmental and social conflicts due to landside constraints and community action. The problem of increasing container volumes handled in seaports requires adequate land to be available nearby or in the immediate hinterland for port-associated functions with efficient inland multi-modal transport access. The relevance to Indonesian ports is discussed. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1089
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