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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Half-Naked yet Empowered? : Spartacus (2010-) (Ancient) Gender Equality in Contemporary Television
- 2013
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Ingår i: 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. - Honolulu Hawaii.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spartacus is attested in several ancient sources (Plutarch, Appian, and Florus) as the leader of a rebellion against the Roman Republic (73 to 71 BC). Despite that none of Spartacus' historical representations overtly suggest that he aimed at reforming Roman society by abolishing slavery and promoting equality, he has inspired a number of intellectuals across times and cultures as a egalitarian leader. Marx, in the Manchester letter to Engels (1861), considered him a real representative of the ancient 'proletariat’ and members of the German Spartacus League, a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany. In contemporary popular culture, the most recent reception of the tale of Spartacus is the US Television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premiered on Starz in: 2010- followed by a late prequel and a sequel), where he is also portrayed as a just and egalitarian leader.In this paper, I will discuss how Spartacus (2010-) promotes social and gender equality as an ancient virtue within a contemporary context. Unlike Spartacus’ historical and other cinematic representations, women play a major role in the 2010- TV series either as slaves that join the rebellion, inspired by the egalitarian Thracian slave-leader, or wealthy Romans who oppose him. Despite incidental nudity, scenes of a sexual and violent nature, a TV MA rating for graphic violence, and strong sexual content in overexposed video stylization, I will show that female characters evolve from the older sexualized and objectified females of gladiatorial Sword and Sandals (e.g. Warrior and the Slave Girl: 1958) to strong and brave action heroines. Finally, I will discuss how the 2010- TV series reflects upon the impact of equality and feminism in the portrayal of the ancient world in our contemporary popular culture.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980
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Towards a vocabulary of limitations: the translation of a painted goddess into a symbol of classical education
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 18:1, s. 18-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how ties with society are accumulated and interpreted as the ‘culture’ of an artefact. Following the reinterpretation of a painted statue into a white museum artefact, I argue that the rules we have to follow in approaching an artefact create a series of unrelated socio-cultural connotations which shape our perception of the object. The culture of the artefact is therefore largely the culture of the context through which it is presented. Hence, by distancing an artefact from an established context you also distance it from the networks that make up a large part of its cultural value. To discuss this process I draw on the works of Michael Callon and Bruno Latour, describing the presentation as a ‘translation’ – a process where the artefact is reinterpreted from one state into another. As a method to describe values sprung from the presentation of the artefact, I propose, and exemplify, a vocabulary of limitations for mapping the ties between society and artefact in different contexts. This vocabulary – developed for this article – helps us identify deeper connections between artefact, context and society by focusing on how interaction has been shaped around the artefact.
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- Miller, Madelaine, 1966
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Pompejus seger över piraterna
- 2013
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Ingår i: En maritim värld : från stenåldern till idag / Katarina Streiffert Eikeland, Madelaine Miller, redaktörer. - Lindome : Bricoleur Press. - 9789185411245 ; , s. 146-147
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I Medelhavets antika värld var pirater ett återkommande problem. Med tiden kom piratverksamheten att bli ett nationellt problem för romerska riket. Till slut föreslogs ett av de mest omfattande operationerna i den marina historien. Genom ett lagförlag fick Pompejus Magnus befogenhet att under en treårsperiod rensa havet från pirater.
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- Lindqvist, Janne, 1969-
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Introduktion till Dissoi Logoi
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Dissoi Logoi. - Ödåkra : Retorikförlaget. - 9789186093228 ; , s. 7-76
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980
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Inking a Past; Visualization as a Shedding of Uncertainty
- 2014
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Ingår i: Visual Anthropology Review. - : Wiley. - 1058-7187 .- 1548-7458. ; 30:2, s. 139-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how an idea about the past enters a visualization studio, and the processes by which it is transformed by the techniques of visual representation put in place to make possible the creation of inscriptions and sketches. It focuses on the formation of a fact around a series of inscriptions, as the idea is moved between a number of actants and in the process sheds all traces of uncertainty. The actions of the artists, as they interact with each other, the client and the archaeologists, are at center. As representations create ideas about the past and cement those ideas in society, one cannot separate popular visual representations from the world of science. The processes of their construction hidden from the recipient, they survive the theories that once brought them into being. As a method to describe the making of a visual representation, this article makes use of the actor–network theory concepts of enrollment, inscription, negotiation, and translation to follow an idea into image and make the layers of translation in which image production is wrapped somewhat less opaque.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Material Girls : Humor and Female Professional Seduction in Greek Literature and Culture
- 2014
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Ingår i: Eugesta: Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity. - Lille, France : Lille Université. - 2156-2253 .- 2265-8777. ; 4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current scholarship typically views the ancient Greek prostitute/ courtesan figure as an artificially manipulated, sexualized body motivated by material profit. By examining fragments of Middle Comedy and their echoes in post-classical antiquity, this article proposes an alternative view of courtesans and prostitutes as professionals of emotional labor. Through narrative analysis, I show that the Greek comic portrayal of courtesans is multifaceted and not sufficiently illuminated by discussions of their subjectivity, aesthetic modifications, and greed but also extends to the realm of their emotions. Intersecting gender and humor theories with the concept of Emotional Labor (Hochschild 1983), I then argue that these figures can be seen to comically modify their appearance and behavior in order to reflect contemporary ideological and cultural standards of female sexual conduct. Viewing humor as a communicative tool for social hierarchies consequently facilitates a more complex analysis of attitudes towards the commercialization of bodies and emotions in Greek literature and culture.
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- Hallgren, Cajsa, et al.
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Flamskyddsmedlen och konservatorn
- 2012
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Ingår i: Textilkonservering : att vårda ett kulturarv / Svenska föreningen för textilkonservering. - 0280-4174. - 9789176862438 ; 86, s. 208-214
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980
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Negotiating 'Culture', Assembling a Past: the Visual, the Non-Visual and the Voice of the Silent Actant
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the processes surrounding the creation of a scientific visual representation, where, both in the practical creation of this visualisation and in the way it is communicated, those actants which amount to what we call ‘culture’ or cultural value, are enrolled or ignored. Trying to answer if a broader set of non-visual cultural properties can be identified and their influence described, and if history can be visualised without displacing our knowledge of the past in favour of a popular representation thereof, I trace the interaction between client, artist, technology and target audience. Although the audience is not permitted to take part in the meetings and walk the floors of the studios, and thus seem to remain silent, I argue nonetheless that their voices are heard during the assembling of a visual representation. Furthermore, offering the audience a tool is not enough to entice them to form their own ideas and exercise influence: although often presented as a visitor-empowering pedagogic technique which invites different interpretations of the material at display, the interactive technology offered by museums and educators is a tool of conformity which disciplines the audience and must therefore be treated as such. An object is not an entity which can be separated into artefact and context, but a hybrid made up of associations spread over both space and time. To describe this, and capture how visual representations can represent ‘culture’, I have developed an analytical vocabulary where the absolute limitations of an artefact or phenomenon is the point of departure. As the vocabulary of limitations demonstrates, limitations constitute the borders of an expression and permit an explanation of how associated actants are shaped by these borders into what we have come to refer to as ‘culture’.
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- Aman, Robert, 1982-
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El indígena ‘latinoamericano’ en la enseñanza : Representación de comunidad indígena en manuales escolares europeos y latinoamericanos
- 2010
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Ingår i: Estudios pedagógicos. - 0718-0705. ; 36:2, s. 41-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- El presente escrito compara la representación de los indígenas y su cultura en libros escolares en Suecia con sus equivalentes en Colombia. El objetivo es indagar si existen diferencias y similitudes en la reproducción de la comunidad indígena en ambos países. El estudio concluye que aunque los libros escolares de Colombia profundizan en el rendimiento de los hechos, en cuanto a la extensión textual para la descripción y explicación de los hechos, en ambos países es consistente la tendencia a representar a los indígenas como diferentes y considerarlos como inferiores. Específicamente en la forma de explicar su forma de vivir y sus conocimientos, donde encontramos explicaciones de lo que tenían y no tenían, lo que conocían y no conocían: todo hecho desde un punto de vista euro céntrico.
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