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- Amakawa, J., et al.
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New Philadelphia: using augmented reality to interpret slavery and reconstruction era historical sites
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 24:3, s. 315-331
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Does a historical site lose its significance or become less worthy of interpretation if there are no surviving buildings? Can technology help present the stories of disadvantaged and disenfranchised groups whose heritage lacks well-preserved architecture or material culture? The emerging technology of augmented reality (AR) offers new ways of designing and shaping the public's experience when visiting landmarks by enabling an unprecedented means to combine 3D historical visualization with historical landmarks. This especially applies to underrepresented groups whose heritages have not been well served by traditional modes of preservation and interpretation due to a variety of factors. These range from disadvantages relating to material culture to a greater emphasis on intangible heritage which have placed them outside the bounds of what archaeologist Laurajane Smith calls authorised heritage discourse. A project at the New Philadelphia National Historic Landmark, located in Pike County Illinois, seeks to address these issues through AR. The technology, while offering opportunities for historical interpretation, poses challenges in terms of designing AR systems that coordinate content presentation with specific locations as well as developing virtual historical content with varying levels of source materials.
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- Axelsson, Tony, 1969, et al.
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Constructed landscapes in Zoos and Heritage
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 14:1, s. 43-59
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- Brembeck, Helene, 1952, et al.
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Assembling nostalgia: devices for affective captation on the re:heritage market
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 23:6, s. 556-574
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article builds on the current rethinking of nostalgia in heritage studies and an increasing amount of research that explores the formatting of customer – producer relationships in terms of ’market attachments’ to analyse how nostalgia is performative on the market for retro, vintage and second hand, what we call the re:heritage market. Based on a multi-sited study including offline and online ethnographic observations, photography and qualitative interviews with shop owners and staff at a selection of central streets in Gothenburg, Sweden, the article explores the way shop owners work with nostalgia in order to attract, or ‘captate’, the public, through engaging affective market devices. Our particular contribution is to show how the re:heritage market contribute to our understanding of an alternative of cultural heritage, through configuring exchange and value, and details how ‘affective captation’ adds conceptual strength for understanding the emotive and sensate pull of certain market-based heritage practices. Staging nostalgic encounters involves practices of selecting, collecting, displaying and preserving for the future: practices that are vital for all heritage-making. A variety of actors are involved in this unconventional of heritage at safe a distance from traditional heritage practices.
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- Brosché, Johan, 1978-, et al.
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Heritage under Attack : motives for targeting cultural property during armed conflict
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 23:3, s. 248-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although attacks on cultural property have caused international outcry,our understanding of this phenomenon is still limited. In particular, littleresearch has been directed towards exploring the motivations for suchattacks. Therefore, we ask: What are the motives for attacking sites, buildingsor objects representing cultural heritage? By combining insights from peaceand conflict research with findings from heritage studies we present atypology of motivations for attacking cultural property. We identify four,not mutually exclusive, broad groups of motives: (i) attacks related to conflictgoals, in which cultural property is targeted because it is connected to theissue the warring parties are fighting over (ii), military-strategic attacks, inwhich the main motivation is to win tactical advantages in the conflict (iii),signalling attacks, in which cultural property is targeted as a low-risk targetthat signals the commitment of the aggressor, and (iv) economic incentiveswhere cultural property provides funding for warring parties. Our typologyoffers a theoretical structure for research about why, when, and by whom,cultural property is targeted. This is not only likely to provide academicbenefits, but also to contribute to the development of more effective toolsfor the protection of cultural property during armed conflict.
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- Burlingame, Katherine
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High tech or high touch? Heritage encounters and the power of presence
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 28:11-12, s. 1228-1241
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I challenge the increasing emphasis on digital technologies to enhance encounters with the past in heritage landscapes. Beginning with a memory from my childhood, I conceptualise presence as being there and review recent approaches in heritage studies that highlight the wide range of benefits derived from embodied experiences in heritage places including reinforcing feelings of wellbeing and ontological security. Outlining enduring limitations of high-tech digital heritage tools, particularly the lack of critical perspectives assessing the ethical and methodological challenges of employing them in heritage landscapes, I argue there is a recurring theme of grasping for presence. Drawing on fieldwork in four heritage sites associated with the Viking Age in Sweden and Germany, I suggest a renewed focus on ‘high touch’ will encourage more meaningful, multisensory encounters within the fabric of the heritage landscape. As our lives become increasingly high tech, I return to the foundational values and motivations of being there in heritage places, concluding that heritage landscapes serve as important spaces of interaction where past, present, and future imaginaries can be negotiated beyond the reach of the digital world.
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- Colomer, Laia, 1967-
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Book Review. Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. Peoples, Places and Identities, edited by Christopher Whitehead, Susannah Eckersley, Katherine Lloyd, and Rhiannon Mason (eds.) 2015 . Ashgate, Surrey
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 22:10, s. 863-866
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Colomer, Laia, 1967-
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Heritage on the move : Cross-cultural heritage as a response to globalisation, mobilities and multiple migrations
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 23:10, s. 913-927
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Globalisation is creating new perceptions of social and cultural spaces as well as complex and diverse pictures of migration flows. This leads to changes in expressions of culture, identity, and belonging and thus the role of heritage today. I argue that common or dominant notions of heritage cannot accommodate these new cultural identities-in-flux created by and acting in a transplanetary networked and culturally deterritorialized world. To support my arguments, I will introduce ‘Third Culture Kids’ or ‘global nomads’, defined as a particular type of migrant community whose cultural identities are characterised high patterns of global mobility during childhood. My research focus on the uses and meaning of cultural heritage among this onward migrant community, and it reveals that these global nomads both use common forms of heritage as a cultural capital to crisscross cultures, and designate places of mobility, like airports, to recall collective memories as people on the move. These results pose additional questions to the traditional use of heritage, and suggest others visions of heritage today, as people’s cultural identities turn to be now more characterised by mobility, cultural flux, and belonging to horizontal networks.
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- Dymitrow, Mirek
(författare)
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Degraded towns in Poland as cultural heritage
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1470-3610 .- 1352-7258. ; 19:7, s. 613-631
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how the concept of cultural heritage is currently used in relation to the so-called degraded towns (i.e. deprived of their urban status) in Poland. It shows the role of heritagisation in the process of restitution of urban status, and addresses the effects of the ongoing revitalisation of degraded towns in order to restore their lost urban glory. I argue that the Polish understanding of urbanity is ambiguous, muddling formality with cultural connotations. I address how such convolution both rewrites history and affects modernity by the imposition of values and foreclosures. I also discuss how alterations to the built environment made in the name of cultural heritage (revitalisation) are often conducted with disregard to identity, authenticity and historical hybridity, and how the introduction of ‘history’ into a modern arena affects the local society. I conclude that considering degraded towns as a special form of cultural heritage is a new construction, where coupling of the disconnected dimensions of the Polish understanding of urbanity becomes even more apparent. I stress that this field is neither sufficiently differentiated nor problematised, and that cultural heritage relating to degraded towns is often taken for granted.
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- Eldar, Doron, et al.
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Southering and the politics of heritage : the psychogeography of narrating slavery at plantation museums
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 28:3, s. 341-357
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues that an appreciation of the effects of ‘southering’, or the identity discourse of internal orientalism in the U.S., is key to understanding the historical interpretation provided at plantation museums and the challenges associated with narrative transformation at these heritage sites. An analysis of two plantation museums in Louisiana shows that efforts to transform the whitewashed narratives that fail to account for the psychogeography of southering (as reflected in the ‘Southern’ deep story) might prove counterproductive. One solution to this problem is the spatial contextualisation of plantation slavery as not only a regional but also a national and global institution – a contextualisation that is both historically accurate and also has the potential to disarm ‘Southern’ defensiveness through its explicit acknowledgement of the ‘guilt’ and participation of whites in the system of slavery throughout the U.S. (and even globally). What we ultimately argue for is the need to transcend southering, a binary discourse that creates a moral landscape of uneven racism (racist ‘South’/enlightened ‘North’) while at the same time privileging the agency of whites and occluding African American history and agency.
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- Eriksson, Ove, et al.
(författare)
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'Gooseberry is the only thing left' - a study of declining biological cultural heritage at abandoned crofts in the province of Sodermanland, Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 26:11, s. 1061-1076
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a study about cultivated and 'wild' plants as components of the material heritage of crofters, an overlooked group of people in former agrarian landscapes. Despite abundant remains of crofts in Sweden, inhabited during the period from the eighteenth century until the 1940s, crofters have been subject to few studies. We used a survey conducted 1967 of botanical remains at abandoned croft as a basis for a re-survey in 2019. As with all biological traces of former human activities, cultivated plants and wild species favoured by former management ultimately disappear, but with long delays. We describe the patterns of this decline. In general, about a third of the species were gone after 52 years. The rate of disappearance of single species occurrences was about 1% annually. We discuss the interpretation of botanical remains from since long abandoned crofts in the context of heritage. In some cases, the botanical remains were the only material evidence left. We conclude that the material heritage of crofters deserves further studies and that botanical remains at abandoned crofts should be documented and at least at some sites protected.
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- Fredriksson, Martin, 1972-
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Dilemmas of Protection : Decolonising the Regulation of Genetic resources and Cultural Heritage
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 27:7, s. 720-733
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues that since genetic resources carry cultural significanceto many Indigenous communities, the protection of genetic resourcesshould be considered in relation to the protection of Indigenous culturalheritage. It compares international regulations of genetic resources andassociated traditional knowledge to those of traditional cultural expressions,focusing particularly on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)and its implementation through the Nagoya Protocol. The article discusseshow attempts to decolonise the regulation of genetic resources areimpeded by two dilemmas that have also affected UNESCO and WIPO’sattempts to safeguard traditional cultural expressions. The first dilemmaconcerns the problems of promoting Indigenous self-recognition withina system of governance based on national agency and sovereignty.The second dilemma concerns how international regulations are basedon a Western ontology that polarises natural and cultural resources, whichhas resulted in a reluctance to address intellectual property rights withinthe CBD. Exploring parallels between the regulation of genetic resourcesand traditional cultural expressions provides new perspectives on thedifficulties facing the decolonisation of the protection of Indigenousresources and the implementation of Indigenous data sovereignty.
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- Gota, Pascoal
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Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, I explore negotiations of heritage in heritage forests from three case studies in southern Mozambique using oral history, field walking, video documentation and conversations. I argue that at local level there are processes of negotiation, authorisation, and legitimacy of heritage in forests. Such local forms of heritage negotiation and heritage discourse are authoritative and need to be recognised in both the planning of heritage conservation, and also in nature conservation. This recognition can strengthen local custodians to safeguard forest patches as locally protected areas, and opening room for heritage practitioners to be engaged by local people in the process of cultural heritage management.
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- Gustavsson, Anne
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Revisiting and reframing ethnographic praxis : The return of visual collections from Gothenburg to the Argentine Chaco
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 28:11-12, s. 1242-1254
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I discuss the benefits and shortcomings of deploying an ethnographic approach when studying the digital return of visual collections from ethnographic museums to source communities. I draw on my research process and field work in the Argentine Chaco where I presented and discussed a selection of century-old ethnographic photographic and filmic images from this region with members of the Indigenous Pilagá People. I argue that carrying out extensive ethnographic field work is a way to access the density and multiple layers of social and cultural relations in which returns are carried out. I also discuss and analyze the effects of ethnography on contemporary field work. I specifically reflect upon my own ethnographic praxis from a historical perspective, as part of a longer tradition in which various generations of anthropologists have visited and revisited the Pilagá in the Argentine Chaco. I argue that this historical ”ethnographization” has left marks in the memories of key informants and in local notions of ”culture”. Thus not only are we to reframe our field methods by considering updated and critical literature on the subject but also by paying attention to the field´s own specific historical relationship with ethnography.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978, et al.
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Heritage and resistance: irregularities, temporalities and cumulative impact
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 24:5, s. 445-464
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban social change and large-scale demolitions in the name of urban renewal often give rise to social conflicts. In this study, we investigate how resistances to this change emerge, coalesce and revolve, and how they use heritage to generate cumulative impact. The analyses of urban change and resistance in Gårda, a working-class neighbourhood of Gothenburg, Sweden, showed social conflicts to be instigated by their stigmatisation. Since the 1970s, Gårda has been called ‘out of place’ and marked for demolition. These demolitions were given legitimacy by the ‘housing quality standards’ that emerged in the 1930s as a means to reduce social inequalities. Over time these standards became an ‘intangible heritage’ employed in neoliberal urban policies. In response, five ‘Re-Gårda’ resistance strategies emerged to contest Gårda’s future. Resistance groups uncovered new values for Gårda, curating the vision with the slogan ‘have a coffee in Gårda’, and structuring the narrative ‘upgrade Gårda’. This challenged the dominant discourse ‘demolish’ or ‘conserve’ Gårda, and resulted in a government decision to protect Gårda as a ‘heritage site’. Investigating heritage and resistance in Gårda helped us reveal the potential of resistance in challenging the limits of authorised urban and heritage discourses, and in realising socially equal and just cities.
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- Hammami, Feras, 1978
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Issues of mutuality and sharing in the transnational spaces of heritage – contesting diaspora and homeland experiences in Palestine
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 22:6, s. 446-465
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wars, colonialism and other forms of violent conflict often result in ethnic cleansing, forced dispersion, exile and the destruction of societies. In places of diaspora and homelands, people embody various experiences and memories but also maintain flows of connections, through which they claim mutual ambitions for the restoration of their national identity. What happens when diaspora communities ‘return’ and join homeland communities in reconstruction efforts? Drawing on heritage as metaphorical ‘contact zones’ with transnational affective milieus, this study explores the complex temporalities of signification, experiences and healing that involve both communities in two specific sites, Qaryon Square and Al-Kabir Mosque, located in the Historic City of Nablus, Palestine. Conflicts at these two sites often become intensified when heritage experts overlook the ‘emotional’ and ‘transnational’ relationships of power that revolve around the diverging narratives of both communities. This study proposes new methodological arts of the contact zone to enhance new ways in heritage management that can collective engage with the multiple and transnational layers of heritage places beyond their geographic boundaries and any relationship with defined static pasts. Such engagement can help explore the contentious nature of heritage and the resonances it may have for reconciliation in post-violent conflict times.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-
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Averting loss aversion in cultural heritage
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 21:4, s. 405-421
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to Daniel Kahneman’s theory of loss aversion in behavioural economics and decision theory, people tend to prefer strongly avoiding losses to acquiring gains of the same value. A recently proposed alternative explanation of the same behaviour is inertia. In this paper, I am heuristically transferring these observations from the realm of economics to the realm of cultural heritage. In the cultural heritage sector of the Western world there has long been a preference for avoiding losses over acquiring gains of the same value. Maintenance of the status quo of cultural heritage is typically perceived as being superior to loss or substitution. However, social anthropologist Tim Ingold recently advocated a view that challenges this preference for loss aversion by considering both people and buildings as something persistent, continuously re-born, and constantly growing and going through a process of ever new creative transformations. By appreciating heritage objects as persistent and continuously being transformed in ongoing processes of change, growth and creation, the preference for loss aversion can be averted and a more dynamic view of cultural heritage be adopted that is better able to work through cases and examples like those presented in this paper.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-
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The time travellers’ tools of the trade : some trends at Lejre
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 20:7-8, s. 782-797
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is about how the emphasis of the archaeological open-air museum at Lejre, Denmark, has been shifting from a research institution towards an archaeological theme park. I am discussing how material culture and associated skills and perceptions have been facilitating time-travel experiences at Lejre from 1964 until today. My main focus is on the prehistoric families who each summer have been inhabiting the full-size model of the Iron Age village known as Lethra. In 2011, I conducted participant observation in the village. This paper presents some of my observations and insights. I am also asking what the discernible trends and transformations over time, imply for how we are to understand contemporary forms of living history and related genres. The discussion explores some implications of my study regarding the nature of authenticity and how the past ‘comes to life’ at Lethra. I conclude by exploring some important trends for cultural heritage and heritage tourism in our age that arise from my study.
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- Illsley, William, 1989
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Digital surrogacy: politics and aesthetics in visualising the historical past of a city
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 28:2, s. 216-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As part of the culturally focused direction of travel surrounding Gothenburg’s fourth centenary, several departments of the municipality have collaborated to produce a virtual model of Gothenburg as it was in the seventeenth century, first presented to the public in 2017. This case study analyses the city’s approaches to displaying and vitalising the model, the role of the built environment as a cultural backdrop, and the efficacy of cultural transmission within this digital context. Principally, this analysis offers a critical response to the depiction of the city’s cultural heritage, but it also aims to examine the wider role of digital visualisation in contemporary heritage discourse. Characterising the realisation of the model’s current iteration as a stepping stone for further development, potential points of departure for creativity and meaning-making within the model itself and in a broader context are made to inform future heritage practices in the city.
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- Karlsson, Håkan, 1962
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A cultural heritage for Cuban rebels
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 26:2, s. 214-218
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- Krumberga, Kristine, et al.
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Cold war heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of soviet military remnants in the Baltic states
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the ongoing efforts towards Cold War heritage-making in Europe, the ambiguities in meaning and the cultural status of certain materialities from the second half of the 20th century across different national contexts highlight a heritage dissonance at play. Focusing on the case of the Baltic states, we analyse the engagements with Soviet military remnants since the early 1990s in the context of changing political regimes. We approach the prevailing practices of disinheritance along the same conceptual lines as heritage-making and highlight how disinheritance has contributed to shaping national identities and future-oriented landscape relations. We argue that disinheritance can be a legitimate alternative strategy for dealing with difficult legacies. In addition, we shed light on how the fragmented attempts to preserve and re-narrativize certain Soviet military remnants reflect the constrained relations between the political agendas of post-1990s nationalism and European integration.
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- Merrill, Samuel, 1984-
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Buffing and buffering Blu : the societal performance of street art, heritage erasure and digital preservation in Berlin
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 27:6, s. 601-616
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In December 2014 two of Berlin’s most famous street art murals were painted black. Fans of the murals responded by using social media to blame the owner of the ‘Cuvrybrache’ – the vacant plot in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg that the murals overlooked. Many assumed that a campaign to heritage-list the murals in response to the Cuvrybrache’s planned redevelopment had led the plot’s owners to take matters into their own hands. In fact, as this article details, it was more surprising who was responsible for the mural’s erasure: their creator, the street artist known as Blu. As some street art fans mourned their loss, the murals continued to be encountered by others, just as they always had, online. This article uses the case of the Cuvrybrache murals – replete with forces of ruination, processes of gentrification, and acts of iconoclasm – to explore the complexities of street art and heritage’s relationship with erasure and the manner by which this relationship is increasingly refracted through digital technologies and media. Drawing parallels between buffed urban walls and buffering digital screens, it argues that the pervasive digital preservation of street art encourages it and heritage in general to be further conceptualised as a societal performance.
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- Merrill, Samuel, 1984-
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Keeping it real? : Subcultural graffiti, street art, heritage and authenticity
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 21:4, s. 369-389
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers the implications of framing subcultural graffiti and street art as heritage. Attention is paid to subcultural graffiti's relationship to street art and the incompatibility of its traditions of illegality, illegibility, anti-commercialism and transience with the formalised structures of heritage frameworks. It is argued that the continued integration of street art and subcultural graffiti into formal heritage frameworks will undermine their authenticity and mean that traditional definitions of heritage, vandalism and the historic environment will all need to be revisited. The article contributes to the current re-theorisation of heritage's relationship with erasure by proposing that subcultural graffiti should be perceived as an example of 'alternative heritage' whose authenticity might only be assured by avoiding the application of official heritage frameworks and tolerating loss in the historic environment.
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- Mydlanda, Leidulf, et al.
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Identifying heritage values in local communities
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; , s. 564-587
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Preservation of cultural heritage is often carried out by voluntary workers in local communities, especially when the objects are not of major national interest, not listed, and not preserved by heritage authorities. The motivation for local preservation, and for spending time and money on objects belonging to the community, is not primarily to preserve cultural heritage objects for the future, but to establish and maintain common social institutions in the local society, institutions of vital importance to the local identity. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the local understanding of heritage relates to its official understanding in a Norwegian context. The paper will also examine to what degree the Norwegian heritage authorities have managed to implement the emphasis on local participation and the social dimensions of heritage, given strong articulation in later international conventions. Criteria for value assessment, as defined by national heritage authorities, do not seem to play a vital role in the local heritage field. The central authorities’ focus on professionalism, qualified management, and predefined criteria appears to meet limited resonance in local communities.
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- Møller-Olsen, Astrid
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The City is a Journey : Heritage and Memory in Zhu Tianxin’s Novella ‘The Old Capital’
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1470-3610 .- 1352-7258. ; 27:8, s. 819-829
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Zhu Tianxin’s novella The Old Capital narrates the process of slowly losing contact with the past through forgetting, loss and material erasure. Instead of completely eradicating the past, this process prompts a renewed interest, and, in a sense, a renewed presence of that past in conscious remembering, literary evocation and narrative attendance. Inspired by David Crouch’s conception of heritage as a journey, this paper looks at how the protagonist’s physical and mental voyage in The Old Capital incorporates several spatiotemporal layers of cultural heritage to help her – and the reader - understand the complexity of the living historical city of Taipei.
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- Nilsson, Bo, 1959-
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An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 28:5, s. 622-634
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cultural heritage is increasingly used as a political force to achieve societal goals. This is specifically noticeable in the rhetoric of right-wing nationalist parties in Europe. Cultural heritage and ‘politics of the past’ have become key tools in explicit nationalist agendas and right-wing politicians are using cultural heritage to attract disenchanted voters. But how is cultural heritage constructed through these processes? The aim of this paper is to explore the constructions and uses of cultural heritage within the Swedish nationalist party the Sweden Democrats (SD). With non-government bills formulated by the Sweden Democrats as a point of departure, the paper illustrates how an ideological fantasy is reproduced, which is based on establishing a direct connection between the party’s seemingly non-ideological ideology and ideas about an authentic Swedish cultural heritage. The latter reflects a ‘return’ to neorigorism, which refers to the belief in cultural heritage as an objective, given, and non-negotiable, phenomenon.
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- Nilsson Stutz, Liv, 1972-
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Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 29:10, s. 1061-1074
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Collections of old human remains in museums are currently under increased scrutiny and pressure. On the one hand they are problematised from a post-colonial and human rights point of view as the material remains of historic and ongoing structural violence connected to scientific knowledge production. On the other, new methods in archaeological science have led to increasing demand for destructive sampling. Without guidance and support by laws and formal standardised professional guidelines, museums may find themselves squeezed from two opposing sides. Based on an analysis of laws and professional guidelines, and a large-scale survey of the practical handling of old human remains in Swedish museums, this article argues that the lack of a shared professional process that recognises the complexity of old human remains as both objects of science and lived lives, risks undermining the role of museums in their relationship to both the public and the research community.
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- Nylund, Niklas, et al.
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Rethinking game heritage - towards reflexivity in game preservation
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 27:3, s. 268-280
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While games and the cultures that have sprung up around them are diverse and vastly different from each other, most exhibitions dealing with them are based on a limited understanding of games that relies on symbolic brands on one hand and on the centrality of playable experiences on the other. This bias is potentially replicated by heritage institution collections starting to define how games become cultural heritage. While games research has shown that games are firmly nestled in a participatory grassroots culture, these kinds of perspectives are curiously lacking in exhibitions. By connecting previous work on critical and intangible heritage with game studies literature, this paper emphasises the importance of various productive communities for game heritage. The concepts of intangible and critical heritage suggest that the inclusion of players and communities into the game heritage process could offer a more diverse heritage discourse. But participatory practices in collector run museums tend to produce game heritage which is implicitly working towards the same kind of one-sided understanding of games that has been criticised heavily in game studies. The critical expertise of museum professionals is needed in order to start incorporating the varicoloured practices of communities into our understanding of game heritage.
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- Orjuela, Camilla, 1972
(författare)
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Remembering genocide in the diaspora: Place and materiality in the commemoration of atrocities in Rwanda and Sri Lanka
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 46:5, s. 439-453
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The pain of war and genocide is often very physical and place-based. At the same time, displacement compels many of those who lost their loved ones to remember them and their homeland’s violent past from afar. This article explores the territoriality and materiality of diaspora remembrance by looking at diaspora initiatives to remember victims of genocide and war in Rwanda and Sri Lanka. In Brussels, a memory conflict between supporters and critics of the Rwandan government is played out around a small monument. In rural United Kingdom, an envisioned memorial park to Tamils martyred in the struggle for independence illustrates how memorial spaces in the diaspora challenge official homeland state narratives of the past and carry meaning as a symbolic land for Tamils. Initiatives to plant trees, name streets and throw flowers on a river provide additional examples of how diaspora actors strive to anchor memory of atrocities physically and territorially. The article suggests that materiality and spatiality of memorialization takes on different meanings in a diasporic context, as initially ‘meaningless’ places are turned into self-referential sites for remembrance, and the establishment of more permanent memorial structures can form part of home-making processes in the country of settlement.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Emotions in the Museum of Medicine : An investigation of how museum educators employ emotions and what these emotions do
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 26:2, s. 201-213
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to explore how museum educators employ emotionswhen they are doing guided tours and to investigate what theseemotions do. The paper explores five guided tours in the Museum ofMedicine (Uppsala, Sweden) located in the former Ulleråker psychiatrichospital and asylum. The guided tours take place in the exhibitions focusingon surgery, nursing and mental care, but this paper focuses on guided tourin the exhibition displaying mental care. The guided tours were filmed anddocumented using participant observation. The material is analysed withthe help of Sara Ahmed’s queer-feminist phenomenological approach toemotions. The paper shows that themuseum educators used amultitude ofemotions to orient the students’ emotional experiences and their knowledgeabout mental care and mental illness. Emotional restraint, fear, antipathyand sympathy were expressed in relation to patients, and thiscontributed to an othering of patients. The depiction of patients was usedto express empathy in relation to caretakers. The study reveals that theappropriation of emotions works along sanist norms that largely contributeto a further marginalisation of patients. The paper, therefore, calls fora further examination of sanist norms in cultural heritage productions.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Mad studies as a methodology for critical heritage studies
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to develop and discuss mad studies as a methodology and mad reading as a method for critical heritage studies. In doing so, this paper acts on persistent calls to discuss methodologies in critical heritage studies as well as calls to explore the heritage connected to psychiatric hospitals and madness. The text introduces and develops mad studies as a methodology for critical heritage studies, here explained as a way of seeing and analysing heritage from the perspective of mad-centred knowledge productions. The article further develops mad reading as a method for analysing heritage. Mad reading is explained as (1) a situated method, (2) a different way to approach the object of study (3) a method to expose and challenge sanism and (4) a method to reveal madness where it is not clearly visible. The paper is predominantly theory-driven but situates the discussion in relation to previous and ongoing research in heritage studies.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Naming streets : constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 29:9, s. 924-938
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the processes of naming streets in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes and, consequently, the processes of constructing heritage. The paper shows that the memorialisation of (1) hospital buildings, staff members and architects; (2) the hospitals surrounding nature and park landscape; and (3) historical periods predating the hospital and the time of deinstitutionalisation are central ways in which heritage is constructed. The paper further explores how different discourses materialise in the name-giving processes. The examples are further discussed in relation to arguments made by scholars about how the past of the post-asylum landscape is remembered. In doing so, assumptions about what the heritage of post-asylum landscapes consists of are critically discussed.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital andasylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 28:9, s. 1002-1016
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores how scholars construct heritage when writing aboutpsychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries and, furthermore, investigatesthe role that emotions play in this process. 49 articles and books on thetopic of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries, published betweenthe years 1996 and 2020, are investigated. Sara Ahmed’s queer feministphenomenology is adopted as a methodological and theoreticalapproach. In this article, scholarly communication is considered a sitewhere heritage is constructed and as ways in which heritage is constructed. I show that, by positioning graves as unmarked, unidentifiedand unnamed as well as forgotten and abandoned, scholars are drawingon anti-psychiatric discourses and sentiments connected to the family.This allows the cemeteries to be constructed as a heritage of regret, whichfurther forms incentives for scholars to argue for management, conservation, and instalment of monuments.
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- Storm, Anna, 1973-, et al.
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The pit : landscape scars as potential cultural tools
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 19:7, s. 692-708
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A huge and continuously growing pit is about to divide the Swedish mining town of Malmberget into two halves. What once was the town centre is now a 200 metres deep hole, and private homes and key buildings like the old school and the church have had to be demolished or moved. The pit is a human imposed landscape scar' epitomising the town's lost golden age of mining, its present situation of decline and uncertain future prospects - despite a recent recovery in the mining industry. Although the pit is decisively present in the local community, it is not articulated as significant, especially not from a heritage perspective. Why is this so? In this article, we examine the pit as a potential cultural tool for heritage processes, and find that it is indeed used by individuals in this respect, but not in collective memorialisation. We conclude that landscape scars definitely can constitute critical cultural tools, although they may not always need to be labelled as belonging to an authorized heritage discourse'. Instead, the potential of the landscape scar is to enhance the amount and recognition of shared memories in the local community.
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- Sundin, Bosse
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Nature as Heritage : The Swedish Case
- 2005
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Routledge. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 11:1, s. 9-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1909 the Swedish parliament passed two laws regarding natural landmarks and National Parks. This may be seen as a discovery of 'Nature as Heritage'. But there are earlier examples. From the 17th century, antiquarians had paid attention to certain natural landmarks and in the 19th century it was common to see nature as something that fostered the spirit of the people (das Volk). Around 1900 an increasing role was played by nationalistic motives. The National Parks were supposed to preserve and display the essential quality of Swedish nature. Biology and geology, the theory of evolution and the glaciation theory played a major role in emphasising these new national symbols. But as examples for Sweden indicate, it is difficult to make a heritage of a landscape. In this essay two separate discourses, namely antiquarian and environmental, are discussed.
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- Svensson, Eva, 1962-, et al.
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Empowering marginal lifescapes : The heritage of crofters inbetween the past and the present
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 24:1, s. 17-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a rich, but unacknowledged, heritage of rural subalterns, crofters, in Scandinavia. A Swedish-Norwegian interdisciplinary research-network investigated the most prominent category – the remains of crofts. Due to industrialisation, urbanisation and the modern welfare state, the institution of crofting was abolished, and many crofters left for opportunities elsewhere. The welfare state transformed a landscape of living and working people into a one filled with relicts mostly from the nineteenth century. Although numerous and important to local citizens, these sites fall outside the authorised heritage discourse (AHD) in terms of both research and heritage management. This paper takes an environmental justice perspective to challenge the AHD. Three themes are in focus: (1) bringing out the history of a subaltern and marginalised group of people; (2) promoting crofts as heritage of importance to local citizens and demanding complex management due to the various historical narratives and risks; (3) considering the crofting landscapes in relation to the (economisation) framing of heritage in development processes, especially in relation to fair development in present rural communities.
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- Svensson, Marina
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Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing : walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1470-3610 .- 1352-7258. ; 27:8, s. 792-805
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores walking both as a methodological device, paying close attention to the ethnographer’s own positionality and experiences, and as a form of embodied and emplaced experience of and with heritage sites and urban changes. Walking is an important aspect of how people engage with and experience heritage that draws attention to its emplaced, performative and transformative qualities. Walking, furthermore, is a useful method for researchers to gain insights into a neighbourhood and its heritage, and to the diverse walking practices among different groups of residents and tourists during the heritagization process. City developments and heritigization do not only change modes of walking but may also stimulate more conscious forms of walking, including what has been referred to as conceptual walking, that engages with and/or challenges these developments. The paper engages with recent work on walking within different disciplines, including urban studies, geography, and cultural studies, that highlight its multi-sensory nature. The article builds on the author’s own diverse walks in a neighbourhood in the centre of Beijing where she lived 2009–2011, and in other parts of Beijing. These walks included both everyday walks and organized walks with activists and artists.
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- Svensson, Ted
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Curating the Partition: Dissonant Heritage and Indian Nation Building
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1470-3610 .- 1352-7258. ; 27:2, s. 216-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The twin focal points of the article are the Partition Museum in Amritsar and the online 1947 Partition Archive. Both of these subscribe to and further the view that difficult and dissonant heritage holds transformative potential—which is seen as particularly significant in a region marked by conflictual state relations, majoritarian nationalism and extensive communal violence. However, as the article demonstrates, even though the Partition Museum and the 1947 Partition Archive collect and store previously unheard accounts of suffering, migration and rehabilitation as well as disseminate and make these available to the wider public, they fail to bring about a critical re-appraisal of the event, its lasting consequences and nation building as such. Whereas the Partition Museum—through the layout and content of its core exhibition—reproduces standard conceptions and imageries of national belonging and statehood, both initiatives rely on a use of oral history that remains overly committed to accentuating individualised and localised experiences, and to the positing of these as markers of authenticity.
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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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- Wollentz, Gustav, et al.
(författare)
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Heritage as a process of connecting : Pluralism and diversity in Nordic and Baltic museums
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 27:6, s. 554-569
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines how the concepts of pluralism and diversity are filled with meaning through specific practices and attitudes in museums in Nordic and Baltic countries, through a method of both a widespread quantitative questionnaire sent to ca 750 museums in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia, as well as through qualitative semi-structured interviews with a selection of key-individuals. The paper frames the analysis around seeing heritage as a process of connecting where focus is placed upon the concepts of care and belonging. The paper identifies that the current speed of the museum hinders the process of reaching and connecting to a diverse audience, where a relationship based on mutual trust can be sustained over a long period of time. Furthermore, it identifies the need for a shared understanding within the sector as to what concepts such as integration and diversity mean and how it can be approached through practices in the museum. Finally, the paper recognises that the sector itself has to become more diverse in order to reach out to a plural society.
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- Wollentz, Gustav
(författare)
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Making a home in Mostar : heritage and the temporalities of belonging
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). - : Taylor & Francis. - 1352-7258 .- 1470-3610. ; 23:10, s. 928-945
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the feeling of being at home in time and in place through fieldwork carried out in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2015–2016. Such feelings are needed after a war resulting in geographical displacement as occurred during the breakup of Yugoslavia. This paper argues for the need to see beyond only spatial factors for the ‘making of home’, and therefore considers temporal factors through the role of the heritage in forming narratives, which combine temporal and spatial relations. Alternative narratives to those of ethnic separation are taken into consideration, and it is argued that a sole focus on division may further enforce it rather than lead to its reduction. A sense of disassociation to the current city of Mostar and its narratives has led to the construction of narratives of home within a different time-period (pre-war Mostar). In turn, this may cause nostalgia, passivity, and an ‘othering’ of the newcomers to Mostar. However, there are also cases of employing such a narrative actively in order to envision an alternative future beyond ethnic separation. So far, the institutions working with the heritage of Mostar have not addressed these issues, thus possible ways forward are suggested.
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- Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara, et al.
(författare)
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Creating Cultural Heritage for a Better Future. The case of the “District of Mutual Respect” in the Polish city of Wrocław
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. - 1352-7258. ; 29:9, s. 908-923
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By applying the sociological concept of ‘emplacement’, this article analyses the creation of the ‘District of Mutual Respect’ in the old, neglected part of Wrocław (former German Breslau), a city which became Polish and lost its German population due to their forced migration after the Second World War. The District has in the last 20 years been transformed from slum to attractive environment and an important symbol of Wrocław’s new identity and image. The District showcases the local authorities’ new politics of cultural heritage and memory that emphasises intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism after decades of nationalist memory narratives and suppression of the German heritage. The authors outline a ‘biography’ of the District and analyse its functions. Furthermore, they apply Knudsen’s and Kølvraa’s concepts of repression, removal, reframing and re-emergence to evaluate to what extent that the District can be seen as a largely successful example of creating cultural heritage for a more cosmopolitan, inclusive future.
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