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- Fredengren, Christina
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Bodily Entanglements : Gender, Archaeological Sciences and the More-than-ness of Archaeological Bodies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. - 0959-7743 .- 1474-0540. ; 31:3, s. 525-531
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Critical feminist Posthumanism provides novel ways of dealing with bodies as material-discursive phenomena. As such, bodies come about, change and dissolve by re-workings of entangled relations. Such relationships are making human bodies more-than-human. Bodies can be understood as full of excesses-that will not be captured by, for example, gender or age categories alone-albeit occasionally materially shaped by them. Examples of such excessive relations are captured by DNA analysis or various isotope analyses-where diet as well as geological habitat gets imprinted into the body and become a part of the personhood-and can be discussed as the landscape within. This paper deals with some misunderstandings around Posthumanism, but also with how critical posthumanist feminist theory can breathe new life into archaeological gender studies and thereby also forge new relationships with the archaeological sciences.
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- Fredengren, Christina, et al.
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Checking in with Deep time : Intragenerational Care in the Registers of Feminist Posthumanities
- 2020
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Ingår i: Deterritorializing the Future. - London : Open Humanities Press.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In considering deep time ethics and Anthropocene heritage, this paper (and subsequent chapter) discuss intragenerational care in the registers of feminist posthumanities and environmental humanities through the case of the waste-to-energy plant Gärstadsverken i Linköping, Sweden.
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- Fredengren, Christina, et al.
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Checking in with deep time : intragenerational care in the registers of feminist posthumanities, the case of Gärstadsverken
- 2020
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Ingår i: Deterritorializing the future. - London : Open Humanities Press. - 9781785420887 - 9781785420870 ; , s. 56-95
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Starting from the assumptions of feminist perspectives from various forms of re-invented humanities, this chapter approaches the major research question of how better to re-tie the material and immaterial knots between past, present and future generations for heritage research. This is a research question guiding us in our project on deep-time interventions and intragenerational care that we explore here through the multi-temporal site of the Gärstad waste-to-energy plant. This plant resides just outside the town of Linköping in south-east Sweden, a site we often pass by on our way home or to the university. The over-arching intent of our research is to contribute to the sociocultural and material transformations needed for us all to become more gracious ancestors for multispecies generations to come.
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- Fredengren, Christina
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Worlding Waters with the Dead
- 2022
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Ingår i: Norwegian Archaeological Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0029-3652 .- 1502-7678. ; 55:2, s. 140-158
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with the deposition of artefact and bodily remains in watery places, such as lakes, rivers and bogs. The research draws on critical feminist posthumanist theory and engages in questions on how necropolitics were linked to the subject formation of the killable, thereby examining changing human-animal relations and their links to situated environments. The paper traces the critical cartographies of the dead and how the dead co-worked in generative and lively worlding practices. This is done by investigating some of the relations that were tied together and undone through such deposition. It deals with questions around sacrifice and the personhood of waters and matters around how ecologies become alive or dead.
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- Owman, Caroline, 1966-
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det meränmänskliga museet : Konservatorns bevarandepraktik som flyktlinje i modernitetens museum
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis takes the conservator as a starting point to explore more-than-human aspects of the museum of modernity. Assuming that built-in obstacles impinge when museums today deal with environmental issues‚ it investigates new and alternative perspectives on the engagement with our immediate surroundings, in this case the museum objects. The objective of this study is to map museum processes hidden in the anthropocentric museum of modernity. The aim is to broaden the perspective on the museum to include what the museum structures of modernity have pushed aside: ongoing processes and becomings, and the myriad of energetic more-than-human agencies and temporalities constantly at work in a museum.The main empirical material consists of interviewes with conservators working in different departements and museums in Sweden. This material also includes my own experiences of working as a conservator and as an exhibition producer in various museums. There is a particular focus on the care of objects performed by conservators. The material also includes Swedish Government Official Reports (SOU) and one central text from the Ministry Publications Series (Ds). Furthermore, more-than-human agencies play an important role: enacted through the museum apparatus in shape of humidity and silverfish.Posthuman theory, environmental humanities and material feminism form the overarching theoretical framework as well as provide the analytical tools. Three main themes from these theoretical areas run throughout the entire thesis: anthropocentrism, more-than-human agency, dualistic thinking and dichotomies. All of which are applied to the empirical material. To conclude, museums have been part of modernity’s ambitions and ideals since they were established just over 100 years ago. This thesis shows how, in the structures of the museum, modernity’s ideas have persisted. Furthermore, these structures of thought appear and interfere, inter alia, in the conservator’s experiences of and thoughts about their work and professional identity. However, when working intimately with the museum objects more-than-human relational processes and other productive connections emerge, whereby the structures, derived from moderity’s thinking, are challenged in productive ways. This forms the line of flight that the title refers to; here perceived as a possibility for change, in a direction that could promote new ways for museums to tackle complex more-than-human issues, such as climate change and environmental matters.
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- Raffield, Ben, et al.
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Narratives of inequality. Towards an archaeology of structural violence in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
- 2024
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Ingår i: Archaeological Dialogues. - 1380-2038 .- 1478-2294.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To date, traditional narratives of the Late Iron Age have focused almost exclusively on discussions of the elite. These were the martial rulers and major landholders who occupied the upper strata of Scandinavian society. The lives of lower-status population groups, including enslaved and other ‘unfree’ or dependent peoples such as landless farmers, have long been marginalized in archaeological discourse. We have little knowledge of the ways in which the lifeways of subaltern peoples were shaped by the construction and maintenance of socio-political hierarchies and networks, or of how social inequality permeated and impacted the daily lives of communities. In this article, the authors propose that the concept of structural violence, developed by sociologist Johan Galtung, has the potential to offer an interdisciplinary framework for multi-proxy studies of (bio)archaeological and textual data.
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, 1974-, et al.
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Framtider på sin spets: Att värdera det omätbara
- 2022
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Vi menar i den här korta essän att öar, som det planerade, offentliga konstverket Future Island, har mycket att lära oss. De tränar vår förmåga att se stora sammanhang, ”connect the dots”. Med öar,som per definition ligger vid marginalerna av fast mark eller till och med långt ute till havs, tränas vår föreställningsförmåga. Det behövs nu när vi måste anpassa oss på nytt, till en miljö- och klimatförändrad värld. Nu när vi måste lära oss leva med ovissa klimatframtider behövs testscenarion och projektionsytor för tänkbara framtider, som Future Island-verket. Här har vetenskap och tekniken självklar plats – i egenskap av datainsamling och observationer av möjliga scenarier. Men för att verkligen öva vår föreställningsförmåga, och därmed vår anpassningsförmåga, i en redan miljöförändrad värld, krävs mer än disparat information. Det behövs mer än tekniska beräkningar, vetenskapliga övervakningssystem och informativa utbildningsinsatser. Nu krävs inlevelse, fantasiförmåga, spekulationer, nya horisonter och nya sätt att se sammanhang. Inte minst krävs avoss alla idag konsten att leva med det okända, det omätbara.
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, 1974-, et al.
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More-than-human feminisms across arts and sciences
- 2022
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Ingår i: G22 Conference - Shaping Hopeful Futures in Times of Uncertainty. - Karlstad : Karlstads universitet.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminist theories have long been concerned with the violent impact of (normative) Universal Man on society and nature, aconsequence of a modern phantasy divide between Nature and Culture. In this planetary era some call the Anthropocene, it isclearer to us how the environment is in us, and we humans are fully in the environment. The modern Nature/Culture divideimplodes violently on itself. For too long those regarded as less cultured, less-than-human and particularly nonhumans,like the very ecologies that sustains us, have been approached as mere resours or background for Universal Man. What canbe done - in practice, in thinking and in scholarship in such a situation?The present postnatural situation disrupts modern figurations of thought and scholarly practice, and begs new ones. Withclimate change, oceanic disturbance, habitat loss and rampant species extinction on the one hand, and new syntheticbiologies, technobodies and algorithms we live by on the other, it asks feminist sciences and arts for extradisciplinaryresponses, for new designs of practice.No longer can a division of academic labour be sustained, where technoscience does naked facts, use/abuse nonhumans andextract raw nature while artistic research, humanities and social science does culture, ethics and politics. Spurred by morethan-human feminisms, thicker forms of situated knowing have already emerged, for instance as practices of critical, creativeand feminist posthumanities.Such more-than-human humanities come in response to the pressing need to a) alter and decolonize such dividing knowledgeforms and to b) change the very ways we think, eat, and live with nonhumans in society. Sharing a Darwinian feeling forhow everything is connected, critically and creatively, with a relational ethics of care and concern, more-than-humanfeminisms and postdisciplinary disciplines, have paved way for environmental humanities and other more-than-human formsof the posthumanities. What are the stakes and challenges in these transformations? Why do we need them? And whatfeminist genealogies gets recognized?This lively round-table talk brings diverse scholars together for a spirited conversation on the usefulness and potential impactof feminist theorizing on sustainability, design, and on how to bring art and science to the social humanities, and insights tothe people living in a more-than-human world. It will be fun, but deadly serious.
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