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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Antiken I Sydafrika.
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Ingår i: Medusa. ; 34:3, s. 1--6
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Capturing time – Museum collections and social transformations
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Museum collections are an alternate space where time is constructed according to institutional practices and beliefs. So, how can the concept of time be used as an analytic tool to locate how institutions account for, and deal with, social transformations? In this paper I refer to time not as clock-time but as a social practice where groups negotiate and create time. Time, according to Munn (1992: 93), is a theoretical examination of a basic socio-cultural process in which temporality is constructed. Munn (1986: 11-13, 1992: 104) and Giddens (1984: 133) suggest that agents are not merely ‘in’ time and space, but create that time and space by following time-space paths. Agents are active participants who negotiate and renegotiate and create time in the form of relations between themselves and temporal reference points that are also spatial. I suggest that collections are ways to create time. Furthermore I hold that agents, curators, are creating time when collecting material culture. They are creating the time that they are ‘in’ as well as the time that has passed (Rodéhn 2008). I follow Fabian (1983: 20, 41) that holds that material culture helps concretize time as it encapsulates social systems. Therefore I hold that collection is about capturing and materializing time in sequences, spatialising it and making it comprehensible (Rodéhn 2008). Collections can, thus, be seen as a time-line or as a ‘time-reckoning’ which Munn (1992: 103) described as a way to visualise time with help of cultural categories. I will discuss a museum collection in South Africa in order to make visual how heritage institutions create time. I will give examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) established in 1905. The purpose is to acknowledge that museum collections are important for the understanding how people relate to and negotiate time and changing political and social circumstances. The KwaZulu-Natal Museum is a good example as South African has experienced several socio-political changes during the time that the collection existed. Over the years the museum amassed material to account for colonialism, apartheid and democratization. Thus investigating the collection over a long period of time can reveal how time is constructed in the museum and how it related to time outside the museum. I argue that collections are attempts to materialize socio-political occurrence and lock and compress time in sequences of artifacts. Collections elucidate how museums understand socio-political occurrences and what curators chose to recall as important for doing ‘time- reckoning’ Each museums has an individual ‘time-reckoning’ but it is connected to larger political and academic discourses. Museums’ ‘time-reckoning’ is not linear and cannot be accounted for beforehand. Collections fluctuate, patterns of material stop, are repeated and are affected by socio-political changes. Collections are thus an alternate space-time. It is an institutionalized social construct of how time is socially understood, accounted for, and made spatial (Rodéhn 2008). I argue that when societies are experiencing social transformations the museum’s time-reckoning is brought in to contention. This often appears as material confusions where the past and the present are used and rejected at the same time (Rodéhn 2008). Investigating museum collections as institutionalized ways of doing ‘time-reckoning’ reveals how museums and curators deal social transformations, how they create the time that they are ‘in’, and what consequences this may have for the understanding of the past. References Fabian, J. 1983. Time and the other. How anthropology makes its object. Columbia University Press: New York. Giddens, A. 1984. The constitution of society. Outline of the theory of structuration. Polity Press: Cambridge. Munn, ND. 1986. The Fame of Gawa. A symbolic study of value transformation in Massim (Papua New Guinea Society). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Munn, ND. 1992. The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay. Annual Review Anthropology. 21: 93-123. Rodéhn, C. 2008. Lost in Transformation. A critical study of two South African museums. PhD. Dissertation University of KwaZulu-Natal. Pietermaritzburg.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Cultural heritage, Democracy and the Labour Market
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This project aims to investigate if the system of ’wage subsidy’ coupled with of Lifelong Learning can result in more democratic museums and archives. The study is based on archive studies and field studies and qualitative interviews. Interviews was conducted with people in ‘wage subsidy’ programmes and people in management positions at Jamtli and the Regional Archives in Östersund and questions centres around Lifelong Learning, learning in general and the ‘wage subsidy’ system. The ethnographic material was analysed using theories on Lifelong Learning and workplace learning. I argue in this paper that learning is situated to certain contexts, e.g., the museum and archive, to the pedagogical profile, to the social and political context. I discuss these contexts in terms of Lifelong Learning and EU and Swedish labour market and cultural policies. I come to the conclusion that heritage institution is dependent on people in ‘wage subsidy’ programmes to continue to exist and to further a democratic heritage. I argue, furthermore, that Lifelong Learning needs to better define within the heritage sector if it is to be utilised in terms of labour market measures and democratisation of heritage. If museums and archives want to use Lifelong Learning as a method for personal development among people in labour market measures they need to better define the goals with Lifelong Learning. I therefore come to the conclusion that Lifelong Learning is best used as a method to approach attitudes to the society rather than investigate learning, as learning is assumed within this theory. If museums and archives are approached from this angle, Lifelong Learning can be used as a method to evaluate the heritage production.
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- Rodéhn, Cecilia, 1977-
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Displaying Anglophile Whiteness : A Case-Study of a South African Exhibition
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of African Studies. - 1235-4481 .- 1459-9465. ; 20:4, s. 276-299
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the fall of apartheid, white South African heritage came to acquire negative connotations, mostly because of the role that white, especially Afrikaner heritage, played during apartheid. This was mostly due to the fact that for black South Africans, whites and whiteness was regarded as homogenous, with few exceptions. Afrikaner heritage has been subject to considerable research and self-criticism, but anglophile heritage has been overlooked. I seek to make a contribution in that regard by exploring the shifting attitude to anglophile whiteness as exemplified in the exhibition The History Hall at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). The research will pair large scale heritage negotiations with local ones, and will explore how anglophile whiteness was constructed in the museum as well as how it has changed. The research is based on qualitative methodology, and draws on participant observation and qualitative interviews, visual analysis, and archive materials.
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