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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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När "heritage" blir hippt-kulturarv som mjuk makt i kölvattnet av migration
- 2018
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In: Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen 100 år 1919-2019. - 9789188605092 ; , s. 26-40
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Essän bygger på flera års forskning om kulturarvsskapande bland nordiska emigranter i USA. Författarens skriver i egenskap av Sverige-Amerikastiftelsens alumna och delger sina erfarenheter av högre studier och forskning inom kulturarvsområdet i USA och Sverige.
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- Gradén, Lizette
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Barbro Klein (1938–2018)
- 2019
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In: Journal of American Folklore. - : University of Illinois Press. - 0021-8715 .- 1535-1882. ; 132:523 Winter 2019, s. 77-78
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Obituary, Professor Barbro Klein 1938-2018.
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- Gradén, Lizette
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Borderlands matter in the Museum
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the last decade, many museums that were established in the 20th century in the United States by immigrants from Scandinavian and Nordic countries have become increasingly concerned with broadening their audiences. In cities such as Seattle and Minneapolis, efforts to do this have varied from offering cocktail hours and culinary conferences in striving to appeal to people who may not identify as Nordic or do not think of museums as places they would normally visit. These efforts stem from the growing expectations museums face of demonstrating how they serve a public benefit and support social values at play in society at large, but they also stem from the demands museums face of providing results of annual growth to their financial stakeholders. As leaders of these museums explain, they can no longer attract paying visitors with heritage collections and volunteer staff. But how does the revitalization and augmentation work when a very particular heritage is under a museum’s auspices?
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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Crafting Nordic Spaces in Scandinavian in the United States
- 2011
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In: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175199931 ; , s. 277-284
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How are Nordic Spaces crafted in the Nordic Countries and in the United States? How do such spaces give shape to cultural heritage? Drawing on theories of materialization and ritual performance; this paper discusses vernacular gifts as a form of materializing relationships; crafting bonds and delimiting boundaries between regions and museums in the wake of migration. By highlighting vernacular gifts from individuals and groups to Scandinavian museums in the United States; I would like to address how gift exchange maps out boundaries; between inside and outside; below and above; distant and close; near and far. The paper will show how gift exchange plays a creative role when Scandinavian museums craft relationships with particular regions; nations; and areas recognized as Scandinavia and Norden.
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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Dressed in a Present from the Past : The Transfers and Transformations of a Swedish Bridal Crown in the United States
- 2010
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In: Culture Unbound. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525. ; 2, s. 695-717
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Ever since the emigration from the Nordic countries the Old world and the New world have maintained an exchange of ideas, customs, and material culture. This cultural heritage consists of more than remnants of the past. Drawing on theories of material culture and performance this article highlights the role of gifts in mate-rializing relationships between individuals, families and organizations in the wake of migration. First, I build on a suggested coinage of the term heritage gifts as a way of materializing relationships. Thereafter, I map out the numerous roles which a Swedish bridal crown play in the United States: as museum object, object of display and loaned to families for wedding ceremonies in America. The trans-fers and transformations of the bridal crown enhances a drama of a migration her-itage. This dynamic drama brings together kin in Sweden and America and maps specific locations into a flexible space via the trajectory of crown-clad female bodies.
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- Gradén, Lizette
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Fake it till you make it : Heritage in action as a performative strategy at the Kulturen museum in Lund
- 2020
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In: Bulgarian Ethnology. - 1310-5213. ; XLVI 2020:4, s. 468-489
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article uses ethnographic methods to analyze how cultural and economic factors impact the way heritage is understood, preserved and developed at Kulturen and Fredriksdal, two of the oldest museums of cultural history museums in Sweden. Some questions offered for discussion will include: How does leadership understand and conceptualize cultural heritage? Whose cultural heritage count the most when related to financial circumstances and forms of ownership? Which priorities are made in the day to day work with collections, exhibitions and programming? Whose heritage is given priority in core exhibitions and whose heritage is prepared for a temporary show?
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- Gradén, Lizette
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Heritage in Action : Crafting collections between vernacular and institutional culture
- 2021
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In: Formakademisk. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1890-9515. ; 14:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork and applies theories of crafting and performance to explore how living heritage practices are rethought, reframed, and refashioned when traditional dress and individual garments are moved, reorganized, and transformed into a collection following rationales derived from both family tradition and museum standards. By following one woman’s emerging collections, the study sheds light on ways of materializing relationships and shaping curatorial agency through acts of crafting. The study aims to show how a deeper understanding of vernacular crafting of collections may inform institutional curatorial practice and heritage-making.
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Heritagelore and an Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Culture and Heritage Under Construction
- 2021
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In: Ethnologia Europaea. - : Open Library of the Humanities. - 0425-4597. ; 51:1, s. 4-22
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Taking inspiration in Barbro Klein’s work, this article focuses on the production of a particular type of institutional lore that we call heritagelore. Heritagelore, as we are advancing the concept here, is composed of the discursive practices within the walls and the organizations of museums. It is the lore that shapes and at least partially structures the types of stories that directors, museum boards, curators, programing staff, and other museum personnel tell to one another about their institutions. As this article argues, the heritagelore of a museum legitimates certain curatorial perspectives, while making others more difficult to imagine.
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Hip Heritage and Contemporary Tastes : Packaging the Nordic in the American Cultural Market
- 2018
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In: Nordisk museologi. - : University of Oslo Library. - 1103-8152 .- 2002-0503. ; 2018:1, s. 45-61
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article focuses on two institutions, the American Swedish Institute and the Nordic Heritage Museum that have spent the first part of the 21st century thinking and rethinking what the heritage under their auspices can be. In doing this, the text problematizes the manner in which elements of Nordic history and identity are being re-thought and re-framed in the cultural and economic context of the American heritage market. The article asks, how is heritage affected when it is increasingly framed as a marketable commodity? As part of the analysis the article discusses the manner in which these museums are intensively and consciously striving to be cool and chic, but even trend and fashion sensitive as they position themselves in the growing and competitive market of what we call hip heritage.
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Hip Heritage and Heritage Pasts : Tensions when re-fashioning museum culture
- 2019
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In: Museum Marketization : Cultural Institutions in the Neoliberal Era - Cultural Institutions in the Neoliberal Era. - : Routledge. - 9781138393868 - 9781138393851 - 9780429401510 ; , s. 115-133
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- When museums of cultural heritage are no longer defined solely in terms of their collections and cultural environments, how much may they change before they cease to be museums and what do they become then? As a means of approaching this question this chapter focuses on two institutions of Swedish cultural heritage, The American Swedish Institute (ASI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Kulturen in Lund that have spent the first part of the 21st century thinking and rethinking what heritage under their auspices can be in contemporary society. Although these institutions operate in two national contexts, they have many similarities in organization, financial models and operations. The chapter problematizes the manner in which these museums as institutions of history and identity are being re-thought, re-framed, and re-fashioned in the cultural and economic context of the museum market in which they operate. It asks, how is heritage affected when it is increasingly framed as a marketable commodity and how do new and developing ways of thinking about heritage re-fashioning museum audiences?
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets
- 2023
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years, this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in Nordic, Scandinavian and North American contexts. It investigates how economic realities, coupled with the cultural contexts in which museums operate, affect how these institutions organize, manage and develop their collections to make themselves relevant in society. Once charged with the primary task of educating citizens about their cultural identity and history, national museums and heritage organizations are also under pressure to rethink their market demands and meet stakeholders’ increasing interest in growing visitor numbers and expanding economic returns. Simultaneously, many museums are part of a cultural sector with diminished public funding and increased competition for the existing financing. Against this background, this book questions: ‘When the budget is tight, whose heritage counts most?’ It considers museums as arenas for heritage politics in action on the local, national and international levels, as well as at the institutional level. Hip Heritage will appeal to scholars and students engaged in the study of ethnology heritage, museum studies, marketing, leisure and tourism, public folklore, and sociology.
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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In the Shadow of Money : Making Heritage and Creating Diversities in Museum Contexts
- 2020
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In: Western Folklore. - 0043-373X. ; 79:4, s. 323-348
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article addresses the ways in which contemporary political processes, neoliberal market forces, and identity politics of the twenty-first century have affected the understanding of Swedish heritage. Examining the work being done at the Hallwyl Museum in Stockholm, Sweden and the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we aim to illustrate how heritage is staged, performed, and expressed in contemporary museum settings.
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Inledning
- 2019
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In: Gränsløs. Tidskrift för studier av Öresundsregionens historia, kultur och samhällsliv.. - 2001-4961. ; :10, s. 5-10
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- Gradén, Lizette
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Migration på museum
- 2017
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In: Rörelsernas museum - slutrapport : Appendix 1. Forskaressäer - Appendix 1. Forskaressäer. ; , s. 28-37
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Museums and Heritage Collections in the Cultural Economy : The Challenge of Addressing Wider Audiences and Local Communities
- 2017
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In: Museum International. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-0775 .- 1468-0033. ; 68:3-4, s. 48-67
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Although more museums are opening now than at any time in the past, too little attention has been paid to the concrete ways in which cultural processes of commoditisation affect heritage production. How can collections speak to wider audiences as well as to local communities in ways that are economically sustainable? This is not a question that invites simple solutions. Turning to ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article focuses on The Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle and Skokloster Castle near Stockholm to explore how these institutions negotiate public participation, engage new audiences, and adapt their operations to meet the demands of the cultural economy they operate in. Drawing on critical cultural theory, the article highlights how different cultural and economic contexts affect museums’ potential to develop, expand, and meet their objectives. The study explains how two particular museums struggle to open their collections to broader publics, which can be understood as part of a wider process of democratisation.
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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Performing a Present from the Past : The Värmland Heritage Gift, Materialized Emotions and Cultural Connectivity
- 2010
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In: Ethnologia Europaea. - : Berghahn Books. - 0425-4597 .- 1604-3030. ; 40:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on actor-network theory and theories of performance, this article discusses gift-giving as an expansive form of materializing relationships and delimiting boundaries between nations, regions, organizations and individuals in the wake of migration. Initially, I discuss gift-giving as a way of materializing relationships and building networks. Thereafter, I map out the social life of the Värmland Gift to America, a collection donated by the Värmland province in Sweden to the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis in 1952. I suggest the coinage of heritage gift as a term to describe gifts with dense biographies which contain and enact multiple performances that simultaneously create and recreate the idea of gift-giving in its role as an activity that binds people together. The analysis of the Värmland Gift shows how such a heritage gift kept on the move over time involves not one but a series of performances which have fostered dynamic transatlantic relationships for over fifty years.
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Rörelsernas museum : mellan ekonomi och politik
- 2022. - 1
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In: Polarisering och samexistens : Kulturella förändringar i vår tid - Kulturella förändringar i vår tid. - 9789189140967 ; , s. 399-435
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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Textil berättarkonst som livsstil
- 2022. - 1
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In: Ethel Halvarsson Textilkonstnär. - 9789189021495 - 9789189019584 ; , s. 33-48
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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The Challenges of Re-Packaging a Heritage
- 2018
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In: Rethinking Scandinavia: CSS Publications Web Quaterly. - 2002-9039. ; 2:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the last decade, many museums that were established in the 20th century by immigrants from the Nordic countries have become increasingly concerned with broadening their audiences and more actively engaging their visitors. Efforts to do this have varied from offering cocktail hours, culinary conferences, and sauna sessions, to striving to appeal to people who may not identify as Nordic or do not think of museums as places they would normally visit. In part, these efforts stem from the growing expectations museums face of demonstrating the manner in which they serve a public benefit and support social values at play in society at large, but they also stem from the demands museums face of providing measurable results of annual growth to their financial stakeholders. But how does, and can, this work when it is a very particular heritage (Nordic heritage) that is under a museum’s auspices?
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- Gradén, Lizette, et al.
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What Happens to Nordic Culture When you Drop the “Heritage"? : Re-imagining Nordic culture for a new museum
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- AbstractSeattle is currently the fastest growing city in the United States attracting a large pool of young international professionals – many of whom are working in the IT industry. However, Seattle is also home to a large Nordic community, immigrants once attracted by the agricultural, forestry, and fishing industries. At present however, the city is pulling in a highly educated young Nordic population to its IT industries. In the midst of all of this, the Nordic Heritage Museum is trying to adapt to new times as well as a new cultural and economic context.In August of 2016 the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle celebrated the ground breaking for a new museum facility, scheduled to open in 2018. On the fence separating the general public from the demolition and constructions teams hung a large poster promoting the coming of “The New Nordic Museum”. Conspicuously missing was the word “heritage” which had since the museum’s founding in 1980 been an integrated aspect of its name and identity. This paper investigates new and old meanings attached to the word “heritage” as interpreted by different groups in the local community. Why does the word heritage come into contestation when museums like “The Nordic” reinvent themselves? What is the role of heritage when the museum aims to engage new cosmopolitan communities in a global economy? How do notions of contemporary Nordic culture (that are at play in the global ecumene) challenge and create new interpretations of Nordic Heritage?
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Gribshunden, Griffen, Gripen
- 2019
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In: Gränsløs. Tidskrift för studier av Öresundsregionens historia, kultur och samhällsliv.. - 2001-4961. ; :10, s. 1-83
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- Hagström, Charlotte, et al.
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Med cykel som sökord
- 2020
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In: Kulturen 2020 : 85 år med årsboken - 85 år med årsboken. - 0454-5915. ; , s. 34-45
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- 50 years had passed since the introduction of the so-called safety bicycle when Kulturen's first yearbook was published in 1935. The bicycle was a common sight in everyday city life during the 1930s. Was it perhaps for this reason that it rarely featured in the yearbooks issued during the 1930s and 1940s? During these two decades it was most common to hear about them through adverts. Nonetheless the bicycle played a big part in society's transformation and its subsequent documentation.
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Kulturarv i förändring
- 2020
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Denna bok undersöker hur kulturarv skapas, i naturlandskap och i stora och små museer i Norden och Nordamerika. Nio forskare inom etnologi, skandinavisk och folkminnesforskning visar utifrån sitt etnografiska fältarbete hur kulturarv formas och omformas i dynamiska processer över tid. Kulturarv formas i nuet, men bygger på det förflutna och besitter kraften att både göra motstånd och staka ut förändringar för framtiden. Författarna visar att kulturarv är något som människor och institutioner skapar, men som också förändrar kulturskaparnas självuppfattning när de tar ställning till nya former av Kulturarv. Vad ska betraktas som kulturarv? Av vem? För vem? Och för vilka syften? Kulturarv i förändring vänder sig till studenter i etnologi och kulturvetenskap, till verksamma inom museer och kulturminnesvård, samt till den som intresserar sig för frågor om vad kulturarv är och hur det förändras.
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- Lindblad, Henrik, 1964-
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Kyrkliga kulturarv i en ny tid : Samlade studier och reflektioner
- 2023
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This study describes and analyses the Swedish ecclesiastical heritage as well as the structures and systems that provide conditions and frameworks for how it is perceived and managed. One purpose is to explain today’s situation concerning the 3,000 historic church buildings and sites protected by national heritage legislation and owned by the Church of Sweden. Furthermore, the study analyses how the approaches, paradigms or discourses, which define that ecclesiastical heritage, have changed over the past two centuries. The study aims to bridge the gaps between antiquarian, art history and conservation discourses, where churches are mainly seen as material historic objects and other discourses that regard churches as living heritage, intangible heritage, or as resources for human rights and sustainable development. The analyses are based on theories such as the concepts of Authorized Heritage Discourse, heritagisation, secularisation, and research methods as discourse analysis and self-reflexivity. The study defines and discusses the Church Antiquarian System, which includes the State-Church agreement, the Historic Environment Act and the State financial compensation. The analyses show that the system is based on a partly outdated conservation approach, with origins in an even older nineteenth-century antiquarian discourse, that is not consistent with the national heritage policy adopted by the Swedish parliament. Thus, it blocks a necessary development where many redundant churches could be revitalised as resources for society. The current approach, as well as the Church’s use of its heritage and history, contribute to a deliberately created positive image, avoiding dark or controversial heritage that illustrates abuse of groups of people such as “witches” in the seventeenth century. To achieve the desired development towards a holistic and inclusive approach to ecclesiastical heritage, several recommendations are given. These include identification of heritage discourses in heritage practices and policies, tolerance of many existing heritage approaches, a review and update of the Church Antiquarian System, and finally the need for developing the competence of heritage officers in the adapted reuse of heritage as a resource for sustainable societal development.
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Modets metamorfoser : Den klädda kroppens identiteter och förvandlingar
- 2009
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Den klädda kroppens identiteter och förvandlingar lockar i modets metamorfoser en read nordiska akademiska skribenter att skriva om kläder, mode, kropp; om kläder mode och plats liksom om mode och makt. Tanken med boken är att överbrygga den polarisering som ibland görs mellan kläder och mode, men också studera kulturella processer om hur identitet kan baseras på något materiellt som just plagg.
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- O'Dell, Thomas, et al.
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A Hip Heritage: Re-imagining Nordic Culture in North America
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Seattle is currently the fastest growing city in the United States attracting a large pool of young international professionals – many of whom are working in the IT industry. However, Seattle is also home to a large Nordic community, immigrants once attracted by the agricultural, forestry, and fishing industries. At present however, the city is pulling in a highly educated young Nordic population to its IT industries. In the midst of all of this, the Nordic Heritage Museum is trying to adapt to new times as well as a new cultural and economic context.In August of 2016 the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle celebrated the ground breaking for a new museum facility, scheduled to open in 2018. On the fence separating the general public from the demolition and constructions teams hung a large poster promoting the coming of “The New Nordic Museum”. Conspicuously missing was the word “heritage” which had since the museum’s founding in 1980 been an integrated aspect of its name and identity. This paper investigates new and old meanings attached to the word “heritage” as interpreted by different groups in the local community. Why does the word heritage come into contestation when museums like “The Nordic” reinvent themselves? What is the role of heritage when the museum aims to engage new cosmopolitan communities in a global economy? How do notions of contemporary Nordic culture (that are at play in the global ecumene) challenge and create new interpretations of Nordic Heritage?
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- O'Dell, Thomas, et al.
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Heritagelore : Museums and the manner in which Heritage might be understood in a trialectic framework of place, materiality and mobility
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Historian David Lowenthal (1985) has pointed out the past is often perceived and represented as “a foreign country” in which cultural heritage is implicitly understood to be bound to geographical territories and associated notions of what it implies to have roots, an identity, and a place in which to belong. This is the paradigmatic background against which so many heritage museums have been founded. As part of the heritage politics debate, folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has argued that heritage object are “made, not found, despite claims to the contrary” (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998:3). Her point is that there is no heritage object prior to its identification, evaluation, conservation, and celebration (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998:149). However, we live in a world which is more than ever before entwined with processes of mobility. It is a world in which some people move for the sake of work, love, and the dream of a better life, while too many others feel forced to move due to economic crises, poverty, religious conflicts, war, and political persecution. Heritage, it might be said is being shaken and stirred by processes of globalization that are increasingly difficult to ignore. Faced with the realization of this reality, museums of heritage increasingly find themselves challenged to rethink the work they do, and the way in which they speak about, represent, and exhibit heritage (Levitt 2015).This paper focuses on the manner in which two heritage sites (The Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm and American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis) in Sweden and Swedish America are working with and speaking about heritage - at times creating new forms of heritagelore, at other times building upon rather traditional notions of what “the heritage” under their auspices is and can be. Both sites were built as private homes at the turn of 20th century by people who were themselves migrants - as such their histories entwine processes of globalization, mobility and heritage. The paper analyzes the manner in which these two institutions are moving and mobilizing the concept of heritage. In so doing, it strives to illuminate the manner in which heritage might be understood in a trialectic framework of place, materiality and mobility. It closes by discussion how insights gained from the study of these two museums might be useful in facilitating the ability for ethnologists and folklorists to reposition contemporary heritagelore in a context of migration and mobility.Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998. Destination Culture: Museums, Tourism and Heritage. Berkeley: California University Press. Levitt, Peggy (2015) Artifacts and Allegiances. How museums put the nation and the world on display, Oakland: University of California Press.Lowenthal, David (2015 (1985). The past is a foreign country: revisited. Revised and updated edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressLowenthal, David (1996). Possessed by the Past. New York: Free Press
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