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Eit industrisamfunn ser tilbake
Get PDFThis article explores the changing conceptions of an industrial community at a time when industry is about to be viewed as a phenomenon of the past. The history of the place, its landscape and its relations to the surrounding district are affected when people, activated by a newly-built museum, become engaged in re-evaluating their past. In the process, various material structures of the place are invested with new meanings, thereby becoming monuments over the local industrial history. But in the creation of this meaning, oral storytelling (in increasing degree supplemented by mediation in written form) play a vital role. A local version of the past emerges, but in a manner that places the community in a relationship both to the surrounding district and to the national dimension. As such, the elaboration of the past contributes to the identity work of this local community
Etablering av nye kulturstudier innenfor akademia
Get PDFIn this paper we discuss the institutionalisation of âcultural studiesâ and âcultural policy researchâ as academic disciplines. Cultural studies was institutionalised from inside Academia, initially as an alternative to traditional humanistic disciplines. Despite its humanistic background cultural studies became profoundly influenced by the social sciences and their broad concept of culture. The paper discusses disciplinary characteristics of cultural studies:Â It appears as an eclectic, radical and social constructivist discipline. The paper also describes the specific phases of the institutionalisation process, i.e. the establishment of centres, academic journals, conferences and study programmes. Cultural studies has a longer history and a broader impact as an academic study programme than cultural policy research. Cultural policy research rather forced itself into Academia from outside, i.e. from the political and administrative world. It has therefore often been looked upon as a low-quality and instrumental discipline. The institutionalisation of cultural policy research closely reflects the development of cultural policy and administration in many countries after World War II. Study programmes have been launched in order to respond to the need for competent personnel in the new public cultural administrations. International organisations also have attempted to develop competent cultural policy research. Since the early 1990s cultural policy research has gone through a gradual âacademic turnâ: Research conferences, referee journals, research projects and study programmes were established. The paper still describes cultural policy research as a multidisciplinary and eclectic discipline that lacks specific canonical texts and theoretical heroes. Cultural studies and cultural policy research have influenced each other. In some respects they also converge: While cultural policy research strives to become more academic and avoid the stigma of âinstrumentalityâ, are spokesmen for cultural studies trying to make cultural studies more âusefulâ by speaking up for educating âcultural techniciansâ
Ondska hos miâkmaq â ett kulturellt och historiskt färgat begrepp
Get PDFAtt spåra begreppet ondska hos en av Kanadas First Nations, miâkmaq, blir i denna artikel en resa i tid och rum med variÂerande tillgång på material och röster att lyssna till. Begreppet färgas av den kulturella kontext det bäddas in i, av vem som definierar och vem som definieras. Kolonisatörernas historiska demonisering av miâkmaqs kosmologi som djävulsdyrkan kan vändas och istället bli miâkmaqs demonisering av dagens hegemoniska kultur som inte visar respekt för miâkmaq eller delar med sig av storsamhällets överflöd. Ondska som ett abstrakt begrepp diskuteras således här som ett kontextualiserat och tidsbundet fenomen som framträder i dialoger som strategiskt används inom olika maktdiskurser
Truls Gjefsen 2001. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen â diger og folkesæl
Get PDFDet er en omfangsrik biografi Truls Gjefsen har forfattet om eventyrfortelleren og naturvitenskapsmannen Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Biografen har vært en flittig leser og samler av store og små skrifter om Asbjørnsen, og står trygt på skuldrene av tidligere biografer som Alfred Sinding-Larsen (1872, på fransk i 1873), Hans Hansen (1944) og Knut Liestøl (1949, gjenutgitt i 1984)
à byggje ein minnestad. Falstadskogen 1945â2005
No full textThe article examines the development of a memorial at the site of the former WW2 prison camp SS-Strafgefangenenlager Falstad, one of the largest and most notorious camps in Norway. The memorial has undergone several significant changes in the PostWar years. Â Using Bakhtinâs concept of dialogue, the article examines how the memorial is built around a complex interaction between the components of the memorial, e.g. the landscape and various monuments, of which some are in concurrence, others in conflict. The memorial therefore has a rich repertoire of meaning which allows a number of interpretations. The article discusses how the memorial has been shaped and formed through negotiations between various concepts. By focussing on these dialogical aspects of the memorial, the author argues, one gains a deeper understanding of both the historical specificity of each component and the overall meaning
Kampen om territoriet
Get PDFIn the article the author argues that culture history must include animals and the human-animal relationship. Humans have always lived with animals, which thereby obtain a place in human existence, in social, economic, political as well as cultural life. One argument would have it that animals are a marginal group that has been neglected as an object of humanistic studies due to anthropocentrism. A second argument is that although there have been steadily declining encounters with live animals, animals are mediated in new ways. A third argument and inspiration comes from the Danish culture historian Troels-Lund (1840-1921) who in his voluminous work Daily Life in the Nordic Countries in the 16th century offers perspectives on animals, culture and history that can inspire scholars of today. These perspectives entail seeing the interaction between people and animals as a territorial struggle in which not only humans but also animals act as subjects. Indeed, in his writings on animals and nature, Troels-Lund reveals a critique of civilisation. He also presents reflections upon the human-animal relationship as a relation that implies sensitive tensions. Inscribing animals in culture history should imply showing historically how animals have been symbolized, pointing out the connections between representations of animals and structural power relations, and insisting upon the human-animal relationship as a lived, empirical relation
Ett kulturminne i vardande
Get PDFWhy do people who hardly ever attend church suddenly become the forefront defenders of the church building when it is threatened to be demolished? What does the church mean to these people that paradoxically enough seems to care about the building though they previously never seem to have paid it particular attention? Which values do they assign to the church if its significance is not based on Christian values? To get an answer to these questions, an investigation has been made in the small village of Ãlgård, in the south-west of Norway. The congregation wished to demolish their church to make room for a new one, but a main part of the non-active members of the church wanted to keep it
Flerstemthet i to dimensjoner
Get PDFEvery day millions of people engage in chatting, socialising, sharing thoughts, ideas and opinions on most issues on the internet. They produce enormous amounts of text, easily accessible for anyone to read. In spite of this, cultural researchers in Norway have not shown great interest in these sources. This article argues that material from internet communities is very suitable for identity studies. However, these sources have been created under circumstances quite different from more commonly used material like interviews, and this calls for special critical perspectives. Texts from internet communities are created and given shape and content within a specific community and must be read in relation to this. To understand the texts in which they exist one needs to understand the community. The article articulates five questions that should be taken into consideration when investigating material from internet communities. These are:âWhat glues the community together and how are the borders that frame it made out?How âthickâ is the collective identity in the community?Is there a specific jargon or way of speaking in the group?To what degree are the members anonymous?Does awareness of possible invisible watchers change their interaction in any way?These questions are discussed with empirical examples. Furthermore, the article discusses ethical aspects of fieldwork on the internet and concludes that the researcher should take the same ethical precautions as off-line fieldworkers
Haci Akman (ed.) 2014. Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia. Women, Migration and the Diaspora
Get PDFDiasporas exemplify the polysemy and hybridity of âimagined communitiesâ while retaining in the majority of cases three core aspects which are more or less emphasized according to the circumstances. These are their dispersion in space, their orientation to a conceptual ”homeland”, and the maintenance of boundaries between them and ”others”. These elements mark the connectedness between members of the same diaspora and the elaboration of entangled transnational networks. Migration in general and transnational migration in particular has a lasting impact on the relations between territory and identity, whether it is national, ethnic, cultural, religious or political. Usually, it is a mix of all these elements. Several scholars have during the last three decades or so noted that the semantic dimension of the term diaspora has been stretched in various directions and includes today various types of migrant communities and displaced populations, in order to address different intellectual, cultural and political programs (Brubaker 2005: 1). Whatever form a diaspora takes, diasporic experiences are always gendered (Clifford 1994: 319). So are diasporic identities. Diasporic identities have been described in terms of ”roots and routes” (Clifford 1997), ”sameness-in-dispersal” (Ang 2001), or ”uprootings/ regroundings” (Ahmed et al. 2003). These identities serve as both sources and resources in processes of redefining oneself in times of endurance and opposition in specific historical, cultural, social and political contexts. The book edited by Haci Akman is a welcome addition to the growing literature on women, migration and the establishment of diaspora in different parts of the world. My purpose here is not to go into the details of each of the studies presented, but rather give the gist of the book as a whole and reflect on some of the insights they unfold
Outsourcing av vaskevannet â veien til likestilte praksiser?
Get PDFIn this article nine women and one man, a group of urban informants with higher education is interviewed on their domestic cleaning practices and on their reasons for hiring a private cleaner. The informants are in favour of equal sharing, their practices however are gender specific. It is a common finding among such couples that the non-equal is presented as equal, that the male partnerâs contribution is exaggerated, and that the female partnerâs contribution is understated. This particular study shows no evidence of this. One explanation is that the informants, by bringing in a third party (the cleaner), have effectively resolved the gender-defined conflict