Anne Eriksen

Olav Christensen

stereotype forestillinger om svarte

Hvite løgner

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson

A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies from the Middle Age to the present time that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that many pasts exist sometimes harmoniously and other times in conflict this resource attempts to negotiate the past by analyzing the tensions that occur when individuals with different interests, understandings, and points of view study history and by exploring the inherent desire to develop a consensus between the past and the present. Examining subject areas such as social and cultural history, literature, cultural studies, archeology, mythology, and anthropology, this study expresses how crucial it is to understand the processes of dealing with the past when trying to chart how and why societies and communities change and evolve.

Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Memory

Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries

Anne Birgitte Rønning

Ellen Krefting

Eksempler spiller en viktig rolle i alle typer fremstillinger. Gjennom eksemplet konkretiserer vi noe abstrakt, eller det partikulære forbindes med det allmenne. Det kan tjene som illustrasjon eller som forbilde. Selv de tidlige antikke filosofene var bevisst eksemplets makt. I denne boken blir eksemplets komplekse retoriske funksjon gransket. Tekstene tar særlig opp spørsmålet om hvilken innvirkning kjønn har på eksemplets status: Hva har kjønn å si for evnen til å være eksemplarisk? Slik knytter antologien an til sentrale spørsmål innen kjønnsforskning: Kan en kvinne være eksempel på noe allmennmenneskelig, eller er hun kun et eksempel for sitt kjønn? Antologien formidler ny, tverrfaglig forskning på betydningen av kjønnsforestillinger og eksempelbruk. Tekstene spenner over religiøse, sosialhistoriske, politiske, filosofiske, medisinske og populærkulturelle emner, fra antikken til i dag.

Kjønn, representasjon og autoritet fra antikken til i dag

Eksemplets makt

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present. This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge about early modern antiquarianism.

Transformations of Cultural Memory

From Antiquities to Heritage

The authors present a number of case studies, from the Middle Age to present time, about how the past has been made meaningful and relevant to people living in later periods. It is the process of selecting, interpreting and passing on meaning that we call negotiating the past. This process is loaded with tension in part stemming from the past itself, but which is often due to the various agents involved in the process as they represent different interests, understandings and points of view. At the same time, the process is marked by a wish to come to terms with unknown conditions, to develop some consensus, again not only with the past, but also with one's contemporaries. These dynamic and dialogical processes do not only concern the past as in "history", but rather a number of pasts, which are sometimes in conflict, but at other times harmoniously complement each other. The book should be viewed as a contribution to the international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory, which has grown large over the last decades. Today, studies of commemorations and festivals, monuments, exhibitions and museums, historical films and narratives are numerous, and terms such as social memory, collective or collected memory, lieux de mémoire all demonstrate the scholarly interest in how the past -- or images of it -- is constructed, composed and built up, but also demolished, dismantled and rejected. To learn more about the processes when dealing with the past is an important key to understanding why and how societies and communities change and evolve. The authors are Norwegian, Danish and Swedish scholars who have collaborated in a network on the subject between 2007 and 2009. They are employed at universities and university libraries throughout Scandinavia. Contributors: Anders Berge; Brita Brenna; Bernard Eric Jensen; Helge Jordheim; Kyrre Kverndokk; Anne Birgitte Rønning; Leiv Sem; Karen Skovgaard-Petersen; Erling Sverdrup Sandmo; Anna Wallette.

Bjarne Rogan

en fagkritisk biografi om norsk kulturhistorie

Etnologi og folkloristikk

Mia Göran

Ragnhild Evang Reinton

kulturproduksjon, materialitet og estetikk

Tingenes tilsynekomster

Torunn Selberg

en innføring i folkloristikk

Tradisjon og fortelling

Kyrre Kverndokk

Marit Ruge Bjærke

Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives, experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to science and history - and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to critically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and practices. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture.

Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse

Climate Change Temporalities

Anne Eriksen

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