Greenlandic art and history are closely intertwined and have influenced each other throughout the ages. Studying the art of a particular period or artist can provide valuable insights into the historical context, cultural values, and social dynamics of that time. Similarly, understanding historical…
Greenlandic art and history are closely intertwined and have influenced each other throughout the ages. Studying the art of a particular period or artist can provide valuable insights into the historical context, cultural values, and social dynamics of that time. Similarly, understanding historical events can deepen our appreciation and interpretation of artworks created during those periods. This sample syllabus was taught in 2023, with the aim to explore the interconnectedness of art and history through the works of Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuit) artists. Students learned about a range of approaches that link historical research with art. The topics were selected by students using a method called “creating collaborative syllabus” at the beginning of the course (usually during the first week). The syllabus is a first step to use art and creative praxis as part of history teaching at Ilisimatusarfik, but may also be used as a starting point when teaching about Greenlandic art and history at other institutions. Feel free to adapt it as you wish!
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Årstal:
2024
Emner:
Arctic; Art; History; Education; Indigenous knowledge; Culture
Publikationssted:
Nuuk
Publikationsland:
Greenland
In a 2017 book chapter on the continuing erasure of Indigenous epistemes in academia, the Sami scholar Rauna Kuokkanen posed an important question: is it acceptable for a site of learning to be so ignorant? Foregrounding Indigenous scholarship from the Arctic, this article examines the potential of…
In a 2017 book chapter on the continuing erasure of Indigenous epistemes in academia, the Sami scholar Rauna Kuokkanen posed an important question: is it acceptable for a site of learning to be so ignorant? Foregrounding Indigenous scholarship from the Arctic, this article examines the potential of history education to address this question. Based on previous research on Arctic gender history and the coloniality of knowledge, I suggest a paradigm shift, in view of the new UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development framework (May 2021). The research investigates the challenges and opportunities that history education offers in terms of epistemic and cognitive justice within the context of Arctic memory cultures. The article concludes that much can be learned from (not about) Indigenous scholarship, which has long demonstrated a range of critical and sustainable methodologies that offer opportunities to seek epistemic justice and the restitution of cultural memory.
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Årstal:
2023
Emner:
Arctic; History; Education; Indigenous knowledge; Culture; Memory; Equity; Social justice; Social sustainability
Titel på tidsskrift:
History Education Research
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
20
Tidsskriftsnummer:
1
Udgiver:
UCL Press
Publikationssted:
London
Publikationsland:
United Kingdom
DOI nummer:
10.14324/HERJ.20.1.04
The study of memory cultures often foregrounds the recovery of denied historical truths, with the recognition that social and cultural norms not only shape canonical versions of the past, but continue to be complicit in legitimised forms of forgetting and erasure. This article investigates the inter…
The study of memory cultures often foregrounds the recovery of denied historical truths, with the recognition that social and cultural norms not only shape canonical versions of the past, but continue to be complicit in legitimised forms of forgetting and erasure. This article investigates the intersections between personal archives and other forms of cultural expression in acts of collective memoralization and forgetting. Using the personal archives of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary, the research introduces the concept of coloniality to studying Arctic memory cultures by examining the role of gender in the context of Arctic exploration. The article concludes that an understanding of the coloniality of knowledge and its connections to epistemic violence is crucial to the study of memory and historical legacy in the Arctic.
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Årstal:
2021
Emner:
Arctic; Gender; History; Memory; Coloniality; Exploration literature
Titel på tidsskrift:
Memory Studies
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
14
Tidsskriftsnummer:
5
Udgiver:
SAGE Journals
Publikationssted:
Online
Publikationsland:
USA
ISSN nummer:
1750-6980
DOI nummer:
10.1177/17506980211024327
This article is dedicated to the complex web of gender and colonial relationships in biographical writing. The author's main focus is on publications by two women of high society who traveled through the colonial North in the early 20th century, Danish Emilie Demant-Hatt (1873-1958) and Scottish Iso…
This article is dedicated to the complex web of gender and colonial relationships in biographical writing. The author's main focus is on publications by two women of high society who traveled through the colonial North in the early 20th century, Danish Emilie Demant-Hatt (1873-1958) and Scottish Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982). An analysis of these textual and visual works allows us to see how they made a contribution to the colonial project, while undermining it at the same time, and how colonial femininity combines obedience and disobedience.
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Årstal:
2020
Emner:
Postcolonialism; Arctic; Gender; Travel writing; Biographical writing
Titel på tidsskrift:
NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE-NEW LITERARY OBSERVER
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
6
Tidsskriftsnummer:
166
Udgiver:
Gorky Media
Publikationssted:
Moskow
Publikationsland:
Russian Federation
ISSN nummer:
0869-6365
DOI nummer:
94(48)+325+396
Recognising the diverse roles that women have played in the history of the Arctic, both as colonisers and colonised, this article uses travel writing or Arctic biographies by women writers to explore female colonisation strategies within the context of Scandinavian colonialism. Inspired by Maria Lug…
Recognising the diverse roles that women have played in the history of the Arctic, both as colonisers and colonised, this article uses travel writing or Arctic biographies by women writers to explore female colonisation strategies within the context of Scandinavian colonialism. Inspired by Maria Lugone’s use of the concept of “coloniality of gender” (2008) the article investigates how gendered coloniality is produced and mediated through travel writing by women in the Arctic. While Lugones’ critique primarily addresses the racism and violence inherent in modern/colonial gender systems, the analysis uses her understanding of coloniality as a lived experience of Eurocentric domination in order to illuminate the gendered nature of complicity by white, elite women. Using the work of Emilie Demantt (1873-1958), later Demantt-Hatt, and Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) the article analyses both ‘Nordic’ and ‘transnational’ female strategies of colonisation as they are performed and articulated through biographical writing. Both in form and content, these texts demonstrate the many ways in which global and imperial power intersected with local hierarchies and systems of knowledge as part of multiple and concurring representations of reality over time.
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Editor:
Johan Höglund; Linda Andersson Burnett
Årstal:
2019
Emner:
Arctic; History; Colonialism; Gender; Travel
Titel på tidsskrift:
Scandinavian Studies
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
91
Tidsskriftsnummer:
1-2
Udgiver:
University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Publikationssted:
Illinois
Publikationsland:
United States of America
ISSN nummer:
00365637
DOI nummer:
10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0182
This article uses historical travel writing by Anglo-European Women to investigate the construction of gendered geographies in the Far North. Applying an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, literary analysis and gender studies, the paper examines the gendered aspects of travel, and the…
This article uses historical travel writing by Anglo-European Women to investigate the construction of gendered geographies in the Far North. Applying an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, literary analysis and gender studies, the paper examines the gendered aspects of travel, and the intersectionality of gender, class and race. Using examples from two published travel accounts and personal archives, the paper will demonstrate the historical processes of gender differences and representations, as well as capture the intersectionality of literature and the construction of place in real, imaginary and symbolic terms.
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Årstal:
2018
Emner:
History; Travel; Literature; Gender
Titel på tidsskrift:
International Journal of Arts and Sciences
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
10
Tidsskriftsnummer:
2
Udgiver:
Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Universitypublications.net
Publikationssted:
Connecticut
Publikationsland:
USA
ISSN nummer:
1943-6114
This article examines the reception of Old Norse literature and culture in the literatures of the Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland. It compares in particular the work of Shetland author James John Haldane Burgess (1862-1927) and the Orcadian author George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) and it evalu…
This article examines the reception of Old Norse literature and culture in the literatures of the Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland. It compares in particular the work of Shetland author James John Haldane Burgess (1862-1927) and the Orcadian author George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) and it evaluates the ways in which these two figures use their geographically peripheral positions as unique vantage points from which to reframe Nordic identity in their writing. By re-orientating the Scottish Islands from the periphery of Britain to the centre of important scenes in Nordic history, Haldane Burgess and Mackay Brown each construct a distinctive sense of geographical and cultural place. This approach allows the boundaries of the Nordic cultural sphere to be extended, and for a new and complex third space to emerge, in which the islands connect the Nordic and Anglo-Celtic realms and situate them within world literature.
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Editor:
Timothy Saunders
Årstal:
2017
Emner:
Peripheries; Literatures; Nordic; Orkney; Shetland
Titel på tidsskrift:
Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
56
Tidsskriftsnummer:
1
Udgiver:
Norvik Press
Publikationssted:
London
Publikationsland:
United Kingdom
ISSN nummer:
ISSN 0036-5653
Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders’ history, forging their unique way of life,…
Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders’ history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities.
This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic rim congregated in Lerwick, Shetland, to discuss maritime traditions, islands in Old Norse literature, insular archaeology, folklore, and traditional belief. The chapters reflect the varied origins of the contributors. Icelanders are well represented, as are scholars based in Orkney and Shetland, indicating the strength of scholarship in these seemingly isolated archipelagos. Peripheral they may be to the UK, but they lie at the heart of the North Atlantic, at the intersection of British and Nordic cultures.
This book will be of interest to scholars of a wide range of disciplines, such as those involved in island studies, cultural studies, Old Norse literature, Icelandic studies, maritime heritage, oceanography, linguistics, folklore, British studies, ethnology, and archaeology. Similarly, it will also appeal to researchers from a wide geographical area, particularly the UK, and Scandinavia, and indeed anywhere where there is an interest in the study of islands or the North Atlantic.
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Årstal:
2017
Emner:
Area studies; Cultural history; Scotland; North Atlantic; Geography
Publikationssted:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Publikationsland:
United Kingdom
Volume:
1
Udgave:
1
Udgiver:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN nummer:
978-1-4438-5512-9 (print)
This book chapter investigates transnational cultural encounters that cross the established research areas of Northern European, Nordic, and Scandinavian Studies. Using approaches from Scandinavian research on coastal communities and cultural spaces, the article examines cultural transfer between No…
This book chapter investigates transnational cultural encounters that cross the established research areas of Northern European, Nordic, and Scandinavian Studies. Using approaches from Scandinavian research on coastal communities and cultural spaces, the article examines cultural transfer between Norway and Scotland through trade and exchange during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The interdisciplinary and transnational approach adopted throughout the paper suggests new perspectives in researching coastal communities in Britain, as part of a wider understanding of cultural encounters between the communities of the North.
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Editor:
Ian Giles, Laura Chapot, Christian Cooijmans, Ryan Foster, Barbara Tesio
Årstal:
2016
Emner:
History; Human geography; Cultural studies
Publikationssted:
London
Publikationsland:
United Kingdom
Titel på værtspublikation:
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North
Volume:
1
Udgiver:
Norvik Press
ISBN nummer:
978-1-909408-33-3
Cet article porte sur le rôle du bateau en tant que médiateur des cultures tangible et intangible dans la région de l’Atlantique nord, en comparant la représentation des bateaux et les collections maritimes conservées dans les musées dédiés aux folklores écossais et norvégien. Il explore les similar…
Cet article porte sur le rôle du bateau en tant que médiateur des cultures tangible et intangible dans la région de l’Atlantique nord, en comparant la représentation des bateaux et les collections maritimes conservées dans les musées dédiés aux folklores écossais et norvégien. Il explore les similarités et les différences des définitions de la côte comme « lieu maritime » par le biais d’objets, et s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux récits et aux aspects d’une mémoire commune influençant la formation de traditions culturelles régionales et nationales. En liant la théorie du transfert culturel aux études sur la culture matérielle, et à l’aide de l’approche microhistorique de l’Alltagsgeschichte, nous comparerons la façon dont les habitants des Shetland et les Norvégiens occidentaux ont participé à la construction et à leur identification à la culture côtière [kystkultur] par l’entremise d’objets maritimes et narratifs.
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Editor:
Andringa, Kim, Harry, Frederique, Mareuge, Agathe, Terrisse, Benedicte
Årstal:
2016
Emner:
History; Cultural studies; Material culture
Publikationssted:
Paris
Publikationsland:
France
Titel på værtspublikation:
Ding, ding, ting: Objets médiateurs de culture
Volume:
1
Udgave:
1
Udgiver:
L'Harmattan
ISBN nummer:
978-2-343-07788-8
Coastal cultures form a complex area of research, offering new opportunities to investigate and understand the history of cultural encounters and transnational “regions of culture” across the Northern peripheries. This article investigates the connected cultures of coastal communities of Norway, Sco…
Coastal cultures form a complex area of research, offering new opportunities to investigate and understand the history of cultural encounters and transnational “regions of culture” across the Northern peripheries. This article investigates the connected cultures of coastal communities of Norway, Scotland, and Canada after 1700. A shared, diverse, but similarly sea-focused cultural landscape exists across the North that informs the way in which regional cultural identities are formed and maintained. Using new methodologies of cultural transfer such as entangled histories or histoire croisée, this article pays particular attention to the creation of transient cross-cultural networks and regions stimulated by trade and related contacts across the North Sea and the North Atlantic.
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Editor:
Helga Thorson
Årstal:
2016
Emner:
History; Human geography
Titel på tidsskrift:
Scandinavian Canadian Studies / Études Scandinaves au Canada
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
1
Tidsskriftsnummer:
23
Udgiver:
Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada
Publikationsland:
Canada
ISSN nummer:
0823-1796
This article argues that cartography and topographical description played a significant role in the way in which areas of the Scottish Northern Isles were represented and visualised, as a regional space, after the political union of England and Scotland in 1707, and, alongside that, the development…
This article argues that cartography and topographical description played a significant role in the way in which areas of the Scottish Northern Isles were represented and visualised, as a regional space, after the political union of England and Scotland in 1707, and, alongside that, the development of the concept of a British state and nation. Not only did topographical literature become more professionalised and commercially-oriented during the eighteenth century, but the visual representations of territories created in maps and charts became part of a network of cultural practices that both linked and divided historical regions across the British Isles. On the one hand, map-making re-negotiated national spaces in order to contribute to the formation the United Kingdom or Great Britain (itself a complex national entity) and, on the other hand, it provided an opportunity to re-create a sense of place or Northern regional identity, continuing to be part of an intercultural Northern European maritime region linked by the North Sea. As can be seen in the following case studies from the Shetland Islands and Western Norway, at ‘image level’, the change in perceptions about a region's identity (or one's own, within that region), often follows a long process, ‘since shifts in the attitudes of mental mapping tend to slowly follow changes in political and social conditions, mixing with philosophical and aesthetic conventions of the time’.
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Årstal:
2015
Emner:
History; Cartography; Cultural transfer; Scotland; Norway; Orkney; Shetland; Maritime travel
Titel på tidsskrift:
Northern Scotland
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
6
Tidsskriftsnummer:
1
Udgiver:
Edinburgh University Press
Publikationssted:
Edinburgh
Publikationsland:
Scotland
ISSN nummer:
0306-5278
DOI nummer:
10.3366
Årstal:
2014
Emner:
Local history; Shetland; Scotland
Titel på tidsskrift:
Northern Studies
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
46
Udgiver:
The Journal of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies
Publikationssted:
Edinburgh
Publikationsland:
Scotland
ISSN nummer:
0305-506X
Årstal:
2013
Emner:
Greenland; History
Titel på tidsskrift:
Northern Studies
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
44
Udgiver:
The Journal of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies
Publikationssted:
Edinburgh
Publikationsland:
Scotland
ISSN nummer:
0305-506X
This article explores intercultural links between the coastal communities of the North Atlantic region by discussing the cultural and social history of Norwegian objects displayed in regional heritage collections in Orkney and Shetland. The relationship between Norway and the Northern Isles of Scotl…
This article explores intercultural links between the coastal communities of the North Atlantic region by discussing the cultural and social history of Norwegian objects displayed in regional heritage collections in Orkney and Shetland. The relationship between Norway and the Northern Isles of Scotland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially trading links, is considered using the bentwood box as a way of accessing both tangible and intangible knowledge. Different types of traditional wooden boxes from Shetland, Orkney, Norway, and Iceland are compared using a microhistorical approach, which enables us to consider Norway and Scotland both as individual “ethno-territories” and as part of continuously changing networks of social and cultural contact across the North Atlantic.
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Editor:
Alexandra Sanmark; Andrew Jennings
Årstal:
2013
Emner:
History; Archaeology; Cultural studies
Titel på tidsskrift:
Journal of the North Atlantic
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
4
Tidsskriftsnummer:
1
Udgiver:
Eagle Hill Institute
Publikationssted:
Maine
Publikationsland:
USA
ISSN nummer:
E-ISSN 1935-1933
DOI nummer:
10.3721/037.004.sp417
Årstal:
2012
Emner:
Cultural history
Titel på tidsskrift:
Cultural History
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
1
Tidsskriftsnummer:
2
Udgiver:
Edinburgh University Press
Publikationssted:
Edinburgh
Publikationsland:
Scotland
ISSN nummer:
E-ISSN 2045-2918
DOI nummer:
10.3366/cult.2012.0027
The Shetland Islands are a good example of what island cultures and societies can tell us about the construction and maintenance of national identities, as well as the way in which historical perspectives and internalised ideas influence how we locate parts of Britain. How do these - other islands b…
The Shetland Islands are a good example of what island cultures and societies can tell us about the construction and maintenance of national identities, as well as the way in which historical perspectives and internalised ideas influence how we locate parts of Britain. How do these - other islands become part of the national mental map? And how do islanders themselves incorporate - Britishness into their cultural identity?
For the ―Northern Isles‖ of Orkney and Shetland, their geographical position has historically meant being an outpost of the British Isles, at its Northern ―edge,‖ as noted by Sandy Cluness, Convenor of the Shetland Islands Council, in an interview with The Journal: ―We are on the periphery and have all the higher costs that come with that and not many of the advantages. This chapter demonstates that the cultural heritage of the Scottish Northern Islands actually insists on being ―other, often resisting, and sometimes opposing, the dominant, national historical and political narratives. The Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland are therefore of real interest in terms of exploring the complex and adaptable nature of representing ―otherness‖ within British identity, and the way islanders actively utilise their economic, political and cultural-historical environment to create a multiplicity of localised island identities within the national narrative.
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Editor:
Matthews, Jodie, Travers, Daniel
Årstal:
2012
Emner:
Islands studies; Britishness; Shetland; Identity; Borders; Historiography
Publikationssted:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Publikationsland:
United Kingdom
Titel på værtspublikation:
Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective
Volume:
1
Udgave:
1
Udgiver:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN nummer:
978-1-4438-3516-9 (print)
Årstal:
2010
Emner:
History; Literature
Titel på tidsskrift:
eSharp International Online Journal for Postgraduate Research
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
15
Tidsskriftsnummer:
1
Udgiver:
Glasgow University
Publikationssted:
Glasgow
Publikationsland:
Scotland
DOI nummer:
E-ISSN 1742-4542
Nordic Regions of Culture: Intercultural links between Norway and Shetland after 1770
Årstal:
2010
Emner:
History; Area studies
Titel på tidsskrift:
Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Volumen af tidsskriftet:
49
Tidsskriftsnummer:
2
Udgiver:
Norvik Press
Publikationssted:
London
Publikationsland:
United Kingdom
ISSN nummer:
0036-5653
This week’s blog comes from Silke Reeploeg, a lecturer with the University of the Highlands and Islands based in the Shetland Islands. She has taught history and literature on a s200_silke.reeploegvariety of programmes including Orkney and Shetland Studies, Island Studies and Highlands and Islands C…
This week’s blog comes from Silke Reeploeg, a lecturer with the University of the Highlands and Islands based in the Shetland Islands. She has taught history and literature on a s200_silke.reeploegvariety of programmes including Orkney and Shetland Studies, Island Studies and Highlands and Islands Culture, and has recently completed a PhD thesis on the historical and cultural links between Scotland and Norway in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Editor:
Jim MacPherson; Kristin Lindfield-Ott
Emner:
History; Literature
Dato & år:
17.11.2016
Type af webpublikation:
Blog
Udgivelsessted på internettet:
Blog of the Journal of British Identities (Hub for the Study of British Identities)
This paper focuses on historical travel writing by women in order to investigate the construction of gendered geographies in the Far North. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, territorial discourses and gender studies, the paper examines travel literature as part of the const…
This paper focuses on historical travel writing by women in order to investigate the construction of gendered geographies in the Far North. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, territorial discourses and gender studies, the paper examines travel literature as part of the construction and performance of gendered coloniality in Greenland and Northern Sweden.
The conference paper was presented as part of a special panel "Investigating the Politics of Gender History, Coloniality, Decoloniality and Indigeneity in the Greenlandic Archive (Pre-proposed Panel)" at NORA 2019, Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses and Feminist Politics at the University of Iceland (Programme attached).
It is now available as part of a special issue "Nordic Colonialisms and Scandinavian Studies", see Höglund, J., & Burnett, L. (2019). Introduction: Nordic Colonialisms and Scandinavian Studies. Scandinavian Studies, 91(1-2), 1-12. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0001.
Direct link> Reeploeg, S. (2019). Women in the Arctic: Gendering Coloniality in Travel Narratives from the Far North, 1907-1930. Scandinavian Studies, 91(1-2), 182-204. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0182.
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Emner:
Arctic; History; Human geography; Gender; Travel
Konferencenavn:
NORA (Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research) 2019, Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses and Feminist Politics
Konferenceby:
Reykjavik
Konferenceland:
Icleand
Colonisation is a gendered enterprise, with archives both expressing and constructing the colony as masculine domain, populated by explorers, hunters and (male dominated) resource extraction. This paper explores gendered memory cultures in British/North American Arctic exploration during the late ni…
Colonisation is a gendered enterprise, with archives both expressing and constructing the colony as masculine domain, populated by explorers, hunters and (male dominated) resource extraction. This paper explores gendered memory cultures in British/North American Arctic exploration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Using archival material, the paper investigates the intersections of gender, race and class as they shape both tangible and intangible memorization narratives of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary. As the wife of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary she accompanied her husband on expeditions to Greenland, giving birth to a daughter in Northern Greenland in 1893. Using papers and objects donated to the Women’s Archive in Portland, Maine, the paper traces how women are framed alternately as the ‘ideal’ wife and citizen and ‘that woman’, forming part of the many hidden histories of Arctic exploration narratives. Her archives thus allow us not only access to a woman’s perspective on an Arctic expedition, but also illustrate the gendered aspects of memory and colonialism that reach into the archive itself. The paper will demonstrate how an analysis within the context of memory studies enhances our understanding of Arctic histories and cultures by embracing the entangled nature of history and memory.
This paper was presented as part of the panel 'Gendering memories: all the way from heroism to disposession' at the Memory Studies Association Conference, Complutense Universidad, Madrid and will be submitted for peer-review/publication in 'Memory Studies' (Sage Journals).
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Emner:
Arctic; History; Memory; Gender; Travel
Konferencenavn:
3rd Annual Memory Studies Association Conference
Konferenceby:
Madrid
Konferenceland:
Spain
This paper investigates the cultural-historical processes that connect early twentieth century Arctic colonial histories with experiences of coloniality. Ada Blackjack was the only survivor of an expedition that travelled to Wrangel Island in September 1921. An Inupiat from Nome, Blackjack had joine…
This paper investigates the cultural-historical processes that connect early twentieth century Arctic colonial histories with experiences of coloniality. Ada Blackjack was the only survivor of an expedition that travelled to Wrangel Island in September 1921. An Inupiat from Nome, Blackjack had joined four Anglo-European men recruited by the Canadian anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson to reclaim the island for the British Crown. Although the only member of the group remotely ‘at home’ in the Arctic environment she was consequently accused of neglecting or even murdering a male colleague, after the rest of the men had disappeared to seek help across the ice in January 1923. As she defended herself in the press, Blackjack was framed either as a heroic ‘female Robinson Crusoe’ or a questionable anti-wife who had failed to assist the endeavor of building “A new Empire of the North”. Linking this micro-historical episode of Arctic colonial history to the macro-historical matrix of imperial power and expansion, the paper exposes the contested nature of Arctic historiography. While illustrating the entangled nature of cultural and social memory it also explores the transformative potential of historical research that both implicates and unsettles established global narratives.
This paper was presented as part of the panel "Varieties of colonial history" at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History at Tallinn University. It will be submitted for peer-review/publication in 2020.
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Emner:
Arctic; History; Imperialism
Konferencenavn:
Global Cultural History 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History
Konferenceby:
Tallinn
Konferenceland:
Estonia
The new research project "The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Histories", is funded by the Danish Carlsberg Foundation, and brings together researchers, curators, and artists working on art and visual culture related to Nordic colonial projects in the Caribbean, West Africa, India,…
The new research project "The Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Histories", is funded by the Danish Carlsberg Foundation, and brings together researchers, curators, and artists working on art and visual culture related to Nordic colonial projects in the Caribbean, West Africa, India, Greenland, Iceland, and Sápmi. Organised by the Nuuk Art Museum and hosted by Department of Cultural and Social History at the University of Greenland, the research group held a public one-day conference at the University of Greenland during “Nuuk Nordisk Kulturfestival” 2019.
Artists took actively part in imperialist projects from the 17th century and onwards, either as participants in colonial expeditions, as »tourists« and travelers, or as onlookers from home. At the same time, colonized subjects used aesthetic practices in their resistance to colonial rule. The conference inaugurated a collective examination and discussion of the role colonialism has had on the creation and reception of art and art histories across the Nordic countries and their former colonies from the 1600s up until the present. Responding to three artworks from the Nuuk Art Museum's collection, first and second year students from the Department of Cultural and Social History presented individual "think pieces" on the connections between visual art and colonial history in Greenland to an international audience.
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Emner:
Art; History; Greenland
Konferencenavn:
Student Think Pieces: Art & History - the Art of Nordic Colonialism: Writing Transcultural Art Histories
Konferenceby:
Nuuk
Konferenceland:
Greenland
Dato & år:
07 October 2019
Course description and reading list of new graduate level course "Critical perspectives on cultural heritage".
Blok P makes a great read for people that want to know about more than polar bears and the melting ice cap when it comes to Greenland. The book includes many positive and life affirming messages to those of us that think living in 1960s housing, in any country, was pure torture. The memories collect…
Blok P makes a great read for people that want to know about more than polar bears and the melting ice cap when it comes to Greenland. The book includes many positive and life affirming messages to those of us that think living in 1960s housing, in any country, was pure torture. The memories collected for this project are both nostalgic and happy - about things such as running water, having a bathtub, forming new friendships and communities and having access to Nuuk’s shops and pubs. On the more serious side, the book is a useful reflection on the role of architecture in the historical and ongoing physical and social violence of Nordic colonialism. But, most of all, the book is an essential reminder about the most important part of the Arctic - the people – and how they actively and continuously adapt and reimagine their worlds. With or without polar bears.
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Emner:
Greenland; Colonialism; History; Architecture
Type af webpublikation:
Digital Book Fair
Udgivelsessted på internettet:
https://www.arcticartbookfair.com/
Norden's Borders, The Nordics: Narratives and Practices of a Region, Nordic Studies, Digiloikka Project
The Nordic Studies Online as a part of the digi-loikka project aims to create a digital learning platform about the Nordics. This project is a joint-initiative of several scholars from the University of Helsinki (Department of Cultures/Centre for Nordic Studies), University of Gdansk (Scandinavian S…
The Nordic Studies Online as a part of the digi-loikka project aims to create a digital learning platform about the Nordics. This project is a joint-initiative of several scholars from the University of Helsinki (Department of Cultures/Centre for Nordic Studies), University of Gdansk (Scandinavian Studies) and Aarhus University (Department of History), and also cooperates with the ReNEW research hub and with the online platform, nordics.info.
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Emner:
Recording; Webinar; Online teaching; MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
Type af webpublikation:
Recording / Webinar for University of Helsinki
Udgivelsessted på internettet:
https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/nordic-studies-online-digiloikka-project
The study of memory cultures often foregrounds the recovery of denied historical truths, with the recognition that social and cultural norms not only shape canonical versions of the past, but continue to be complicit in legitimised forms of forgetting and erasure. This paper investigates the interse…
The study of memory cultures often foregrounds the recovery of denied historical truths, with the recognition that social and cultural norms not only shape canonical versions of the past, but continue to be complicit in legitimised forms of forgetting and erasure. This paper investigates the intersections between personal archives and other forms of cultural expression in acts of collective memoralization and forgetting. Using the personal archives of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary, the research introduces the concept of coloniality to studying Arctic memory cultures by examining the role of gender in the context of Arctic exploration literature. The paper concludes that an understanding of the coloniality of knowledge and its connections to epistemic violence is crucial to the study of memory and historical legacy in the Arctic.
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Emner:
Arctic; Gender; History; Memory; Exploration literature
Konferencenavn:
Arctic Science Summit Week 2021
Konferenceby:
Online, Lisbon
Konferenceland:
Portugal
Dato & år:
19. - 26.03.2021
Letters from Greenland was part of a series of 'letters' or updates about the COVID-19 situation in the Nordic countries in 2020. Fellow authors were Andrew Newby (Finland), Peter de Souza (Sweden – works in Norway), Henrik Halkier (Denmark), Rebecca Stirzaker (Norway), Elisabeth Holm (Faroe Islands…
Letters from Greenland was part of a series of 'letters' or updates about the COVID-19 situation in the Nordic countries in 2020. Fellow authors were Andrew Newby (Finland), Peter de Souza (Sweden – works in Norway), Henrik Halkier (Denmark), Rebecca Stirzaker (Norway), Elisabeth Holm (Faroe Islands) and Ingibjorg Agustsdottir (Iceland). During the 'corona year' 2020 the updates were collected and shared regularly via the Facebook group Nordic Horizons. Nordic Horizons is an informal group of Scottish professionals who want to raise the standard of knowledge and debate about life and policy in the Nordic nations. The group facebook page has 2.900 followers and acts as a repository for information, presentations, digital media of the meetings of the group and posts of members. See www.nordichorizons.org for more details.
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Editor:
Mike Danson
Emner:
Covid-19
Type af webpublikation:
Facebook posts
Udgivelsessted på internettet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nordichorizons/