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Research subject Critical Culture Heritage Studies and Museology

Critical Heritage Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes a pronounced critical perspective on both the concept and the phenomenon of cultural heritage.

The focus is often directed towards how the past is activated, experienced and used as a resource in the present and in relation to the future in a number of different contexts. Museology refers to the study of the establishment, development and role and activities of museum institutions. The approach called "museology from within" contributes to a the methodological development and in-depth discussion of the complex roles and meanings of museums. The studies are conducted critically and constructively with a starting point in museums' own activities and collections.

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Cultural Heritage Studies European Ethnology
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Research groups

Cultural memory studies

What is the cultural significance of memory? How and why do we remember the past, not only as individuals but across generations, as social and cultural communities? And how do these memory practices relate to politically and emotionally charged questions of national or ethnic identity, historical traumas, and experiences of dislocation, loss and forgetting?

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Research projects

Pleasurescapes. Port cities’ transnational forces of integration

The project explores the ways in which public places of pleasure in European port cities have unfolded social of forces of integration in the past and thereby fostered traits of urbanity. Public places of entertainment are studied as "pleasurescapes" - fluid in size and character over tiume and space.

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Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Seeking proof for Viking identity in DNA

In a new study Anna Källén, Associate Professor and researcher in Heritage Studies at the Department of Culture and Aestetics and Daniel Strand, Uppsala University, have conducted interviews with fourteen persons who have taken DNA tests, and asked them about the desire to “be a Viking”. Did they see themselves as related to Vikings, to have a Viking heritage, or to be Vikings themselves? And which characteristics did they connect with their Viking identity?

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Departments and centres

The research activities takes place at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies.

Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies