Christina Fredengren Professor
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Namn och titel: Christina FredengrenProfessor
Arbetsplats: Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur Länk till annan webbplats.
Besöksadress Rum 221Wallenberglaboratoriet, Lilla Frescativägen 7
Postadress Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur106 91 Stockholm
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Om mig
Christina Fredengren doktorerade vid arkeologiska institutionen Stockholms Universitet med avhandlingen Crannogs: a study of people’s interactions with lakes (opponent prof Richard Bradley). Avhandlingen följer arkeologin runt sjön Lough Gara på västra Irland från Mesolitikum till nutid ur ett landskapsperspektiv. Resultaten baseras på ett omfattande fältarbete i The Crannog Research Programme som leddes av Christina och utfördes i samverkan med Lough Gara Cultural Resources i Monasteraden, Co. Sligo, Ireland.
Christina har arbetat som forskningschef och drivit ett flertal projekt i tvärvetenskapliga internationella forskarsamarbeten. Däribland kan nämnas det större Lough Kinale projektet som bedrevs i samverkan med b. la Exeter University, men också projektet the Islands of the Dead som behandlat deponeringen av människoben i våtmarker och vattendrag på Irland. Under senare tid har Christina arbetat på Riksantikvarieämbetet med forsknings- och inriktningsfrågor däribland har fokus legat på frågor kring värdering och urval samt strategifrågor.
Den forskning som just nu står i centrum för handlar om socialt utanförskap under sen bronsålder och järnålder. I projektet Tidens Vatten behandlas deponeringar av människor och djur i våtmarker och vattendrag i främst Sverige med både humanistiska och naturvetenskapliga metoder. Det finns en vilja att förnya forskningen på temat nordiskt och keltiskt med ett särskilt fokus på perioden förromersk järnålder. Viktiga forskningsområden handlar om relationen mellan människa-djur och natur. Christina arbetar med post-humanism och eko-kritiska perspektiv och är intresserad av och undervisar i kulturarvs- och curatoriska frågor
Keywords: water, wetland, depositions, bog bodies, sacrifice, late bronze age, pre-roman iron age, archaeology and science, body- and gender theory, new materialism, posthumanism, more-than-human, environmental humanities, deep time, heritage studies, curatorship
Nätverk och samarbeten
* Founder of Stockholm University Environmental Humanities Network together with Claudia Egerer and Karin Dirke.
*Scientific Leader of Deep time and Member of the Seed Box, an environmental humanities collaboratory at Linköping University, funded by Formas and Mistra
*Affiliated Researcher at the Posthumanities Hub at Tema Gender
*Member of Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network
*Member of AGE group – Archaeology and Gender in Europe
*Participates in COST Action on New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' http://newmaterialism.eu/
*Bogbody network
Courses and Research Schools
Coordinator and main lecturer at the Doctoral School in Environmental Humanities at Stockholm University https://www.hum.su.se/utbildning/forskarnivå/forskarskolor/forskarskolor/teman/miljöorienterad-humaniora-1.381953
Climate change solutions
Currently Supervising
PhD
Caroline Owman, PhD-student at Umeå University, Det mer-än-mänskliga museet
Justin Makii, PhD-student at Linköping University, The Haunted Archive: a tale of time-less or a-temporal ethico-onto-epistemologies
Albin Gripe. Lic-student at Stockholm University, Deep Time and Education
Projects
Ongoing
Curating Time Formas-Mistra (2020-)
Curating time explore time and temporality in curatorial and environmental strategies. With a base in critical feminist posthumanism this project further problematizes the anthropocentric focus in many heritage policies and strategies (Fredengren 2015) and probes into the technocratic politicization of the long-term. Here, it focuses on the use of heritage in sustainable development (also critiqued in Alaimo 2012 and problematized in Fredengren 2012) as it deals with range of naturalized others as if they have no agency and leaves the stage open for appropriation and exploitation. Furthermore, such policies often underarticulates the notion of intra-generational ethics and care and promotes chrono-linear time keeping. Not only do such policies risk downplaying materiality, but also a number of human and non-human others, driving wedges between nature and culture, it also risks transplanting, such binaries into museum collections, curatorship and exhibition-making. Whereas critical heritage studies (Smith 2006, 2016) has pointed out many injustices of who gets under-represented in the heritage repertoire, this project will not stop at critiquing the powers involved in heritage-editing, but explore and intervene in material and temporal trajectories and agencies in emerging museum ecologies (hereby extending reasoning on media ecologies (cf Hörl 2018) onto museums/exhibitions/curatorship).
Recent publications:
Fredengren, C. & Karlsson, J. 2020. Museumecologies.
Checking in with Deep Time. Intragenerational justice and care. Formas (2018-2021)
This project aim to deal with the major research question of how to better re-tie the material and immaterial knots between past, present and future generations, and to suggest ways forward for moving towards innovative ways of checking in with our post-natural and materializing clocks. The project is methodologically innovative and aspires to have high impact on the approaches to sustainability, intergenerational justice and care in postnatural heritage management. It works with three studies - on focusing on the politicization of the long-term within the natural/cultural heritage sectors, the next with how vernacular temporalities are met and transformed on site at Gärstadsverken (a garbage disposal site situated on an Iron Age Archeological sanctuary) and theoretical work on intergenerational justice and care where traditional theories are compared to those of feminism and the environmental humanities. This project has an emphasis on citizens humanities and collaborative research. It also aims to provide humanites innovations to the civilservices.
Recent publications:
Fredengren, C. 2021 (In press) Ecologizing Heritage: Heritage Ecologies. Heritage as phenomenon and worlding practices. In Petursdottir, T. & Bangstad, T. (eds) Heritage Ecologies. London: Routledge.
Fredengren, C. & Åsberg, C. 2020. Checking in with Deep Time. In Harrison, R. & Sterling, C. (eds) Deterritorializing the Future:Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene. London, UK: Open Humanities Press.
Tidens Vatten (Vetenskapsrådet, Berit Wallenberg, Vitterhetsakademin, Gad Rausing 2013-)
The project provides an overview of the depositions of human- and animal bones from waters and wetlands in Sweden. The aim is to give a better understanding och what effects these depositions may have had in society during Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Main questions are who got deposited? What human-animal relations were changed through these deposition and what power relationships were negotiated? The project works with critical post-human theory to discuss the mattering of bodies and the collaboration with archaeological sciences (as osteology, isotope-analysis and DNA). This project has been published in several papers and the research is currently synthesized in a monograph with the working title: Sacrifice – the nature of the in-humane. The project continues, for example with the research at Lake Bokaren that is under the umbrella of Water of the Times.
Recent publications:
Fredengren, C. 2019. Finitude – Human and Animal Sacrifice in a Norse setting. Proceedings of the Old Norse Mythology Conference 2015. Stockholm. Stockholm University Press.