Simon Ekström
Biographic Data
| ID | 250571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Ekström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekström |
| SIGNATURE | EKSTRÖM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9399-0159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Museums as Deathscapes
The museum is very often equivalent to a place that is filled with objects and references to human death. Accordingly, this article aims at bringing greater clarity into some of the precautions taken by museums when they choose to expose what can be considered as a highly sensitive matter, namely human remains. Put differently, the scope of the text concerns how museums deal with the task of displaying the dead in public. How do they act in order…
Kanonerna på Vasa
I artikeln får några omskrivna och utställda ”museikanoner” utgöra underlag för en diskussion av museernas och medias förhållande till vad som skulle kunna kallas för föremålens tragiska materialitet. Det jag framförallt vill belysa är hur museer och medier begagnar sig av två motsatta sätt att relatera till de flerhundraåriga kanonerna. Översiktligt kan dessa förhållningssätt, eller kulturella praktiker, beskrivas som att antingen tar man döden …
Cool Nature
In this essay, an interdisciplinary group of researchers sets out to address the period 1780-1840 in Sweden in a new way, by placing nature at its centre. With the help of ecocritical and transcultural theory, combined with renewed attention to the Swedish fine arts, learned discourses, and practices, we suggest a new approach to these revolutionary decades. The perceived dissonance, the interplay between climatic conditions and cultural template…
From Excerpt to Cosplay. Paths of Knowledge in the Nordic Museum Archive
The aim of this article is to shed some light on the situation that occurs when scholarly knowledge, once highly valued, is successively undermined, while elements of the same learning live on as attractive resources to other stakeholders. More accurately, the research question relates to the process that starts with many ethnologists who, over time, come to increasingly view formerly important materials as less relevant to their own academic iss…
Begrepp i bur
The Swedish debate concerning honour killings has largely revolved around the concept of "culture" — or more specifically, it has revolved around the ways in which different writers have criticized some other debaters for misusing the concept. Hence, this debate sheds light on how the concept of culture has come to occupy a position in something one might call a linguistic quarantine. Cultural explanations are often considered an issue which must…
Hedersmordet på Fadime
The debate on the "honour killing of Fadime" can be described as one of a fundamental opposition. On the one hand there are those who argue that the murder can only be understood and be meaningful with reference to concepts such as culture and difference. On the other hand, there are those who, for different reasons, oppose such a culturally oriented understanding in favour of some other explanation. In this article, I argue that the murder, the …
Orienten i Sverige
Museer, kön och genus - några reflektioner kring en närvarande frånvaro
Museums, sex and gender – some reflections on a current absence. Abstract: What is it that makes women and objects coded by women so often over- shadowed in museums? And why is it so easy not to notice this fact? The article aims to discuss the amount of selection and de-selection that results in women only having a limited presence in the museum arena, so that they easily disappear from view – despite the fact that this is an absence that plays …
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Museer, kön och genus - några reflektioner kring en närvarande frånvaro
Museums, sex and gender – some reflections on a current absence. Abstract: What is it that makes women and objects coded by women so often over- shadowed in museums? And why is it so easy not to notice this fact? The article aims to discuss the amount of selection and de-selection that results in women only having a limited presence in the museum arena, so that they easily disappear from view – despite the fact that this is an absence that plays …
Hedersmordet på Fadime
The debate on the "honour killing of Fadime" can be described as one of a fundamental opposition. On the one hand there are those who argue that the murder can only be understood and be meaningful with reference to concepts such as culture and difference. On the other hand, there are those who, for different reasons, oppose such a culturally oriented understanding in favour of some other explanation. In this article, I argue that the murder, the …
Orienten i Sverige
Begrepp i bur
The Swedish debate concerning honour killings has largely revolved around the concept of "culture" — or more specifically, it has revolved around the ways in which different writers have criticized some other debaters for misusing the concept. Hence, this debate sheds light on how the concept of culture has come to occupy a position in something one might call a linguistic quarantine. Cultural explanations are often considered an issue which must…
From Excerpt to Cosplay. Paths of Knowledge in the Nordic Museum Archive
The aim of this article is to shed some light on the situation that occurs when scholarly knowledge, once highly valued, is successively undermined, while elements of the same learning live on as attractive resources to other stakeholders. More accurately, the research question relates to the process that starts with many ethnologists who, over time, come to increasingly view formerly important materials as less relevant to their own academic iss…
Cool Nature
In this essay, an interdisciplinary group of researchers sets out to address the period 1780-1840 in Sweden in a new way, by placing nature at its centre. With the help of ecocritical and transcultural theory, combined with renewed attention to the Swedish fine arts, learned discourses, and practices, we suggest a new approach to these revolutionary decades. The perceived dissonance, the interplay between climatic conditions and cultural template…
Kanonerna på Vasa
I artikeln får några omskrivna och utställda ”museikanoner” utgöra underlag för en diskussion av museernas och medias förhållande till vad som skulle kunna kallas för föremålens tragiska materialitet. Det jag framförallt vill belysa är hur museer och medier begagnar sig av två motsatta sätt att relatera till de flerhundraåriga kanonerna. Översiktligt kan dessa förhållningssätt, eller kulturella praktiker, beskrivas som att antingen tar man döden …
Museums as Deathscapes
The museum is very often equivalent to a place that is filled with objects and references to human death. Accordingly, this article aims at bringing greater clarity into some of the precautions taken by museums when they choose to expose what can be considered as a highly sensitive matter, namely human remains. Put differently, the scope of the text concerns how museums deal with the task of displaying the dead in public. How do they act in order…
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