Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp

Biographic Data

ID92928
NAMEJohanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
GIVEN NAMESJohanna
FAMILY NAMEZetterstrom-Sharp
SIGNATUREZETTERSTROM-SHARP J
AFFILIATIONSHorniman Museum and Gardens
ORCID0000-0002-3230-002X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS55
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Imagining future agricultural landscapes in a new Sudan

    Johanna Zetterstrom-SharpARTICLEHistory and Anthropology2020References: 14

    This article responds to work on development-centred technical and scientific expertise at the decline of the British empire in Africa. It focuses on the imagining of future agricultural landscapes in Sudan, exploring how such imagining was framed by the social and colonial worlds in which scientific knowledge about agricultural capacity in the north and south was produced. It draws on a private archive of letters, photographs and objects compile…

  • A "Safe Space" to Debate Colonial Legacy

    Open AccessJohanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, Chris WingfieldARTICLEMuseum Worlds2019

    In February 2016, students at Jesus College, Cambridge voted unanimously to repatriate to Nigeria a bronze cockerel looted during the violent British expedition into Benin City in 1897. The college, however, decided to temporarily relocate Okukor to the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. This article outlines the discussions that occurred during this process, exploring how the Museum was positioned as a safe space in which uncom…

  • The Brutish Museums

    Johanna Zetterstrom-SharpARTICLEPublic Archaeology2019Cited by: 45References: 2

    The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks is both an intellectual and theoretical engagement with an academic discipline, and a work of public activism and consequential intent. It is the latter that has un

  • I cover myself in the blood of Jesus

    Open AccessJohanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna Zetterstrom‐SharpARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2017Cited by: 1References: 21

    This article concerns the risky terrain of heritage management in Sierra Leone and its navigation by devout Born Again Pentecostal Christians. It engages with the ever‐expanding Born Again movement and its narrative of rupture, on the one hand, and the increasingly visible heritage sector and its focus on cultural continuity, on the other. These positions appear irreconcilable: one experiences the past as a dangerous satanic realm, the other as a…

  • Heritage as future-making

    Johanna Zetterstrom-SharpARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2015Cited by: 9References: 16

    This paper engages with an arising interest in heritage as a 'future-making' project, arguing that in a context such as Sierra Leone heritage work may be better understood as a reflection of aspirations for a 'common destiny', than the articulation of common pasts. It questions the centrality with which modern anxiety continues to frame heritage temporalities, drawing on anthropological engagements with contexts of development and social transfor…

  • Exhibit Reviews

    Open AccessJohanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, G Hussein Rassool et al.ARTICLEMuseum Worlds2014

    Fetish Modernity (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm) Remaking an Ethnographic Museum in Cologne (The New Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum—Cultures of the World) The George W. Bush Presidential Center (Dallas, Texas) Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004–2013 (Gallery LOOP, Seoul, and City Gallery Wellington) L'Art Nouveau: La Révolution Décorative and Tamara de Lempicka (La Reine de l'Art Déco, Pinacothèque de Paris) Staatliches Museum Ägyptisc…

  • The future of ethnographic museums (Respond to this article at http

    Open AccessJohanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna Zetterstrom‐SharpARTICLEAnthropology Today2013