Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 98079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sigurjón Baldur |
| FAMILY NAME | Hafsteinsson |
| SIGNATURE | HAFSTEINSSON S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4208-0144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
Dirt Hovels’ and Cultural Heritage
This article explores conflicting views of the Icelandic turf house and how these views relate to notions of corrupt architecture and so-called 'difficult' heritage. First, we define the concepts of corrupt and difficult architecture and address their relationship to the discussion of heritage. We assert that this theoretical discussion is highly applicable as regards turf houses, plans for their eradication and measures to protect and preserve t…
Icelandic Putridity”
Research Article| July 01 2019 “Icelandic Putridity”: Colonial Thought and Icelandic Architectural Heritage Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2019) 91 (1-2): 53–73. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sigurjón Baldur…
Icelandic Putridity”
Scholars have suggested that the relationship between Iceland and Denmark is best defined in the light of the political connections between the two countries, and they have often drawn on the concept of colonialism for that purpose ([Guðmundur Hálfdanarson 2014][1]). Others have criticized and
Organizational structures and the museum’s educative function. Empty options at the Reykjavík Art Museum
Museum education is a field in flux that faces continuous theoretical and practical challenges. We argue that formal museum organizational structures, the informal, and experiences of museum workers should be intertwined. We also argue that the influence of museum educators on shaping policies is relevant. Formal organizational structures in museums should be acknowledged and systematically embedded in the shaping and governance of sustainable mu…
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
A case of public pedagogy in Icelandic museums
In this article, we present an illustrative case of public pedagogy in an Icelandic museum. The museum utilised social movement learning to present the recent event and responses to the financial collapse in Iceland beginning in 2008. We illustrate how a small regional museum disrupted cultural and institutional norms to challenge visitors, local community officials and other museums in Iceland through the exhibition, Shut Up and Be Quiet. We arg…
Speeding Towards the Future through the Past
Recent theorising has emphasised the importance of movement in people’s engagement with and understanding of landscape. We suggest that there is a need here to problematise movement further. Rather than taking movement and the engagement with landscape that it offers for granted, we need to pay attention to the different forms of engagement with landscape that different forms of movement afford. This suggests, in turn, the importance of looking a…
Cultures of the Past
It is well established ethnographically that history is a particularly important and celebrated \naspect of Icelandic identity. Paraphrasing Hastrup, it could be argued that Icelandic culture \nis a culture of the past. The collapse in Iceland in 2008 problematised this valorisation \nof history. In this paper we draw on Carrithers’ ideas of cultural rhetoric to analyse how \nIcelanders made sense of the collapse particularly in relation to their…
Démasquez nos téléspectateurs/Nos téléspectateurs démasqués
Les masques faciaux sont des artefacts culturels bien connus dans les cultures autochtones du Canada et ils ont été collectés et exposés dans les musées, en plus de servir de matériau de recherche. Ces masques sont en général interprétés par les chercheurs comme une technique de transformation de l'identité, soit par la modification de la représentation, soit par une extinction temporaire de l'identité. Pendant plusieurs années, la chaîne de télé…
The agency of eternal darkness
The interest in visual images conveyed by various disciplinary fields within the natural sciences, like deep sea exploration, is generally not depicted in its social or cultural context. Nor are visual images granted social agency that influences the formation of social relations. Rather, the interest seems to be limited to a mere passive, descriptive and objective or documentary view where the concept of the creator or the image is not problemat…
Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me
Enunciatory Television
Transnational Cinema in a Global North
Transnational Cinema in. Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition . Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington, editors. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2005
New Dawn
The management of death and grief in Iceland has undergone dramatic changes in the last two decades. Organizations supporting bereaved people have been established around the island and a specialized palliative care unit opened within the National Hospital. This paper focuses especially on the establishment and work of Ný Dögun (New Dawn), an organization that supports bereaved people and those who work with the bereaved. It also speculates on li…
Letters to the dead
The writing and reading of obituaries is something of a national obsession in Iceland. In recent years certain changes have become evident in the ways in which Icelandic obituaries are constructed. It is our aim here to describe obituaries in Iceland, emphasising in particular the recent changes they have undergone. We put these transformations in the context of wider changes to death and grief in Iceland and point out the prevalence and acceptan…
The revival of death
This paper discusses Walter's (1994) assertion that death in the West has recently undergone a revival. In particular it focuses on his claim that this revival is composed of two different strands: a late modern strand and a postmodern strand. The former, according to Walter, is driven by experts who seek to control death, the latter by ordinary people who seek to express their emotions freely. Describing the history and work of Cruse Bereavement…
Police photography in Iceland
In 1803 the office of municipal magistrate was founded in Reykjavik; the holder of this office is counted as Iceland's first police officer. He had two policemen to assist him, and this number remained unchanged until 1905.1 Mter this the number of police officers rose as the town grew. By 1921, for instance, the policemen numbered 13, and they had reached 28 in 1931.2 In the regions, urban development was less rapid, so there was little or no in…
Post-mortem and funeral photography in Iceland
It has commonly been asserted that post-mortem photography was only practised during the first few decades after the advent of photography. Johanne Maria Jensen, for instance, maintains that post-mortem photography died out in the Nordic countries around 1940.1 The claim has also been made that post-mortem photography is found exclusively in rural societies and other small communities where the deceased is still handled by relatives. These assert…
Robert R. Janes, Museums in a Troubled World
Robert R. Janes is a provocative former mu- seum director, museum journal editor and scholar. He has previously authored two books Museums and the Paradox of Change: A Case Study in Urgent Adaptation (1997), and Preserving Diversity: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Culture Change in the Western Canadian Subarctic (1991). In 1986, he co-authored the book Thule Pioneers (with E. Bielawski and Carolynn Kobelka). His books also include edited vol…
Forord
In his keynote presentation at the ICOM/CECA 2009 annual conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, George E. Hein argued that around the turn of the20th century, political leaders in the US, as well as scholars such as the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, envisioned a democratic role for museums. Museums were perceived as places of significant potential for providing their guests with opportunities for learning about the benefits of the democratic idea…
Museology and the Icelandic museum field. Collaborations and development
Since the birth of the Icelandic museum in the nineteenth century they have played a vital role in the local heritage sector. Starting as expressions of national pride during the independence movement from Denmark, the three central museums, the National Museum of Iceland, The National Gallery of Iceland and the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, have played a vital role in the professional work of museums. They promote collaboration and instit…
Forord
Den femte NODEM1-konference om digitale medier og kulturarv blev afholdt i København den 24.-26. november 2010 med titlen ”From Place to Presence”, hvor de digitale teknologiers betydning for centrale museologiske emner blev præsenteret og diskuteret af oplægsholdere og deltagere fra museer, styrelser og universiteter. Konferencen var flersporet og bestod af præsentationer og demonstrationer af igangsatte digitale museumsprojekter fra Norden, USA…
The revival of death
This paper discusses Walter's (1994) assertion that death in the West has recently undergone a revival. In particular it focuses on his claim that this revival is composed of two different strands: a late modern strand and a postmodern strand. The former, according to Walter, is driven by experts who seek to control death, the latter by ordinary people who seek to express their emotions freely. Describing the history and work of Cruse Bereavement…
Transnational Cinema in a Global North
Transnational Cinema in. Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition . Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington, editors. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2005
Speeding Towards the Future through the Past
Recent theorising has emphasised the importance of movement in people’s engagement with and understanding of landscape. We suggest that there is a need here to problematise movement further. Rather than taking movement and the engagement with landscape that it offers for granted, we need to pay attention to the different forms of engagement with landscape that different forms of movement afford. This suggests, in turn, the importance of looking a…
Icelandic Putridity”
Scholars have suggested that the relationship between Iceland and Denmark is best defined in the light of the political connections between the two countries, and they have often drawn on the concept of colonialism for that purpose ([Guðmundur Hálfdanarson 2014][1]). Others have criticized and
Post-mortem and funeral photography in Iceland
It has commonly been asserted that post-mortem photography was only practised during the first few decades after the advent of photography. Johanne Maria Jensen, for instance, maintains that post-mortem photography died out in the Nordic countries around 1940.1 The claim has also been made that post-mortem photography is found exclusively in rural societies and other small communities where the deceased is still handled by relatives. These assert…
Introduction
Robert R. Janes, Museums in a Troubled World
Robert R. Janes is a provocative former mu- seum director, museum journal editor and scholar. He has previously authored two books Museums and the Paradox of Change: A Case Study in Urgent Adaptation (1997), and Preserving Diversity: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Culture Change in the Western Canadian Subarctic (1991). In 1986, he co-authored the book Thule Pioneers (with E. Bielawski and Carolynn Kobelka). His books also include edited vol…
Robert R. Janes, Museums in a Troubled World
Robert R. Janes is a provocative former mu- seum director, museum journal editor and scholar. He has previously authored two books Museums and the Paradox of Change: A Case Study in Urgent Adaptation (1997), and Preserving Diversity: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Culture Change in the Western Canadian Subarctic (1991). In 1986, he co-authored the book Thule Pioneers (with E. Bielawski and Carolynn Kobelka). His books also include edited vol…
Forord
In his keynote presentation at the ICOM/CECA 2009 annual conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, George E. Hein argued that around the turn of the20th century, political leaders in the US, as well as scholars such as the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, envisioned a democratic role for museums. Museums were perceived as places of significant potential for providing their guests with opportunities for learning about the benefits of the democratic idea…
Museology and the Icelandic museum field. Collaborations and development
Since the birth of the Icelandic museum in the nineteenth century they have played a vital role in the local heritage sector. Starting as expressions of national pride during the independence movement from Denmark, the three central museums, the National Museum of Iceland, The National Gallery of Iceland and the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, have played a vital role in the professional work of museums. They promote collaboration and instit…
Forord
Den femte NODEM1-konference om digitale medier og kulturarv blev afholdt i København den 24.-26. november 2010 med titlen ”From Place to Presence”, hvor de digitale teknologiers betydning for centrale museologiske emner blev præsenteret og diskuteret af oplægsholdere og deltagere fra museer, styrelser og universiteter. Konferencen var flersporet og bestod af præsentationer og demonstrationer af igangsatte digitale museumsprojekter fra Norden, USA…
Police photography in Iceland
In 1803 the office of municipal magistrate was founded in Reykjavik; the holder of this office is counted as Iceland's first police officer. He had two policemen to assist him, and this number remained unchanged until 1905.1 Mter this the number of police officers rose as the town grew. By 1921, for instance, the policemen numbered 13, and they had reached 28 in 1931.2 In the regions, urban development was less rapid, so there was little or no in…
Post-mortem and funeral photography in Iceland
It has commonly been asserted that post-mortem photography was only practised during the first few decades after the advent of photography. Johanne Maria Jensen, for instance, maintains that post-mortem photography died out in the Nordic countries around 1940.1 The claim has also been made that post-mortem photography is found exclusively in rural societies and other small communities where the deceased is still handled by relatives. These assert…
Letters to the dead
The writing and reading of obituaries is something of a national obsession in Iceland. In recent years certain changes have become evident in the ways in which Icelandic obituaries are constructed. It is our aim here to describe obituaries in Iceland, emphasising in particular the recent changes they have undergone. We put these transformations in the context of wider changes to death and grief in Iceland and point out the prevalence and acceptan…
The revival of death
This paper discusses Walter's (1994) assertion that death in the West has recently undergone a revival. In particular it focuses on his claim that this revival is composed of two different strands: a late modern strand and a postmodern strand. The former, according to Walter, is driven by experts who seek to control death, the latter by ordinary people who seek to express their emotions freely. Describing the history and work of Cruse Bereavement…
New Dawn
The management of death and grief in Iceland has undergone dramatic changes in the last two decades. Organizations supporting bereaved people have been established around the island and a specialized palliative care unit opened within the National Hospital. This paper focuses especially on the establishment and work of Ný Dögun (New Dawn), an organization that supports bereaved people and those who work with the bereaved. It also speculates on li…
Transnational Cinema in a Global North
Transnational Cinema in. Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition . Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington, editors. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2005
Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me
Enunciatory Television
The agency of eternal darkness
The interest in visual images conveyed by various disciplinary fields within the natural sciences, like deep sea exploration, is generally not depicted in its social or cultural context. Nor are visual images granted social agency that influences the formation of social relations. Rather, the interest seems to be limited to a mere passive, descriptive and objective or documentary view where the concept of the creator or the image is not problemat…
Démasquez nos téléspectateurs/Nos téléspectateurs démasqués
Les masques faciaux sont des artefacts culturels bien connus dans les cultures autochtones du Canada et ils ont été collectés et exposés dans les musées, en plus de servir de matériau de recherche. Ces masques sont en général interprétés par les chercheurs comme une technique de transformation de l'identité, soit par la modification de la représentation, soit par une extinction temporaire de l'identité. Pendant plusieurs années, la chaîne de télé…
Cultures of the Past
It is well established ethnographically that history is a particularly important and celebrated \naspect of Icelandic identity. Paraphrasing Hastrup, it could be argued that Icelandic culture \nis a culture of the past. The collapse in Iceland in 2008 problematised this valorisation \nof history. In this paper we draw on Carrithers’ ideas of cultural rhetoric to analyse how \nIcelanders made sense of the collapse particularly in relation to their…
Speeding Towards the Future through the Past
Recent theorising has emphasised the importance of movement in people’s engagement with and understanding of landscape. We suggest that there is a need here to problematise movement further. Rather than taking movement and the engagement with landscape that it offers for granted, we need to pay attention to the different forms of engagement with landscape that different forms of movement afford. This suggests, in turn, the importance of looking a…
A case of public pedagogy in Icelandic museums
In this article, we present an illustrative case of public pedagogy in an Icelandic museum. The museum utilised social movement learning to present the recent event and responses to the financial collapse in Iceland beginning in 2008. We illustrate how a small regional museum disrupted cultural and institutional norms to challenge visitors, local community officials and other museums in Iceland through the exhibition, Shut Up and Be Quiet. We arg…
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Icelandic Putridity”
Research Article| July 01 2019 “Icelandic Putridity”: Colonial Thought and Icelandic Architectural Heritage Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2019) 91 (1-2): 53–73. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sigurjón Baldur…
Icelandic Putridity”
Scholars have suggested that the relationship between Iceland and Denmark is best defined in the light of the political connections between the two countries, and they have often drawn on the concept of colonialism for that purpose ([Guðmundur Hálfdanarson 2014][1]). Others have criticized and
Organizational structures and the museum’s educative function. Empty options at the Reykjavík Art Museum
Museum education is a field in flux that faces continuous theoretical and practical challenges. We argue that formal museum organizational structures, the informal, and experiences of museum workers should be intertwined. We also argue that the influence of museum educators on shaping policies is relevant. Formal organizational structures in museums should be acknowledged and systematically embedded in the shaping and governance of sustainable mu…
Dirt Hovels’ and Cultural Heritage
This article explores conflicting views of the Icelandic turf house and how these views relate to notions of corrupt architecture and so-called 'difficult' heritage. First, we define the concepts of corrupt and difficult architecture and address their relationship to the discussion of heritage. We assert that this theoretical discussion is highly applicable as regards turf houses, plans for their eradication and measures to protect and preserve t…
Introduction
Art (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · History (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Icelandic (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 works)