Colonial labels and the imagined innocence of past times
Debating language and spatial representations of the Danish/Greenlandic relation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2902113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Maegaard (0000-0002-7674-4749, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Kristine Køhler Mortensen (University of Gothenburg) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 775-795 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404522000604 |
| OpenAlex | W4308888979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines struggles related to the recasting of the collective memory connected to Danish colonialism, through analyses of exhibitions in, and communication from, the Danish National Museum. By use of multimodal and semiotic landscape analysis, we show how the Danish National Museum works to reformulate the historical relationship between Greenland and Denmark in ways that avoid the colonizer's language and at the same time describe and construct complex relations of past and present. The analysis demonstrates how a temporal ambiguity is present in the museum exhibitions, not offering a conclusive understanding of the colonial period. At the same time, we show how the presence and absence of colonial language in public space is inscribed into temporal frames legitimizing or problematizing their status. (Semiotic landscape, colonialism, language and nation, temporality
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Construct (python library) · Danish · Epistemology · Exhibition · Linguistics · Political science · Relation (database) · Semiotics · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Anthropology · History · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
Museums and communities
Verbal Hygiene
Museum Activism
From The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Linguistic Landscape
Meeting the Greenlandic people – Mediated intersections of colonial power, race and sexuality
Responsibility for justice in action
Affectivity and Race
Feminism in Postcolonial Nordic Spaces
Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy
Museums, Memory and History
Time as a social practice
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |