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Study on Ballistic Energy Absorption Capability of Glass-Epoxy and Jute-Epoxy-Rubber Sandwich Composites
Authors: Rajole Sangamesh , Ravishankar K.S. , Kulkarni S.M.
Published: August 2018

High velocity impact analysis of natural fiber reinforced composites is essential as the trend is focused towards the development of light weight, environment-friendly, non-corrosive and economical materials. At present, the defence, aerospace and automobile sectors are using synthetic fiber composites which are expensive and non-eco-friendly. In the present study ballistic impact of jute-epoxy (JEC), glass-epoxy (GEC), jute-epoxy-rubber (JERC) sandwich composites are simulated with different thickness (1, 2 and 3 mm) and velocity variations (100, 200 and 300m/s) using Finite Element analysis software. Although different approaches to the analysis of the effect response of composite structures are available, numerical modeling is based on strict constitutive models is often preferred because it can provide valuable detailed information about the spatial and temporal distribution of damage during the impact. The ballistic parameters such as energy absorption, ballistic limit and fracture behaviors are predicted. The composite is made of 8 noded linear brick elements and the bullet/projectile is modeled as a discrete rigid element in which deformation behavior, energy absorption and penetration behaviors obtained are clearly represented. The simulation results predicted match well with the analytical results obtained. Among all the combination of the materials simulated, the sandwiches have better ballistic qualities. Energy absorption of sandwich (JERC) was found 67 percentage higher than GEC and 56 percentage higher than JEC laminate. In future, these materials can be the alternative materials for defence sector for bullet proofing.
Research on 3D Printing Forming Technology for Processing Tablet Material
Authors: Yang Ming Yu , Zhu Zheng Hong
Published: August 2018

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of tablet manufacturing technology combined with 3D printing technology. The acetaminophen raw materials used for 3D printing are formulated in a clean environment according to the actual amount. And homemade material mixed-type three-dimensional printer is used to print double-layer acetaminophen tablets. In this paper, the factors influencing the quality of the tablet were explored by orthogonal experiments, and the optimal parameters were obtained. In order to determine whether the tablet meets the quality requirements, the hardness, friability and dissolution profiles of the 3D printing tablets were determined by the test instrument.
Interfacial Characterization and Electrical Properties of Co/GaSb Contacts
Authors: Lin Kun Lin , Cheng Yu Chieh , Chou Tung Huan
Published: August 2018

The microstructures of Co–GaSb junctions in samples annealed at 300, 400, 500, and 600°C in a N2atmosphere were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in combination with energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS), nanobeam electron diffraction (NBD), and the selected area diffraction patterns (SADPs). The isolated CoSb3(Ga) phase started to form at the interface of Co/GaSb in the temperature of 400°C and then the CoSb3(Ga) phase changed to a continues layer at the interface when the annealing temperature was increased to 500°C. Upon increasing the temperature to 600°C, a large amount of Ga from GaSb diffused out toward Co to form a CoGa layer. The specific contact resistivity of Co/GaSb contact was evaluated by circular transmission line model (CTLM) and indicated that the lowest value was 5.410-4Ω-cm at annealing temperature of 500°C and possessed high current density of 41.7 A/cm2at 1V. These results indicate that the annealing temperature of the Co/GaSb structure could be maintained below 500°C for the successful formation of low-resistance metal Co/GaSb contacts in GaSb-based p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors.
Modeling of CFRP and Glulam Combined Action
Authors: Vodiannikov Mikhail A. , Kashevarova Galina G.
Published: August 2018

In this paper, the results of the structural analysis of glued laminated timber and its joints in corrosive environment are shown. This paper includes calculation results for dowel connections of wood structures using steel and carbon fibres cylindrical dowel pins in accordance with the applicable regulatory documents by means of finite element analysis in ANSYS software, as well as experimental findings.
Erratum: A political economy analysis of decision-making on natural disaster preparedness in Kenya
Authors: Rono-Bett Karen C.
Published: August 2018

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Assessing the Revenue Raising Capacity of the Local Government of Bongabon in the Philippines
Authors: Cruz Ana Liza M. , Cruz Franz Jake M. , Antonio Olive Chester Cuya
Published: August 2018

One source of funding for sub national government is imposition of taxes. It is imposed upon individual and corporation within the territorial jurisdiction of the municipality.  Local governments are funded through Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) provided by the National Government. The purpose of the study is to assess the local revenue generation capacity of the municipality of Bongabon, Nueva Ecija in the Philippines. The paper revealed that its calculated collection efficiency is only 20.6% of the total collectibles on Real Property Tax. The average local revenue raising capacity of the municipality of Bongabon, Nueva Ecija within the period of 7 years (2011 to 2017) is only 40.9 % of the externally sourced revenue or IRA. The study concluded that the municipality of Bongabon, Nueva Ecija remains dependent on national government when it comes to funding. The study also identified various constraints to efficient tax collection while local citizens perceived the LGU capacity to collect tax negatively. More studies on tax capacity are encouraged to come up with sufficient baseline data that may serve as inputs to policy making and solve the problems of tax collection in the local level.
“No se puede reducir a continuado término”: Cervantes and the Poetic Persona
Authors: Valencia Felipe
Published: August 2018

SUMARY: Cervantes's La Galatea (1585) constitutes a remarkable showcase and laboratory of the various meters and genres used in Spanish poetry during the crucial decade of 1580, as well as the debates and problems surrounding this art form. This article focuses on La Galatea's treatment of the “persona,” the fictiveness of the speaker, and the possibility of sincerity in poetry. By analyzing two episodes (a conversation in book two regarding the sincerity of the famous shepherd Tirsi, and the contest in book three that results in Orfenio's victory) it will be shown how the emergent Italian theory of the lyric during the second half of the sixteenth century coincides with the poetics presented in La Galatea. At the end, a brief reading of Góngora's romance “Hanme dicho, hermanas” (1587) will show Cervantes's attunement to the new poetry that would transform Spanish literature at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Women and Carriages in 17th-Century Aragonese Burlesque Poetry
Authors: Vidorreta Almudena
Published: August 2018

During the 17th century, literature turned the growing number of carriages into a burlesque topic. There were countless poems written about traffic jams, accidents, or the proper way to ask a friend for a carriage, often considered a symbol of status. Literary references to carriages can tell us many things about the men and women who used them, as well as about gender stereotypes. Women and carriages were understood as interconnected elements in Early Modern Spain; carriages appear as a means to conquer feminine muses as well as a recurrent satirical topic even for women poets. This article analyzes some rarely studied burlesque poems by Aragonese writers José Navarro, Alberto Díez, José Tafalla and Ana Abarca de Bolea, among others, that can help us understand the range and extension of some oversimplified topoi on womanhood that have survived until today.
Visibilidad autorial y competencia de las escritoras en justas poéticas de la primera Edad Moderna españolaFemale Writers's Authorial Visibility and Competence in thejustas poéticasof Early Modern Spain
Authors: Dolores María , Pérez Martos
Published: August 2018

This paper studies women's participation in poetry contests during the seventeenth century, based on the information provided by printed chronicles and the information that these chronicles include about the way in which women intervened in these cultural events. We analyze the conditions in which this participation took place, the opinion of contemporaries about the poems, and how the context of competitiveness redefined some concepts in the relationship between genders. The final objective is to reach conclusions about the impact that this socio-literary phenomenon had on the authorial visibility of women writers in the Early Modern Age.
Poetry As/And Community: The Verses of Two Spiritual Daughters of St. Teresa
Authors: Schlau Stacey
Published: August 2018

María de San José (Salazar) and Ana de San Bartolomé's poetry echoed Saint Teresa of ávila's actions, beliefs, and literary style, while also articulating a link to their time and place in (and, as nuns, dead to) the world, and to the monastic communities to which they dedicated themselves. María de San José's verses portray the daily life, interests, obstacles to, and methodologies of the new Discalced Carmelite convents. Dramatically representing joy and challenges, internal and external, her poems convey a militant defense of her spiritual mother's reform. Less elaborated than María de San José's, Ana de San Bartolomé's extant poems reflect sixteenth-century cultural expression in its broadest sense. She expresses the Discalced Carmelite concern with an intimate relationship with the divinity and the desire to inculcate the reformed Order's way of life. Her verses elaborate a mystical bent, as well as a profound sense of monastic community.
“La décima musa portuguesa” and Her Soledades de Buçaco: Gendered Landscape Poetry Dedicated to the Nuns of Santo Alberto
Authors: Hegstrom Valerie
Published: August 2018

In 1634, Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda, known as “la décima musa portuguesa,” published Soledades de Buçaco to celebrate the Carmelite “desert” of Bussaco, an enclosed forest inhabited by monks and located in central Portugal. Although a papal order excluded women from entering Bussaco, through her poems, Lacerda reveals the forbidden space to the nuns of Lisbon's Convento de Santo Alberto, to whom she dedicates her book. Her poems gender the landscape of Bussaco as feminine by invoking the founding mother of the order, cataloging the flora and fauna and thereby emphasizing the fertility of the place, personifying the hillside as female, and alluding to the Song of Songs, thus making Bussaco both the Soul and the setting of the mystical union.
Intrapericardial Cisplatin Combined with Oral Colchicine Resulting in Long Term Control of Malignant Pericardial Effusion in the Course of Metastatic Renal Cancer
Authors: Dybowska Małgorzata , Szturmowicz Monika , Kuca Paweł , Kazanecka Barbara , Burakowski Janusz , Czajka Cezary , Grzegorczyk Franciszek , Langfort Renata , Burakowska Barbara , Rudziński Piotr , Tomkowski Witold
Published: August 2018

Introduction: Neoplastic pericardial effusion (NPE) represents a common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer. NPE presents frequently as cardiac tamponade, requiring urgent pericardiocentesis or pericardiotomy, with subsequent pericardial fluid drainage. Despite high effectiveness of such procedures, the recurrence of effusion is noted in 30–60% of patients. Intrapericardial therapy with cisplatin was found to be effective in NPE due to lung and breast cancer. Its role in cardiac tamponade due to renal cancer is unknown. Case presentation: We presented an 82-year-old man with renal cancer who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit because of threatening pericardial tamponade due to NPE. Urgent subxiphoid pericardiotomy was performed with subsequent evacuation of 1000 ml of bloody fluid. On the inner surface of the pericardium, several pink nodules were found. Histological examination revealed carcinoma clarocellulare. In view of the persistent high drainage of the pericardium, intrapericardial cisplatin therapy was performed. On the first day after surgery, colchicine 0.5 mg/day/po was also introduced. No side effects of the treatment were observed. The patient died 12 months later due to cancer progression and cachexia. No recurrence of pericardial effusion was observed. Conclusion: This is the first case study demonstrating long-term efficacy and safety of intrapericardial cisplatin combined with oral colchicine in NPE due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Gallakjole og underbenklær. Om det private i museets kunnskapsprosjekt
Authors: Hjemdahl Anne-Sofie
Published: August 2018

The point of departure in this article is a ”private” photo collection from 1956, found in the archives of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Oslo. In this collection the married couple or Bentz Kielland and Edle Due Kielland, the director at the museum and the head of the textile department, document their own wardrobes through photographs and registration cards. e article explores the hybrid character of this material. e focus is on the relation to the museum’s knowledge practices and fashionable clothes as a eld of knowledge. In addition it explores the relationships between the expert and the object of knowledge, and the relations between wardrobes and archives. e article also suggests how the ambiguous and multifaceted material may be activated in future research.
Tingenes radikale biografi. Etnografika analysert gjennom arbeidsgrupper
Authors: Sørhaug Christian
Published: August 2018

This paper explores the possibility of radicalizing the biography of things by analysing ethnographic items through a working group. e literature concerning the life of things and their biography concerns itself with how humans imbue things with meaning. ings themselves become portrayed as relatively passive, silent and inactive. An alternative is to explore how things (ethnographic items) enact the social situation of which they are a part. e assumption is that things are not enclosed passive entities. Rather, they e ect change. A working group analysis investigates how humans and nonhumans become with each other. As these entanglements unfold, new members in the assemblage cause change in the composition of the working group. is e ectuates the very dynamics of the assemblage. I explore the changes that ethnographic items undergo as they participate in cra practices, trade practices and museum practices.
Dramatiseret museumsformidling. Når publikums deltagelse får betydning
Authors: Vatne Ingrid
Published: August 2018

Audience participation is playing an important role in museum mediation at living history museums around the world. e aspect of participation is challenging the traditional concept of meaning making, and I will demonstrate the need for new conceptual tools for dealing with the meaning making issue in a way that enhances participation as a method for meaning making in living history museums. Building on the theoretical framework of enunciation theory and the method of participative observation back in 2008–11, when I was researching mediation in the open-air museum Den Gamle By in Aarhus, Denmark, it is my ambition to contribute to the development of the conceptual tools for dealing with the issue of audience participation in a way that emphasizes new goals for mediation.
Förord
Authors: Axelsson Bodil , Brenna Brita
Published: August 2018

I inbjudan till det här temanumret Museerna och samtiden: dokumentation, kommunikation och samhällsengagemang kastade vi ut ett brett nät för att få veta mer om hur museer engagerar sig i nya former av insamlingsarbeten, samarbeten och deltagande i pågående kulturella och sociala frågor. Gensvaret blev över förväntan och tidskriften presenterar här en provkarta av allt det som pågår just nu.
Fortiden, fremtiden og det etnografiske museum. Samtidsindsamling, videndeling og medkuratering
Authors: Gabriel Mille
Published: August 2018

In recognition of altered global relations since colonial times, The Ethnographic Collections at the National Museum of Denmark has identified a need to redefine its role in society. The Ethnographic Collections explores new ways of activating old collections – ways which include contemporary collecting, co-curation and dialogue with the communities from where the collections derive. Through three recent projects, this paper revolves around questions such as: How can we make associations between the old collections and contemporary society? How do we prioritize when collecting the contemporary? And how do we ensure that community involvement not only challenges the authority of museums, but also informs museological practices in new and constructive ways?
Hacknight. In-between self-organization and the space of an institution
Authors: Torsson Palle
Published: August 2018

I am a member of the hackerspace Sparvnästet, a self-organized group of people who explore, play, and tinker with technology. This text is my personal and subjective understanding of the joint effort of Sparvnästet and The National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) to organize a “hacknight,” a weekend hacker and maker conference at the museum.
At musealisere Biblen. The Creation Museum i Kentucky, USA
Authors: Madsen Theis Vallø
Published: August 2018

The Creation Museum i Kentucky, USA, er et museum in absurdum. Museet fortæller Biblens udgave af jordens tilblivelse for ca. 6 000 år siden ved hjælp af fossiler i montrer, smukke dioramaer, animatroniske dinosaurer og dramatiske totalinstallationer. Det er interessant som et radikalt eksempel på et anti- eller outsider-museum, der blander udstillingsstrategier fra forskellige museumsområder, bl.a. kunst- og naturhistoriske museer.
Kari Amundsen, Odd Are Berkaak & Camilla Maartmann (red.). I skyggen av nasjonen. Musealiseringen av Akershus
Authors: Nielssen Hilde
Published: August 2018

Et museum er ”noe noen gjør eller som har blitt gjort til noe – av noen”, presiserer Odd Are Berkaak i innledningen til antologien I skyggen av nasjonen. Musealiseringen av Akershus. Slik søkes det i denne boken å tilføre et handlings- og aktørperspektiv både til forståelsen av hva et museum er, og til museumshistorieskrivingen som i stor grad har vært dominert av strukturelle analyser og forklaringer.
Når museer prioriterer sociale medier. En undersøgelse af 22 danske museers brug af sociale medier
Authors: Gronemann Sigurd Trolle
Published: August 2018

Although the use of social media can be regarded as an everyday practice in many museums by now, several studies suggest that museums take monologic communication approaches in their social media communication. This study analyses 22 Danish natural science museums’ use of social media during one month in 2013. The findings confirm that the use of social media on museums’ own websites is generic in nature, not integrated with content, and monologic in form. Conversely, many museums deliver just the opposite mode of communication on Facebook where they initiate a broad range of dialogic genres featuring intense publication activities and high rates of response. The article discusses how the identified trends on the one hand emphasise that many museums have embraced a deportalised communications approach, while the trends on the other hand still demonstrate a very narrow range of web services beyond Facebook.
Expertise and the formation of university museum collections
Authors: Brattli Terje , Steffensen Morten
Published: August 2018

This text is a project presentation of work in progress. The objective is to introduce an alternative analytical approach to university museum collections as a phenomenon. This endeavour has been motivated by our experiences of the dynamic and multiple practices and versions of collections by these museums, rather than of the collections as static and uniform. Based on an approach inspired by ontological politics, we analyse the university museum collection as a result of different enactments rather than as a homogeneous entity that either just is, either passively observed or strategically and/or competitively constructed. These theoretical reflections, in addition to observations made in an initial empirical study of practices at a university museum, indicate the need to acknowledge the coexistence of several parallel versions of the university museum collection as expertise performance. This allows for the understanding of the university museum collection as multiple, and the second phase of this project will consist of analysis of relationships between various simultaneous practices and versions.
Anna Källén (red.). Making cultural history. New perspectives on Western heritage
Authors: Henningsen Anne Folke
Published: August 2018

Dette er ikke en enkel udgivelse at anmelde. I særdeleshed ikke til et specialiseret tidsskrift som Nordisk Museologi. Udgivelsen består nemlig – foruden en kort introduktion – af en samling på 17 meget forskellige små essays, hvis hovedsaglige fællesnævner er forfatternes deltagelse i den kulturhistoriske forskerskole FoKult ved Stockholms Universitet under de- res ph.d.-uddannelse. I anmeldelsen fokuserer jeg derfor på de bidrag, som efter min mening har mest relevans for museumsforskningsinte- resserede læsere, og behandler de resterende bidrag mere overordnet i en diskussion af selve udgivelsen og dens præmisser og målsætning.
Line Hjorth Christensen. Plakatbevægelsen. En britisk designfront i mellemkrigsårene
Authors: Kjærboe Rasmus
Published: August 2018

I et let og velformidlet sprog indkredser Line Hjorth Christensen det, hun navngiver ”plakatbevægelsen” i britisk mellemkrigstid. Hvad der til at starte med synes som et snævert projekt – at skrive om en håndfuld plakatdesignere og deres opdragsgivere – folder sig ud som en tankevækkende og engagerende fortælling om grænserne mellem billedkunst, brugsgrafik, byrum og udstilling. Særligt det sidste emne – de eksperimenterende plakaters forhold til fremvisningens kontekst – kommer med inspirerende pointer, der ansporer til at tænke designgenstandens placering i museet på nye måder. Mere om alle kvaliteterne lige straks, men først skal slås fast, at dette er en smuk og indbydende udgivelse, hvor tekst, illustrationer og layout beriger og forstærker hinanden. Dens appel bør række langt.
Preface
Authors: Silvén Eva , Mathisen Silje Opdahl , Ragazzi Rossella , Varutti Marzia
Published: August 2018

In the last few years the politics of collection, representation and curation of Sámi heritage in museums has received increased attention and is now engendering new opportunities and challenges for both museum theory and practice. In order to re ect critically on these processes, an international research conference entitled Rethinking Sámi Cultures in Museums was held at the University of Oslo in November 2014. This initiative was a response to a felt need to bring academics and museum professionals in contact to build upon and valorize research on Sámi collections and displays conducted in museums, colleges and universities throughout the Sápmi area and beyond. The conference attracted more than 60 participants and 17 papers were presented on topics such as: Early modern/colonial relations; collections and repatriation; Sámi materialities; representation, ethics and identity; and Sámi exhibitions. Five keynote speeches were held, by Christina Kreps, United States, Gunlög Fur, Sweden, Birgitta Fossum, Norway, Stein R. Mathisen, Norway, and Henrik Olsen, Norway. A compendium with the abstracts of the papers, a list of the participants and other information is available online. We hope that this initiative will support the development of a network among scholars and museum professionals in this area.
SIEF new working group on Museums and Material Culture
Authors: Dibbits Hester , Gradén Lizette
Published: August 2018

A new working group was established at a conference held by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Zagreb in June 2015. The group Museums and Material Culture is a platform for dialogue, cooperation, and networking among European ethnologists with a special interest in theorizing the eld of museums and material culture. We hope this working group will be bridge-building also to our colleagues who are researchers and professionals currently not active in SIEF but whose active participation in the group would strengthen the Society and the discipline(s).
Ane Hejlskov Larsen, Rune Gade & André Wang Hansen (eds.). Cybermuseologi – kunst, museer og formidling i et digitalt perspektiv
Authors: Stuedahl Dagny
Published: August 2018

In this edited volume the three esteemed experts in the Danish landscape of museology and digital art – Ane Hejlskov, Rune Gade and André Wang Hansen – explore the new forms of expression and social relations that digital technologies bring to art museums. The volume contains contributions from 18 scholars, curators, artists, filmmakers and writers who present a multiplicity of entrances into how new technological potentials change curating and visitor communication in art and art museums. Given the interesting and multidisciplinary perspectives of the authors involved, the book paints a broad canvas of constituents of “cybermuseology”. This review will therefore focus on the overall contribution of the perspectives drawn up in the volume, and endeavour to discuss their implications for understanding art, museums and communication in a digital perspective.
Forord
Authors: Brenna Brita
Published: August 2018

Hukommelsen, skriften, gjenstanden, rommet, stedet. Det er de store museologiske temaene som opptar artikkelforfatterne i dette nummeret av Nordisk Museologi. Samtidig preges bidragene av en vilje til å eksperimentere og til å utforske konkrete empiriske eksempler. Kombinasjonene av empirisk utforskning og de store teoretiske spørsmålene er et interessant kjennetegn ved den nordiske museologien. Museologien både låner og gir til en lang rekke fagområder hvor teori utvikles gjennom empiri. Og det er ganske enkelt sånn at museer og kulturarvsprosesser er spesielt interessante steder å utprøve humanistiske og samfunnsfaglige teorier om blant annet materialitet, følelser og tekst. Det som gleder oss som et tidsskrift som henvender seg til ansatte både i akademia og i kulturarvssektoren, er at forfatterne kommer fra mange felt. Spesielt oppmuntrende er museumsansattes interesse for å skrive for oss – og til å benytte tidsskriftet som en arena for teoretisk refleksjon over egne praksiser. Slik har vi i redaksjonen et luksusproblem, for vi får stadig ere artikler til vurdering, og svært mange viser denne interessen for å skrive teoretisk informert om det praksisnære og konkrete, av forfattere i museer og i akademia.
Tekster om ting. På sporet af en genretransformation
Authors: Bennicke Ida
Published: August 2018

The aim of this article is to encourage museum text writers to explore alternative ways of writing. It demonstrates how exhibit labels seem to be stuck in a narrowly defined academic style, which is a problem from a communication perspective. The author proposes that text writers break free from norms and interdictions and let themselves be inspired by genres from the literary field. This might help them create exciting and readable texts that reach out to the visitor. The article presents examples of both the traditional and the literary way of writing exhibit labels, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. The conclusion is that being conscious about the genre is necessary, but so is crossing its borders in order to develop and improve exhibit labels in the future.
Publika museirum. Hur kulturpolitiska ideal materialiseras i offentliga rum på Historiska museet 1943–2013
Authors: Geschwind Britta Zetterström
Published: August 2018

The research subject is the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm as a public institution between 1943 and 2013. I examine how public spaces in the museum body are designed in relation to cultural policy objectives and the museum’s vision of a democratic, inclusive museum. However, the focus is not on the museum’s exhibits, but on other public spaces visitors encounter in the museum, mainly the entrance, the shop and children’s spaces. These spaces tend to be invisible in the museum hierarchy, and their practices are rarely observed in museum studies. Main research questions are: How are democratic ideals materialized and expressed over time? Which publics are created by the public spaces?
Torleif Ingelög. Skatter i vått och torrt. Biologiska samlingar i Sverige
Authors: Hedqvist Eric
Published: August 2018

Verksamheten vid de naturhistoriska museerna och deras samlingar har under de senaste decennierna genomgått revolutionerande förändringar. Torleif Ingelög, tidigare chef för Artdatabanken vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, kom för ett par år sedan ut med en skildring av svenska naturhistoriska museers verksamhet och samlingar. Därmed har vägarna öppnats till ett fascinerande område för alla som är intresserade av frågorna om museernas relation till utvecklingen inom vetenskap och forskning. Personligen önskar jag att boken ska hjälpa museologin till ökad kommunikation över gränserna mellan naturvetenskapernas och humanioras skilda kulturer.
Forord
Authors: Tøndborg Britta , Brenna Brita , Silvén Eva
Published: August 2018

Dette temanummer af Nordisk Museologi er resultatet af et åbent call for papers, hvor redaktionen efterlyste artikler der omhandler museer og det kontroversielle. Museer er i stadig større grad blevet opfordret til at være kontroversielle, og der har været flere kontroverser forbundet med museer i de senere år. Men hvad betyder ”det kontroversielle” i museumssammenhæng? Vi modtog en række forskellige bud på tematikken.
Controversial indigeneity. Museums representing non-officially recognized indigenous groups in Taiwan
Authors: Varutti Marzia
Published: August 2018

This article explores how museums in Taiwan represent a group, called Pingpu, whose indigenous status is highly contested. Pingpu specific cultural features have almost disappeared as a result of centuries of exchanges with Han Chinese settlers. As a consequence, Pingpu groups have not received official indigenous recognition by the Taiwanese government. Yet Pingpu groups are actively seeking recognition through public demonstrations and promoting public awareness of Pingpu concerns. The official recognition of Pingpu’s indigeneity is an ongoing, decades-long, controversial issue in Taiwan. Museums are one of the foci through which Pingpu issues are gaining visibility in Taiwan. But how are they dealing with this controversial issue? More broadly, what position can or should museums take in relation to contested indigenous claims to recognition? This article discusses recent exhibitions representing Pingpu at the light of the politics of representation of indigenous groups and the transformation of museums’ social roles in contemporary Taiwan.
“Thus our display will be honest but may be controversial”. Exhibiting pre-history during the South African democratization process
Authors: Rodéhn Cecilia
Published: August 2018

This paper seeks to re-describe democratization of heritage by focusing on controversies connected to the work with the exhibition entitled Stories of People’s History in Southern Africa staged at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (South Africa). The investigation is based on archival material as well as participant observation and qualitative interviews. The material is analysed using performance theory and theories about democratization processes. The article comes to the conclusion that a focus on curatorial performances reveals controversies and developments that fall outside the traditional conceptualization of a democratization process. The text argues that this focus assists in moving beyond the binary position that democracy and “non-democracy” have received in scholarly publications. The text proposes that a democratization of heritage involves an entanglement of ideas and values. It does not necessarily involve a “better” heritage but instead an appropriation from a different political perspective.
Kontroversiel kuratering. Refleksioner over Thomas Hirschhorns Bataille Monument
Authors: Nielsen Sabine
Published: August 2018

Based on artist Thomas Hirschhorn’s installation entitled Bataille Monument, the article discusses how controversial works of art situated outside the art museum can address local communities as fragmented and conflicted communities. It is argued that public spaces should be perceived as zones where potentially different and contradictory social, ethnic, economic and cultural participatory positions can interact, calling for an active negotiation process. Based on theoretical reflections on so-called radical democracy, it is argued that democratic societies and their museum institutions could benefit from focusing on contemporary conflictual and debatable issues.
“How do you know that?” A study of narrative and mediation at an archaeological excavation site
Authors: Andreassen Ingvild Solberg , Pierroux Palmyre
Published: August 2018

The public’s growing interest in archaeology in recent years is reflected in increased visits to excavation sites, part of a trend coined in the research as Public Archaeology. Public visits are often sponsored through museum outreach and education programmes for schools and families, offering diverse activities and encounters with archaeologists in the field. Yet there are few empirical studies of archaeologists’ mediation practices in these settings and what such interactions may mean for visitors’ learning about history and past cultures. This study empirically investigates a museum’s archaeological excavation site as a setting for students’ meaning making in the subject of history at the upper secondary level (17–19 years old). Interactional data from a school field trip to an excavation site are analysed to explore which archaeological knowledge, narratives, and semiotic resources archaeologists draw on when communicating interpretations of Norwegian history to this learner public. In contrast to developments in archaeological research perspectives over several decades, our analysis identifies processual archaeology as the predominant narrative that archaeologists’ draw on in their interactions with the young people visiting the site. We reflect on the implications of this finding in light of the educational aims, which focus on communicating the complex relationship between archaeology and historical interpretations. The overall aim of the article is to contribute to the development of learning perspectives and research methods that may be relevant for museums’ educational practices at archaeological excavation sites.
Minnesinsamling genom webbenkäter: perspektiv på en dokumentationsmetod i förändring
Authors: Sundevall Fia , Fredholm Anna
Published: August 2018

With the advancements of web technologies, new modes of data collection have arisen and with those new opportunities and challenges for museums’ documentation work. Drawing on experiences from a web survey on Swedes' memories and experiences of military service, conducted by the Swedish Army museum in 2012, the authors’ of this article argue that web surveys constitute a fruitful mode of collecting memories. However, even though there are many benefits there are also potential problems that should be considered in the collection process as well as the use and analysis of the data. The authors discuss the implications of graphic web design and formulation of the questionnaire, as well as different models of recruiting respondents related to questions of representativeness and generalization in the collected data.
Representing Cultural Difference. Reindeer Herding as a Signal of Ethnic Boundary in the Exhibitions of Two Sámi Museums
Authors: Potinkara Nika
Published: August 2018

Nordic Sámi museums have been established with the aim of reclaiming Sámi heritage and strengthening Sámi cultural identity. Museums are significant places for representing ethnic groups and boundaries, and Sámi museums play an important role in defining Sámi ethnicity. This article discusses the construction of Sámi ethnicity in the permanent exhibitions of two Sámi museums, Siida in Finland and Ájtte in Sweden, focusing on the display of reindeer herding. In which particular ways do these exhibitions represent reindeer herding and the Sámi as reindeer herders? The article suggests that representations of reindeer herding contribute to the construction of an ethnic boundary, while having relevance also for the internal conflicts among the Sámi.
Kritiska kultur- och naturarvsstudier. Rapport från Association of Critical Heritage Studies Inaugural Conference: Re/theorising Heritage, Göteborg, Sverige, 5–8 Juni 2012
Authors: Samuelsson Anna
Published: August 2018

The inaugural conference of The Association of Critical Heritage Studies, on the theme of re-theorising heritage studies, took place in Gothenburg, Sweden in June 2012. It aimed to start interdisciplinary conversations that will serve to develop relevant theory across national borders and move away from the conventional understanding of heritage as objectively given places, objects and traditions. Instead heritage is to be regarded as something created in the interaction between different interests and power relations. This perspective was relatively consistent throughout the conference, where a wide range of topics were presented in more than 400 different papers. Concepts such as representation, “the other” and post-colonialism reflected the development of theory in this field over recent years, while considerations of relational ontology, body, affect and connection-seeking theorising were a signal of the development to come.
Mindeord for museologen Marc Maure
Authors: Larsen Ane Hejlskov
Published: August 2018

Marc Maure, norsk-fransk museolog, der igennem mange år bidrog aktivt med artikler og ideer til Nordisk Museologi, døde 13. januar 2012. Jeg nåede aldrig at møde ham ansigt til ansigt. Men siden min tiltrædelse som redaktør mailede jeg jævnligt med ham om museologiens og tidsskriftets udvikling. Begge dele var han levende engageret i. Han var en fin sparringspartner, der altid havde konstruktive råd til mig som redaktør, og igennem vores dialog oplevede jeg ham som meget betænksom. Sammen nåede Marc Maure og jeg at redigere to numre om udstillingsmediet, dets virkemidler og historie (NM nr. 1 og 2 2009). Det var hans idé at lave to temanumre. Han betragtede udstillingen som verdens ældste og mest udbredte massemedium og undrede sig over, at der ikke havde været større forskningsinteresse for udstillingens historie. I forordet til nr. 2 efterlyste han udstillingens historie i et nordisk perspektiv. Han skrev selv på en artikel om emnet, men den nåede desværre aldrig at blive færdig.
Är lönebidragsanställningar en demokratisering av museer?
Authors: Rodéhn Cecilia
Published: August 2018

This paper investigates whether the labour market measure known as wage subsidies, coupled with lifelong learning, contributes to a more democratic museum. The paper begins with an investigation of the historical and political implications of wage subsidies at the Jamtli county museum in Östersund, Sweden. The paper continues by exploring whether lifelong learning and learning at the workplace contribute to further learning and rehabilitation of the persons employed via such labour market measures. The paper concludes with a discussion of whether lifelong learning and labour market measures can contribute to further preservation and mediation of cultural heritage and, furthermore, whether if they can make museums more democratic and accessible. The research was carried out at Jamtli during the spring of 2010, and is based on qualitative interviews and archival studies in the museum in question.
Hadwig Kraeutler: Otto Neurath. Museum and Exhibition Work: Spaces (Designed) for Communication
Authors: Lundgren Frans
Published: August 2018

”Museums of the future [...] ought not to be as I would like to have them, but as the visitors and users would want them if they knew what makes a museum.” Otto Neurath’s vision in 1933 of the future development of the museum as a public space, and as a pedagogical and social project, gives a good idea of why he is often mentioned in handbooks on the history of museums. But considering the rapidly growing number of studies since the 1970s of Neurath as a philosopher, economist and sociologist – the literature on his many exhibition projects is still very small. These projects and his writings on museums have usually been treated as a slightly anecdotal part of his career; a separate, straightforward and practical undertaking, only indirectly linked to his supposedly more serious and theoretical pursuits. The exception is the fairly large literature on ISOTYPE, the standardised graphic language for visual education, developed in the latter half of the 1920s at the “social and economic museum” in Vienna. However, rather than analysing ISOTYPE as an integrated part of Neurath’s many-faceted museum project, these studies have mostly treated the exhibitions as a given, as the historical circumstance for the birth of a new kind of graphic design.
”We need a visage in Finland”. A report on a survey about the need of founding of, the mandate of and the content of a museum for the members of the Finnish Jewish parishes.
Authors: Feinik Pia
Published: August 2018

Unlike many other European countries, Finland does not have a Jewish museum, even though the Finnish Jewish minority has an undeniably significant and long history in the fields of science, art, economy as well as politics. In the study”We need a visage in Finland”, the thoughts and attitudes of the Finnish Jewish minority with regard to the founding of a museum are discussed. The study clarifies the issues with which the project is supported or opposed in the Jewish community, and why. It also explains what kind of museological activities the community members feel are important and how Judaism gets presented to the parishioners themselves. Through a museum, the Finnish Jewish community would like to help build a diverse and open society by offering information about their faith and their culture, and this way do their part in hindering the prolifigation of extremism and racial hatred.
Opponentindlæg: Museums as changing organizations and exponents of the museum institution
Authors: Pihlman Sirkku
Published: August 2018

The museum institution is international and polymorphous with blurry boundaries. However, the institution defines itself and its members quite rigorously. Hieta discusses the museum institution as “an institution which is basically bound on the commitment, how the past is dealt with in the society. The institution is quite binding.” (Translation SP) However, the societal changes and economic exigencies have over and over again tested and changed the understanding of the foci of museums’ tasks, destroyed the basis of the activities of the museums, and created them new duties and potentials.
The Media Mixer: User Creativity through Production, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Digital Media Content
Authors: Mortensen Christian Hviid , Vestergaard Vitus
Published: August 2018

We explore how remixing and content sharing can be used as a means for user participation in a digital museum age. Remix culture is seen as a culture that allows and encourages the production of derivative works; works that are based on already existing works. This cultural practice thrives throughout the Internet, most notably on web 2.0 sites like YouTube. The Media Museum has embraced the remix paradigm with the development of an interactive media experience centre called the Media Mixer. Here the museum users can produce, deconstruct, reconstruct and finally publish and share digital media content. The media content is created by the user in the museum’s physical environment, but it can be mixed with material from web archives. It is the intention that the users learn about media through participatory and creative processes with media where the borders between producing, playing and learning are blurred.
Amy K. Levin (red.): Gender, sexuality, and museums
Authors: Jensen Bo
Published: August 2018

Dette er en tankevækkende, men problematisk artikelsamling. Der er rigtigt gode indlæg imellem, men bogen ville vinde ved en mere målrettet redaktion. Antologien er redigeret af Amy Levin fra Northern Illinois University, hvis særinteresse er naturvidenskabelige museer, men de 25 indlæg dækker en bred vifte af historiske, arkæologiske, naturvidenskabelige og kunsthistoriske, lokale og nationale museer – og det amerikanske kreationistmuseum! Indlæggene er ordnet tematisk i fire dele: ”Women in museum work”, ”Theories”, ”Collections and exhibitions”, ”Case studies”. De fleste indlæg er skrevet inden for de sidste ti år, flere specifikt til denne antologi. Det geografiske fokus er uforklarligt snævert: 20 af de 25 kapitler fokuserer på Storbritannien og USA, med yderligere et hver om museer i Canada, Australien, og Israel, og ét om Marokko, Kuwait og Jordan. Det sidste kapitel er en biogra- fisk oversigt, igen rent engelsksproget og angloamerikansk orienteret. Trods flere sidebemærkninger om tyske udstillinger og museer undervejs, er der ingen indlæg om Tyskland, og fraværet af den norske udstilling Imod naturen er nærmest uforklarligt (se fx Alaimo 2010: 51ff).
Ole Strandgaard: Museumsbogen. Praktisk museologi
Authors: Lundgren Britta M.
Published: August 2018

Vad betyder ett museum för människan? När plundrare bryter sig in i Kairos museum under revoltens mest kritiska dagar i slutet av januari 2011 sluter ”de goda egyptierna” upp (den egyptiske riksantikvariens ord) och bildar skyddsvakt. Kulturarvsförstörelsen avbryts och det som kunde ha resulterat i betydligt värre stölder och skadegörelse hindras. Kärle- ken till museet som samhällets minnesgarant (minnesbank) kan visa sig på många sätt. En bygds omtanke om sitt lokalmuseum, en museitjänstemans ansträngning att dela med sig av sin yrkeslivserfarenhet. Vi är många som fortfarande tror på att museernas arbete är viktigt, rentav livsviktigt. I tider av ekonomis- ka åtstramningar är det viktigt att hålla fanan högt och visa på vidden av museernas arbete.
Forord
Authors: Larsen Ane Hejlskov
Published: August 2018

I skrivende stund er ICOM-konferencen i Shanghai ved at slutte. Emnet for denne konference har været ”Museums for Social harmony”, et smukt budskab og ideal, som sætter kulturel diversitet og bio-diversitet på dagsorden. Som én af kommentarer på ICOMs hjemmeside giver udtryk for, kunne dette smukke ideal rumme en fare for konformitet og for at fratage museerne deres kritiske funktion. Museets kritiske funktion kan forstås som en institution, der udfordrer vedtagne værdier i mindre miljøer eller i større politiske systemer.
Kulturhistoriska expeditioner på svensk landsbygd under 1920-talet
Authors: Gustavsson Karin
Published: August 2018

The aim of the project is to deepen the understanding of the investigations into Swedish peasant society that took place in the 1920s, in the shaping of ethnology as a scientific discipline. A specific source material consisting of photographs, drawings and descriptions of vernacular architecture, deriving from southern Sweden, will be used to contribute to research into the relationship between practice and scientific knowledge and to provide new perspectives on cultural heritage management knowledge in its scholarly context.
Tine Damsholt m.fl., red.: Materialiseringer. Nye perspektiver på materialitet og kulturanalyse
Authors: Silvén Eva
Published: August 2018

Boken Materialiseringer är en antologi med sex kapitel förutom inledningen. Alla handlar om materialisering av såväl tid som rum, där tonvikten i de tre första ligger på rummet och i de tre senare på tiden. Syftet är att presentera aktuella materialitetsteorier och genom några konkreta studier ta dem i bruk, analytiskt och metodiskt. Författarna representerar olika kunskapsområden inom etnologi, kulturhistoria och museologi, och de flesta är forskare och lärare vid danska högskolor, universitet och museer.