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Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales,
timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration
are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced,
detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to
handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically
and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting
abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection
explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives,
experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to
science and history - and the entanglements between them. The
chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range
of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news
media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to
critically examine how and where climate change understandings are
formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of
climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and
practices. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest
to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research,
environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity,
cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture.
Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales,
timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration
are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced,
detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to
handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically
and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting
abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection
explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives,
experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to
science and history - and the entanglements between them. The
chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range
of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news
media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to
critically examine how and where climate change understandings are
formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of
climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and
practices. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest
to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research,
environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity,
cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture.
Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities.
Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their
historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global
concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean
when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from
antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that
the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect
fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way
historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present.
This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to
explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning
over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over
collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge
about early modern antiquarianism.
Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities.
Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their
historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global
concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean
when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from
antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that
the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect
fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way
historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present.
This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to
explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning
over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over
collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge
about early modern antiquarianism.
The authors present a number of case studies, from the Middle Age
to present time, about how the past has been made meaningful and
relevant to people living in later periods. It is the process of
selecting, interpreting and passing on meaning that we call
negotiating the past. This process is loaded with tension in part
stemming from the past itself, but which is often due to the
various agents involved in the process as they represent different
interests, understandings and points of view. At the same time, the
process is marked by a wish to come to terms with unknown
conditions, to develop some consensus, again not only with the
past, but also with one's contemporaries. These dynamic and
dialogical processes do not only concern the past as in "history",
but rather a number of pasts, which are sometimes in conflict, but
at other times harmoniously complement each other. The book should
be viewed as a contribution to the international and
interdisciplinary field of collective memory, which has grown large
over the last decades. Today, studies of commemorations and
festivals, monuments, exhibitions and museums, historical films and
narratives are numerous, and terms such as social memory,
collective or collected memory, lieux de memoire all demonstrate
the scholarly interest in how the past - or images of it - is
constructed, composed and built up, but also demolished, dismantled
and rejected. To learn more about the processes when dealing with
the past is an important key to understanding why and how societies
and communities change and evolve. The authors are Norwegian,
Danish and Swedish scholars who have collaborated in a network on
the subject between 2007 and 2009. They are employed at
universities and university libraries throughout Scandinavia.
Contributors: Anders Berge; Brita Brenna; Bernard Eric Jensen;
Helge Jordheim; Kyrre Kverndokk; Anne Birgitte Ronning; Leiv Sem;
Karen Skovgaard-Petersen; Erling Sverdrup Sandmo; Anna Wallette.
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