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Agnidakis, Paul
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Agnidakis, P. (2019). Ideologisering, manifestering och gemenskapande: kulturarvsproduktion som process i lokala industrisamhällen under omvandling. RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, 102(2), 65-86
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ideologisering, manifestering och gemenskapande: kulturarvsproduktion som process i lokala industrisamhällen under omvandling
2019 (Swedish)In: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0035-5267, E-ISSN 2002-3863, ISSN 0035-5267, Vol. 102, no 2, p. 65-86Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Ideologization, manifestation and community making 

- Processes of heritage production in two local communities in transition

 

As the local industry has taken on an increasingly marginalized role in post-industrial small towns, like Surahammar and Timrå, in Central and Northern Sweden, an industrial past has emerged as the more valuable politically, economically but also socio-culturally, to nurture, preserve and identify with in these local industrial communities that undergo transition. This article aims to analyze local heritage production as a use and representation of history. Empirically resting on data collection and analysis of primary and secondary sources, comprising interviews, observations, archives and contextual literature, the article argues that local post-industrial heritage production may involve continuation as well as alterations of processes started in the past industrial society. Also, it comprises local adaptation as well as adjustments on heritage discourses. In conclusion, despite of local differences similarities may, as shown in Surahammar and Timrå, indeed occur in both design and content. This involves a pre-dominance of “non-professional” producers and including and excluding representations of places and people. Furthermore, local heritage provide combined political, economic and socio-cultural arenas of different ideologies as well as sites for creation of shared values and evoking emotions of belonging in diversified communities. In Surahammar and Timrå this has been done recurrently with the use of effective homogenization strategies within the field of heritage, i.e. by emphasizing sufficiently remote pasts to induce temporary but nevertheless efficient “classless and rootless” unity in pride of local place and values.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien, 2019
Keywords
Local industrial communities in transition; Surahammar & Timrå; Industrial heritage production processes; Manifestation of ideologies; Community making
National Category
Other Humanities Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441925 (URN)
Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Agnidakis, P. (2019). Rekrytering och genomströmming: Pedagogiskt fokus på Antropologin som mångfacetterat och multilokalt ämne. In: : . Paper presented at Sveriges antropologiförbund (SANT), Ämneskonferens 2019: Rekrytering, arbetsmarknad och undervisning. Stockholm: Sveriges antropologiförbund (SANT)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Rekrytering och genomströmming: Pedagogiskt fokus på Antropologin som mångfacetterat och multilokalt ämne
2019 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Sveriges antropologiförbund (SANT), 2019
National Category
Social Anthropology Ethnology Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-442069 (URN)
Conference
Sveriges antropologiförbund (SANT), Ämneskonferens 2019: Rekrytering, arbetsmarknad och undervisning
Available from: 2021-05-07 Created: 2021-05-07 Last updated: 2021-05-07
Agnidakis, P. (2018). Ethnology: Theories and methods (1ed.). In: Hilary Callan (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Topic: Theory and method (pp. 1-13). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ethnology: Theories and methods
2018 (English)In: The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Topic: Theory and method / [ed] Hilary Callan, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018, 1, p. 1-13Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Ethnology is a disciplinary field that is more or less interwoven with anthropology. Its main focus is the analysis of various cultures and cultural expressions, usually within a national context. In practice, ethnologists favor an approach toward culture from the individual perspective, with a key interest in how single ordinary individuals, seen as active cultural beings, think and act in their everyday lives. This implies that they are both shaped by and contributors to the shaping of cultures in their everyday lives. However, within ethnology, culture viewed as a bidirectional phenomenon is not merely regarded as an individual process. Rather, it is regarded as something that occurs in collective social contexts. When analyzing culture, ethnologists usually employ a combined focus on its ideational and folkloric aspects as well as aspects of materiality, locality, and identity. Ethnology's general methodological approaches comprise ethnographic fieldwork as well as studies of artifacts and sociocultural structures.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018 Edition: 1
Series
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology ; 12
Keywords
Ethnology; Culture; Cultural analysis; Cultural diversity; Nations and peoples
National Category
Ethnology Social Anthropology Cultural Studies
Research subject
Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441948 (URN)9780470657225 (ISBN)9781118924396 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2025-04-10Bibliographically approved
Agnidakis, P. (2018). Etnologi: Kontinuitet och anpassning av ett kulturvetenskapligt ämne. RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, 101(1), 1-18, Article ID 19857-17932.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Etnologi: Kontinuitet och anpassning av ett kulturvetenskapligt ämne
2018 (Swedish)In: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0035-5267, E-ISSN 2002-3863, Vol. 101, no 1, p. 1-18, article id 19857-17932Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Ethnology. The Adaptability and Continuity of a Discipline

This article discusses the development throughtime and space of ethnology as a multifaceted disciplinaryfield. The objective of the article,however, is to challenge possible pre-assumptionsof ethnology as an incoherent i.e. variable and inconstant discipline, due to national limitations andtheoretical and methodological responsiveness, byproposing some core aspects regarding focalpoints,perspectives and methods that may beconsidered as prominent and unifying amongstethnologists both in Sweden and abroad. The articleargues for a general and continuing disciplinarianfocus on culture as a pluralistic, complexand individual-based phenomenon, as well as fundamentalinterest in the functions, social structures,constructions and experiences of cultures.Furthermore, the article describes how both earlierand later generations of ethnologists in generalhave chosen to study culture based on a selectionof recurring perspectives that comprise boththe intangible and tangible aspects of culture, aswell as the spatial and social contexts in whichcultures are formed and maintained. Finally, thearticle highlights how different types of ethnologicaldata are collected and analyzed via a combinationof constantly developed methods of culturalanalysis, though rooted in a disciplinarian tradition. In conclusion, despite a continuous progressionand adjustments within ethnology in regardto perspectives and methods over time and space,this has more often resulted in additions ratherthan replacements. For this reason, it seems relevantto define ethnology as a coherent discipline,designated by both adaptation and continuity.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2018
Keywords
Ethnology, Cultural science, Continuity and adaptation, Unifying perspectives and methods, Processes over time and space
National Category
Ethnology Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441946 (URN)
Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2021-05-12Bibliographically approved
Agnidakis, P. (2018). Folkfest kring lokalhistoriska betydelser: Kulturarvsbetonade festivaler för främjandet av lokal identitet på postindustriella mindre orter. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, 17(2), 45-65
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Folkfest kring lokalhistoriska betydelser: Kulturarvsbetonade festivaler för främjandet av lokal identitet på postindustriella mindre orter
2018 (Swedish)In: Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, ISSN 1502-7473, E-ISSN 2387-6727, Vol. 17, no 2, p. 45-65Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Many minor post-industrial communities in Sweden, such as Surahammar and Timrå, struggle with financial difficulties and socio-cultural challenges due to the industrial decline and increased dependency on immigration from neighboring cities. In the light of this, arranging annual local festivals with a focus on cultural heritage can be seen as an opportunity to strengthen local identity as well as its inhabitant’s coexistences and sense of belonging. This article aims to analyze two local festivals, viewed as platforms for the production, communication and experiences of local cultural heritage values. Empirically resting on data collection and analysis of mainly ethnographic fieldwork, comprising interviews and observations, the article argues that these post-industrial local festivals involves identificational negotiations in regard to both the ritualized communication and implementation of local cultural heritage values. In conclusion, these festivals confirms a clearly industrial linked local cultural heritage but at the same time challenges it through enlargements, sufficiently vigilant connected to a local past in order to allow for inclusive local identifications, regardless of e.g. spatial origins.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2018
Keywords
Annual local festivals, Heritage making and experience, Local identification, Postindustrial communities, Surahammar & Timrå, Suradagarna & Vivstavarvsdagen
National Category
Ethnology Cultural Studies History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441944 (URN)
Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2021-05-12Bibliographically approved
Agnidakis, P., Lagerqvist, M. & Strandin Pers, A. (2018). I riktning mot en normkreativ kulturmiljövård: Metodutveckling utifrån exemplet Statens fastighetsverk i Sverige. Kulturstudier, 9(1), 167-198
Open this publication in new window or tab >>I riktning mot en normkreativ kulturmiljövård: Metodutveckling utifrån exemplet Statens fastighetsverk i Sverige
2018 (Swedish)In: Kulturstudier, E-ISSN 1904-5352, Vol. 9, no 1, p. 167-198Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Utifrån tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv och metoder, hämtade från etnologin och kulturgeografin, och med en empirisk utgångspunkt i tre kulturmiljöer som förvaltas av Statens fastighetsverk (SFV) i Sverige, analyserar artikeln historiebruk i form av kulturarvsproduktion och föreslår ett applicerbart normkritiskt samt i förlängningen normkreativt angreppssätt för att möjliggöra alternativa, varierade och mer inkluderande historieskildringar kring kulturmiljöer. Genom att utveckla och integrera dessa synsätt och verktyg vill artikeln argumentera för att man får tillgång till nya berättelser om platsen; berättelser som går utöver den traditionella, „normala“ historien om staten, enskilda byggnaders materiella utformning och den sociokulturella och ekonomiska eliten. En långsiktig effekt blir att det möjliggör ökad mångfald och inkludering både i fråga om förmedling och representation av platser som komplexa rumsliga och sociokulturella helheter.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
København: , 2018
Keywords
Critical Heritage Studies; Place Methodology; Normcritical and Normcreative approaches; The National Property Board Sweden
National Category
Ethnology Cultural Studies Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Ethnology; Social and Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441927 (URN)
Note

Special Issue/Edition: Historiebrug

Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2024-04-12Bibliographically approved
Agnidakis, P. (2018). Mobile lives and communities: Towards an ethnological understanding and knowledge production of belonging and spatial identity in the “rural” Commuter community. In: : . Paper presented at What matters – accounting for culture in a post factual world. The 34th congress of Ethnologists and Folklorists, June 12-15, 2018, Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mobile lives and communities: Towards an ethnological understanding and knowledge production of belonging and spatial identity in the “rural” Commuter community
2018 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2018
National Category
Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-442066 (URN)
Conference
What matters – accounting for culture in a post factual world. The 34th congress of Ethnologists and Folklorists, June 12-15, 2018, Uppsala, Sweden
Available from: 2021-05-07 Created: 2021-05-07 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
Sundberg, M. & Agnidakis, P. (2018). Studieavhopp inom ’Hum-Sam’: Misslyckande eller strategi?: Studenters egna berättelser om hur och varför de lämnade sina studier. Högre utbildning, 8(2), 116-130, Article ID https://doi.org/10.23865/hu.v8.1273.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Studieavhopp inom ’Hum-Sam’: Misslyckande eller strategi?: Studenters egna berättelser om hur och varför de lämnade sina studier
2018 (Swedish)In: Högre utbildning, ISSN ISSN 2000-7558, Vol. 8, no 2, p. 116-130, article id https://doi.org/10.23865/hu.v8.1273Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Artikeln problematiserar studieavhopp utifrån studenternas egna upplevelser. Baserat på intervjuer med 24 studenter som hoppat av undervisning i etnologi och kulturantropologi vid Uppsala universitet urskiljer författarna två avhoppstyper: en mindre förekommande som är resultatet av ofrivilligt misslyckande, och en betydligt vanligare som sker frivilligt och efterföljs av studier i andra ämnen, ofta med tydligare yrkeskoppling. Artikeln lyfter fram bakomliggande orsaker i relation till detta avhoppsmönster. Dessa berör den enskilda institutionen, det statliga utbildningssystemet samt förhållanden inom humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen, såsom begränsade undervisningsresurser, hög andel fristående kurser och program utan yrkesexamen, och inte sällan låga antagningspoäng.

Keywords
Studieavhopp, genomströmning, studentperspektiv, etnografisk ansats, humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen, Uppsala universitet
National Category
Social Anthropology
Research subject
Education
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-374445 (URN)10.23865/hu.v8.1273 (DOI)
Available from: 2019-01-21 Created: 2019-01-21 Last updated: 2021-05-07Bibliographically approved
Agnidakis, P. & Sundberg, M. (2017). De som inte strömmar igenom: Undersökning om studenters avbrott vid Uppsala universitet. Uppsala
Open this publication in new window or tab >>De som inte strömmar igenom: Undersökning om studenters avbrott vid Uppsala universitet
2017 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2017
National Category
Pedagogy Educational Sciences Ethnology Social Anthropology
Research subject
Sociology of Education; Education; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441979 (URN)
Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2021-05-06
Agnidakis, P., Lagerqvist, M. & Strandin Pers, A. (2017). Normkritisk kulturmiljöpraxis: Exemplet Statens fastighetsverk. Stockholm
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Normkritisk kulturmiljöpraxis: Exemplet Statens fastighetsverk
2017 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: , 2017
Series
RAA dnr 3.2.2
National Category
Ethnology Human Geography Cultural Studies History
Research subject
Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-441978 (URN)
Available from: 2021-05-06 Created: 2021-05-06 Last updated: 2021-05-06
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