Colonial representations of race in alternative museums: The ‘African’ of St Benet’s, the ‘Arab’ of Jorvik, and the ‘Black Viking’

Ramírez, Paul

doi:10.1080/13527258.2021.1883715

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“…The BLM movement in particular also brings to the fore the oftentransnational character of cultural memory, that is events, symbols and persons that are not just national affairs, and the 2020 BLM debate is a good example of that. The contested memory related to the so-called Black Viking in England, the debate on Germany's role in the genocide in Namibia and Chilean memorials to Salvador Allende in Spain are other current examples of how interpretations and negotiations about how the past should be remembered that go across and beyond national borders (Colomer, 2022;Montgomery Ramírez, 2021;Niezen, 2018).…”

Section: The Debate On Monuments To Linnaeus As a Racialized Memory Warmentioning

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Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Karner

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This is a study of the Swedish debate on statues and monuments to the world-famous Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus that took place during the Black Lives Matter movement breakthrough in the summer of 2020. The purpose is to examine how understandings of race, racism, identity, and history were articulated in the debate. The empirical material consists of Twitter posts and newspaper editorials, which we approach through thematic analysis complemented with discourse analysis of illustrative examples and excerpts. Theoretically, we conceptualize the debate as a case of a Swedish racialized memory war. The results show that discourse participants constructed the terms of the debate as a matter of being “for” or “against” Linnaeus’ legacy, and consequently as a matter of being for or against science, reason, progress, and a supposedly non-ideological historiography, rather than as a matter of qualitatively renegotiating how we selectively remember and celebrate historical persons and legacies, and formulate tendentious narratives of the past that serve present agendas. In this memory war, discourse participants mainly representing the white majority population of Sweden mobilized a defense of a “canonized” understanding of Linnaeus’ legacy on the editorial pages of the Swedish newspapers and on Twitter. This defense, we argue, supports an ongoing effort to absolve Swedes of any substantial complicity in European and Western racism and colonialism. In effect, what is defended is a white-washed use and understanding of history – a status quo that largely remains unchallenged in Sweden.

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Section: The Debate On Monuments To Linnaeus As a Racialized Memory Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Karner

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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“Here I Am, In This Far-Off Land Where We Are Now”: Encountering and Observing Rūs Women in Ibn Faḍlān’s Risala

Upham

2023

Medieval Mobilities

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Art and the Formation of Early Medieval England

Karkov

2022

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This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the input of multi-ethnic artists, patrons, and influences as it develops over the centuries. Art in early medieval England is an art of migrants and colonisers and the Element considers the way in which it was defined and developed by the different groups that travelled to or settled on the island. It also explores some of the key forms and images that define the art of the period and the role of both material and artist/patron in their creation. Art is an expression of identity, whether individual, regional, national, religious, or institutional, and this volume sheds light on the way art in early medieval England was and continues to be used to define particular identities, including that of the island on which it was produced.

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Colonial representations of race in alternative museums: The ‘African’ of St Benet’s, the ‘Arab’ of Jorvik, and the ‘Black Viking’

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

“Here I Am, In This Far-Off Land Where We Are Now”: Encountering and Observing Rūs Women in Ibn Faḍlān’s Risala

Art and the Formation of Early Medieval England

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