Through
a case study of an Australian shell necklace held in the Museum of Ethnography
in Stockholm, Sweden, this episode explores the opportunity to reconceive ethnographic
collections as carriers of environmental data, traditional knowledge and social
history. Reconfiguring ethnographic collections as both scientific and cultural
not only invites western scientists into ethnographic museum storehouses, it
shines a light on non-western knowledge systems in communities of origin, born
of deep ties to more-than-human life-worlds. At this confluence, new
environmental understandings are advanced and new futures are discovered for what
otherwise remains redundant collections.
Featuring:
- Dr Christine
Hansen is the principal investigator of the project Objects of Culture and
Science, based at the Department of Historical Studies, University of
Gothenburg.
- Dr Mandy Quadrio
is a Palawa woman connected to her clan Country of Tebrakunna on the far
north-east coast of Tasmania. Currently based in Brisbane, her artistic
practice she works to unfix racist categorisations, historic denials and
imposed invisibility in relation to Aboriginal identity.
- Dr Anna Bohlin, host.
The podcast is produced by the Centre for Critical
Heritage Studies at the University of Gothenburg, in collaboration with
Medieteknik. Kindly supported by The Swedish Research Council via the project
Objects of Science and Culture.
Please visit our website for more information, photos
and references: https://www.gu.se/en/critical-heritage-studies/remaking-of-knowledge-podcast
- Host: Anna Bohlin, Department of Global Studies and
the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Producer: Jenny Högström Berntson, Centre for Critical
Heritage Studies University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Executive producer: Christine Hansen, Department of Historical Studies and the
Centre for Critical Heritage Studies University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Recording and mix: Nicola Maniette, Medieteknik, University of Gothenburg,
Sweden.
- Jingle composed by: Nicola Maniette, Medieteknik, University
of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Podcast logo by: Mikael Zanqrelle, Medieteknik, University
of Gothenburg, Sweden.