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Papers by Britta Knudsen
International Journal of Heritage Studies, Jul 17, 2023
all over Denmark were arranged for people from all over the country to be able to take part in th... more all over Denmark were arranged for people from all over the country to be able to take part in the festivitas in the streets of Copenhagen that were immensely adorned and with people from mainly Denmark but also from Australia and Tasmania (Mary’s home countries) performing music and dancing and other kinds of more spontaneous celebrating activities. The two national TV stations, of course, each had their direct coverage of the event: beginning very early on the Saturday morning covering all kinds of preparations for the wedding represented by interviews with flower decorators, the priest, all kinds of officials and shop owners on the route of the tour that the golden coach would take the wedded couple after the church ceremony etc but also interviews with private people about how they had planned to celebrate the day. All kinds of little girls planning to dress up as princesses to groups of friends who had arranged temporarily out-of-the-house-activities for their husbands and chil...
This document represents the ‘Methodological toolkit’ for the Horizon2020 Project ECHOES; Europea... more This document represents the ‘Methodological toolkit’ for the Horizon2020 Project ECHOES; European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities. The ECHOES Project brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and nationalities and entails cases in cityscapes from Asia, Africa and South America and from Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. ECHOES focuses on various forms and levels of engagements with colonial heritage from local street performances to EU political discourse. The overall aim is to investigate decolonial heritage practices outside Europe in former colonized territories with multiple and different histories of colonialisms as well as to look at decolonial practices inside Europe while keeping in mind the very different trajectories of the different European colonial projects. The fact that Europe’s colonial past is simultaneously present as an undeniable heritage in its cities, institutions and international relationships, and also constantl...
Structures of Feeling, 2015
Heritage & Society, 2020
ABSTRACT The contributions presented here were written in late 2019 and finalized in the early mo... more ABSTRACT The contributions presented here were written in late 2019 and finalized in the early months of 2020. What unfolded on the global stage while the special issue was making its way through the publication process – the murder of George Floyd, the rise of Black Lives Matter as a global agenda and the reenergizing of protests against both material and ideological colonial heritage – seemed at times almost about to overtake it; to render it “preemptively anachronistic” as a consequence of a radical transformation of the stakes, forms and intensities of the decolonial struggle. Ultimately, however, we think that this new context has only further validated the importance and urgency of the work undertaken here: not only is the connection between issues of contemporary racism and the colonial past which those events highlighted here explicitly conceptualized, but also the various forms and content that the decolonial struggle can be invested with are revealed and examined in both European metropoles and their global counterparts.
Emotion, Space and Society, 2012
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the a... more This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright
Re-Investing Authenticity, 2010
This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happe... more This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happens through the tourist's body as locus. Actual tourists are craving for real experiences in order to feel alive and difficult heritage sites offer this experience of presence to excess. In addition tourists are also interested in witnessing the past and its victims, and the establishment of the witnessing relationship depends on the interactive design present at the site. The difficult pasts in question are situated on site-specific locations in Northern America and Europe and represent classic thanatourist sites bearing on Holocaust, totalitarian communism and terrorism. Through an analysis of the multimodal and interactive design at each site, the article outlines various ways that place designs relate actual tourists and victims of the past.
This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or s... more This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae, and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand, or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
The report introduces two different environmental projects involving citizen participation and in... more The report introduces two different environmental projects involving citizen participation and interdisciplinary research: Reclaiming Waste – a living experiment in Ry (2014–2015) and Permeable Green City Aarhus – Combining Life Politics, Biodiversity, Citizen Empowerment, and Sustainable Urban Drainage to Create an Ecologically and Socially Resilient City (2014–2016). They take the shape of ‘living experiments’ that explore various processes and phases in democratic participation. Through these projects the report argues in favour of understanding participation as ‘interdisciplinary experimentation’, which is defined as an experimental practice, creating specific and designed encounters between various groups and forms of knowledge, in order to investigate how to solve or reframe particular challenges. Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Recent publications include Re-Enacting the Past. Heritage, materia...
Public Spheres of Resonance, 2019
International Journal of Heritage Studies, Jul 17, 2023
all over Denmark were arranged for people from all over the country to be able to take part in th... more all over Denmark were arranged for people from all over the country to be able to take part in the festivitas in the streets of Copenhagen that were immensely adorned and with people from mainly Denmark but also from Australia and Tasmania (Mary’s home countries) performing music and dancing and other kinds of more spontaneous celebrating activities. The two national TV stations, of course, each had their direct coverage of the event: beginning very early on the Saturday morning covering all kinds of preparations for the wedding represented by interviews with flower decorators, the priest, all kinds of officials and shop owners on the route of the tour that the golden coach would take the wedded couple after the church ceremony etc but also interviews with private people about how they had planned to celebrate the day. All kinds of little girls planning to dress up as princesses to groups of friends who had arranged temporarily out-of-the-house-activities for their husbands and chil...
This document represents the ‘Methodological toolkit’ for the Horizon2020 Project ECHOES; Europea... more This document represents the ‘Methodological toolkit’ for the Horizon2020 Project ECHOES; European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities. The ECHOES Project brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and nationalities and entails cases in cityscapes from Asia, Africa and South America and from Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. ECHOES focuses on various forms and levels of engagements with colonial heritage from local street performances to EU political discourse. The overall aim is to investigate decolonial heritage practices outside Europe in former colonized territories with multiple and different histories of colonialisms as well as to look at decolonial practices inside Europe while keeping in mind the very different trajectories of the different European colonial projects. The fact that Europe’s colonial past is simultaneously present as an undeniable heritage in its cities, institutions and international relationships, and also constantl...
Structures of Feeling, 2015
Heritage & Society, 2020
ABSTRACT The contributions presented here were written in late 2019 and finalized in the early mo... more ABSTRACT The contributions presented here were written in late 2019 and finalized in the early months of 2020. What unfolded on the global stage while the special issue was making its way through the publication process – the murder of George Floyd, the rise of Black Lives Matter as a global agenda and the reenergizing of protests against both material and ideological colonial heritage – seemed at times almost about to overtake it; to render it “preemptively anachronistic” as a consequence of a radical transformation of the stakes, forms and intensities of the decolonial struggle. Ultimately, however, we think that this new context has only further validated the importance and urgency of the work undertaken here: not only is the connection between issues of contemporary racism and the colonial past which those events highlighted here explicitly conceptualized, but also the various forms and content that the decolonial struggle can be invested with are revealed and examined in both European metropoles and their global counterparts.
Emotion, Space and Society, 2012
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the a... more This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright
Re-Investing Authenticity, 2010
This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happe... more This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happens through the tourist's body as locus. Actual tourists are craving for real experiences in order to feel alive and difficult heritage sites offer this experience of presence to excess. In addition tourists are also interested in witnessing the past and its victims, and the establishment of the witnessing relationship depends on the interactive design present at the site. The difficult pasts in question are situated on site-specific locations in Northern America and Europe and represent classic thanatourist sites bearing on Holocaust, totalitarian communism and terrorism. Through an analysis of the multimodal and interactive design at each site, the article outlines various ways that place designs relate actual tourists and victims of the past.
This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or s... more This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae, and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand, or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
The report introduces two different environmental projects involving citizen participation and in... more The report introduces two different environmental projects involving citizen participation and interdisciplinary research: Reclaiming Waste – a living experiment in Ry (2014–2015) and Permeable Green City Aarhus – Combining Life Politics, Biodiversity, Citizen Empowerment, and Sustainable Urban Drainage to Create an Ecologically and Socially Resilient City (2014–2016). They take the shape of ‘living experiments’ that explore various processes and phases in democratic participation. Through these projects the report argues in favour of understanding participation as ‘interdisciplinary experimentation’, which is defined as an experimental practice, creating specific and designed encounters between various groups and forms of knowledge, in order to investigate how to solve or reframe particular challenges. Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Recent publications include Re-Enacting the Past. Heritage, materia...
Public Spheres of Resonance, 2019