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Papers by Mikkel Bille
Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces, 2022
The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 2018
Architectural Anthropology, 2021
Tidsskriftet Antropologi, 2013
Artiklen diskuterer, hvorledes uafklarethed og begrebsmæssig vaghed konstituerer den måde, hvorpå... more Artiklen diskuterer, hvorledes uafklarethed og begrebsmæssig vaghed konstituerer den måde, hvorpå mennesker udfolder sig materielt og begrebsmæssigt. I de nylige antropologiske studier af „en eller flere verdener“ udfolder verdens beskaffenhed sig ofte i informanternes klare og entydige udsagn eller udledes af observationer af praksis. Med udgangspunkt i brugen af belysning argumenterer artiklen for et øet fokus påbegrebet „tmosfæe“ som det, der toner oplevelsen af verden, men som ikke nøvendigvis indbefatter begrebsmæsig klarhed. Atmosfæer er ontologisk set vage erfaringer, der påden ene side opleves og påden anden side ikke præist kan afgræses. Nå denne uafklarethed tages som præis, ånes op for en tilgang til informanternes erfaringer, som ikke blot handler om multiplicitet, men som ogsåtager sammensmeltningerne af de affektive, sanselige og materielle erfaringspraksisser med, hvor uklare de end er. Søgeord: atmosfære, lys, uafklarethed, Danmark, Jordan, hygge
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2019
Social & Cultural Geography, 2017
Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East, 2013
Emotion, Space and Society, 2015
Toward an Anthropology of Absence.- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence.- People Without Thi... more Toward an Anthropology of Absence.- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence.- People Without Things.- Embodying Absence.- Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War.- A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families.- Temporalities of Absence.- Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank.- Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India.- Materializing Remembrance.- A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture.- Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains.- Ambiguous Materialities.- Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia.- Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin.- Presencing the Im-Material.- Commentary.- An Anthropology of Absence: Commentary.
Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces, 2022
The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 2018
Architectural Anthropology, 2021
Tidsskriftet Antropologi, 2013
Artiklen diskuterer, hvorledes uafklarethed og begrebsmæssig vaghed konstituerer den måde, hvorpå... more Artiklen diskuterer, hvorledes uafklarethed og begrebsmæssig vaghed konstituerer den måde, hvorpå mennesker udfolder sig materielt og begrebsmæssigt. I de nylige antropologiske studier af „en eller flere verdener“ udfolder verdens beskaffenhed sig ofte i informanternes klare og entydige udsagn eller udledes af observationer af praksis. Med udgangspunkt i brugen af belysning argumenterer artiklen for et øet fokus påbegrebet „tmosfæe“ som det, der toner oplevelsen af verden, men som ikke nøvendigvis indbefatter begrebsmæsig klarhed. Atmosfæer er ontologisk set vage erfaringer, der påden ene side opleves og påden anden side ikke præist kan afgræses. Nå denne uafklarethed tages som præis, ånes op for en tilgang til informanternes erfaringer, som ikke blot handler om multiplicitet, men som ogsåtager sammensmeltningerne af de affektive, sanselige og materielle erfaringspraksisser med, hvor uklare de end er. Søgeord: atmosfære, lys, uafklarethed, Danmark, Jordan, hygge
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2019
Social & Cultural Geography, 2017
Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East, 2013
Emotion, Space and Society, 2015
Toward an Anthropology of Absence.- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence.- People Without Thi... more Toward an Anthropology of Absence.- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence.- People Without Things.- Embodying Absence.- Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War.- A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families.- Temporalities of Absence.- Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank.- Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India.- Materializing Remembrance.- A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture.- Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains.- Ambiguous Materialities.- Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia.- Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin.- Presencing the Im-Material.- Commentary.- An Anthropology of Absence: Commentary.
The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spac... more The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the atmospheric power of people, places, and phenomena.
While the predominant focus of current urban planning tends to rest on economic growth, sustainability, or offering housing, transport, and activities to an increasing number of city residents, this book offers a different take, based on recent discussions in the social sciences about how cities feel. It calls attention to the mundane ways in which urban dwellers adapt and adopt their surroundings. It argues that atmospheric cities are characterised by a fundamental porosity that affects how people relate to places. This highlights why some places are sought after while others are avoided. Through concrete examples of people being in and moving through the city, the book shows how people attune and are attuned by designed urban spaces, often at the margins of attention, when they find comfort in the familiar and seek out the unexpected.
This book is aimed at researchers, postgraduates, and practitioners interested in urban design and how people make sense of the feelings it evokes. It will be of interest to those in the fields of urban studies, urban design, planning, architecture urban geography, cultural geography, cultural studies and anthropology.
Bloomsbury, 2019
Using case studies, such as the use of candlelight and energy saving lightbulbs in Denmark, this ... more Using case studies, such as the use of candlelight and energy saving lightbulbs in Denmark, this book unravels light's place at the heart of social life. In contrast to common perception of light as a technical and aesthetic phenomenon, Mikkel Bille argues that there is a cultural and social logic to lighting practices. By empirically investigating the social role of lighting in people's everyday lives, Mikkel Bille reveals how and why people visually shape their homes.
Moving beyond the impact of its use, Bille also comments on the politics of lighting to examine how ideas of pollution and home act as barriers for technological fixes to curb energy demand. Attitudes to these issues are reflective of how human perceptions and practices are central to the efforts to cope with climate change.
This ethnographic study is a must-read for students of anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sociology and design.
Berghahn, 2019
Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabitin... more Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?
