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Four case studies bring to the fore decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s.Edited by CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts: Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Giulia Floris, Vasco Forconi, Edy Fung, Julius Lehmann, Maria Lind, Marc Navarro, Simina Neagu, Hanna Nordell, Tomek Pawłowski Jarmołajew, Marja Rautaharju, Erik Sandberg, Joanna Warsza Through four case studies, Archeology of a Profession in Sweden brings to the fore decolonial and other non-hegemonic approaches to the profession of curating in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström made their mark on art and curating of their time, at institutions such as Kulturhuset and Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, Borås Konstmuseum and Bildmuseet in Umeå, but also through exhibitions on trains and in parks. They pioneered what today is called “social practice” and embraced art and artists f

This volume adds Sweden and Finland to the growing list of countries included in Greenwood Press' "Reference Guides to the World's Cinema" series. Both well known and other important but less known pe

Exploring the political regulation of the family in Sweden, Lundqvist (sociology, Lund U., Sweden), traces the historical development of family policy and the ensuing institutionalization of gender eq

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2014, held in Lund, Sweden, in September 2014. Overall, 71 submissions

Korpiola (legal history, University of Helsinki) has researched the marriage customs in Sweden from the thirteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth. The impact of developing Christian doctr

This volume presents the results of the project "The Cultural Landscape during 6000 Years", based on interdisciplinary collaboration between six disciplines at Lund University during the period 1982-9

The volume contains the proceedings of the OTAMP 2006 (Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics) conference held at Lund University in June 2006. The conference was devoted to the methods of

Line has enlarged and revised his Ph.D. dissertation on medieval Swedish kingship for the University of Leeds in 2003. In it, he examines the nature of the political conflicts and of kingship and admi

Neville (Early Modern Art and Architecture, University of California at Riverside) examines the career of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, showing how the work of this often overlooked Swedish architect fi

This book presents the research papers accepted for the 21st AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held at Lund University Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Centre, Sweden on 12–15

Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, hist

The chapters in this volume have their origins in papers presented at a Workshop held at Lund University in Sweden. The Workshop gathered together experts from Europe, the United States and Australia,

Authored by Bengt Kallen, professor emeritus in embryology at Lund University in Sweden.??The subject of this book is to describe the occurrence of congenital malformations among children born and wha

Osterberg (history, Lund University, Sweden) gives in the annual Natalie Zemon Davis lecture an analysis of the concepts of friendship and love in medieval and Early Modern Europe. She begins with the

Falk (East and South-East Asian studies, Lund U., Sweden) conducted fieldwork in Thailand during 1997-98 for her doctoral dissertation in social anthropology at Gotenborg University in 2002. It provid

On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later renamed Echocardiogram. A few weeks late

Citing a lack of comprehensive and in-depth textbooks on specific heat exchangers, Wang (Siemens Industrial Turbines, Sweden), Sunden (Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden) and Manglik (U. of Cincinna

Jonsson (political science, Lund U., Sweden) and Hall (a researcher at Lund U.) build an international relations theory of diplomacy, which they see as a perennial international institution and theref

This book contains the proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, ECMI2012, held in Lund, Sweden, July 2012, at which ECMI celebrated its 25th anniversary. It covers math

Having harbored a lifelong interest in the ancient world, Hampus-Lyttkens (economics, Lund U., Sweden) has been delighted that in recent years the idea that modern economics is not pertinent in classi

The seven papers presented in this volume of the series "Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research," edited by Bolin (Lund U., Sweden) and Kaestner (U. of Illinois, US), investigate th

Providing an alternative approach that critiques traditional assumptions about the world of management, Alvesson (business administration, U. of Lund, Sweden) and Willmott (organization studies, Cardi

His graduate or undergraduate textbook differs from others, says SundAcn (energy services, Lund U., Sweden), by describing the thermal conductivity of various substances in much more detail, providing

Djurfeldt (sociology, Lund U., Sweden), Aryeetey (The Brookings Insntitution, US), and Isinika (Sokoine U. of Agriculture, Tanzania) present a sequel to 2005's The African Food Crisis: Lessons from th

Carling (linguistics, Lund U., Sweden), collaborating with Werner Winter and Georges-Jean Pinault, has compiled a dictionary of Tocharian A, an Indo-European language of Central Asia. This impressivel

Addressing a timely and much-needed area of research, Topo (Academy of Finland/National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health) and Ostlund (rehabilitation engineering, Lund U., Sweden

Writing for scientists and non-scientists, Lima-de-Faria (emeritus molecular cytogenetics, Lund U., Sweden) highlights the partial and temporary nature of scientific knowledge by pointing out examples

Holtorf (archaeology, U. of Lund) is objective in his examinations of how the trendiness of archaeology gets in its own way in the media. He examines television shows from Germany, Sweden and Great Br

Schaebler (Middle Eastern history, U. of Erfurt, Germany) and Stenberg (Islamology, Lund U., Sweden) present the product of workshop held at Harvard U.'s Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1999 that

Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for libe

Fredrik Svenaeus is professor of philosophy at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden.

Fredrik Svenaeus is professor of philosophy at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden.