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  • 1.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    A picture is worth a thousand words: On photographs, talking contexts and visual silences2020In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 12, no 1, p. 117-132Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper’s point of departure is that historic silences are socially constructed and culturally productive, and that photographs in archives participate in the creation of historical silences despite, or maybe thanks to, their convincing depicting qualities. In this essay, photographs from three occasions have been studied in detail in order to elucidate different kinds of visual silences. The occasions are i) a funeral where it is the photographer’s own mother that is being buried, ii) a funeral where the coffin is covered in a draping with a swastika, and iii) a royal funeral. Adopting a self-reflexive outlook, the purpose of this essay is to suggest a few possible ways of addressing silences that can occur when the presumptions of a beholder meet the image content of a photograph from the past. The three examples show that the concept of visual silence can be applied in different ways. In the first example, the technical and artistic shortcomings are interpreted as silencing components, which can convey information. In the second example, the (to a contemporary beholder) provocative silence around the historically charged symbol of a swastika becomes an analytical resource in its own right. The last example illustrates how a lot of information can compose such a dominant narrative, that it silences other stories.

  • 2.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    "At Last, Garbo is coming home": Celebrity, death and nation2017In: Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice / [ed] Mattias Frihammar; Helaine Silverman, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017, p. 65-77Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This chapter discusses some of the events that took place between the death of Greta Garbo in 1990 in New York City and her interment at the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm in 1999. Eventually Greta Garbo became one of the biggest stars on the silver screen. She was iconized as "The Divine", as beautiful and as unattainable as a goddess. The circumstances were very different between the violent death of Princess Diana and Garbo, who died of natural causes. The fact that Garbo was to be buried in Stockholm became headline news in Sweden as well as internationally. In the Swedish media bringing Garbo's ashes "back" to Sweden was described as a national triumph. The case of the Garbo ashes can be read as a kind of pop-cultural repatriation performance in a tourism setting. Diana had regularly been labeled an "icon" during her life, but in a pop-cultural and secular sense.

  • 3.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Att ge plats: kulturarvssektorn och de nationella minoriteternas historiska platser av Martins Holmberg, I, Saltzman, K & Andersson, A2020In: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0035-5267, E-ISSN 2002-3863, Vol. 102, no 2Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 4.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies.
    Cold War Heritage in Sweden: Pastime Threats, Cosy Cavers and Gendered Nostalgia2021In: e-International relations, E-ISSN 2053-8626, no 15 MayArticle in journal (Other academic)
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    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Cultural Heritage Management in Wartime2022In: Ethnologia Scandinavica, ISSN 0348-9698, E-ISSN 0348-9698, Vol. 52, no 2Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 6.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Folkligheten i kungahuset2010In: Kungligt genom tiderna: ett uppslagsverk med temaartiklar och A-Ö / [ed] Ann Moen, Malmö: Nationalencyklopedin, 2010, p. 102-107Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 7.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Idrott och kunglighet: Victoriadagen på Öland2005In: Tankar från baslinjen: humanister om idrott, kropp och hälsa: festskrift till Mats Hellspong / [ed] Jesper Fundberg, Klas Ramberg, Dan Waldetoft, Eslöv: Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2005, p. 137-151Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 8.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Introduction: Archive and Method(s)2020In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 12, no 1, p. 1-15Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 9.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Krona och keps: Victoria och Daniel2015In: Politik och passion: svenska kungliga äktenskap under 600 år / [ed] Henric Bagerius, Louise Berglund, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2015, 1, p. 225-254Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 10.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Kräftan och svenskheten: Kräftskivans som kulturarv i spåren av regleringar, reger och recept2023In: Matarvets trådar: Fråna antik fisksås till svenskt fredagsmys / [ed] Jenny Berndtson; Pernilla Schedin, Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2023, p. 73-87Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 11.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Kultur som praksis: etnologiske perspektiver på individualitet og fælleskab, kultur och historie av Christensen, S, Jespersen, A, Mellemgaard, S, Sandberg, M2018In: Ethnologia Scandinavica, ISSN 0348-9698, E-ISSN 0348-9698, no 48, p. 235-237Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 12.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Köandets konst2019In: Sånt vi bara gör / [ed] Jenny Nilsson, Susanne Nylund Skog, Fredrik Skott, Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2019Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 13.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    "Made in Gustavsberg": Det förflutna som vara2016In: Stockholm som vara / [ed] Klas Ramberg, Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag, 2016, p. 246-267Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 14.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Maritimt minnesland: om båtar, fritid och nostalgi2016In: Sommarliv: minnen, drömmar och materialitet / [ed] Kerstin Gunnemark, Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2016, p. 301-324Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 15.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Minnen att berätta2009In: Invandrare och Minoriteter, ISSN 1404-6857, no 3, p. 21-25Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 16.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Politiska projekt, osäkra kulturarv: kampanjer och förhandlingar i det sena 1990-talets Sverige och Europa. Lars-Eric Jönsson (red.)2018In: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0035-5267, E-ISSN 2002-3863, Vol. 101, no 1, p. 45-48Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 17.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Rojalistisk yra2009In: Ordfront magasin, ISSN 0284-981X, no 2, p. 8-10Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 18.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Svenskt fritidsbåtsliv i backspegeln: från nationsbygge till identitetsprojekt2016In: Sjövägen till Sverige: från 1500-talet till våra dagar / [ed] Simon Ekström, Leos Müller, Tomas Nilson, Malmö: Universus Press, 2016, p. 304-322Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 19.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    The Royal Napkin: Sanctifying Processes in the Media Landscape2009In: Media and Monarchy in Sweden, Göteborg: Nordicom , 2009, 1Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 20.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies.
    Ur svenska hjärtans djup: Reproduktion av samtida monarki2010Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this thesis is to show how Swedish royalty is reproduced and gains its extraordinary status through interaction between people, institutions and artefacts in the beginning of the 21st century.

    The analysis is based on data collected between 2003 and 2009 in different contexts where royalty and the monarchy are brought to the fore. The data consists of field notes from a municipality’s preparations for a visit of the king and queen of Sweden and three official events where royals are present, transcribed interviews, answers to a museums questionnaire and media material. The main theoretical premise is Actor Network Theory (ANT). Additionally, the study draws upon theories about cynical reason, modernity, humor and ritual.

    The study shows how royal sovereignty is reproduced basically by acts that separate persons and artifacts, put them on display and evaluates them as extravagant. These processes are at hand both in people’s everyday lives and during official event that present royals as the center of attention. Monarchy is interpreted as a modern institution mirroring notions of rationality through notions of irrationality, and the analysis shows how royal charisma is produced through performances fully in accordance with late-modern thinking and acting. The attractive royal mystic is interpreted as a consequence of a general strives to bring together the contrasting concepts of royalty and ordinariness. By analyzing humorous as well as servile attitude towards the royal institution and its representatives, the study shows how monarchy and the concept of royalty interact in the re-production of Sweden as a nation and in the individual citizen’s project of self-identity. Through creating memories of royal ancestors, individually and collectively, and through preserving the relations to existing royals and imagining the future of the royal family, a collective immortality is formed. In the process structures of inequality and social differences are established and made reasonable.

  • 21.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Ur svenska hjärtans djup: reproduktion av samtida monarki2020 (ed. 2)Book (Refereed)
  • 22.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Vanlighet som väcker begär2009In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, no 2, p. 15-19Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 23.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Vattnet, ljuden, berättelserna: Veteranfritidsbåten i tre kulturella dimensioner2017In: Angöringar: Berättelser och kunskap från havet / [ed] Simon Ekströ, Leos Müller, Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2017Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 24.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Vildmarksgalleriet i Mo: Lokalt meningsskapande i ett myller av djur2019In: Djur: Berörande möten och kulturella smärtpunkter / [ed] Simon Ekströ; Lars kaijser, Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2019, p. 65-98Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 25.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Vrak och övergivna båtar: En armada i minnets marginaler2015In: I utkanter och marginaler: 31 texter om kulturhistoria: en vänbok till Birgitta Svensson / [ed] Matianne Larsson, Anneli Palmsköld, Helena Hörnfeldt, Lars-Eric Jönsson, Stockholm: Nordiska museets förlag , 2015, 1, p. 165-176Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Som kulturella lämningar är vrak och övergivna fritidsbåtar intressanta eftersom de befinner sig i marginalen på flera sätt. De ger uttryck för flera slags ambivalenser. En ambivalens rör kulturarvsaspekten: de övergivna båtarna är vissa specifika objekt inom en accepterad kulturarvskategori som inte anses som bevarandevärda. En andra ambivalens berör landskapet: övergivna fritidsbåtar lämnas att förfalla i naturen och beroende på vilken typ av båt och sönderfall det är fråga om kan de då antingen bli betraktade som pittoreska eller som svårt vanprydande inslag i landskapet. En äldre eka i trä som ligger till hälften sjunken kan till exempel väcka en slags ruinromantik, medan en dito plastmotorbåt från 80-talet ses som skräp. En tredje ambivalens rör övergivna båtars oreglerade status ur ett rättsligt perspektiv. Ingen bär till exempel ansvaret för en övergiven båt på drift: vems minnen kan en ägarlös båt härbärgera? Vrak efter äldre fritidsbåtar kan därtill knytas till två sidor av moderniteten, dels den industriella fabriksmässiga produktionen, dels fritidens framväxt och idyllisering.

    Med fritidsbåtsvrak som utgångspunkt diskuteras  individuella och kollektiva minnens betydelser och kopplingar, kulturarvets landskap och landskapens kulturarv, makten över förflutenheten och sist men inte minst modernitetens materiella lämningar.

  • 26.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Kaijser, Lars
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Lagerqvist, Maja
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Human Geography.
    Förenade krafter och hotfull natur: Om gemenskap, naturvård och invasiva arter2021In: Laboratorium för folk och kultur: En kulturvetenskaplig tidskrift, ISSN 2489-7566, no 2Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    I vår samtid av oroande rapporter om klimatförändringar och hotad biologisk mångfald, är det många som är engagerade i frågor om naturen och miljön. Till dagens miljöproblem räknas de invasiva främmande arter, som av Nationalencyklopedin definieras som ”icke ursprunglig art vilken påverkar det ekosystem som arten koloniserar”. I den här artikeln visar vi hur engagemangen i vad som betecknas som invasiva främmande arter bidrar till uppfattningar om den svenska naturen och till vissa givna förhållningssätt i naturfrågor. Det handlar då inte bara om idéer om en svensk natur, utan mer konkret om hur arbetet med att bevara en svensk natur i praktiken rymmer utrotningen av enskilda arter som signalkräftor, blomsterlupiner och spanska skogssniglar (också kända som mördarsniglar). Här utgör politiska strävanden, lagstiftning och regleringsarbete villkorligheter som bidrar till affektiva gemenskaper där de invasiva arterna ses som ett självklart problem. Samtidigt finns här motrörelser och i arbetet med de främmande invasiva arterna uppstår också konfliktytor. Hantering av främmande invasiva arter, tidigare en fråga för specialister, engagerar idag allmänhet och föreningsliv. Nya vanor och kulturella mönster etablerats när myndighetsarbete, nyhetsrapportering, föreningsverksamhet och individuella initiativ samspelar. Det är ett sammanhang i rörelse, där arters förändrade status också etablerat sociala positioner och svårrubbliga sanningar.

  • 27.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Kaijser, Lars
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Lagerqvist, Maja
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Human Geography. Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Hotet i vägrenen: Blomsterlupinens plats i ett svenskt kulturarvslandskap2018In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, Vol. 27, no 3-4, p. 13-24Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 28.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Kaijser, Lars
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Lagerqvist, Maja
    Invasion i kulturarvslandskapet: Om växter i rörelse och naturen som minnesarena2020In: Kulturarv i förändring / [ed] Lizette Gradén, Tom O'Dell, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2020, p. 195-219Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 29.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Krohn Andersson, Fredrik
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
    Breaking the seal, keeping it real: On authenticity and masculinity in engaging with bunkers2022In: Ethnologia Scandinavica, ISSN 0348-9698, E-ISSN 0348-9698, Vol. 52, p. 183-201Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 30.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies.
    Krohn Andersson, Fredrik
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
    Wendt, Maria
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.
    Åse, Cecilia
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Gender Studies.
    I kalla krigets spår: hot, våld och beskydd som kulturarv2023Book (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Det förflutna används ständigt för att ge mening åt nuet. I kalla krigets spår skildrar framväxten av ett nytt svenskt militärt kulturarv. Här visas hur minnen och lämningar från en tid fylld av rädsla och säkerhetspolitiska spänningar får nya innebörder när bunkrar och nedlagda militäranläggningar omvandlas till museer, lyxbostäder och spännande besöksmål.

    Genom fältbesök vid en rad militära kulturarvsplatser runt om i Sverige har författarna undersökt vilka miljöer, föremål och känslor som idag får representera kalla kriget. De visar hur dåtidens hemligheter, hotbilder och militärfordon både blir kittlande och fascinerande inslag i kulturarvet och förmedlar idéer om trygghet och beskydd.

    Här tas ett nytt grepp på kulturarvsfrågor genom att minnesskapande sätts i relation till säkerhetspolitik. Utifrån kritiska kulturarvsstudier och feministisk teori diskuteras den nationella gemenskapens gränser och vilken roll som genus och sexualitet har i berättelserna om hot och försvar.

    I en demokrati måste frågor om militärt våld alltid genomlysas och diskuteras. Med denna utgångspunkt granskas kulturarvets betydelse för förståelsen av hot och säkerhet. Boken uppmanar till reflektion om hur historien skrivs och om vad som krävs för att skapa trygghet.

    I kalla krigets spår är ett resultat av ett tvärvetenskapligt forskningsprojekt. Författarna är forskare vid Stockholms universitet och har skrivit boken tillsammans.

  • 31.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Krohn Andersson, Fredrik
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
    Wendt, Maria
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.
    Åse, Cecilia
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies.
    Kalla kriget som njutning och ideal2021In: Dagens arenaArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Känsloläget i försvarsdebatten har höjts, inte minst av Försvarsmakten själv. Frågan är inte längre om utan när kriget kommer. Den nya retoriken åkallar känslor förknippade med kalla kriget. En hotfull historisk period som idag används för att rättfärdiga försvarspolitik och signalera trygghet, skriver fyra forskare som tittat närmare på läget.

  • 32.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Silverman, Helaine
    Heritage of death: emotion, memory and practice2017In: Heritage of Death: Landscapes om emotion, memory and practice / [ed] Mattias Frihammar; Helaine Silverman, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017, p. 4-19Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes a new landscape of death around an older death site through online activity. It details highly diverse and ambiguous responses in the locally affected area in tension with a very particular form of dark tourism among international visitors. The book considers the problem of cemetery conservation by England's official heritage office, English Heritage. The many heritages of death change in shape, content and effect over time. Heritages of death are vernacular as well as official, sanctioned as well as alternative. And, importantly, death is one of a growing range of phenomena that has been adapted and heritagized to suit the tourism industry. Tourism's direct and celebratory approach to death is otherwise peculiar in modern, Western society given its oft-observed reticence toward mortality.

  • 33.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Silverman, Helaine
    Heritage of death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice2018Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of death are personal, national and international. They are vernacular as well as official, sanctioned as well as alternative. This book brings together more than twenty international scholars to consider the heritage of death from spatial, political, religious, economic, cultural, aesthetic and emotive aspects. It showcases different attitudes and phases of death and their relationship to heritage through ethnographically informed case studies to illustrate both general patterns and local and national variations. Through analyses of material expressions and social practices of grief, mourning and remembrance, this book shows not only what death means in contemporary societies, but also how individuals, groups and nations act towards death.

  • 34.
    Krohn Andersson, Fredrik
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    As above, so below? On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden2023In: Journal of War & Culture Studies, ISSN 1752-6272, E-ISSN 1752-6280, Vol. 16, no 4, p. 373-392Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage studies and research on Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, heritage is perceived as a difference machinery in which difference-produced identities are enacted and performed, and a Deleuzian and Butleresque antiessentialist perspective is adopted to show how the illusion of actual, nondifferential identities is underpinned by a hypostasized reification of AHD. Based on the analysis of how gender has been actualized within official and informal heritagizations, the central discussion concerns the purported benefits of heritages and heritagizations from below, often articulated within critical heritage studies literature. It is argued that both official and informal Cold War heritagizations construct a naturalized gendered logic of protection, with the consequence that security policy issues regarding protection and military violence are placed in a nonnegotiable, extrapolitical sphere.

  • 35.
    Krohn Andersson, Fredrik
    et al.
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Aesthetics.
    Frihammar, Mattias
    Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Ethnology.
    Man caves: Om bunkrar som manliga trygghetszoner2020In: (O)tryggt? texter om makt, plats och motstånd / [ed] Malin Rönnblom, Ida Linander, Linda Sandberg, Stockholm: Premiss förlag, 2020, p. 124-148Chapter in book (Refereed)
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