Researchers from NIKU have published a new article on the means and approaches Norwegian museums use to involve immigrants in museum work and how they include the stories and experiences of modern migrants in their collections.
Category: Cultural Heritage and Society
Researcher / senior researcher in cultural heritage
NIKU are looking for two researchers for the Department of Cultural Heritage and Society at NIKU's head office in Oslo.
Successful PARKAS seminar 2018
The main theme for the seminar was integration of cultural heritage in the management of national parks, with Hardangervidda and Saltfjellet-Svartisen as cases.
Valuing Immigrant Memories as Common Heritage
What is the public memory of Norwegian immigrants in America today? How has an immigrant group with attachment to Scandinavian roots affected a culturally diverse society in America? A new article provides answers.
Is it right to destroy monuments over our dark past?
OPINION: Politicians, managers and researchers must be able to use their voices when cultural heritage contributes to discrimination, hatred and violence.
New article: The Scandinavian far-right and the new politicisation of heritage
What does far-right heritage policies actually look like? Read more in this new article by Herdis Hølleland and Elisabeth Niklasson.
New article: Uses of Heritage and beyond
NIKU's Skrede and Hølleland on Heritage Studies viewed through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Realism.
Article: Street art, heritage and embodiment
Laima Nomeikaite on Street Art in the Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal. Volume 3, Number 1
Use of visualisation when development projects impact heritage sites
This article addresses tensions between the expressed usefulness of visualisations and critical attitudes towards the lack of ‘objectivity’ of visual representations and the risk of manipulation for strategic purposes.
SESSION 073 Heritage Politics: Challenges for the 21st Century’s Heritage Management (REGULAR SESSION)
In this session at the ACHS, 4th Biannual Conference in Hangzhou, China, we are inviting researchers to explore future challenges for the heritage management.