Remaking of Knowledge: Objects of Science and Culture (Episode 1)

Through a case study of an Australian shell necklace held in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, Sweden, this episode explores the opportunity to reconceive ethnographic collections as carriers of environmental data, traditional knowledge and social history. Reconfiguring ethnographic collections as both scientific and cultural not only invites western scientists into ethnographic museum storehouses, it shines a light on non-western knowledge systems in communities of origin, born of deep ties to more-than-human life-worlds. At this confluence, new environmental understandings are advanced and new futures are discovered for what otherwise remains redundant collections.

Featuring:

• Dr Christine Hansen is the principal investigator of the project Objects of Culture and Science, based at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.
• Dr Mandy Quadrio is a Palawa woman connected to her clan Country of Tebrakunna on the far north-east coast of Tasmania.  Currently based in Brisbane, her artistic practice she works to unfix racist categorisations, historic denials and imposed invisibility in relation to Aboriginal identity. 
• Dr Anna Bohlin, host.

The podcast is produced by the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies at the University of Gothenburg, in collaboration with Medieteknik. Kindly supported by The Swedish Research Council via the project Objects of Science and Culture.

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• Host: Anna Bohlin, Department of Global Studies and the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Producer: Jenny Högström Berntson, Centre for Critical Heritage Studies University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Executive producer: Christine Hansen, Department of Historical Studies and the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Recording and mix: Nicola Maniette, Medieteknik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Jingle composed by: Nicola Maniette, Medieteknik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Podcast logo by: Mikael Zanqrelle, Medieteknik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.