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Sigurjón B Hafsteinsson - Professor

Sigurjón B Hafsteinsson

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School of Social Sciences

Sigurjón B Hafsteinsson

Professor

Professor

Location
Oddi / O-115
Phone
525-5496 844 9498
Email
sbh [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics
Website
http://uni.hi.is/sbh/

Consultation hours
By appointment.
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4208-0144
Research portal – Sigurjón B Hafsteinsson

Published works

2024

Magmatic MemoriesVolcanica
Innovation in Inclusive Museums Education and Training Through an Online Pilot Course

2023

Technology and presence in a museum of trauma
‘Dirt Hovels’ and Cultural HeritageVernacular Architecture

2022

Pláneta, húsbrot, líkön og baðstofur
Death, trauma and the ´event´

2020

Landscapes of Trauma: a Reflection on WonderJournal of Scottish Thought
A funeral for a glacierThanatos
Pulses for Future ArchitectureTERA
Mobility and Transnational Iceland

2019

Saga listasafna á Íslandi
Sveitadvöl barna í sjónrænum gögnum
Organizational structures and the museum´s educative functionNordisk Museologi
“Icelandic Putridity”Scandinavian Studies

2018

Death and Governmentality in Iceland: Neo-liberalism, Grief and the Nation-form
Museology and the Icelandic museum field. Collaborations and developmentNordisk museologi
The fleshyness of absence
Museology and the Icelandic Museum field: Collaborations and development.Nordisk museologi
Faglegt starf safna: tilvik og álitamál

2017

„Danskir sorphaugar, íslenskt svínerí og hallir fornmanna
Sigurður Guðmundsson og Forngripasafnið

2016

Robert R. Janes, Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?Nordisk museologi
ForordNordisk museologi
„Sjaldan fellur reður lang frá rótinni“Árbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Shut Up and Be Quiet!
A case of public pedagogy in Icelandic museumsStudies in the Education of Adults
A case of public pedagogy in Icelandic museumsStudies in the Education of Adults

2015

Speeding Towards the Future through the PastLandscape Research
Byggðasöfn á Íslandi
Moldargreni og menningararfur
Etnografisk fornyelse af islandske museer
Etnografisk fornyelse af islandske museer

2014

CULTURES OF THE PAST: The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universe: The uses and abuses of the past: cultural rhetoric and the unmaking of a moral universeMiscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica
KULTURY PRZESZŁOŚCI: The uses and abuses of the pastMiscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

2013

Etnógrafísk endurnýjun íslenskra safnaÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Unmasking Deep Democracy
“Hvað með umfjöllun um hvað okkur finnst um þau?“
Les représentations de l’Islande au travers la constitution d’un Musée du phallus
Phallological Museum

2012

Hughrif um varanleikaTímarit Máls og menningar
Ethnografísk endurnýjun íslenskra safnaÁrbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
« Démasquez nos téléspectateurs/Nos téléspectateurs démasqués »Anthropologie et Sociétés
Enn af Náttúruminjasafni ÍslandsNáttúrufræðingurinn

2011

Hofmóðugur arkitektTímarit Máls og menningar
Screening propagandaFilm History: An International Journal

2010

Aboriginal journalism practice as deep democracy
For, By and About Aboriginal Peoples
Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada
Menningarstefna og fagurfræði
Introduction
Museum politics and turf-house heritage

2009

Huldumannstyppi og næmar konur

2008

Helen M. Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. With a Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp xii+276. ISBN 0-674-01691. £16.95 (hardback). Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren (eds.), The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment. Sagamore Beach, CA: Science History Publications, 2004. Pp. 399. ISBN 0-88135-372-8. £24.99 (hardback).British Journal for the History of Science
Orðlaust vald

2007

Acceleration Nation: An Investigation into the Violence of Speed and the Uses of Accidents in IcelandCulture, Theory and Critique
Acceleration NationCulture, Theory and Critique
The Agency Of Eternal DarknessCritical Arts
The agency of eternal darkness: an approach to scientific images of deep sea explorationCritical Arts

2006

Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me!Visual Anthropology Review
Washing the Deceased, Labelling the Corpse. Preliminary Notes on Death in Iceland, and how to Treat a Living Human Being
Enunciatory TelevisionCultural Politics
Kalda stríðið og kvikmyndasýningar stórveldanna 1950-1975Saga: tímarit Sögufélags

2004

New DawnMortality
New Dawn: Death, grief and the 'nation form' in IcelandMortality

2003

The revival of death: expression, expertise and governmentalityBritish Journal of Sociology
The revival of deathBritish Journal of Sociology
Letters to the dead: Obituaries and identity, memory and forgetting in IcelandMortality

1999

Police photography in IcelandHistory of Photography
Post-mortem and funeral photography in IcelandHistory of Photography

1998

Augna-ráð
Making love

1997

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…": The dual nature of religious art
"Svívirðilegur hryllingur"

1996

The Construction of the Viewer
Dauðinn í mynd lífsins
The Construction of the Viewer: An Introduction
Eitt sinn skal hver deyja
Rite of passage through the lens: photographs from Iceland in British travel accounts, 1875-1905
Eitt sinn skal hver deyja

1995

Photographic conquest
Photographic conquest

1994

Fotografisk landvinding - islandske landskabsfotografier og national bevidsthed
Fjallmyndin

1993

Vítislogar sjónvarpsinsSkírnir : tímarit Hins íslenska bókmenntafélags
Óræður raunveruleiki
Fjallmyndin

Keywords for Specialisation:

Cultural Politics

Architecture and cultural heritage