181 research outputs found
Framing the Arctic: Reconsidering Roald Amundsen's Gjøa Expedition Imagery
Published version available at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3431In 1906 Roald Amundsenâs Gjøa Expedition returned to Norway after three years in
the Arctic. The first to complete a Northwest Passage by sea, the expedition also
brought back a substantial amount of ethnographic material concerning the Netsilik
Inuit, with whom Amundsen and his crew had been in sustained contact during their
stay on King William Island in Nunavut between 1903 and 1905. This material
included a large number of photographs, forty-two of which were included as
illustrations in his expedition narrative, titled Nordvest-passagen and first released in
Norwegian in 1907. Focusing on a selection of published and unpublished photographs
from Amundsenâs voyage and their interrelationships, this article examines
the degree to which the Gjøa Expeditionâs use of photography formed part of a
planned project that intersected with anthropological concerns and practices of its
time. My purpose is further to demonstrate that there is a discernible change in the
representation of indigeneity that occurs when particular photographs were selected
and then contextually reframed as illustrations in Nordvest-passagen.
On the one hand, the extensive body of photographs taken in the field elaborates
the close interaction between crew and Inuit recorded in Amundsenâs personal diary
and published narrative, testifying to the existence of an active and dynamic contact
zone. In this regard, the original photographs could arguably be read as a dialogic
portrayal of the unique individuals Amundsenâs crew met while in the Arctic. On the
other hand, a peculiar distancing seems to have taken place as the Gjøa Expeditionâs
photographs were selected and reproduced as illustrations for Amundsenâs
expedition narrative. Likely connected to a desire to match his expedition narrative to
existing scientific visual and literary conventions, this shift suggests Amundsenâs
attempts through textual and visual means to deny the Netsilik Inuitâs coevalness
Arctic exploration and the mobility of phrenology: John Ross's ethnographic portraits of the Netsilingmiut
Analysing a set of ethnographic images and illustrations resulting
from John Rossâs second voyage to find a Northwest Passage in
1829â1833, this article considers the ways in which Arctic
exploration intersected with emergent scientific thinking about
race and ethnicity in Britain. In particular, it examines how
mobility impacted ideas of phrenology and scientific imaging in
the context of the Arctic. As a practitioner of phrenology and
member of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, Rossâs expertise
in this new mental science certainly travelled with him to the
Arctic. As his field drawings and book illustrations testify,
however, Rossâs knowledge was also affected by his immediate
contact with the Inuit in Boothia Peninsula in Nunavut.
Comparing Rossâs field drawings and illustrations in his twovolume Narrative and Appendix to their accompanying texts and
to select ethnographic illustrations produced by his fellow Arctic
explorers, this article uncovers the material and conceptual
transformations Rossâs scientific visualisation of Inuit underwent
during his physical movement between Britain and the Arctic
Reproducing the Indigenous: John Møllerâs Studio Portraits of Greenlanders in Context
Manuscript. Published version available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2016.1238175 Between 1889 and 1922, John Møller (1867â1935), the first professional Greenlandic photographer, produced more than 3000 glass plate negatives documenting life in Western Greenland around the turn of the twentieth century. Rooted in an internal understanding of self, Møllerâs photographs played an important part in the formation of a contemporary image of Greenlandic indigenous identity. At the same time, Møllerâs photographic practice was arguably entangled in and delimited by a historical reality that was structured by colonial relations of power. This paper examines the social and art- historical contexts of Møllerâs work, focusing in particular on a selection of his formal studio portraits. My reading of these portraits suggests a case in which conflicting impulses coincide. On the one hand, Møller produced images that played out the âethnographic conventionâ, a European form of representation dating back to the sixteenth century used for the documentation of non-Western indigenous peoples as specimens. However, in acting out that convention, Møllerâs photographs hint at a subtle, progressive building-up of identity that reclaimed images of Greenlanders for themselves, and turned an originally negative, external image of indigeneity into a positive sense of self
Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq
This article analyses the portrait of the young Inughuit hunter Qalaherriaq, who was brought involuntarily to England from his home in Perlernerit (Cape York) in today's Kalaallit Nunaat (also known as Greenland) with Captain Erasmus Ommanneyâs expedition vessel in 1851. The portraitâs highly unconventional representation, wherein the sitter is shown both en face and in profile, betrays an interest in nineteenth-century racial science and civilizing ideologies. Despite this problematic colonialist content, the double portrait serves as a record for the existence and experience of Qalaherriaq and the participation of Inuit individuals in European expeditions to the Arctic. As this article argues, the portrait is also a visual testimony to Qalaherriaqâs agency, adaptability, and deliberate performance in a social environment characterized by ethnocentrism and racism. Bringing in the trail of Inughuit and European sources that this portrait connects to, this article traces the nature and terms of Qalaherriaqâs stay in British society. As a decolonizing strategy, we use the method of concurrences to avoid universalizing perspectives on the past. Examining moments of competing truth claims in the European and Arctic sources about or relating to Qalaherriaq, we point to the competing perspectives on the Arctic, exploration, and British imperialism contained in this material
Change Management in Digitalization of Higher Education : A Case Study of MOSO Implementation
Master's thesis in Information systems (IS501)Context: During the past two decades, we have witnessed a wave of digitalization that has affected every part of society, and digital solutions have become a part of peoplesâeveryday life. Digitalization implies changing traditional processes by introducing some form of digital technology. Implementing new technology can be a difficult task for an organization, not just because of the many risks associated with new technology, but also because it is a process that often includes organizational changes.Purpose: In our society thereis a demand for digitalization,especiallyinthe higher education sector.There has not been a lot of research focused on the area of implementation strategies in higher education. The purpose of thisstudy is toinvestigate how higher education institutionshave implemented MOSO, a technology used in practicumsupervision, and what challenges they have faced.Methods: This study has followed a qualitative approach, withsemi-structured interviews asthe primary source of data collection. The interviews were conducted in Norway with respondents that had a central role with the implementation of MOSO within their university or university college. A total of 9 interviews were conducted, with respondents from 5 different higher education institutionsand the CEO of MOSO AS. The interviews lasted from 35 to 55 minutes
Heroism and Imperialism in the Arctic: Edwin Landseerâs Man Proposes â God Disposes
Edwin Landseer contributed the painting Man Proposes - God Disposes (Royal Holloway College, Egham), showing two polar bears amongst the remnants of a failed Arctic expedition, to the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of 1864. As contemporary nineteenth-century reviews of this exhibition show, the British public commonly associated Landseer's painting with the lost Arctic expedition of sir John Franklin, who had set out to find the Northwest Passage in 1845. Despite Landseer's gloomy representation of a present-day human disaster and, in effect, of British exploration in the Arctic, the painting became a public success upon its first showing. I will argue that a major reason why the painting became a success, was because Landseer's version of the Franklin expedition's fate offered a closure to the whole Franklin tragedy that corresponded to British nineteenth-century views on heroism and British-ness
Arctic Images 1818-1859
This thesis asks whether there existed a unified view of the Arctic during the time
period connected to the high point of British endeavour to find a Northwest Passage,
from the first expeditions of the nineteenth-century in 1818 to the return of the last
Franklin search party in 1859, forty-one years later. Using this time frame as its
marker, the focus of the thesis is primarily on British representations of Arctic
landscapes, exploration and Inuit peoples. Through careful empirical analysis of a
variety of media, including professional painting, on-the-spot sketches, prints and
popular exhibitions, it examines from an art historical viewpoint the historical,
political, social and aesthetic contexts in which Arctic representations occurred
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