Ulleråker. Cultural heritage, gender and functionality norms

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  • Cecilia Rodéhn Centrum för genusvetenskap

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.6352

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

psychiatric hospitals, gender, functionality norms, cultural heritage, museum, mental health geography

Sammendrag

This paper provides a presentation of the project Ulleråker –
funktionsnedsättning och kulturarv funded by the National Heritage Board. The
project seeks to investigate the transformation of Ulleråker, a former psychiatric
hospital in the outskirts of Uppsala (Sweden). The project will study how cultural
heritage is transformed, and formed, during urban development and rebuilding
processes, with a particular focus on gender and functionality norms. The project
examines different kinds of material in order to illuminate how cultural heritage is
articulated and materialized in the area. The material is analyzed using a composite
theory of critical heritage studies coupled with crip and gender studies. The purpose
of the project is to contribute to develop methods and theories in how to deal with
the cultural heritage of psychiatric hospitals during times of transformation.

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Cecilia Rodéhn, Centrum för genusvetenskap

Ph.D., Project Manager

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