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Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
Denmark
I primarily work in the field of critical heritage studies, and spend a lot of time thinking about the diverse, and often unequal ways in which heritage is cared for, especially in terms of change.
I have a rather mixed academic background holding a BA major Psychology, minors Art History and Diversity & the Contemporary World from Concordia University (Montréal) and an MA in Sustainable Heritage Management from Aarhus University. I see this multidisciplinarity as a strength, as it has allowed me to approach my topics of interest from a unique point of view while constantly challenging my academic comfort zone. At Saxo I am affiliated with both the UCPH School of Archaeology and the Centre for Sustainable Futures, which reflects the ability of heritage to not only contemplate the past, but also to engage speculatively with the future.
My doctoral research focuses on exploring the heritage interactions centred around the Sheep Dyke, a drystane dyke/drystone wall on the island of North Ronaldsay, the northenmost of the islands in Orkney, Scotland. I aim to trace the role of the dyke as a heritage object from its construction in 1832 to the present, while also examining how the dyke's cultural presence assembles an uneasy regime of caretaking in both the non-human and human community's future way of life in the face of rapid socio-ecological change. Departing from the conceptual framing of the Sheep Dyke as an 'organically evolving monument', which is how it is understood locally, I try to make sense of the entangled values and meanings that are reflected and refracted in negotiative process of living with change. In particular, I think with the Sheep Dyke as utilitarian boundary, agricultural enclosure, temporal landscape, listed heritage and ecological habitat, identities emplaced on the structure that approach the concept of 'organic evolution' in a diversity of ways, thus further nuancing a discussion on the ethics of change, decay and transformation.
This project is conceptually situated in the space where speculative care ethics, posthumanist discourse and critical heritage studies converge.
I am co-teaching the MA course titled Humanistisk Materialitetsteori/Humanistic Theories in Materiality in the spring semesters of 2024 and 2025.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Research › peer-review
Margaréta Hanna Pintér (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution