{"id":390,"date":"2024-08-26T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/adecolonialview\/?p=390"},"modified":"2024-12-28T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T20:38:10","slug":"whose-material-and-who-should-have-access-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/adecolonialview\/blog\/blogg\/whose-material-and-who-should-have-access-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose material and who should have access to it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Hanna Jansson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is a debate in Sweden that originates from the tradition of racial biology research conducted in Uppsala in the early 20th century. This \u2018research\u2019 has resulted in preserving S\u00e1mi remains, documentation, and information about S\u00e1mi in archives and universities. The debate centers on whether S\u00e1mi associations demand that objects and remains be returned to their original locations, while on the other hand, universities want to preserve them for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolina Rediviva is the university library in Uppsala and restores material from the Institute of Racial Biology that was founded in 1921 by the Swedish parliament. If you know how to request this material is available for the broader public. The archive includes letters, reports, diaries, and different accounts from the institute and its board, publications from the institute, and more. It also includes an archive of about 12,000 photographs taken by the racial biologist Herman Lundborg between 1916 and 1935. Lundborg wrote <em>The racial characters of the Swedish Nation <\/em>published in 1926.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image 1:<\/strong> Cover and archive box<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcqE2-OOIl_GeP7t3kT5a2XZdvwWAAXsi1ArS5O1U5_C6170R6QM84panU3xdBhGxORYLZKRo076I3YcKCVBijtczPUy9azX_PsB8h73TAP7buETOjYWy_2yQdVGEPy7k7bxYH2yxIwQJiAUfV25aUnaksaKiGsLV2oM9vfufeB0iNPEK6PpOs?key=tRTOBLQMc4tHgwZWBdhjfQ\" alt=\"En bild som visar text, inomhus, golv\n\nAutomatiskt genererad beskrivning\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Lundborg, Herman, 1926, <em>The racial characters of the Swedish Nation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This \u2018scientific\u2019 structure includes images of people. Lundborg starts by describing \u2018the Nordic type\u2019, but not by using photographs. The people exhibited in this category are famous and known for their beauty, knowledge, and greatness. The \u2018non-Nordic types\u2019 are portrayed differently first it is photographs of contemporary people, and secondly, they are elderly and badly worn people that represent this category\u2014an intention to show a clear hierarchy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image 2:<\/strong> \u2018Nordic Types\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXenrWsJYpNz-XIgcYU2qjTzuaRQqu5AyTrWotS-eAUO1IvUL1kLlqQO6R8vCxf92uEW1jqIORo_4ZgcRSpv8cg95wGhsjL8-sOZ-b9fmeND0cNd63nGDw4zaUQgaj8OYMThFQ_Ls9oWeEGB22nFnbeDAv2U2fU11uqsy3DF7KiKJX0rchaSLlA?key=tRTOBLQMc4tHgwZWBdhjfQ\" alt=\"En bild som visar text, olika, flera\n\nAutomatiskt genererad beskrivning\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Lundborg, Herman, 1926, <em>The racial characters of the Swedish Nation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this is horrible enough, there are also pictures of naked S\u00e1mi preserved at Carolina Rediviva from the department. These photographs show real humans but without names, that everyone can access through a form on the university website. This certainly raises the question of whether this material should be available to the public. Such material is important to preserve for research and therefore needs to be available. Especially in a country like Sweden which has had a tradition of neglecting Swedish colonialism in the writing of history and is therefore needed to provide a truthful story. Uppsala University also argues that the material must be available because the Institute of Racial Biology was a government agency, which means that administrative documents must be public and governed by Swedish law <em>Arkivlagen<\/em> (1990:782). From the perspective of the S\u00e1mi population, relatives live with the knowledge that there may be photographs, and other documentation of their elderly relatives available to the public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bibliography&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fur, Gunl\u00f6g and Hennessey, John L., 2020, \u201dSvensk kolonialism, Sverige och kolonialism eller svenskar och kolonialism?\u201d Historisk tidskrift 140:3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gross Hult, M\u00e4rtha, \u201d Samer kr\u00e4ver tillbaka kvarlevor av universitetet\u201d, <em>SVT Nyheter<\/em>,&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/uppsala\/samer-kraver-tillbaka-kvarlevor-av-universitetet\">https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/uppsala\/samer-kraver-tillbaka-kvarlevor-av-universitetet<\/a> (2024-02-16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lundborg, Herman, 1926, <em>The racial characters of the Swedish Nation.<\/em>Uppsala universitet, 2022.<em> \u201cRasbiologiska institutets arkiv\u201d: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.uu.se\/hitta-i-vara-samlingar\/verk-och-samlingar-i-urval\/rasbiologiska-institutet\/\">https:\/\/www.ub.uu.se\/hitta-i-vara-samlingar\/verk-och-samlingar-i-urval\/rasbiologiska-institutet\/<\/a> (2024-02-16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hanna Jansson Is a debate in Sweden that originates from the tradition of racial biology research conducted in Uppsala in the early 20th century. 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