Peter Aronsson
Peter Aronsson is PhD in history, Lunds University 1992. His dissertation dealt with the historic conditions for creating a durable democratic culture. The role of historical narrative and consciousness to direct action has been focused in recent research both as regards historiography proper and the uses of the past in the historical culture at large Currently he is co-ordinating several international projects exploring the uses of the past in National Museums and participating in a large project on historical consciousness, exploring the general concept of history.
Projects
Making National Museums, EU-kommissionen.
www.eunamus.eu
National History – Nordic Culture. Negotiating identity in the museum (RJ). www.nordicspaces.eu
Historia - ett begrepps kulturhistoria (del av Tid, minne, representation, RJ). www.histcon.se
Among his recent publications are together with Simon Knell and A. Amundsen, (eds). National Museums. Studies from around the World. (London: Routledge, 2010); "National cultural heritage - Nordic cultural memory: negotiating politics, identity and knowledge." Transnationale Erinnerungsorte: Nord- und Südeuropeische Perspektiven (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2009) "The Image of the Peasant within National Museums in the Nordic Countries." Societal change and ideological formation among the rural population of the baltic area 1880-1939 (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2008); "Representing community: National museums negotiating differences and community in Nordic countries." Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity. (Paris, Oxford, New York: UNESCO; Berghahn Books, 2008);: Aronsson, Peter, Narve Fulsås, Pertti Haapala & Bernard Eric Jensen. "Nordic National Histories." The Contested Nation: Ethnicity, Class, Religion and Gender in National Histories. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
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