Dr Vibe Nielsen

Dr Vibe Nielsen
Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow
Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College 

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Research Summary

Discussions about how museums can respectfully represent all parts of society and critically engage with their own colonial past have made way for new strategies of inclusion and have given previously untold stories new levels of attention. During this research fellowship I will examine the links between museums and activism and explore how recent calls for decolonisation impact museum practices in the leading ethnographic museums of the two most dominant former colonial powers in Europe, the United Kingdom and France. My main focus is the changing curatorial practices at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and le Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, where debates about decolonisation and repatriation have been central in recent years.

CV

Ph.d. i Antropologi, Københavns Universitet 2019

Kandidat i Moderne Kultur og Kulturformidling, Københavns Universitet 2015

Master i Museum Studies, University College London 2012

Bachelor i Europæisk Etnologi, Københavns Universitet 2010

Selected recent publications

 2021

In the absence of Rhodes: decolonizing South African universities

Nielsen, Vibe, 11 jan. 2021, I : Ethnic and Racial Studies. s. 396-414 19 s.

 

2020

Er det kolonitidens endeligt?

Nielsen, Vibe, 13 jun. 2020, JP/Politikens Hus A/S

 

Hvis stemmer? Da kolonitiden for alvor kom på museum

Nielsen, Vibe, 29 jan. 2020, Baggrund.

 

2019

Demanding Recognition: Curatorial Challenges in the Exhibition of Art from South Africa

Nielsen, Vibe, okt. 2019, Institut for Antropologi, Københavns Universitet. 221 s.

 

 

25 år efter apartheid. Er Sydafrika endelig helet?

Nielsen, Vibe, 26 apr. 2019, JP/Politikens Hus A/S.

 

2017

Museale formidlinger af fortiden som kolonimagt på danske og britiske museer

Nielsen, Vibe, 2017, I : Slagmark. 75, s. 81-94