Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Opplysningens kunst: topografiske tekster og visuell kunnskapsproduksjon i 1700-tallets Danmark-Norge. Kunst og Kultur. ISSN 0023-5415. 109(2-3), s. 63–79. doi: 10.18261/kk.109.2-3.2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I denne artikkelen blir det argumentert for at det finnes et rikt visuelt materiale knyttet til 1700-tallets topografisk-økonomiske kunnskapsproduksjon i Danmark-Norge, og at dette materialet har vært lite utforsket i både kunsthistorisk og kulturhistorisk sammenheng. Heller enn å gjøre en detaljert analyse av enkelte visuelle uttrykk løfter forfatteren frem et utvalg av denne typen visuelt materiale for å vise bredden av 1700-tallets visuelle kunnskapsproduksjon. De visuelle representasjonene blir forstått som konvensjonelle ytrings- og forståelseshandlinger som er blitt skapt i en spesifikk historisk sammenheng, og i artikkelen presenterer forfatteren noen eksempler på hvordan man kan nærme seg dette materialet og forstå det som uttrykk for en bredere visuell kultur. Artikkelen er ment som en invitasjon til videre forskning, og er derfor bevisst mer åpen enn konkluderende.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (2026). Inn i prosaens sak. I Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (Red.), Sak. Prosa. Forskning.. Cappelen Damm Forskning. ISSN 9788202921316. s. 9–19. doi: https:/www.cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/book/292. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In just a few decades, the field of non-fiction research has become an established one, with its own journals, professorships, and textbooks. Yet criticism has also grown: Has the term “non-fiction” become so all-encompassing as to lose precision? Has research done within the field become too narrow, despite a view of texts that extends from tram tickets and milk carton blurbs to legal code and multi-volume history surveys? This anthology brings together researchers who, each in their own way, challenge established non-fiction research, based on their own fields and perspectives. All of the contributions also attempt to point out new paths this type of research can take. A recurrent question is whether the time has come to view “non-fiction research” not as a separate field, but as an open, multidisciplinary, and multi-voiced area of ​​research that revolves around research on the myriad of texts that help shape the society we live in. Non-fiction. Research. New Perspectives on Non-Fiction is aimed at researchers, students and teachers, but will also be of interest to publishers, bureaucrats, critics and anyone else who is concerned with understanding both non-fiction research and the texts that are researched.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Sakprosaomgrepets polyfoni. I Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (Red.), Sak. Prosa. Forskning.. Cappelen Damm Forskning. ISSN 9788202921316. s. 21–40. doi: 10.23865/cdf.292. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter explores and discusses Johan L. Tønnesson’s definition of sakprosa (non-fiction/factual prose). The chapter's premise is that sakprosa is a “difficult“ concept because it functions both as a practice concept and as an analytical concept. The author seeks to understand Tønnesson's definition and the resulting conceptual framework by examining the earlier definitions it builds upon and the epistemological project Tønnesson appears to be pursuing. The chapter concludes that Tønnesson’s concept seems to encompass a number of earlier understandings of sakprosa, while also enabling forms of literary-political intervention rather than serving as a more broadly accessible analytical concept. The author therefore suggests that sakprosa is less useful as an analytical term, and that scholarly text studies would benefit more from a broader, less normative concept of text.

• Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Introduction: A Theory of Lifetimes. I Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (Red.), Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms. Punctum Books. ISSN 9781685712433. s. 17–66. doi: 10.53288/0484.1.00. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, or come to a standstill during crisis, modern historiography is unable to come up with meaningful narratives about mankind as the sixth extinction event, and calendars are insufficient as tools for societal and political change. Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms presents an alternative framework for studying lives and times, and the relationships between them. Building on post-war theories of history, as well as several historical sub-disciplines, such as cultural history, history of science, and medical history, Lifetimes integrates approaches from anthropology, game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, critical heritage studies, science & technology studies, and critical time studies. Times are understood as always existing in plural, as embodied and emergent—in things, in assemblages of things, and in the relations between things. Among them are the lives of humans, but also the lives of viruses, plants, animals, rocks, computers, nations, concepts, policies, technologies, infrastructures, etc. Lifetimes explores theoretical foundations while at the same time developing them through case studies in individual chapters. The result is a bottom-up theory of temporal multiplicity, conceptually and theoretically open enough to be productive across various academic disciplines. Rather than discussing how different disciplines relate to time, the authors in this edited collection present a theoretically sustained, empirically diverse range of cases, in which times in plural become politically and historically salient. Out of these case studies a new theory emerges: a theory of lifetimes.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Textualized Nature and the Temporal Nature of Texts: Basking Shark Temporalities in Eighteenth-Century Natural History Writing. I Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (Red.), Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms. Punctum Books. ISSN 9781685712433. s. 371–399. doi: 10.53288/0484.1.00. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, or come to a standstill during crisis, modern historiography is unable to come up with meaningful narratives about mankind as the sixth extinction event, and calendars are insufficient as tools for societal and political change. Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms presents an alternative framework for studying lives and times, and the relationships between them. Building on post-war theories of history, as well as several historical sub-disciplines, such as cultural history, history of science, and medical history, Lifetimes integrates approaches from anthropology, game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, critical heritage studies, science & technology studies, and critical time studies. Times are understood as always existing in plural, as embodied and emergent—in things, in assemblages of things, and in the relations between things. Among them are the lives of humans, but also the lives of viruses, plants, animals, rocks, computers, nations, concepts, policies, technologies, infrastructures, etc. Lifetimes explores theoretical foundations while at the same time developing them through case studies in individual chapters. The result is a bottom-up theory of temporal multiplicity, conceptually and theoretically open enough to be productive across various academic disciplines. Rather than discussing how different disciplines relate to time, the authors in this edited collection present a theoretically sustained, empirically diverse range of cases, in which times in plural become politically and historically salient. Out of these case studies a new theory emerges: a theory of lifetimes.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Architecture on the Move: Collecting and Connecting Stave Churches in Nineteenth-Century Norway. I Kaasa, Janicke S.; Spring, Ulrike & Delsett, Lene Liebe (Red.), Collecting the North. Brill. ISSN 9789004749665. s. 105–125. doi: 10.1163/9789004749665_007. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter investigates how the collecting of Norwegian stave churches “on paper” by nineteenth-century artists and art historians was based on and contributed to the development of specific views of the North. Its starting point is a collection of illustrations of the stave churches of Borgund, Urnes and Heddal published by the Norwegian painter J.C. Dahl (1837). After Dahl’s publication, the illustrations of and knowledge about the churches circulated in Europe through English, German and French art historical publications, all of them interpreting the “peculiar” architecture from the North in their own ways, based on both nationalist sentiments and universalist ideas about the historical evolution of art. The chapter argues that the many possibilities for differing art historical interpretations of the stave churches made them the perfect objects for a developing field of European art history searching for missing “links” in national and universal histories of art development.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2024). Dahls sirkulerende stavkirker. I Solbakken, Bente Aass (Red.), Drager og laft. Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design. ISSN 9788281541580. s. 55–73. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge; Beke, Laura Op de; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Borgesius, Leonoor Zuiderveen; Brenna, Brita & Flatø, Emil Henrik [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Fossilization, or the matter of historical futures. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 61(1), s. 4–26. doi: 10.1111/hith.12250. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2021). Stavkirkeforståelser før Fortidsminneforeningen. En inngang til det norske fortidsminnevernets forhistorie. Årbok - Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring. ISSN 0071-7436. 175, s. 89–122. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i forfatterens ph.d-avhandling ‘Om denne haves intet mærkværdigt’ En tekst- og kunnskapshistorisk studie av stavkirkene på 1700- og 1800-tallet. I artikkelen presenteres utvalgte deler av et rikt tekstmateriale knyttet til ulike former for kunnskap om stavkirkene fra 1700-tallet og frem til J.C Dahls stavkirkeverk fra 1837. Hovedformålet med artikkelen er å vise hvordan dette materialet åpner opp for en utdypet forståelse av det vi kan kalle det norske fortidsminnevernets – og dermed Fortidsminneforeningens – forhistorie.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2018). Tidene på sidene : om tekster som tidsknipper og stavkirker i og ute av synk. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 17(2), s. 5–26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article discusses the idea of multiple times and synchronization by exploring concrete (historical) texts as «bundles of times», and these texts’ relationship to a particular type of architecture, namely the Norwegian stave churches. During the 19th century, these origin­ally local churches were transformed – discursively and materially – into modern objects of knowledge and national and historical monuments. An important part of this transformational work were textual practices, including the circulation of a plethora of scholarly and popular texts regarding these buildings. For the 19th century actors and text producers, time was of course an important topic: Based on the new, modern understanding of time and history emerging in 18th and 19th century Europe, they formed and presented textually a certain conception of not only medieval time, but also a national future and, not least, history itself. What is claimed in this article, however, is that the texts in question are bearers of «more times» than (re)presented time. On the basis of a small selection of 19th century publications it is here argued that texts – as communicative events and as instances of cultural practices – can be seen both as tools of synchronization and as producers of non-synchronicity – when understood as texts in the course of time.

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2018). Past. I Hvattum, Mari & Hultzsch, Anne Katrin (Red.), The Printed and the Built. Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350038417. s. 259–264. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tønnesson, Johan & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2012). Rene fakta. I Berg, Siv Frøydis; Berg, Øivind; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik & Jordheim, Helge (Red.), All verdens kunnskap. Leksikon gjennom to tusen år. Forlaget Press. ISSN 9788275476119. s. 118–129. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Bjørkdahl, Kristian & Hidle, Charlotte (2026). Sak. Prosa. Forskning. Cappelen Damm Forskning. ISBN 9788202921316. doi: 10.23865/cdf.292. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In just a few decades, the field of non-fiction research has become an established one, with its own journals, professorships, and textbooks. Yet criticism has also grown: Has the term “non-fiction” become so all-encompassing as to lose precision? Has research done within the field become too narrow, despite a view of texts that extends from tram tickets and milk carton blurbs to legal code and multi-volume history surveys? This anthology brings together researchers who, each in their own way, challenge established non-fiction research, based on their own fields and perspectives. All of the contributions also attempt to point out new paths this type of research can take. A recurrent question is whether the time has come to view “non-fiction research” not as a separate field, but as an open, multidisciplinary, and multi-voiced area of ​​research that revolves around research on the myriad of texts that help shape the society we live in. Non-fiction. Research. New Perspectives on Non-Fiction is aimed at researchers, students and teachers, but will also be of interest to publishers, bureaucrats, critics and anyone else who is concerned with understanding both non-fiction research and the texts that are researched.

• Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms. Punctum Books. ISBN 9781685712433. 494 s. doi: 10.53288/0484.1.00. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, or come to a standstill during crisis, modern historiography is unable to come up with meaningful narratives about mankind as the sixth extinction event, and calendars are insufficient as tools for societal and political change. Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms presents an alternative framework for studying lives and times, and the relationships between them. Building on post-war theories of history, as well as several historical sub-disciplines, such as cultural history, history of science, and medical history, Lifetimes integrates approaches from anthropology, game studies, cultural studies, literary studies, critical heritage studies, science & technology studies, and critical time studies. Times are understood as always existing in plural, as embodied and emergent—in things, in assemblages of things, and in the relations between things. Among them are the lives of humans, but also the lives of viruses, plants, animals, rocks, computers, nations, concepts, policies, technologies, infrastructures, etc. Lifetimes explores theoretical foundations while at the same time developing them through case studies in individual chapters. The result is a bottom-up theory of temporal multiplicity, conceptually and theoretically open enough to be productive across various academic disciplines. Rather than discussing how different disciplines relate to time, the authors in this edited collection present a theoretically sustained, empirically diverse range of cases, in which times in plural become politically and historically salient. Out of these case studies a new theory emerges: a theory of lifetimes.

• Berg, Siv Frøydis; Berg, Øivind; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik & Jordheim, Helge (2012). All verdens kunnskap. Leksikon gjennom to tusen år. Forlaget Press. ISBN 9788275476119. 276 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2026). The Scientific Afterlife of the Norwegian Sea Serpent c. 1750–1880. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik & Brenna, Brita (2025). Steder - naturhistorie for framtida. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Utstilling laget av studenter på master i Museologi og kulturarvsstudier på Kulturhistorisk museum

• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2025). Stavkirkenes historie i lys av Lars Myttings roman "Søsterklokkene". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2024). Topographical Transformations: The Afterlife of Topographical Knowledge in early 19th Century Humanities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2024). J.C. Dahls sirkulerende stavkirker. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2024). Stavkirkenes kulturhistorie i nytt lys. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tønnesson, Johan Laurits; Grape, Signy & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2023). Om stavkirkene - rivningsverdige og ikke-norske? [Radio]. Podkasten SAKLIG! fra Forskningsmljøet Norsk sakprosa, UiO. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2023). Andreas Faye, J. C. Dahl og tidlige tanker om bygnings- og fortidsminnevern i Norge. I Jahr, Ernst Håkon & Larsen, Terje Bodin (Red.), Årbok.Andreas Faye-selskapet. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283901177. s. 35–52. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2022). Hvordan stavkirkene overlevde. Minerva (Oslo). ISSN 0805-7842. 98(1), s. 48–57. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2022). Stavkirkenes kulturhistorie - Hvorfor fikk ikke Hol kirke mer oppmerksomhet? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2022). Stave churches on the move: Collecting and connecting architecture in 19th century Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2021). Stavkirker i kunnskapshistorisk lys. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2021). Oldsakenes natur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2021). The life-times and mind-times of natural history. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2019). What can we know about/with time? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2018). Stave church transformations in 19th century Norway - in print and in practice. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2018). Texts as bundles of time. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2017). Tiden på siden. Stavkirkenes usynkrone liv i 1800-tallets tekstoffentlighet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2015). Empiri og utopi. En anmeldelse av fire retorikkfaglige bøker av Christian Kock. Rhetorica Scandinavica. ISSN 1397-0534. s. 92–97. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2015). Lesverdig fortelling om riksantikvaren. Anmeldelse av Dag Myklebust (2014) Med vilje og viten. Årbok - Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring. ISSN 0071-7436. s. 229–232. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2015). Painted, Printed and Preserved? Saving the Stave Churches in 19th Century Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2013). Høgrøysta stemmerettsretorikk. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2012). Encyklopedisjangeren i eit paradigmeskifte. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2012). For dei innvigde. Anmeldelse av antologien Kunnskapens språk, red. Anders Johansen. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X. 18(6), s. 42–45. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Soot-Ryen, Tron & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2012). Deltakelse i radioprogrammet Kurer (NRK P2). Intervju knyttet til forskningsprosjektet Encyclopedisjangeren i et paradigmeskifte. [Radio]. https://radio.nrk.no/serie/kurer/sesong/201209/DMPT13003712. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (2021). «Om denne haves intet mærkværdigt»En tekst- og kunnskapshistorisk studie av stavkirkene på 1700- og 1800-tallet. Ph.d.-avhandling. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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