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- Karlsson, Martin, 1977-
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Att projicera det förflutna : Historiebruk och historieförmedling i svensk skolfilm 1970–2000 utifrån de regionala AV-centralernas utbud
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Karlsson, Martin; Att projicera det förflutna. Historiebruk och historieförmedling i svensk skolfilm 1970–2000 utifrån de regionala AV-centralernas utbud [Projecting the past: Use and mediation of history in Swedish educational films 1970-2000] Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, SE-871 88 Härnösand, SwedenISBN 978-91-974902-8-8Swedish text with a summary in English This dissertation analyses a significant element of Swedish historical culture, namely how history was used, communicated and (re)constructed in films with historical themes, available to Swedish schools from 1970 to 2000. Another important purpose is to analyze the debate among teachers and educators that preceded the large scale use of film in Swedish schools in the 1970s that followed the establishment of the large regional audio-visual centers (Läns AV-centraler). The main material for this thesis consists of historical films of Swedish film centers, tasked with supplying schools with educational films, the majority of which are educational or documentary films. At this time these film centers, in particular the larger regional ones, were the main legitimate suppliers of educational films to Swedish schools, which make these films vital to study, considering their potential impact on Swedish school pupils as well as their role in historical culture in general. How history is depicted in these films is also contrasted against the in which teachers and educators envisaged that films would be used in schools before the establishment of the large regional film centers in the 1970s. How these visions of the potential of the medium contrast with actuality, here represented by how history is portrayed in the analyzed historical films, constitutes an important part of the study. On a theoretical level, I regard these educational films as products (or artifacts) of a historical culture that should be viewed as related to various institutional and societal frameworks or contexts, including the way in which history is used and communicated for various individual and societal purposes. The main focus of this dissertation is centered on four different themes or areas, namely the Holocaust, the Roman Empire, the Industrial Revolution (and, to a lesser extent, industrialization and modern industrialized society in general) and the portrayal of the early modern Swedish King (and national father figure) Gustavus Vasa. The shifting portrayal of these subjects during the 30-year-period is analyzed in detail and contrasted against the portrayal of history in the analyzed educational films as a whole during the time period in question. This qualitative analysis is complemented by a quantitative overview of the material, primarily focusing on what themes, time periods and geographical areas that are emphasized (or deemphasized) in the material as a whole. One important conclusion is that the portrayal of the past shifts from a seemingly objective one that focuses on large societal structures and movements to a more ideologically colored depiction, to a great extent is centered on individuals. The type of historical films available to teachers goes through a substantial change during the examined time period. For the first twenty years, almost all the examined films are produced with an expressly educational intent, but during the final decade of the 20th century however, an increasing number of films, originally produced for other purposes, such as television, become available from the regional film centers.Another important conclusion is thus that historical culture and historical artifacts cannot necessarily be understood and analyzed merely in a narrow chronological perspective that does not take into account that old artifacts may live on in a historical culture well beyond the year they were produced. Organizations that mediate history may function as agents of change (by introducing or distributing new artifacts of historical culture) while simultaneously encouraging stability and continuity concerning how history is conveyed in the long term. Keywords: Historical culture, uses of history, history and film, history didactics, historical consciousness, 1970–2000, history and media, the Holocaust, the Industrial revolution, educational history.
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- Hartman, Steven, 1965-, et al.
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Integrating Humanities Scholarship within the Science of Global Environmental Change : The example of Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM), an IHOPE case study
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Inscribing Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas (IEM) is a major interdisciplinary research initiative examining environmental memory in the medieval Icelandic sagas. The initiative brings together teams of historians, literary scholars, archaeologists and geographers, as well as specialists in environmental sciences and medieval studies, to investigate long-term human ecodynamics and environmental change from the period of Iceland’s settlement in the Viking Age (AD 874-930) through the so-called Saga Age of the early and late medieval periods, and well into the long period of steady cooling in the Northern hemisphere popularly known as the Little Ice Age (AD 1350-1850). In her 1994 volume inaugurating the field of historical ecology Carole Crumley argued in favor of a “longitudinal” approach to the study of longue durée human ecodynamics. This approach takes a region as the focus for study and examines changing human-landscape-climate interactions through time in that particular place. IEM involves multiple frames of inquiry that are distinct yet cross-referential. Environmental change in Iceland during the late Iron Age and medieval period is investigated by physical environmental sciences. Just how known processes of environmental change and adaptation may have shaped medieval Icelandic sagas and their socio-environmental preoccupations is of great interest, yet just as interesting are other questions concerning how these sagas may in turn have shaped understandings of the past, cultural foundation narratives, environmental lore, local ecological knowledge etc. Enlisting environmental sciences and humanities scholarship in the common aim of framing and thereby better understanding nature, the IEM initiative excludes nothing as “post- interesting” or “pre-interesting.” Understanding Viking Age first settlement processes informs understanding of 18th century responses to climate change, and 19th century resource use informs understanding of archaeological patterns visible at first settlement a millennium earlier. There is much to gain from looking at pathways (and their divergences) from both ends, and a long millennial scale perspective is one of the key contributions that the study of past “completed experiments in human ecodynamics” can make to attempts to achieve future sustainability. IEM is a case study of the Integrated History and future of People on Earth initiative (IHOPE) led by the international project AIMES (Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System), a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme; the initiative is co-sponsored by PAGES (Past Global Changes) and IHDP (The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change). This talk brings together two of the main coordinators from IEM’s sponsoring organizations, NIES and NABO, to reflect on the particular challenges, innovations and advances anticipated in this unprecedented undertaking of integrated science and scholarship, a new model for the scientific framing of nature.
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- Tjällén, Biörn
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Aristotle’s heroic virtue and medieval theories of monarchy
- 2015
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Ingår i: Shaping heroic virtue : studies in the art and politics of supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004298613 ; , s. 55-66
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Torpens arkeologi
- 2007
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The archaelogy of crofts The excavation of sites from the early modern and modern time, AD 1500-1900, is a recent phenomenon in Sweden. The book analyses various kinds of field and laboratory work at crofts (Sw torp) and other places related to society´s lower end. Two problems related to these kinds of sites are the raison d´etre of excavating sites from periods with abundant historical data and the integration of these sites into rescue archaeology.
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- Friberg, Anna, 1980-
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Demokrati bortom politiken : En begreppshistorisk analys av demokratibegreppet inom Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti 1919–1939
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation analyzes the concept of democracy as it was used in the official rhetoric of the Swedish SocialDemocratic Party (SAP ) between 1919 and 1939. Theoretically, the dissertation relies on German Begriffsgeschichte, as put forward by Reinhart Koselleck, and Michael Freeden’s theory of ideologies. Together, by supplementing each other, these theories offer a perspective in which concepts are thought of as structures that are under contestation and change due to socio-political circumstances. However, the formulation of this change takes place in relation to the linguistic praxis of each time-period, and renegotiates the relative constraints of established relations between concepts in language.The analysis shows that the profound changes in society provided impetus for a continuous renegotiation of meanings, allowing concepts to retain their explanatory power under changing circumstances, at the same time the SAP needed new ways to express what kind of society the party strived to realize. The SAP had been one of the leading forces in the struggle for universal suffrage, and when the bill, giving universal suffrage to men andwomen, was passed in the Parliament 1919 this meant a temporary cessation to a long and intensive political debate. However, the SAP did not consider the introduction of suffrage reform as the end of full societal democratization. Rather than seeing the reform as a terminal point, the SAP saw it as the starting point for the struggle for full democracy. The SAP did not limit itself to only one concept of democracy but instead used a number of composite concepts, such as political democracy and economic democracy. The use of composite concepts can be understood as a changing temporalization of democracy. Since parliamentarism and suffrage were seen as central components in democracy, the realization of these institutions meant that the concept of democracy lost its future dimension. Thus, the usage of composite concepts should be seen as a re-temporalization of democracy. The composite concepts pointed forward in time, toward political goals that the SAP envisaged realizing in the future.Concepts should not be thought of as having cores but rather, as suggested by Freeden, ineliminable features. An ineliminable feature is not of logical nature but has a strong cultural adjacency. By analyzing the ineliminable components of the concepts of democracy that the SAP used, it is possible to discuss whether the composite concepts should be understood as subsets of a whole or as separate concepts. The analysis shows that the composite concepts that the SAP used during the first half of the 1920s shared a number of ineliminable features, but that the commonality of these features started to disintegrate during the latter half of the decade, leading to a rather diversive concept of democracy. During the 1930s the disintegration ceased as the party was faced with new circumstances, for example the growing threat of international war and national clashes between different social groups. There has always been a close relation between language and society. However, the relationship does not follow a simple and clear-cut logic but a complex mixture of various factors at different levels, both within language itself and of society. When society develops, language also has to change if the ongoing process is to be understood. As this study shows, new circumstances require new argumentsand thus revised concepts.
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- Lundell, Patrik, 1969-
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Pressen i provinsen : Från medborgerliga samtal till modern opinionsbildning 1750–1850
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att vara kritisk till våra dagars medier är en självklarhet, medan 1800-talets presspionjärer däremot har fått behålla hjältestatusen. I "Pressen i provinsen" tecknas den moderna pressens genombrott dock som en utdragen och långtifrån entydig process. Från att på 1700-talet ha varit arenor där alla hade rätten att delta i det upplysta samtalet, blev tidningarna under början av 1800-talet gradvis opinionsorgan styrda av tämligen enväldiga utgivare. Allt mer professionella tidningsmakare formade och tog makten över mediet - och språket. Begrepp som opinion, press, publicist och redaktör fick då de betydelser vi idag tar för givna. "Pressen i provinsen" bygger på ett omfattande källmaterial och slår ett slag för regional idéhistoria och för studiet av landsortspressen. Denna värld får färg och konturer genom personer som den energiske nyhetskrämaren Didric Gabriel Björn, den fantasiefulle martyren Jacob Philip Tollstorp och den konservative kapitalisten John Swartz. En mängd sedan länge bortglömda stridskrifter och tidningar kastar nytt - och inte alltid så fördelaktigt - ljus även över våra etablerade hjältar i huvudstaden.
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1800-talets mediesystem
- 2010
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Mediehistoria skrivs ofta utifrån ett medium i taget. Den här boken argumenterar istället för att historiens medier utvecklats tillsammans.Nya former, tekniker och praktiker har interagerat med gamla, innehåll har cirkulerat medierna emellan och rader av aktörer har aktivt relaterat till en helhet av uttrycksformer. Denna helhet var konturfast på ett vis som gör det befogat att tala om ett historiskt mediesystem: summan av en viss tids medier och deras inbäddning i sociala, politiska och ekonomiska villkor. I ett antal delstudier prövar boken möjligheterna att på närgången empirisk nivå undersöka 1800-talets mediesystem.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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1800-talets medier: System, landskap, nätverk
- 2010
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Ingår i: 1800-talets mediesystem. - Stockholm : Kungl. biblioteket. - 9789188468222 ; , s. 7-25
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