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- Axelsson, Thom
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From Discipline Power to Pastoral Care : "Tattare," "Gypsies," and Education in Sweden, 1923–1960
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 17:1, s. 60-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of compulsory schooling in Sweden, this article discusses the shift from what was often called "the Tattare problem" to, later, "the Gypsy question." The article frames the discussion with reference to Michel Foucault and his concepts of discipline power and pastoral power. The central question addressed is how the schools dealt with students from these groups. Children, especially their care and handling, were an important focus of welfare politics in Sweden. This meant that childhood was a significant field of governance, which became obvious in schools' work with "Tattare" and "Gypsy" children. This article highlights how the tone towards these groups changed, especially in the 1940s. Over time, these students were seen as more malleable by institutions and their agents, which exerted pastoral power by guiding and leading them in order to shape the minds of these future citizens.
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- Hallberg, Mathilda, 1976-, et al.
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Pictured Political Projects : Sunshine Over a Welfare State in the Shadow of War
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 14:1, s. 85-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Children had a prominent position in welfare discourse in Sweden during the 1930s and 1940s. In this article, the visual display of children in a pamphlet published by the Swedish wartime coalition government is scrutinized. It was a negotiated position, marked by important political compromises, but at the same time on terms identifiable as postwar social-democratic welfare visions, in which government, professionals, and institutional support is of major importance. The images and text tell a narrative of the state, as the direct supporter of children without mediation through the family.
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- Lindenmeyer, Kriste, et al.
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National Citizenship and Early Policies Shaping 'the Century of the Child' in Sweden and the United States
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : John Hopkins University press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 1:1, s. 50-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Kriste Lindenmeyer and Bengt Sandin have employed fruitfully a comparative approach to examine Progressive era American and Swedish ideals for children. They found that while both began with similar enthusiasm for protecting childhood and providing all children with education and health care, the actual policies of neither country wound up delivering on the promise of "the century of the child." As they write, in both countries "adult priorities overwhelmed public policies." Like the recent UNICEF report on the conditions of global childhood, this essay reminds us that while the virtues of western-style childhood have been assumed and, indeed, have been the model against which historians traditionally have measured other childhoods, these assumptions need rethinking, both as to the relative value of other cultural constructions of childhood as well as to the belief that western childhood has actually delivered on its promises.
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- Lindgren, Anne-Li, 1965-
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Gender and Generation in Swedish School Radio Broadcasts in the 1930s : An Exploratory Case Study
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 5:2, s. 239-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes a method for studying historical radio dialogues with participating children. It is an in-depth method focusing on the interaction in dialogues and the aim is to get an understanding of discursive change in a historical perspective, and more specifically how radio dialogues can be understood as sites for negotiations on citizenship norms and values. The focus is on changed notions of gender and generation. Choice of topic, turn taking, and the distribution of questions and answers are analyzed as parts of an ongoing struggle between power relations in which contemporary gender and generational orders were challenged. Thus, the staring point is Critical Discourse Analysis but it is applied on historical material and adapted to radio dialogues. The argument put forward is that the method presented can increase the understanding of how notions of gender and generation have been challenged in everyday practices, here in the form of everyday radio dialogues with participating children. The highly politicized but non-commercial public school broadcasts gave children a voice as competent and active citizens in new ways, and especially in programs produced by female teachers. In particular, these programs transgressed traditional boundaries concerning notions of gender and generation and thus understandings of childhood.
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- Lindgren, Anne-Li, 1965-, et al.
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Observed Children at Play : Complex Relations of Agency in a1930s' Kindergarten
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Project Muse. - 1941-3599 .- 1939-6724. ; 16:1, s. 115-133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we juxtapose Norman Fairclough’s (1992) Critical Discourse Analysis with the history of childhood in order to analyze children’s and adults’ agency in a Swedish kindergarten during the 1930s. We use a primary source, a child observation, to study the role of initiatives, i.e. actions, in a situation where the children were playing kindergarten. The main question posed concerns the new insights that we can gain into children’s and adults’ agency when studying initiatives as a form of agency involving compliance (Gleason 2016). The article shows that demonstrating how to comply with a situation could be part of how a child could contribute to, and build, a shared preschool identity, formed by an interdependence that included both children and adults. The focus is not on whether or not a child could play an agentic role in relation to adults, but rather on how the collective decision-making involving children and adults was affected by their respective capacities to contribute. In addition to the analysis of social interactions, we suggest that similar sources, i.e. historical child observations, could be used in creative ways for transnational investigations of children’s and adults’ everyday lives in early childhood institutions.
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- Sandin, Bengt, 1949-, et al.
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Children in Crisis
- 2024
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Ingår i: SHCY Journal. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 17:2, s. 189-204
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- Sjöberg, Johanna, 1976-, et al.
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Childcare for Sale : Mapping Private Institutions in Sweden 1900–1975
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 14:1, s. 113-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Private providers and commercial profit are features of today's Swedish welfare society, but the market was already an arena for the production, distribution, and consumption of such services by the early twentieth century. One of the private-sector institutions offering well-to-do parents residential care for their children during restricted periods was the Barnpensionat (children's boarding houses or child hotels). Since these institutions have not been previously studied, the extent and organization of such establishments are unknown. Through analyses of digitalized newspaper material, including advertisements, this article maps the existence and function of barnpensionat in Sweden during the period 1900–1975.
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- Sköld, Johanna, 1976-
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After care – the control of and help for care leavers in a community of foster care
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 8:1, s. 75-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary studies of young adults leaving out-of-home care signal that many are highly vulnerable to unemployment, teenage pregnancies, suicide and poverty. In recent years, the need for broader support for care leavers has been underlined in several policy documents in Sweden and elsewhere. Yet, this is not a new phenomenon; the risk of social exclusion was also debated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within the context of boarding-out organizations. By introducing governmental techniques for monitoring, boarding-out organizations aimed at controlling and helping care leavers after being discharged. However, the care leavers themselves also actively used the organizations for their own purposes and needs. This article explores how a Swedish boarding-out organization – the industrial school of Prince Carl – monitored care leavers after they had been discharged from the organization from 1877 to 1902. It is argued that a stable and continuously operating institution geographically located in the same area for a long time could have been crucial for care leavers' opportunities to actively use the means of the boarding-out institution as a resource for help and support later in life.
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- Sköld, Johanna, 1976-, et al.
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Agentic Subjects and Objects of Political Propaganda : Swedish Media Representations of Children in the Mobilization For Supporting Finland During World War II
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1939-6724 .- 1941-3599. ; 11:1, s. 27-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Children are often portrayed as defenseless victims of war. However, during war periods, issues concerning children’s agency are also brought to the fore. Based on media materials describing one country in war (Finland) and relief efforts from aneighbor country (Sweden) this article identifies both Finnish and Swedish children as committed to Finland’s cause in different ways. Discussing the issue of authenticity when it comes to children’s commitments, the article shows that children emerge both as agentic subjects and as objects of political propaganda. It argues that children’s commitment as represented in the Swedish media could function as propaganda pressuring adults to take action.
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