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- Hjertman, Martina
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Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. By merging historical archaeology with digital history, the study has fashioned a newspaper archaeology, encompassing text-cavation and critical discourse analysis, and applied it to the empirical case, and fringe settlements of the port city Gothenburg, through local newspapers during the long 19th century. The suburbs have been hot topics discussed in, and by newspapers, and furthermore floating (signifiers), variously charged with meaning dependent on situation, correspondent, and text genre. By employing the concept of worldmaking, the study has recognised how inclusion and exclusion of people and spaces through text, encompasses international images, local events, notions of space and architecture, as well as actors − including newspapers and newspaper genres. The concepts of counter-voice and counter-narrative have acknowledged opposing perspectives which have shed light on inequal societal structures and grand narratives and displayed how people ‘of little note’ already from the late 1700s, took part in and reacted to what was printed, and negotiated values. Of the empirical chapters, chapter 6 demonstrates how the name Majorna was geographically floating, but the debate from the 1840s about the suburb Majorna’s integration with the city, anchored the name to a designated space, as well as ushered in a new sense of identity and attempts to fill this location with social meaning. Chapter 7 shows how from around the 1830s, newspaper genres and engaged citizens created in-groups and out-groups through the broadcasting of a mix of internationally spread notions of mariners and workers and bourgeois ideals, and how the space of the port district Majorna from the 1840s, intensifying from the 1860s, was intimately associated with deviant behaviour. Chapter 8 establishes how print representations of urban fires in the fringe had their own worldmaking effects on the creation of communities that bridged geographical and social borders and widened the urban landscape. Chapter 9 evinces how the genre of urban travelogues created othering and typecast representations of the suburb’s built environment and populace, by using internationally known tropes, sensual qualities, semiophores, characters, and narrative techniques, but also was complex and played a less-known role in upholding an informal donation culture. Newspapers as source may carry the only remaining information on erased landscapes, materialities, and social practices and newspaper archaeology can present us with voices from those ‘of little note’ and lesser means. The study demonstrates how newspapers are worldmakers and vehicles in the making of social and spatial inclusion and exclusion, with possibilities of steering debates and halting or accelerating urban change. Consequently, newspapers are not only a pertinent historical-archaeological source, but also affected the very society we study through the newspapers’ contents.
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- Hjertman, Martina, 1982, et al.
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The Social Impacts of War: Agency and Everyday Life in the Borderlands during the Early Seventeenth Century
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Ingår i: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 22:2, s. 226-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we address some of the social impacts of war, including issues of negotiating identity during displacement caused by war. What it meant to be Swedish or Danish-Norwegian in a town where there was a not insubstantial population of foreign merchants would clearly be an ambiguous situation. Burghers were elected by fellow citizens, who were themselves from other parts of Sweden, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe, including Germany, Holland, England, and Scotland. Allegiances were contingent, and in many cases among aliens probably more local than national. The social impacts of war in modern-day west Sweden extended beyond the towns directly affected, such as Nya Lödöse and Ny Varberg. The degree to which individuals could act with agency and autonomy was contingent and context-specific. Forced migration and the negotiation of identity are issues that remain relevant today; questions of memory, property, trauma, history, and narratives are still debated by combatants and non-combatants. Many of the issues which both civilians and military men and women experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars between Sweden and Denmark-Norway are much the same as in more recent times. The social impacts of war in the seventeenth century were no less than those experienced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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- Hjertman, Martina, 1982
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Urbs, civitas, and general aspects on the necessity of an ”archaeotecture”
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Ingår i: ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CITY PLANNING - Proceedings of the workshop. - : Lulu. - 9781326112080 ; , s. 183-188
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This short article wants to stress general aspects of the importance of combining both architecture and archaeology in research on urban history. Both disciplines can be seen as dealing with and creating knowledge on different, but complementary aspects of an urban place. While the architectural discipline may provide information about physical aspects and structures, the urbs, of a city, may the archaeological work provide this physical frame with a social content, civitas. The relation between urbs and civitas are not always predictable or according to initial plans, why the study on both are needed for more complete pictures of urban pasts. Archaeological research as well as expertise is also argued to have its natural place in contemporary city planning.
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- Nilsen, Andrine, 1972, et al.
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Re‐evaluating City Margins through Correct Documentation: Questions of Time, Social and Spatial Aspects in Archaeological Storytelling
- 2014
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Ingår i: CHNT 18. International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies November 11–13, 2013 Proceedings. Vienna. - 9783200036765 ; 2014:18
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- New technology have a great potential in how it may come to facilitate and renew the way archaeologist deal with the past during excavations, recordings and surveys. However, beside proper technology, equally important for making an adequate analysis and present a fair picture of the analysed urban environment, is the very selection of the base material. Often, analyses miss to take into account spacely, social and timely aspects of an urban environment, which affect our current state of knowledge of the city. A tendency in urban archaeological research is the focus on centrality. City walls or boundaries are considered to stipulate the actual limits of the city, and what is inside is normally locus for investigation. Large areas outside the city walls are part in the city activities but excluded from sometimes both cultural heritage laws and interest for investigations. In this way research misses both interesting and vital parts of the urban space. The extramural are to a higher extent home to common people, not seldom in settlements built beyond an official and regulated city plan. A majority of the city population may live and work outside the city cores. The lack of archaeological excavations may lead to that their stories never will be told nor heard or become part of the official writing of history and cultural heritage. Another important aspect to discuss is the question of time. Until recent years in Scandinavia, large parts of history have been overlooked in search of certain periods, for example earlier Middle Ages and backwards. Cultural layers from the Late Middle Ages, Early Modern and Modern periods thus have been removed without proper or any documentation, thereby affecting our analysis and vision of urban contexts. In our paper, we want to raise - in a way obvious but often overlooked – questions of representativeness, when it comes to investigating and analysing urban contexts. Our archaeological results may benefit greatly on new and precise technologies, but will never be fully accurate and representative if we consciously or unconsciously discriminate and exclude certain social, spacely and timely aspects.
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