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- Sandén, Annika, 1969-
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Welfare and Social Capital in Linköping, 1600-1620
- 2008
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Ingår i: Hygiea Internationalis. - : Linkoping University Electronic Press. - 1403-8668 .- 1404-4013. ; 7:1, s. 49-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article deals with early seventeenth century local government, both the secular and religious, in order to present the concepts of ”the good society”, and the strategies that were used to achieve and retain this ideal. Most people were excluded from the ranks of decision-makers and had little or no possibility to influence the decisions that were made concerning their interests, such as the unwed mothers, hired hands and female servants. Still, those in society with a presumed low social capital also clearly valued the rituals of the town council and the church, and used the formal institutions to improve their conditions. The conclusion can thus be drawn that there was great confidence in the formal institutions and that they were used by more than those who belonged to the upper social strata. The local Swedish government of the town Linköping provided public resources which were beneficial to common people. This article illustrates how this functioned in practice.
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- Karlsson, Emma, et al.
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The punishment of death : Concerning an archaeological excavation of an execution site in Vadstena (Sweden)
- 2012
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Ingår i: Richtstättenarchäologie 3. - Dormagen : archaeotopos-Buchverlag. - 9783938473177 ; , s. 154-159
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article consists of three sections and is a summary of a book about an archeological excavation of an execution site in Vadstena, Sweden. In the section "Forgotten Graves at the Gallows Hill" (Emma Karlsson) mainly concernes the archaeological excavations at Vadstena, but also briefly mentions the compilation of fourteen other excavations. The section "To this, Nobody can be indifferent (Caroline Arcini) deals with the osteological analysis. In the third section "Alienation from society and the symbolism of punishment" (Annika Sandén) the lives of people living on the outer reaches of society during the sixteenth and sevenetenth century are illuminated.
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- Blomqvist, Olof, 1990-
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I want to stay : Local community and prisoners of war at the dawn of the eighteenth century
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation is about war captivity in the early eighteenth century. It is also about the ways in which early modern local communities negotiated their boundaries towards the outside world. The resident populations’ interaction with prisoners of war (POWs) offers unique perspectives on how local communities handled wartime migrants. The dissertation studies three towns forced to receive POWs during the Great Northern War: Aarhus, in the kingdom of Denmark, Torgau in the electorate of Saxony and Uppsala in the kingdom of Sweden. It represents the first attempt to situate this conflict within the larger field of research on early modern war captivity. The dissertation uses a broad range of sources—including official correspondence, POW muster rolls, town council minutes and parish records—to reconstruct the movements and actions of individual POWs. These reconstructions show how their position in the community changed over time, a perspective that represents a distinctly new approach for studying early modern war captivity. The results underline that the local community played a crucial role in organising war captivity and, consequently, how the situation of the POWs became closely intertwined with other challenges facing the community at the time. The state strove to delegate costs and administrative responsibilities associated with housing, supporting and guarding POWs. These attempts were a forceful claim on local resources. Thus, the administration of war captivity was part of an ongoing negotiation regarding the relationship between the local community and the state. At the same time, the everyday interactions of war captivity were shaped by the fact that the status of POW lacked distinct social and legal meaning in the local context. The state showed little interest in regulating the POWs’ relationship to local institutions, such as the congregation and the legal system, leaving such questions to be negotiated on the local level. With little or no previous experience of interacting with POWs, the local community treated these people much the same as well-known and already established social groups, such as billeted soldiers and servants. The POWs’ position in the community was therefore not a great deal different from that of other groups of migrants, and the level of local belonging which POWs were able to achieve depended fundamentally on their individual ability to live up to local social norms. Of particular importance was the fact that POWs were employed in local households as servants, which provided them with a widely accepted social position in the community. However, building up a local social network, cultivating relationships with influential local patrons and marrying a local woman were processes that took time, generally requiring that the POW was able to remain in the community for several years.The experience of war captivity in Aarhus, Torgau and Uppsala demonstrates how a stranger could relatively easily achieve a basic degree of belonging in early modern towns. The threshold to full belonging, however, was steep. The dissertation argues that, particularly in Aarhus and Uppsala, the war served as an engine of social integration. Wartime mobilisation of economic and human resources destabilised these communities, creating vacant social and economic niches which some POWs were able to fill.
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- Friberg, Tora, et al.
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Re-reading time-geography from a feminist perspective : Gendered mobility
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Time-geography has by some feminist scholars been accused not taking gender relation, domination or power in consideration when analyzing the use of time and space. In this paper we argue that time-geography provides a useful set of analytical tools which successfully collaborate with social science theory as feminist studies. In a project called “Re-reading time-geography from a feminist perspective”, labour force mobility is, specially commuting, one important issue, for analysing women’s time-space use and identify what constraints might be found in organizing every-day life. We put emphasis on that time-geography might provide feminist studies with a close, empathic and micro-levelled interventional approach in order to make obstacles and constraint visible and thereby changeable. This paper is based on previous and ongoing research on commuting and transport. We hope to prove why time-geography should be reconsidered as an approach with several sets of useful methods to describe and analyse women’s every-day life’s struggles and possibilities in times when mobility and transports has become an undisputed factor of everyday life.
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- Scholten, Christina, et al.
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Re-Reading Time-Geography from a Gender Perspective: Examples from Gendered mobility
- 2012
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Ingår i: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0040-747X .- 1467-9663. ; 103:5, s. 584-600
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is based on qualitative research on commuting and womens everyday lives. In the project Re-reading time-geography from a feminist perspective, labour force mobility is an important way of analysing womens time-space use and identifying the constraints experienced when organising everyday life. We claim that time-geography provides a useful set of analytical tools that successfully collaborate with social science theory such as gender studies. Time-geography has been questioned by feminists as well as others. However, we argue that time-geography could provide gender studies with a close, empathic and micro-levelled interventional approach that makes obstacles and constraints due to spatio-temporal conditions visible and thereby changeable. In this paper we use results from previous research to prove that time-geography is an approach with several sets of useful concepts that describe and analyse womens everyday struggles and possibilities in an era in which mobility and transport have become undisputed factors of everyday life. In order to do this, time-geography needs to be read from a gendered standpoint. Although we are still in the formative stages of this re-reading of original texts and the formation of additional sets of concepts, the indications are that this work is worth pursuing and expanding.
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