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Nordic Welfare Cities : Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern, inclusive welfare cities.In the contemporary world, the role of cities as hotbeds for progressive change has become increasingly topical. Historical studies on how Nordic cities addressed social and environmental questions a hundred years ago and how they eventually created new and inclusive policies for the future is a useful contribution to the current debate. The concept of the welfare city is addressed and elaborated upon to analyse the attempts by urban authorities to solve the problems following industrialization and urbanization. From the late nineteenth century, municipal public services promoted the integration of new groups in the urban community including workers, immigrants, women and children. The contributions in this book analyse various examples of welfare and public services that include infrastructure and transport systems, health care, housing conditions, outdoor life and entertainment. The chapters highlight the arguments and considerations promoting welfare policies, while also addressing differences between the Nordic countries. The evolution of the Nordic welfare city was a process of several overlapping phases or dimensions.
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År : historiker berättar
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Vad fick en svensk diplomat uppleva i det sena 1700-talets Grekland? Hur tänkte den tidiga medeltidens människor kring sin plats i världen? Vad lekte barn på 1600-talet? Hur såg bostadsmarknaden ut i 1400-talets Stockholm? Och varför köpte hotellkungen i Gävle fem AGA-spisar?Historia handlar om det som har hänt – det förflutna. Om år och tider som har passerat. Många förknippar därför historia med årtalsexercis och kalenderbiteri. Men det som hänt i det förflutna är sällan så enkelt att det kan kopplas till ett enskilt år eller en enskild person. En historieskrivning som enbart handlar om välbekanta händelser och kända aktörer lämnar dessutom stora delar av mänskligheten osedda.Men årtalen finns där, både de kända och de mer okända. Här presenterar tjugoen historiker berättelser om människor och händelser med förankring i specifika år mellan 1250 och 1983. De leder läsaren bakåt och framåt i tiden, visar vägen till större historiska sammanhang och låter oss ta del av diskussioner i sockenstugan, av maktkamp på samhällets högsta politiska nivå, av baler i 1800-talets Stockholm och av modern träningskultur.Skribenter: Anna Götlind, Magnus Linnarsson, Kurt Villads Jensen, Margaretha Nordquist, Gabriela Bjarne Larsen, Mats Hallenberg, Heiko Droste, Annika Sandén, Joakim Scherp,Pär Frohnert, Leos Mûller, Isak Hammar, Bo Eriksson, Nils Edling, Karin Carlsson, Mattias Tydén, Johnny Wijk, Maija Runcis, Jens Ljunggren, Ragni Svensson och Helena Tolvhed.Samtliga författare har anknytning till Historiska institutionen vid Stockholms universitet.
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Vad ska vi med det förmoderna? tio texter om ett gäckande begrepp
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- In January 2011 the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (RJ) announced the launch of a particular fund for research on the pre-1800s. Behind the initiative lay amongst other things a desire to increase the number of Swedish researchers studying the “premodern” era. The foundation used the term “premodern” solely to provide chronological demarcation. However, the term premodern also gives rise to questions like: what is meant by premodern; what was the premodern era, and when was this premodernity played out? These questions were addressed in a session at the national historical conference “Svenska historikermötet” in 2015. During the session many of the issues and problems related to premodernity were discussed. Each participant described his or her view of premodernity as a chronological period, and as a theoretical concept, and then concluded with a discussion on how the concept was relevant in their own research. The participants were invited to write an article based on the session and the results are published in this Supplement of Scandia. Hopefully, the various approaches and perspectives presented here reveal the multifaceted nature of the concept of premodernity. Further to the very simple chronological demarcation of the “premodern”, as given by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, this collection of articles shows its wide and varied definitions. Limiting premodern to the chronological inter-pretation of the concept, risks lumping all pre-1800s history together into “something that happened in the old days”. As several of the contributions to this Supplement shows, premodernity can instead be used as a relevant analytical concept, discussed and applied by researchers.
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