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- Backius, Stefan, et al.
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ABF och radikaliseringens vågor
- 2015
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In: Arbetarhistoria. - : Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek. - 0281-7446. ; 153-154:1-2, s. 30-41
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)
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- Backius, Stefan
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Arbetare på scen : amatörteater som politiskt verktyg
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis focuses on the political dimensions of aesthetic expression during the Long Sixties. The thesis deals with amateur theatre ventures both within and linked to the social democratic labour movement. ’Spelet om Norbergsstrejken’ (The Play about the Norberg Strike) had its première in 1977 in a small industrial village in the industrial region of Bergslagen. Similar plays appeared in many regions of the country and a wave of workers’ plays emerged and made an impact on the internal investments of the educational association ABF in amateur theatre. The empiricism of the thesis concludes in 1982 when a social democratic amateur theatre association was founded and after a breakaway from the social democratic movement was establishing a residential study centre in another small village in Bergslagen. Sixties radicalisation provides the social context of the study and the perspective of sociological social movement research is used and developed. Based on the perspective of cognitive practice and the concepts of cosmology and movement ideology attention is directed towards the theatre assets of performance hosts, expectation horizons and patterns of behaviour. The thesis argues for a deeper understanding of sixties radicalisation partly meaning that the periodisation needs to be extended backwards as well as forwards in terms of time and partly that the political dimensions of aesthetic expression should be focused on. Based upon the results of the thesis the concept of culturactivism was formulated which defines the specific approach that appeared in the space between political and cultural activism. This highlights the need for a concept that covers the cognitive free space that arose between aesthetic expression and political activism and which has not previously attracted the attention of historical studies about sixties radicalisation to any great degree.
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- Backius, Stefan
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Arkivet ska stanna : Hällefors Bruks arkiv och lokalsamhället
- 2021
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In: Bergslagshistoria 33/2021. - : Föreningen Bergslagsarkiv. - 9789198635218 ; , s. 50-78
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denna arkivhistoriska artikel handlar om hur, trots ett aktivt lokalt motstånd, Hällefors bruks arkiv hämtades från Hällefors och fördes till Värmlandsarkivs depå i Forshaga 1984.
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- Backius, Stefan
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Bolagstorpare och jordbrukstorpare
- 2003
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In: Lokalhistorisk läsning för Örebro län. - Örebro : Lokalhistoriska sällskapet. ; , s. 52-68
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Backius, Stefan, et al.
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De-industrialization Before Re-industrialization? : Legacies, Hopes and Memories
- 2023
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The legacy of industrial change is multifaceted. Social and cultural consequences in places and working lives interact with locally-specific and transnational factors. This poses not only difficulties in creating a coherent narrative but also challenging methodological issues stemming from different local conditions and outcomes. The expectations set for a successful green transition require us to understand the impact on working lives, livelihoods, and the places affected in which industries-to-be-transformed are based. We know that the concentration of economic activity in some places creates place-based economic and social dependencies. Reindustrialization and deindustrialization processes may occur concurrently, sometimes in the same region, but the dependencies are often unclear and unexplored, both in time and space. Nostalgia and hope for the future direct our interest towards the landscape of historical consciousness in these processes. This paper seeks to exemplify how Swedish industrial working-class communities in Bergslagen, once considered the industrial heartland of Sweden, have dealt with the post-war so-called structural transformation, making the region synonymous with terminal industrial decline. For identities based on work, community, heritage, and industry, this deindustrialization process was, and still is, traumatic. Furthermore, the paper wishes to discuss the relationship between the actual outcomes of deindustrialization processes and the hopes for a green re-industrialized future.This paper links to how memory and experiences of deindustrialization and its specific trajectories influence future perspectives on the green transition.
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- Backius, Stefan
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Deindustrialization and Rural Community Activism in the 1980s
- 2022
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In: Deindustrialization and Rural Community Activism in the 1980s.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Swedish industrial region Bergslagen was first hit by “the steel crisis” in the late 1970s. In several rural industrial communities, local activism emerged as an antidote to ongoing global deindustrialization. This paper examines how plant closures affected the immediate responses of workers, unions, and politicians in local communities in Bergslagen
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- Backius, Stefan
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Den mångfacetterade avindustrialiseringen
- 2022
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In: Den mångfacetterade avindustrialiseringen.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Industrialisering och avindustrialisering är processer som kan studeras på lokal nivå men som uppstår i en global kontext. Förhållandet är komplext, föränderligt och omfattande vilket signalerar ytterligare behov av historisk forskning kring avindustrialiseringsprocessen i de nordiska länderna.
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- Backius, Stefan, 1964-, et al.
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From Prosperity to Rust : Industrial heritage and local identity in rural communities in Bergslagen, Sweden.
- 2018
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The paper is an initial attempt to approach the tension between industrial heritage in rural company towns and working class identity. By sketching the decline economic process starting in the 1970s and the following boost around the industrial heritage in the shadow of deindustrialization we try to approach the question how history can bring people together for the benefit of the community at large. How could a history of rural communities include working class people to empower local communities finding themselves struggling to survive? In the end of this paper we try to outline some perspectives on how to possibly do research about history, memory and cultural heritage as community building aspects in the rusty Bergslagen region.
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- Backius, Stefan
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Från avindustrialisering till grön återindustrialisering : Erfarenheter, förhoppningar och utmaningar
- 2023
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Conference paper (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- I ett landskap som Värmland kan bergens, skogens och vattnets betydelse för industrialiseringen inte överskattas. Med strukturomvandlingarna, som inleddes under 1960-talet och fördjupades under kommande decennier, blev det också dessa näringar som drabbades hårdast. Förändrade levnadsbetingelser för både människor och miljö skapar både omedelbara förändrings- och kristillstånd samtidigt som det triggar historiskt utdragna sociala, ekonomiska och ekologiska processer som fortfarande påverkar oss. Ambitionen med den här sessionen är att fånga hur utvecklingen från industrialisering, till avindustrialisering och till grön återindustrialisering skapar både stora förhoppningar och osäkra framtidshorisonter. Vi vill diskutera frågor som: Vad karakteriserar en ”grön” industriort? Hur har erfarenheterna från strukturomvandlingen påverkat synen på dagens industrisatsningar? Hur kan pågående globala samhällsförändringar bäst hanteras på lokal nivå?
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- Backius, Stefan
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Historia underifrån : Om att gräva i det lokala
- 2023
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Historia underifrån har sedan 1970-talet setts som en nödvändig perspektivförflyttning för att i högre grad synliggöra vanliga människor. Genom socialhistoriska, genushistoriska, arbetarhistoriska och koloniala perspektiv har marginaliserade grupper erhållit en allt viktigare plats, ofta till och med huvudrollen, i vår tids historieskrivning.1 Mikrohistoria, lokalhistoria, hembygdsforskning och släktforskning handlar till betydande delar också om historia underifrån.2 När nya historiografiska inriktningar gör sig gällande möts de ofta av viss konservativ kritik och skepsis, som brukar avta allteftersom åren går. Numer är vi många som vill placera den lilla människan i de stora perspektiven.
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- Backius, Stefan
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Mobilisering i stålkrisens spår
- 2006
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In: Bergslagsidentitet i förändring. - Örebro : Universitetsbiblioteket. - 9176684768 ; , s. 107-121
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- Backius, Stefan
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Public Memory Altered : Deindustrialization and Culture in a Rural Industrial Community
- 2021
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The paper is about implications of decline 1980s – 1990s in a small Swedish community located in the rural industrial heartland Bergslagen, for the most part of the 20th century considered as a relatively prosperous and economically important region. Nevertheless, when the Steel crisis in the 1970s hit Sweden harder than most countries, consequently a decline began in the region, which fundamentally affected this mono-industrial community. Initially the crisis perceived as temporary and the companies avoided redundancies. However, by the early 1990s, over a thousand industrial workers in the community had lost their jobs due to the long-time effects of rural1 deindustrialization.Local political leaders then focused on different types of cultural and aesthetic initiatives with intentions to change public memory regarding industrial culture and working class mentality. Traditional values and mentalities as well as proven experiences and past patterns of action suddenly appeared obsolete in the local public sphere dominated by a postindustrial narrative.The aim of the paper is to contribute perspectives on localised processes of deindustrialization and postindustrialization and by extension indicate how to understand mechanisms and consequences of altered working-class heritage and culture.
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- Backius, Stefan, 1964-
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Residential areas in transition : Deindustrialisation and post-industrial dreamscapes
- 2022
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the 1990s, local political leaders in the working-class industrial community Hällefors insisted on and deployed different types of cultural and aesthetic initiatives to counteract deindustrialisation with references to “the coming post-industrial society”. Residential areas constructed in the 1970s were redesigned with art and sculpture parks, which attracted attention and criticism. Subsequently, several projects were carried out where culture and arts were invoked as economic growth factors both locally and as regional development. This paper addresses this with a focus on the transformation of some municipally owned housing estates.
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- Backius, Stefan
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Samtida forskningsinsatser för att möta avindustrialiseringen i Bergslagen
- 2023
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In: Bruksort och industri under tvåhundra år.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Den omfattande avindustrialiseringen i Bergslagen under 1980- och 1990 talen gjorde regionen till en symbol för utarmning och utflyttning. Olika typer av insatser gjordes för att förändra de många orternas relation till den tunga industrin och bruksprofilen. Detta paper ger exempel på hur några samtida forskningsinsatser manövrerade i denna historiska förändringsprocess som fortfarande pågår.
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- Eadson, Will, et al.
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Decarbonising industry : A places-of-work research agenda
- 2023
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In: The Extractive Industries and Society. - : Elsevier. - 2214-790X .- 2214-7918. ; 15
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Deep decarbonisation of extractive and foundational industries will involve widespread social and economic change. Research on previous industrial restructuring has demonstrated that resultant changes will be geographically uneven, especially without countervailing state intervention. Such change has been shown to matter for both the nature and location of work in those industries as well as for the wider wellbeing of places. Concentrations of economic activity create place-based economic and sociocultural dependencies. As such in-dustries and industrial work often become entwined with workers' and communities' cultural identities. It is important to understand implications of industrial change for work, for place, and - as we argue here - relations between work and place. Building from a semi-systematic review of existing literature on industrial decarbon-isation, work and place, we extend prevailing political economic approaches to economic change, to also set out an original approach to decarbonising extractive and foundational industries, which we term 'places-of-work'. This approach is embedded in acknowledgement of the deep economic and cultural relations between work and place, which also plays out in processes of industrial decarbonisation. The approach builds from cultural and feminist approaches to economic change to emphasise sets of interrelations important to study of industrial decarbonisation as geographic phenomenon. Such an approach means extending the role of the state not as solely, or even primarily, focused on provision of training or employment opportunities, but as requiring adoption of a place-based approach to remaking economic and cultural characteristics of a location and its people. In setting out our alternative agenda, we seek to develop new insights that enable us to understand how industrial transitions potentially act within, and impact upon, places and their cultural identities, and the role of the state in reinforcing and disrupting these to support just transitions.
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