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Between Nordism and Nationalism: The Methods of the Norden Associations’ Educational Efforts, 1919–1965
Get PDFThe Norden Associations (föreningarna Norden) were established in 1919 with the intention of promoting understanding and cooperation between the Nordic countries. The definition of “Norden” was negotiated from the very beginning, and Icelandic and Finnish associations were not established until the 1920s. Promoting understanding and cooperation was very much considered an educational effort, and Norden was imagined within educational efforts sponsored by the associations. In this regard, the associations had predecessors in the Nordic schoolteacher meetings that dated back to the age of Scandinavism in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Norden Associations created special school boards in the 1920s in order to both promote a more Nordic approach in some subjects—mainly language, geography, and history—and to promote cooperation between the countries, with the youth as the catalyst for a more Nordistic future. This article looks into how the Norden Associations imagined a Nordic school, in which a Nordic sentiment was established, and how this imagination related to the reality of the nationalistic school and to ideas of broader international cooperation, between which the “Nordic idea” has always been sandwiched. The article shows how the methods used effectively hindered the imagination of Norden and the “Nordic idea” beyond the scope of cooperation between nations
Review (Swedish): Magnus Hultén, Striden om den goda skolan: Hur kunskapsfrågan enat, splittrat och förändrat svensk skola och skoldebatt
No full textHeat in a Cold Climate: Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970
Get PDFThis article examines the timing, scale and cause of transitions between different kinds of household energy use and especially heating in northern Sweden, with a focus on Norrbotten, between the late nineteenth century and 1970. It examines the related but separate histories of the adoption of new heating technologies, such as stoves and boilers, and the choice of fuels, such as firewood, coke, oil, and electricity, providing new data on the scale of consumption and timing of transition. The article demonstrates the important linkage between domestic fuel choice and labour markets, whether labour in farm and forest affecting stove use in the nineteenth century, or increased female labour participation outside the home and rising wages in the twentieth. The article goes beyond discussions of price and technology to consider the wider contexts of domestic use not only in terms of home life, but also industrial development and labour markets in northern Sweden
Birgit Falck-Kjällquist, Sveriges ortnamn. Ortnamnen i Värmlands län. Del 17. Register 2. Huvudleder
No full textReview of: Birgit Falck-Kjällquist, Sveriges ortnamn. Ortnamnen i Värmlands län. Del 17. Register 2. Huvudleder, Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen, 2018 (Skrifter utg. av Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Namnarkivet i Uppsala. Serie A. Sveriges ortnamn), ISBN 978-91-86959-50-0, 75 pp
Kåre Hoel, Bustadnavn i Østfold 17. Råde. Utgitt av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo ved Tom Schmidt, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2018, ISBN 9788270999118, 360 pp. + map at the end.
No full textIslændingesagaerne. Et udvalg i ny oversættelse. Bind 1 och 2
No full textReview of: Annette Lassen (ed.), Islændingesagaerne. Et udvalg i ny oversættelse. Bind 1. Njals saga, København: Gyldendal 2017, ISBN 9788702214796, 344 pp.; Bind 2. Lakdølernes saga. Totten om Bolle. Viglunds saga, København: Gyldendal 2017, ISBN 9788702227253, 287 pp.; Bind 3. Egils saga. Fostbrødrenes saga. Erik den Rødes saga, København: Gyldendal 2017, ISBN 9788702228724, 381 pp
Marika Mägi, In Austrvegr. The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea (The Northern World 84), Leiden. Brill 2018, ISBN 9789004216655, 491 pp.
No full text”Från pappas lydige Henric”: Pedagogiska perspektiv på det tidiga 1800-talets bildningsresande
Get PDF“From daddy’s obedient Henric”: Pedagogical perspectives on educational travel of the early 1800s. This article analyses educational travel in the early 1800s from the perspective of its educational heritage and praxis. The aim is to develop an understanding of the pedagogical significance of educational travel. The article makes clear how upbringing and education are represented in the framework of travel narratives in pre-industrial landscapes. The argument is based on the influence of the mercantile class on educational travel and the informal effect of these trips on changes in pedagogical thinking. The travel letters of Johan Henrik Munktell from 1828 to 1830 are used as primary sources. Using Paul Ricoeur’s memory-critical hermeneutics, travel narratives become significant sources for how education is arranged, and immanent pedagogy is a key term. The results demonstrate that the individualisation process works together with forms of crypto-learning, the core of the personal development vision, and society’s long-term memory
Let’s Name It: Identifying Cultural, Structural and Extractive Violence in Indigenous and Extractive Industry Relations
Get PDFThis article on conflict and power relations between extractive industries and Indigenous groups in Sweden and Australia draws on two case studies to compare situations for Laevas reindeer herding Sami community in Northern Sweden and Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners in South Australia. In this international comparison the analysis, based on the research participants’ narratives, employs Johan Galtung’s concepts of cultural and structural violence as analytical tools to further explore and contrast the participants’ experiences of interactions with extractive industries and industrial proponents. In addition, this study introduces extractive violence—defined as a form of direct violence but relating specifically to extractivism and Indigenous peoples—as a complement to Galtung’s model, known as the violence triangle. The results show that although the expressions of cultural, structural and extractive violence experienced by the two Indigenous communities varied, the impacts were strikingly similar. Both communities identified extractive violence, supported by structural and cultural violence, as threats to the continuation of their entire cultures. The study also shows that in order to address violence against Indigenous peoples, Indigenous and decolonising perspectives must be taken into account
