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Handwritten Newspapers and Community Identity in Finnish and Norwegian Student Societies and Popular Movements
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Negotiating citizenship on the urban periphery:Mass housing, resident democracy, and acts of citizenship in 1970s’ Denmark
No full textNegotiating citizenship on the urban periphery:Mass housing, resident democracy, and acts of citizenship in 1970s’ Denmark
No full textConnecting the Baltic Area : The Swedish Postal System in the Seventeenth Century
No full textThe establishment in Europe of a postal service revolutionized seventeenth century communications as well as the media landscape. Throughout most of Europe news, which rose sharply in volume, now traveled expeditiously. The comparative ease by which word could be sent helped new social and economic relationships flourish, intensifying the process of state-building. The consequences of this transformation for both postal workers and consumers alike permeate the work contained. The Post’s historical role must be considered in the context of European society at large. Focus should move away from its organization and development as an institution in isolation. That is the perspective shared by contributors to this anthology
Connecting the Baltic Area : The Swedish Postal System in the Seventeenth Century
No full textThe establishment in Europe of a postal service revolutionized seventeenth century communications as well as the media landscape. Throughout most of Europe news, which rose sharply in volume, now traveled expeditiously. The comparative ease by which word could be sent helped new social and economic relationships flourish, intensifying the process of state-building. The consequences of this transformation for both postal workers and consumers alike permeate the work contained. The Post’s historical role must be considered in the context of European society at large. Focus should move away from its organization and development as an institution in isolation. That is the perspective shared by contributors to this anthology
Connecting the Baltic Area : The Swedish Postal System in the Seventeenth Century
No full textThe establishment in Europe of a postal service revolutionized seventeenth century communications as well as the media landscape. Throughout most of Europe news, which rose sharply in volume, now traveled expeditiously. The comparative ease by which word could be sent helped new social and economic relationships flourish, intensifying the process of state-building. The consequences of this transformation for both postal workers and consumers alike permeate the work contained. The Post’s historical role must be considered in the context of European society at large. Focus should move away from its organization and development as an institution in isolation. That is the perspective shared by contributors to this anthology
Connecting the Baltic Area : The Swedish Postal System in the Seventeenth Century
No full textThe establishment in Europe of a postal service revolutionized seventeenth century communications as well as the media landscape. Throughout most of Europe news, which rose sharply in volume, now traveled expeditiously. The comparative ease by which word could be sent helped new social and economic relationships flourish, intensifying the process of state-building. The consequences of this transformation for both postal workers and consumers alike permeate the work contained. The Post’s historical role must be considered in the context of European society at large. Focus should move away from its organization and development as an institution in isolation. That is the perspective shared by contributors to this anthology
Infrastructural citizenship:the everyday politics of slum clearance in mid-twentieth century Copenhagen
No full textThis chapter investigates how residents on Danish mass housing estates used ‘resident democracy’ as a platform to negotiate welfare citizenship in 1970s’ urban Denmark. Introduced in 1970, resident democracy allows the residents on Danish non-profit housing estates to participate actively in the daily management of their estate. The system is unique, even in a Nordic context. Besides installing community participation as a social norm on the estates, this arrangement provided the residents with a platform to collectively oppose both discursive and economic challenges that they faced in the 1970s. Focusing on three housing estates – Gellerupplanen, Vollsmose, and Brøndby – the chapter examines a series of local conflicts that played out between the residents and various external and internal actors. By analysing the residents’ protests as ‘acts of citizenship’, it suggests that although Danish resident democracy emerged from a certain understanding of democracy, it also provided the residents with a platform to expand and transgress this category. Danish modernist mass housing estates not only illustrate how welfare was planned architecturally in the 1950s and 1960s, but they also open a window to how the social order of the Danish welfare society has been continuously negotiated through the collective efforts of urban communities
Svenska städer under tidigmodern tid
No full textSwedish towns in early modern timesThis paper offers an introduction to Swedish urban history, focusing on the period1500–1800, encompassing both towns in Sweden and its provinces. It describesurban development since the Middle Ages, in particular urban demography andthe economy, as well as the social aspects. It also offers an introduction to previousand current research debates, as well as the most important sources for the historyof pre-modern Swedish towns.This overall picture is necessary in order to respond to the editor’s interest indifferent urban settings, especially the ways in which towns were governed sociallyand politically in early modern times. However, the current state of research onSwedish urban history does not provide answers to this question in general terms. Instead, Sweden’s urban history is traditionally perceived in an entirely different setting,where the state exerted a strong influence over Swedish towns due to a specificunderstanding of the advantages of urban settlements. Although these urban policieswere never explicitly spelled out, a distinct urban norm is still in place today.As a consequence, the early modern state controlled both existing as well asnewly founded towns in many ways. The state was particularly interested in theireconomic functions, their legal system and their capacity to administer their inhabitantsand the surrounding countryside. This state policy did not meet the interestsof the towns themselves and caused considerable conflict in the 17th century, notleast in relation to the towns in the Baltic and German provinces. These former Hansa towns were accustomed to a more autonomous position within their respectivehinterlands. There is reason to assume that this state policy affected urban developmentnegatively, both in Sweden and its provinces, delaying Sweden’s urbanization considerably.Since the early 16th century, Swedish towns have not been perceived aspolitical players within a highly centralized state organization.DOI för hela boken: 10.23865/noasp.149.</p
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