690 research outputs found
"Free Dawit Isaak"
No full textThe author joined the World Press Freedom Day campaign this year, 2011, to highlight the plight of WAN-IFRA's 2011 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, Dawit Isaak, incarcerated without charge for nearly a decade in a notorious Eritrean jail. In this editorial Peter Englund explores how the right to dissent and question strengthens a nation, and that this universal right cannot be taken for granted.Isaak, Dawit Isaak, press freedom, World Press Freedom Day, right to dissent, democracy, freedom
Att popularisera historien : En intervju med Peter Englund
No full textHistorien har sina "vändpunkter" - kollektiva och individuella. För Karl Xll och det svenska stormaktsväldet var utgången av slaget vid Poltava en sådan. För Peter Englund var några sommarmånader 1984 och 1985 också en vändpunkt. Det var då han satte. sig ned för att sk.riva om slaget vid Poltava. Syftet med skrivandet var i första band att skapa en slags motvikt till sitt avbandlingsarbete. Det var lusten att få berätta istället för att analysera, att få foga samman istället för att dissekera detaljer som var drivkrafterna bakom arbetet med "Poltava. Berättelsen om en armes undergång" (Atlantis). Boken nådde sin publik under hösten 1988 och blev en försäljningsmässig och kritikerartad succe. Recensenterna höjde den till skyarna som en "utomordentlig'', "fascinerande" och "stark" bok. "Poltava" har nått långt utanför den förhållandevis trånga kretsen av läsare av fackhistoriska verk. Med sin bok har Peter Englund visat att det går att skriva historia på ett engagerande och begripligt sätt samtidigt som texten är saklig och seriös. Men naturligtvis är det inte enbart det historiska berättandets "pånyttfödelse" som lockat så många läsare. Det är givetvis också ämnet - Karl XII, karoliner, krig - där det svenska stormaktsväldets heroiska skimmer belyses ur ett "underfrånperspektiv". Det är de enskilda soldaterna, fotfolket, som talar till oss. Den så vanliga "ovanfrånskildringen" av den svenska Ostersjöexpansionen får härigenom sitt nödvändiga korrektiv. Men resultatet är inte någon banal eller fördomsfull "anti-Karl XII-historia" utan en skildring som försöker beskriva hela den apparat av människor, beslut och vapen som ledde till den blodiga uppgörelsen Vid Poltava. Hur sk.river man en bok som "Poltava'? Hur tänker författaren? Med vilka grepp och metoder kan man göra en historisk hände!~ eller ett skeende gripbart och engagerande? Med dessa och några andra frå~or i bagaget sammanträffade KRONOS med Peter Englund för en intervju. (I mtervjun talas ibland om "avhandlingen". Med detta avses Peter Englunds dokotorsavhandling "Det hotade huset. Adliga föreställningar om samhället under stormaktstiden", Atalantis, som han disputerade på i maj).Tidskriften Kronos: historia i skola och samhälle gavs ut vid Linköpings univeristet mellan åren 1988-1991.</p
The Allure and Power of Popular History : Peter Englund and Herman Lindqvist in Swedish Historical Culture 1988-1995
No full textThis dissertation is a study of popular history in Sweden from the late 1980’s to the mid 1990’s. The aim is to investigate and discuss Peter Englund’s and Herman Lindqvist’s historical accounts and their roles as public historians during the studied period. The study problematizes recurring issues in Sweden’s popular historical tradition, including the balance between cultivation and entertainment, culture and commercialism, academic and journalistic prose, impersonal style and the author as media celebrity. The focus is on the narrative structure of Englund’s and Lindqvist’s historical accounts, the mediated meaning of these accounts, and the mediated meaning of Englund and Lindqvist as popular historians. The analyses show that both Englund and Lindqvist developed a popular history that had its own constitutive character as a response to, and in contrast to, academic history, and it was based on their awareness of history as a public phenomenon. In different ways, both Englund and Lindqvist assent to more existential historical topics that the historical research had a limited interest in and understanding of, such as people's dreams, beliefs and life stories. In Englund’s more academic and complex popular history the appeal to the audience's reason and critical judgement and discernment is central. At the same time, he consistently appeals to the audience's emotions and the commercial success testifies to his ability to also sustain the audience’s interest, benevolence, confidence and sympathy. Lindqvist’s distinctly commercially oriented popular history, on the other hand, primarily involves appealing to the audience’s emotions and sympathy, which are clearly prioritized at the expense of the appeal to reason and critical judgement. If Englund’s historical accounts can be characterized as being critically educating and entertaining the audience, Lindqvist’s historical accounts can be characterized as informative entertainment. Among the general conclusions are that both Englund’s and Lindqvist's historical accounts lacked links to contemporary political, social or popular educational movements and therefore affirm claims that the dominant historical culture in Sweden from the 1980’s until the 2000’s was mainly characterized by history having become a personal interest or hobby
Voice to Vision X: Helen could see the same Stars (Esther Wintrop Story)
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. University of Minnesota Department of Art. Video run time: 24 minutes, 58 seconds.Feinberg, David; Andrews, Beth; Wintrop, Esther; Englund, Michelle; Loeffler, Tessa; Lommen, Peter. (2017). Voice to Vision X: Helen could see the same Stars (Esther Wintrop Story). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/194523
Voice to Vision X: Helen Could See the Same Stars
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. University of Minnesota Department of Art.2016. Mixed media wall construction, collage, and antique toy car. 27” w x 21¾” h x 5” d.University of Minnesota: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), CLA Freshman Research and Creative Awards ProgramFeinberg, David; Andrews, Beth; Winthrop, Esther; Englund, Michelle; Loeffler, Tessa; Hoang, Kimchi; Lommen, Peter. (2016). Voice to Vision X: Helen Could See the Same Stars. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/182906
At fortælle historie - Litterære strategier i historieskrivningen:Tom Buk-Swienty: Slagtebænk Dybbøl (2008) og Peter Englund: Stridens skönhet och sorg (2009)
No full textNy fortællende strømning i historieskrivningen. Teoretisk udgangspunkt i Hayden White og Paul Ricoeur m.fl. Hisorikerne bruger narrative og litterære virkemidler i deres fremstilling med sigte på et større publikum end faghistorikere. Samtidig fastholdes den historiske kildekritiske diskurs. Analyse af virkemidlerne i de to værker af Buk-Swienty og Englund
At fortælle historie - Litterære strategier i historieskrivningen:Tom Buk-Swienty: Slagtebænk Dybbøl (2008) og Peter Englund: Stridens skönhet och sorg (2009)
No full textNy fortællende strømning i historieskrivningen. Teoretisk udgangspunkt i Hayden White og Paul Ricoeur m.fl. Hisorikerne bruger narrative og litterære virkemidler i deres fremstilling med sigte på et større publikum end faghistorikere. Samtidig fastholdes den historiske kildekritiske diskurs. Analyse af virkemidlerne i de to værker af Buk-Swienty og Englund
Nordic Economic Policy Review 2020 : Financial regulation and macroeconomic stability in the Nordics
No full textHow well designed are the financial regulations that have been imposed after the global financial crisis in 2008–09 and the subsequent euro crisis? Will the new bail-in rules work in a systemic crisis, or do we risk further costly bail-outs by governments? How does monetary policy influence household debt? Have macroprudential tools been well-calibrated? Answers to these questions are crucial for judging the risks that the current corona crisis might also trigger a new financial crisis. The 2020 issue of the Nordic Economic Policy Review consists of six papers, including an introduction by editors Lars Calmfors and Peter Englund
Top-down and bottom-up effects on the spatiotemporal dynamics of cereal aphids: testing scaling theory for local density
No full textThe relationship between density and area depends on local growth rates and the area-dependence of migration rates. These rates vary among taxa due to dispersal behaviour, plot productivity and natural enemy impact. Previous studies in aphids suggest that aphid densities are highest in patches of intermediate sizes, and lower in small and large patches. The suggested mechanism causing these patterns is that the dispersal behaviour in aphids creates a mixture of area- and perimeter-dependent migration rates. In this paper, we used these predictions to examine the additional consequences of nutrient availability and natural enemies on the density-area relationship. The derived predictions were compared to data from a system with three aphid species, a set of aphid parasitoids and generalist natural enemies, and at two levels of plant nutrient availability. We find that predictions from the model based only on dispersal and local growth agree with the temporal dynamics of density-area relationships for aphids in high nutrient patches. In patches with low nutrients, high parasitism rates appeared to cause a negative density-area relationship for aphids, thereby deviating from predictions driven by the aphids' dispersal behavior. Hence, the dispersal model with scale-dependent migration rates can provide a useful tool for understanding insect distribution in patch size gradients, but the relative importance of top-down effects can completely change with plot productivity
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