Hasil untuk "History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia"

Gyrid Øyen

I denne artikkelen blir konteksten rundt etableringen av et kvensk museum i Vadsø i 1971 utforsket. Utgangspunktet for museumsdannelsen var overtakelsen av en kvensk eiendom (Tuomainengården), som ble testamentert til Vadsø kommune for å bli et kvenmuseum. Kvensk kultur ble med dette skapt som en kategori som krevde offentlig oppmerksomhet. Nærmere undersøkelse av arkivdokumenter fra lag og forening som var engasjerte i museumssaken, viser at arbeidet med å etablere et museum allerede startet på 1960-tallet. Ved å følge prosessen med å gjøre Tuomainengården til et museum blir oppmerksomheten i artikkelen rettet mot hva som diskuteres når et museum skal etableres, og hvem som involveres. Gjennomgangen viser at det kommunale apparatet som hadde det forvaltningsmessige ansvaret for kvenmuseet, ikke gjennomførte planene som var avtalt for Tuomainengården som et kvenmuseum.

Jay L. Lalonde

“An Icelandic Driver” is the first English translation of the short story (or novella) “Íslenzkur ökumaður” by the Icelandic-Canadian writer Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason. The story, first published in 1910, offers a unique point of view on turn-of-the-century Halifax, Nova Scotia. While most texts by Icelandic immigrant authors narrowly focus on the experience of their compatriots in isolated rural settlements, this story provides a much richer and more complex portrayal of urban—rather than rural—life. It is inhabited by various immigrants, foreigners, and outsiders, who shape the protagonist’s understanding of his new home. While this portrayal allows for a much more nuanced view, it also reveals a rigid immigrant hierarchy, xenophobia, and antisemitism—all omnipresent and to a large extent internalized by the protagonist.

Izabela A. Dahl

Christian Adam

There was no 'zero hour' (Stunde Null) in German literature, though nazification and denazification had serious impact on the book market. The paper shows this by looking at bestselling books in East and West Germany before and after 1945. Entertaining books and factual novels were among the most successful books in the Third Reich. Freed of their political time reference, many of the texts from the Nazi era lived on after the end of the war. Both genres consequently left a long-term mark on the book market. Some authors like Karl Aloys Schenzinger were close to the National Socialist Party, others like Ehm Welk were critical to the regime.

Aleksandra Lidzba

Hilde Gunn Slottemo

Sammendrag I 1919 ble det fylkeskommunale Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk, NTE etablert. Etter noen vanskelige oppstartsår, ble NTE en av de viktigste bedriftene i Nord-Trøndelag. I samspill med fylkespolitikerne kom bedriften til å prege samfunnet både økonomisk, politisk, sosialt og kulturelt. Med NTE som drivkraft, og på grunn av et politisk kompromiss mellom fylkets to store partier, Arbeiderpartiet og Senterpartiet, kom fylket til å utvikle en sterk kultur for geografisk utjevning, desentralisering og distriktsutvikling. Dette ønsket om utjevning mellom distriktene internt i fylket og mellom Nord-Trøndelag og andre fylker, ble svært sterkt og fikk mye av den politiske og samfunnsmessige oppmerksomheten. Det fikk betydning for den politiske kulturen og den stedlige identiteten som vokste fram. Nord-Trøndelag hadde på slutten av 1800-tallet hatt tilnavnet «Det røde amt», men utviklinga mot å bli et av landets sterkeste Senterparti-fylker gjorde at «amtet» kan sees på som mer grønt enn rødt. Nord-Trøndelags endring på 1900-tallet kan dermed karakteriseres som ei utvikling fra «rødt amt» til «grønt fylke». Den nære integrasjonen mellom kraftselskap og fylke er ei viktig forklaring på hvorfor det ble slik. I denne artikkelen belyses samspillet og vekselvirkninga mellom NTE og bedriftens omgivelser. Slik veves elektrisitetshistorie sammen med samfunnshistorie; et perspektiv som ikke har vært så vanlig i elektrisitetshistorisk forskning.

Bernt Gran

Dagmar Alešíková

Vlastimil Brom

Petra Besedová

Klas-Göran Karlsson

ABSTRACT: From a historical perspective, this article analyzes the dramatic political process in the 1990s when modern Sweden left its traditional dissociation from historical orientations by entering into a European context in which the Second World War and the Holocaust were crucial historical landmarks. The political campaign Living History must be understood in terms of recent processes of both nationalization and Europeanization of history. As a conclusion, three problems of the politics of history are discussed: a competing European historical focus on communist crimes against humanity, a simplistic and reductionist political use of Holocaust history, and a difficult but necessary discussion of the potential lessons of history in general, and of Holocaust history in particular.

Natalie M. Van Deusen

John Lingard

Hana Jílková

Der Aufsatz stellt eine kurze Zusammenfassung der Slogan-Analyse dar, die im Rahmen einer umfangreicheren Studie über die Werbesprache durchgeführt worden ist. Die Studie versucht, die Hauptcharakteristika der gegenwärtigen tschechischen Werbeslogans zu präsentieren, wobei von der deutschen Werbesprache als Muster ausgegangen wird. Die auf diese Art und Weise entstandene vergleichende Studie bringt viele Belege dafür, wie die tschechische Werbesprache die westliche Reklame in ihrer sprachlichen Ausdruckskraft "eingeholt" und bisweilen sogar in ihrer Kreativität "überholt" hat. Der vorliegende Beitrag konzentriert sich auf die auffälligsten Sprachelemente auf lexikalischer, semantischer, stilistischer, pragmatischer bzw. rhetorischer Ebene und untermauert diese jeweils mit einigen entsprechenden Beispielen. Neben den sprachlichen Mitteln, die in beiden analysierten Werbesprachen vorkommen, werden solche Fragen thematisiert, die als für die tschechische Werbung kennzeichnend bzw. typisch bezeichnet werden können.

Štěpán Lichorobiec

In this article the concept of negotiation of identities is explored and its functioning is demonstrated on an excerpt from Niemi's Mannen som dog som en lax (2006). Negotiation of identities is grounded on the notions of discursive construction of identities utilizing the dialogic scheme of the positioning theory (Davies & Harré), and of identity as embedded in social context and societal sites of power. Identity is then not only understood as a certain position resulting from the interplay between various processes of positioning based on imagining and narration, but also, as a position that is inevitably subjected to and involved in generating, exchange and reproduction of capital and power (Bourdieu). The notion of negotiation of identities is in this article illustrated by an example from Niemi's novel that can be perceived as a discursive space for legitimation and empowering of the disadvantaged identity options of multilingual individuals in Swedish Tornedalen.

Andreas Åkerlund

Im September 1933 wurde der schwedische Nationalsozialist Malte Welin zum Dozen-ten für nordische Literatur an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin ernannt. Geplant war auch die Übernahme des Lektorats für schwedische Sprache durch Welin. Zu diesem Zweck wurde der damalige Lektor Vilhelm Scharp entlassen. Weniger als drei Monate später wurde Welin die Dozentur wieder entzogen, ohne dass er jemals in Berlin tätig gewesen war. In diesem Artikel werden die Vorgänge um den „Fall Welin“ beschrieben und analysiert, die als Beispiel für eine versuchte Gleichschaltung der Berliner Nordistik dienen können. Die Ernennung führte, wie gezeigt wird, zugleich auch zu Protesten und einer Verschlechterung der deutsch-schwedischen Beziehungen.

Dirk Keil, Karl Löfgren

The authors analyse regional integration in Europe in the case of the emerging Femern Belt Region, which is mainly based on the building of a permanent traffic link crossing the Femern Belt. Beyond that, there are only few further common denominators. Therefore the project of region building appears as a rather difficult one. To achieve coherence within a new emerging cross-border region appears a challenge to the re-gions actors. This paper asks how these actors operate and interact across borders with the context given. It takes its point of departure in theories on network governance and new regionalism. Empirically, this paper focuses on a group of decision-makers within the field of local and regional administrations, which are actively involved in cross-border cooperation. Methodologically, the paper is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with eleven actors in the Femern Belt Region.

Jochen Hille

In Norway and Switzerland the majority of the people rejected EU-integration in several referenda. The emotionality and the enormous mobilization that took place in the debates on integration cannot be sufficiently explained by economic and political reasons. Instead, the main resource aiding this eurosceptic mobilisation for lies more inreactivating deeply rooted descriptions of the national self and those of the ‘others’. Carving out these collective images, this paper compares how the major eurosceptical actors of Switzerland and Norway describe their actions as meaningful in their iconography and narrations. Eurosceptics perceive themselves mainly as defenders of the national community and its nation-state, which are regarded as warm, natural, close, just, efficient, peaceful and democratic, while an integrated Europe is perceived as a distant, cold and bureaucratic super-state EU.

Brian McIlroy