Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between local practices and state steering by examining how post-World War II welfare policy changed the life conditions in a number of small villages in northern Sweden. Three themes tie the discussion together. The first theme revolve...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:c0c91a5c-8895-403f-b029-2272ced42311 2023-05-15T17:45:11+02:00 Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland Hansen, Kjell 1998 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/18832 swe swe Historiska Media https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/18832 urn:isbn:91-88930-39-4 other:ISRN: LUHFDA/HFET-98/1035-SE+256 Art History ethnology Cultural anthropology welfare policies Local identity marginal areas sparsely populated areas resistance regional movements Kulturantropologi etnologi thesis/docmono info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis text 1998 ftulundlup 2023-02-01T23:32:07Z The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between local practices and state steering by examining how post-World War II welfare policy changed the life conditions in a number of small villages in northern Sweden. Three themes tie the discussion together. The first theme revolves around questions about how the northern Swedish inland region was transformed in the post-war period and how it became a "sparsely populated area". By choosing a more peripheral area as my point of departure I question the general picture of the "People's Home". The second theme in the dissertation analyzes how the ambitions and efforts of individuals towards attaining their goals make them unwilling to being totally subjugated to the ideals of planners. But neither do they act heroically in resistance. They act in a manner that I summarize in the concept of "reluctance". Through this concept I also examine how state policy becomes a part of local reality. The third theme in the dissertation is about how the consequences of welfare policy come to expression in spatial terms. The political discourse's concentration on time, progress and modernity is converted in the villages of the northern Swedish inland region to conceptions, which primarily have a spatial basis. In the decades after World War II the population in the inland region declined drastically. Migration not only changed actual life conditions but also became the dominant interpretive framework for understanding developments during the whole of the post-war period. By reviewing how agricultural, educational and housing policy were carried out in the inland region a picture of how state steering slowly restructured the countryside emerges. The perspective of the villagers is marked by attempts to selectively include certain aspects of welfare policies while at the same time excluding aspects which do not coalesce with their own ambitions. However, state policy challenged the basic conceptions in the villages, above all with regard to what is considered ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Northern Sweden Lund University Publications (LUP) |
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The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between local practices and state steering by examining how post-World War II welfare policy changed the life conditions in a number of small villages in northern Sweden. Three themes tie the discussion together. The first theme revolves around questions about how the northern Swedish inland region was transformed in the post-war period and how it became a "sparsely populated area". By choosing a more peripheral area as my point of departure I question the general picture of the "People's Home". The second theme in the dissertation analyzes how the ambitions and efforts of individuals towards attaining their goals make them unwilling to being totally subjugated to the ideals of planners. But neither do they act heroically in resistance. They act in a manner that I summarize in the concept of "reluctance". Through this concept I also examine how state policy becomes a part of local reality. The third theme in the dissertation is about how the consequences of welfare policy come to expression in spatial terms. The political discourse's concentration on time, progress and modernity is converted in the villages of the northern Swedish inland region to conceptions, which primarily have a spatial basis. In the decades after World War II the population in the inland region declined drastically. Migration not only changed actual life conditions but also became the dominant interpretive framework for understanding developments during the whole of the post-war period. By reviewing how agricultural, educational and housing policy were carried out in the inland region a picture of how state steering slowly restructured the countryside emerges. The perspective of the villagers is marked by attempts to selectively include certain aspects of welfare policies while at the same time excluding aspects which do not coalesce with their own ambitions. However, state policy challenged the basic conceptions in the villages, above all with regard to what is considered ... |
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Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
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Hansen, Kjell |
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Hansen, Kjell |
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Hansen, Kjell |
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Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland |
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Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland |
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Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland |
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Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland |
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Välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland |
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välfärdens motsträviga utkant : lokal praktik och statlig styrning i efterkrigstidens nordsvenska inland |
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Historiska Media |
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1998 |
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https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/18832 |
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Northern Sweden |
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Northern Sweden |
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https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/18832 urn:isbn:91-88930-39-4 other:ISRN: LUHFDA/HFET-98/1035-SE+256 |
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