The Road in the Park : Ideology and State power during the 20th century seen through Maps of the Swedish subarctic Abisko

• Main Author: Bennesved, Peter
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier 2014
• Subjects: Abisko; Abisko National Park; E10; Maps; Cartography; Swedish 20th-century history; Arctic studies; state power; Digital humanities; Neatline; Abisko nationalpark; Kartor; kartografi; 1900-tals historia; statlig makt; Norrlands historia; Lapplands historia; digital humaniora; History; Historia; Abisko Nationalpark; Arctic; Parken; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-86908

The scope of this thesis is to show how the use of maps in political and scientific arguments functions as a mediator between ideological discourse and the physical landscape. This is done by studying three maps displaying the same geographical region but from different times and with different moti...