Narvik, a Swedish Norwegian Border Town
This article gives an insight into the industrialization and colonization processes of northern Scandinavia. Urbanization due to industrialization is a vital part of the perspective, and brings us into an industrial mega system in Swedish Lapland in the late nineteenth century based on iron ore expo...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:5044867 2024-09-15T18:19:04+00:00 Narvik, a Swedish Norwegian Border Town Steinar Aas 2019-09-30 https://doi.org/10.33542/MAD2019-1-03 eng eng Zenodo issn:1339-0163 https://zenodo.org/communities/pavol-jozef-safarik-university-in-kosice-slovakia https://doi.org/10.33542/MAD2019-1-03 oai:zenodo.org:5044867 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode The City and History, 8/2019(1), (2019-09-30) Urban History Modernization Industrialization Norwegian History Swedish History Technology Urban Planning Memory Studies Rallar Labour History The City and History Filozofická fakulta UPJŠ info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.33542/MAD2019-1-03 2024-07-26T14:01:02Z This article gives an insight into the industrialization and colonization processes of northern Scandinavia. Urbanization due to industrialization is a vital part of the perspective, and brings us into an industrial mega system in Swedish Lapland in the late nineteenth century based on iron ore export. It was to be connected to the industrial centre of Europe, especially the Ruhrgebiet of Germany, and paved the way for a new kind of urban development in peripheral Europe – the industrial network town. The history and foundation of the Norwegian harbour town Narvik is vital for gaining insight into this mega system. By studying Narvik we can envisage particularities of, and similarities and differences between Norway and Sweden when it comes to their urban economic foundations, urban development/planning regimes, and the relations between the municipalities, the modern nation states and the dominating companies. Even the development of a uniquely Scandinavian identity connected with the labour movement and the development of a post-war social democrat order visibly results from the new industries. Thus the common Swedish-Norwegian figure of the rallar – something like navvy or construction worker – has a significant place in this study, and the use of the figure in addition to later processes of memory creation, both within the Norwegian and Swedish labour movements, is addressed. URL: https://www.upjs.sk/filozoficka-fakulta/katedra-historie/10984/ Article in Journal/Newspaper Narvik Narvik Lapland Zenodo Mesto a dejiny 8 1 |
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This article gives an insight into the industrialization and colonization processes of northern Scandinavia. Urbanization due to industrialization is a vital part of the perspective, and brings us into an industrial mega system in Swedish Lapland in the late nineteenth century based on iron ore export. It was to be connected to the industrial centre of Europe, especially the Ruhrgebiet of Germany, and paved the way for a new kind of urban development in peripheral Europe – the industrial network town. The history and foundation of the Norwegian harbour town Narvik is vital for gaining insight into this mega system. By studying Narvik we can envisage particularities of, and similarities and differences between Norway and Sweden when it comes to their urban economic foundations, urban development/planning regimes, and the relations between the municipalities, the modern nation states and the dominating companies. Even the development of a uniquely Scandinavian identity connected with the labour movement and the development of a post-war social democrat order visibly results from the new industries. Thus the common Swedish-Norwegian figure of the rallar – something like navvy or construction worker – has a significant place in this study, and the use of the figure in addition to later processes of memory creation, both within the Norwegian and Swedish labour movements, is addressed. URL: https://www.upjs.sk/filozoficka-fakulta/katedra-historie/10984/ |
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