Arne Jarrick. Hamlets fråga: En svensk självmordshis-toria. (Hamlet's Question: A Swedish History of Suicide.) Stockholm: Norstedts Forlag. 2000. Pp. 239

2001 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History

Turning Aliens into Socialists

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Jessica Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Highly Evolved

Immediately after the Second World War Sweden was struck by a wave of sightings of strange flying objects. In some cases these mass sightings resulted in panic, particularly after authorities failed to identify them. Decades later, these phenomena were interpreted by two members of the Swedish UFO movement, Erland Sandqvist and Gösta Rehn, as alien spaceships, or UFOs. Rehn argued that ‘[t]here is nothing so dramatic in the Swedish history of UFOs as this invasion of alien fly-things’ (Rehn 1969: 50). In this article the interpretation of such sightings proposed by these authors, namely that we are visited by extraterrestrials from outer space, is approached from the perspective of myth theory. According to this mythical theme, not only are we are not alone in the universe, but also the history of humankind has been shaped by encounters with more highly-evolved alien beings. In their modern day form, these kinds of ideas about aliens and UFOs originated in the United States. The reasoning of Sandqvist and Rehn exemplifies the localization process that took place as members of the Swedish UFO movement began to produce their own narratives about aliens and UFOs. The question I will address is: in what ways do these stories change in new contexts? Texts produced by the Swedish UFO movement are analyzed as a case study of this process.

scholarly journals Fredrik Svanberg. Människosamlarna. Anatomiska museer och rasvetenskap i Sverige ca 1850–1950

1970 ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Eva Åhrén
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Swedish History

The publication of Fredrik Svanberg’s Människosamlarna. Anatomiska museer och rasvetenskap i Sverige ca 1850–1950 [The Collectors of Human Beings. Anatomical Museums and Racial Science in Sweden c. 1850–1950] is very timely. The topic of human remains in museum collections has recently been under debate in Swedish media Early in 2015, the debate was triggered by the efforts of Karolinska Institutet’s Unit for Medical History and Heritage to research its neglected historic collections of human remains, and start repatriating racialized skulls to indigenous source communities. (Disclosure: I am the director of that unit, and my own research on the history of medical museums is referenced in this book.) Svanberg, who is head of research at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, wrote an important contribution to the media debate. The old skull collections that still exist in Lund, Uppsala and Stockholm, he pointed out, have been “rediscovered” by the media at intervals of 5–7 years since the 1980s (cf. pp. 20–26). Media attention tends to cause a brief uproar, until the crania are quickly forgotten again – until the next time. Swedes don’t seem to retain past understandings and constructions of race, or how these conceptions contributed to the creation of our modern, neutral and ostensibly non-racist welfare state.

The Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance as a Public Matter of Concern: A Swedish History of a “Transformative Event”

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hedvig Gröndal
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History

ArgumentThis article examines how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) came to be constituted as a matter of public concern in Sweden in conjunction with the development of an inter-professional organization called Strama, founded to promote rational prescription of antibiotics. An outbreak of penicillin-resistant pneumococci in the mid-1990s was crucial for this development, because it brought attention to AMR as an urgent public threat. This outbreak fuelled the constitution of AMR as caused by consumption of antibiotics and as a matter of disease control. As a consequence, Strama was able to mobilize the Swedish health officers responsible for disease control. The outbreak is conceptualized as a “transformative event” – an event that makes an issue and its associated risks concrete and urgent. Transformative events play the crucial role of expediting the transformation of issues into matters of public concern.

Martin Luther in Sweden

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Axel Aurelius
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
To Come ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
The 19Th Century

In the Swedish history of Christian thought there are various interpretations of the Reformation and of Martin Luther and his work. In the 17th century, Luther predominately stood out as an instrument of God’s providence. In the 18th century, among the pietists, he was regarded as a fellow believer, in the 19th century as a hero of history, and in the 20th century during the Swedish so-called Luther Renaissance as a prophet and an interpreter of the Gospel. This does not necessarily mean that the interpretations of Luther merely reflect the various thought patterns of different epochs, that whatever is said about Luther is inevitably captured by the spirit of the time. The serious study of Luther’s writings could also lead to contradictions with common thought patterns and presuppositions. One could say that Luther’s writings have worked as “classics,” not merely confirming the status quo but also generating new patterns of thought and deed, making him something rather different than just a name, a symbol, or a flag, which sometimes have been assumed. And one can only hope that his writings will continue to work in the same way in years to come. Anyway the reception of the Lutheran heritage in Sweden is well worth studying since it in some ways differs from the reception in other Evangelic countries.

scholarly journals Exhibitions

Museum Worlds ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-157
Author(s):  
Sharon Ann Holt ◽  
Sophie Kazan ◽  
Gloriana Amador ◽  
Joanna Cobley ◽  
Blaire M. Moskowitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
African American History ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
San Jose ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History

Exhibition Review EssaysThe National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.After Darkness: Social Impact and Art InstitutionsExhibition ReviewsBehind the Red Door: A Vision of the Erotic in Costa Rican Art, The Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José“A Positive Future in Classical Antiquities”: Teece Museum, University of Canterbury, ChristchurchHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAnche le Statue Muoiono: Conflitto e Patrimonio tra Antico e Contemporaneo, Museo Egizio, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Musei Reali, TurinRethinking Human Remains in Museum Collections: Curating Heads at UCLRitratti di Famiglia, the Archaeological Museum, Bologna100% Fight – The History of Sweden, the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm

scholarly journals 14 empty airframes: public–private relations in the Swedish arms industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Åkerström
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
State Support ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Swedish History

In February 2013, the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration ordered 14 empty airframes in an effort to keep production lines open at the national arms producer Saab. This unusual example of state support is a reflection of the tight-knit relationship between state actors and the arms industry in Sweden. This article provides a case study of the political and economic factors that contributed to the order. It analyses the Swedish history of armed neutrality and military non-alignment as a driver of contemporary procurement and arms trade policies, and the formation of a “partially captive” Swedish arms market—where orders to Saab made up 60 percent of the Swedish arms procurement budget in 2018.

scholarly journals Kolonisatör eller turist? Frågor och arbetsuppgifter i svenska historieläromedel under en tid av kunskapsideologisk förhandling

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Anders Persson
Keyword(s):  
Great Majority ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
School Subject ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Swedish School

Coloniser or Tourist?: Questions and Exercises in Swedish History Textbooks, 1927–2015. The history of History as a Swedish school subject has usually been based on two sources: curriculum plans and textbook narratives. Drawing upon more than 900 exercises that occur in 72 history textbooks published 1927–2015, this article primarily examines which different approaches to history that have been prearranged to the pupils during the second half of the last century. It is shown that a great majority of the exercises, throughout the whole period of time, prescribes a simple reproduction of unchallenged truths. It is also argued that both disciplinarian assignments and aesthetic tasks, seem to appear at least as often before, as after, the 1970s. Subsequently, especially in the 1990s, the exercises occasionally ask for the individual student’s own opinions - without demanding them to consider any historical circumstances. Accordingly it is argued that while the former category of exercises most often enjoin the distanced view of the uninvolved tourist, the latter rather instructs the pupil to embrace the coloniser’s self-centred perspective of the past.

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