Publikationer

‘A Veneer over Savagery’: British Practices of Extreme Violence in China 1900-1901

Gordon, Michelle

Part of Ayer, 2024.

This article comprises an analysis of the practices used by British colonial troops in the suppression of the Boxer Uprising in China (1900-1901). It is argued that the suppression of the Boxers presents not only a colonial war, but also a broader international consensus related to extreme tactics; the rebellion was brutally suppressed by an eight-state international alliance, which included Britain. While Germany has been the focus of much research on the topic related to ‘uniquely’ violent practices, this article explores how British troops also took part in the worst aspects of this campaign and furthermore, that these practices were more than consistent with its approach across the British Empire. The ways in which military men experienced and learnt extreme violence across imperial spaces is also explored, and it points to colonial crossovers and a consensus of European conduct in colonial warfare. I will suggest key ways in which an ‘archive’ of mentalities, networks and practices of violence were transferred across and between different empires, including through an accepted practice of ‘small wars’ outside of Europe.

Sweden, the War and the Holocaust in post-war memory

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023, 2024.

Constructing ‘corrupted village

Baioud, Gegentuul

Part of Language in society (London. Print), p. 1-21, 2023.

This article analyzes the sociolinguistic construction of two gendered figures in multilingual performances, namely a category of young Mongol wives in rural societies who challenge patriarchal social order, and a group of young urban Mongol men whose dream is to be rich and indulge themselves in luxury. By drawing on the analytical framework of stance and stylization, the study analyzes how the performers’ multivalent stance-taking towards constructed personas and specific social-moral orders are communicated through their skillful stylization of multilingual resources in Inner Mongolia. It also points out that language stylization and stance-taking, taking place in reference to local cultural values and linguistic ideologies, are anchored in continually evolving ethnic, gender, and class relationships in a changing, minoritized Mongolian society in the context of Chinese modernization and capitalist marketization. (Stance-taking, language stylization, gendered discourses, Mongols, multilingualism)

De svenskjudiska rötterna letar

Carlsson, Carl Henrik

Part of Dagens Nyheter, p. 26-26, 2023.

Läget är spänt i Suwalkiområdet. Det är en liten men strategiskt viktig del av nordöstra Europa, och härifrån kom många judar en gång till Sverige. Carl Henrik Carlsson har rest till sina förfäders Raczki i Polen och nystat i historien om Suwalkikorridorens svenska anknytning.

Croats

Miljan, Goran

Part of European Fascist Movements: a Sourcebook, 2023.

The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects

Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit; Budny, Paulina; Kostić, Roland

Part of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023.AbstractThis article reviews critical responses to recent academic debates on resilience and peacebuilding, with a focus on approaches that question the underlying logics of resilient peacebuilding in fundamental ways. It argues that, while resilience in peacebuilding lends agency and new policy direction to peacebuilding actors, enabling them to uphold the image of active global governance, this also helps to legitimize the existence and reproduction of dominant global-capitalist structures and practices that undermine long-term peacebuilding and give rise to risks of conflict and environmental disasters in the first place. We argue that this process hinders transformation away from an infinite growth economy by focusing on imminent systemic risks and solutions while ignoring potential normative–theoretical and practical–experiential alternatives to the global-capitalist frameworks at the heart of the problem.

Tysk-judisk migration till Sverige

Carlsson, Carl Henrik

Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 99-117, 2023.

Artikeln är en översikt av den tysk-judiska invandringen till Sverige från 1770-talet och framåt. Till en början skedde invandringen till stor del i form av kedjemigration från Mecklenburg. Många i pionjären Aaron Isaacs släktkrets invandrade, likaså i släktkretsen kring hans kompanjon Abraham Aaron. Under 1800-talet fortsatte frivilliginvandringen men nu i mindre form av kedjemigration och med mer differentierad geografisk bakgrund än tidigare. Så småningom kom invandringen från Tyskland numerärt att överflygas av den så kallade östjudiska invandringen; av de judar som bodde i Sverige 1880 var bara åtta procent födda i Tyskland och 1920 mindre än fem procent. Många tysk-judiska invandrare vid denna tid, såsom bankmannen Louis Frænckel, gjorde betydelsefulla insatser i det svenska industriundret. Trots den restriktiva invandringspolitiken på 1930-talet kom ett antal tysk-judiska flyktingar till Sverige, såväl individuellt som genom särskilda kvoter. Många blev betydande aktörer i olika sektorer av samhället, och några blev internationellt kända namn som författaren och Nobelpristagaren Nelly Sachs och kärnfysikern Lise Meitner. Många flyktingar fick dock inte arbete som motsvarade deras utbildningar. Bland ”1945 års räddade” fanns tämligen få från Tyskland.

Talking to the State: Interviewing the Elites about What’s Not to Be Said

Markiewicz, Tadek

Part of International Studies Perspectives, 2023.

From Diversity to Homogeneity: Vacillating Signifieds in Propaganda Texts in Inner Mongolia

Baioud, Gegentuul

Part of Inner Asia, p. 39-48, 2023.

This article explores the shifting connotations of two key terms in propaganda texts on bilingual education policy in Inner Mongolia. The two terms are dumdadu-yin ündüsten (Ch.: Zhonghua minzu, Chinese nation) and ulus-un neidem hereglehü üge hel (Ch.: guojia tongyong yuyan, national common language). I examine how the meanings of these key terms have begun to shift as China strives to shed its multinational character and build a linguistically homogenous Chinese nation-state. The new prominence given to the term dumdadu-yin ündüsten (Chinese nation) and the gradual substitution of the terms neitelig hel (Ch.: putonghua) and khitad hel (Han language) with the term ulus-un neidem hereglehü üge hel (national common language) in propaganda texts in Inner Mongolia reflect and shape China’s changing policies on its borderlands. In this brief exploratory article, I underline how the Mongolian terms referring to the Chinese nation and national common language undergo shifts in their meanings as what sits at the very core of these terms – the Han – irrepressibly exposes itself and subsumes other meaning potentials.

Language shift and language (re)vitalisation: the roles played by women and men in Northern Fenno-Scandia

Bull, Tove; Huss, Leena; Lindgren, Anna-Riitta

Part of Multilingua - Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communication, p. 367-393, 2023.

The research question of the present paper is the following: to what degree (if any) is gender relevant as an explanatory factor in, firstly, the process of assimilation and later, the process of (re)vitalisation of indigenous and minority languages in northern Fenno-Scandia (the North Calotte)? The assimilation of the ethnic groups in question was a process initiated and lead by the authorities in the three different countries. Finland, Sweden and Norway. Nevertheless, members of the indigenous and minority groups also took part in practicing, though, not necessarily promoting, the official assimilation politics, for different reasons. (Re)vitalisation, on the other hand, was initially - and still is - mostly a process stemming from the minority groups themselves, though the authorities to a certain extent have embraced it. The paper thus addresses the question of whether gender played a role in the two different processes, assimilation and (re)vitalisation, and if that was the case, how and why.

‘May God have mercy on his black soul’: Consul General Olof Lamm’s private diplomatic efforts to save Jews from Nazi persecution

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2023.

This article examines the private diplomatic efforts of Olof Lamm. A Swedish Jewish ex-diplomat and businessman, he used his personal network to protest against Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany, and informally lobbied the United States to increase its immigration quotas. Shedding light on these informal back-channel diplomatic networks, the author provides examples of the attitudes and obstacles Lamm faced when dealing with individuals, and reveals how those he petitioned justified their defense of Nazi ideology and actions and their own restrictive immigration policies.Open access

The unwanted citizens: The ‘Legality’ of Jewish destruction in Croatia and Romania during World War II

Miljan, Goran; Anders, Blomqvist

Part of Comparative Legal History/ Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2023.

This article examines the establishment of the legal framework that led to the destruction and elimination of Jewish communities in Croatia and Romania during World War II. It argues that both regimes, supported by domestic fascist ideologies, evolving antisemitism, and inspired by the Nazi regime, promulgated anti-Jewish legal norms to present and establish new political, ideological, and social values and categories to their citizens. This article employs the theoretical framework of norms developed by Paul Morrow, whereby norms are seen as practical prescriptions, permissions or prohibitions. We argue that these destructive norms served as guidelines for individuals within the fascist new worldview and new reality. As such, these norms received state authorisation and implementation, serving as the ‘legal’ basis for the institutional destruction of unwanted citizens. This gave local and state actors a ‘legal’ pretext for the persecution and murder of Jews, who were stripped of their rights, assets, properties and right to life. The article concludes that the two legal frameworks enacted the process by which Jewish communities in Croatia and Romania faced a devastation of unseen proportions, which testifies to the importance and impact of legal norms on individuals, be they victims, bystanders or perpetrators.

The unwanted citizens: The ‘Legality’ of Jewish destruction in Croatia and Romania during World War II

Miljan, Goran; Blomqvist, Anders E. B.

Part of Comparative Legal History/ Hart Publishing, Oxford, p. 1-30, 2023.

Deportations of Roma from Hungary and the Mass Killing at Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1941

Blomqvist, Anders, 2023.

In late August 1941, approximately 24,000 individuals, primarily Jews, were massacred in one of the initial mass killings at Kamianets-Podilskyi by the Nazi-German Sonderkommando. Some researchers assert that Roma from Hungary and Hungarian-occupied Transcarpathia (present-day Ukraine) were deported. These scholars claim that Roma became victims, despite the absence of explicit mentions in official German reports. Other researchers suggest that while Hungarian leaders had plans to deport Roma, this scheme was never carried out, resulting in no Roma being deported or killed.New evidence presented in this article supports the implementation of these plans, indicating that around 500 to 1,000 Roma were expelled from Transcarpathia. Additionally, census data reinforces a significant reduction in the Roma population, with at least 777 Roma accounted for. Another piece of evidence suggests the expulsion of non-Jewish groups across borders, likely including Roma. However, the primary counterargument remains: the lack of post-deportation reports mentioning Roma.Regarding the massacre and the potential Roma victims, there is only circumstantial evidence supporting the claim of mass killings. This includes verbal orders to exterminate Roma and victim categorization implying their presence among the victims. Further circumstantial evidence lies in reports of Roma killings by the same Sonderkommando in other locations. However, these reports do not explicitly mention Roma as victims, leaving ambiguity—whether they were excluded intentionally or were not victims at all.It is probable that approximately 1,000 Roma were deported. Reports from 1942 state that Roma were killed in Kamianets-Podilskyi and its vicinity. Some survived, while others perished.

Anti-fascism and the nationality question in the ethnic Romanian-Hungarian borderlands: The case of Satu Mare 1930–1938

Blomqvist, Anders

Part of Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities, 2023.

The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies

Markiewicz, Tadek

Part of Contemporary Politics, 2023.

This article proposes to focus on vulnerability in the operationalisation of securitisation theory. It argues that in empirical investigations we often fail to acknowledge that security acts may reflect weakness, not strength. Employing second-generation securitisation research, it first problematizes the common approach to securitisation. Namely, that the self-referential conceptualisation of security acts, together with the realist understanding of power, lead to interpretations of securitisation as a tool of unprincipled statecraft. Secondly, drawing on Brown’s work on border walling, the article reasons that securitisation is predicated on vulnerability. Vulnerability is a legitimising necessity of securitisation. One cannot designate a threat without tying it to vulnerability (real/imagined). Securitisations are essentially claims of vulnerability. Thirdly, utilising contextual and narrative analysis of two case studies, this paper illustrates how securitisations are coupled with vulnerability. The article formalizes a generative research avenue of securitisation. One that better accounts for the intersubjective aspects of security acts.

'Rise up and walk!' The Church of Sweden and the 'problem of vagrancy' in the early twentieth century

Al Fakir, Ida

Part of Scandinavian Journal of History, p. 156-177, 2022.

The article examines how people within the Church of Sweden's leadership tried to solve 'the problem of vagrancy' in Sweden in the early twentieth century. In focus are the priest John Melander and the deacon Josef Flinth, who advocated and realized various activities for categories of poor and mobile men in the population. These interventions, defined as help-to-self-help, differentiated between the 'worthy' and the 'unworthy' needy. In publications and lectures, Melander and Flinth presented arguments to transfer 'unworthy' categories to the 'worthy', thereby expanding the community of value. This expansion was conditioned, however, by boundaries drawn regarding ideas on belonging and ethnicity. Working in the borderlands of the community as part of a Christian calling, Melander and Flinth contributed to the expansion of social work in the early twentieth century.

Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization

Baioud, Gegentuul; Khuanuud, Cholmon

Part of Journal of Sociolinguistics, p. 315-334, 2022.

As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony. This paper analyses: (1) the process of establishing iconized links between language, culture, land and race on the second order of indexicalities; (2) the orthographic representation of mixed Mongolian and “pure” Mongolian in the Mongolian social media space Bainu. The study illuminates the interdiscursive processes of presuming and constructing linguistic, cultural, and ethnic boundaries by subaltern groups in an assimilationist nation state.

“Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers”: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Organization

Iordachi, Constantin; Miljan, Goran

Part of Terrorism and Political Violence, p. 1-20, 2022.

This article advances an interdisciplinary and multifactorial socio-cultural approach to the fascistization of the Ustaša in interwar Yugoslavia, leading to terrorism and racial cleansing. It concentrates on the life-trajectories of Mijo Babić and Zvonimir Pospišil, two nationalist activists notoriously known as the first Ustaša terrorists. Drawing on the previously unknown political memoirs of Pospišil and Babić, the article argues that the two activists bridged several phases of cumulative radicalization in the Ustaša organization, from the adop- tion of political violence at the grass-root level in the 1920s to international terrorism in the 1930s and then state-sponsored genocide in the first half of the 1940s. The article points out that Ustaša underwent most forms of political radicalization to terrorism identified by McCauley and Moskalenko (2008), but it also adds to their typology a case of radicalization to mass violence in the regime phase. Ustaša’s trajectory thus illustrates a rare process of transition from the radicalization of an oppositional, non-state group to mass radicaliza- tion leading to racial genocidal policies under a fascist-totalitarian regime. It is hoped that the biographical approach to radicalization advanced by the article contributes to a better understanding of politically motivated terrorism and mass violence in post-1918 Europe.

An Undeniable Duty: Swedish Jewish Humanitarian Aid to Jews in Nazi- Occupied Europe during World War II

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of More than Parcels, p. 119-146, 2022.

Sveriges historia för släktforskare

Axelsson, Roger; Bergström, Carin; Carlsson, Carl Henrik; Ling, Sofia

Natur och kultur, 2022.

A transatlantic friendship: Dutch American historian and writer Hendrik Willem van Loon and his wartime Swedish contacts

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of To Take Us Lands Away, p. 141-153, 2022.

Källor till judarnas historia i Sverige

Carlsson, Carl Henrik, Riksarkivet, 2022.

Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing

Gordon, Michelle; O'Sullivan, Rachel, 2022.

Förord

Simonsson, Olov

Part of Ingen har större kärlek, p. 13-15, 2022.

A Mention to Those not Mentioned: Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008, 2022.

Becker, Lior

Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. It answers questions regarding who produced them, why, when, where and in which languages and discusses the roles the books played, and the memory they produced in relation to Jewish, Iraeli and American memory culture.This is the largest survey of Yizkor books to date, using more than 1,500 texts by Yizkor book publishers, editors and other important figures as primary sources, as well as thirty complete books, It provides new historical knowledge on the people who initiated and took part in the publication process, the kind of Holocaust memory produced, and how the composition of the editorial and publishing groups, , the languages of publication and the memory of the Holocaust contained in the books changed over time and place. The results are further developed and contextualized using theories on collective memory.This research demonstrates that the publishers and editors of Yizkor books were a significantly more heterogeneous group than previously claimed. Four groups of publishers are identified: landsmanschaftn, other organizations, individuals without an organization around them and schoolchildren. A wide variety of editors are distinguished, from professional Yizkor book editors, to professionals in other fields and people with no relevant background in editing, who took it on themselves to complete this difficult task. The reasons for publication vary, but included personal and familial connections, the guilt felt by survivors and the urge to tell the world what had happened.The study also analyses the intended functions of the books according to their authors. Most notably, the books were used as “places of memory”, as gravestones and memorial candles, and as a place to say the kaddish for the many victims whose time and place of death were unknown. In the context of the collective memory of the Holocaust, three main aspects are discussed: the significant place of the diaspora in the commemoration of the community, the prevalence of Zionism in the communities before the war and the idea of universal martyrdom for all victims of the Holocaust, regardless of the circumstances of their life and death.

Yearning for a homogeneous Chinese nation: digital propaganda campaigns after the 2020 protest in Inner Mongolia

Bai, Gegentuul; Khuanuud, Cholmon

Part of Central Asian Survey, p. 1-22, 2022.

This study examines the digital propaganda campaigns carried outby the Chinese Communist Party in Inner Mongolia followingMongols’ protest against the bilingual education reform in 2020.It analyses texts and images posted on WeChat official accountsof the Inner Mongolia Daily and Inner Mongolia EducationDepartment. Through a detailed discourse and semiotic analysesof propaganda texts we reveal that the national unity anddevelopment discourses are replete with Han-centricassimilationist ideology. In our analysis, by drawing on aBakhtinian chronotope, we foreground how the past, present andfuture are turned into a unified folkloric-cum-colonial space–time.This study also elucidates how the drastic policy shift and the rearticulation of national form in China is reflected in publiclycirculated words and images in Inner Mongolia.

Ivar Philipson och de danska judarnas Dunkerque

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of Någonstans i Sverige, p. 99-123, 2022.

Decolonizing Futures: Collaborations for New Indigenous Horizons

Maruyama, Hiroshi; Boersma, Meindert; Charbonneau, Lena; Colbengtson, Tomas et al. 2022.

Roma in Soviet Ukraine: Ways of Life and Forced Sedentarisation Before and After the Second World War

Abakunova, Hanna

Part of Multiethnica, p. 63-80, 2022.

This article introduces a variety of Romani groups living in Soviet Ukraine and their ways of life—sedentary, semi-nomadic and nomadic—highlighting that semi-nomadism is omitted category in scholarship even though most of the Roma in Soviet Ukraine maintained a semi-nomadic way of life. Through the discussion of the notion of nomadism, the research analyses how the Romani ways of life have changed over time from before and after the Second World War. Examining the Soviet policy towards the Roma in Soviet Ukraine (1930s–1950s), particularly, the creation of the kolkhoz system and the issue of the “Khrushchev Decree”, the paper argues that the changes in Romani ways of life occurred due to suppressive policies of the Soviet state directed to the forced sedentarisation of Roma.

Multiethnica Volume 42

Kostić, Roland, 2022.

Rwanda 1994: The Creation of Religious Identities in Genocide Propaganda

Simonsson, Olov

Part of The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide, 2021

In Rwanda in the early 1990s, more than 90 per cent of the Rwandans were Christians. Although religion was not the central issue of the war and the genocide, this study shows that Hutu extremist propagandists injected divine elements into the profane anti-Tutsi messages, to separate the Tutsis from Hutus and make genocide morally acceptable to the Christian Hutu population.

Using extensive sources consisting of Hutu extremis media propaganda from both the Rwandan civil war and genocide 1990-1994, the chapter demonstrates how the Hutu extremist propagandists used a religiously influenced rhetoric to create separate religious identities for the groups, by arguing that the Tutsis were in league with the devil, that they were heathens, or atheists. In contrast, Hutus were presented as pious, with their own god – ‘the Rwandan God’ – a God who not only accepted the extermination of the Rwandan Tutsis but also encouraged it.

Naturalization and discrimination. Eastern Jews and other immigrants in Sweden, 1860 to 1923

Carlsson, Carl Henrik

Part of Citizenship under pressure. An institutional narrative about naturalizationin changing boundaries (1880-1923), 2021.

The Glorification of Memory: Jan Tomasz Gross and ‘History Policy’ in Contemporary Poland

Szymańska-Smolkin, Sylwia

Part of Memories in Conflict, 2021.

Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland: The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido

Hennessey, John

Part of Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona, p. 55-81, 2021.

In the 1870s, William Smith Clark was a successful botanist and president of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Nevertheless, frustrated by university politics, financial difficulties, and perhaps a midlife crisis, Clark was recruited by the Japanese government to establish an agricultural college on the northeast Asian island of Hokkaido, where Japan had recently begun an ambitious settler colonial project. In this mutable context, Clark skilfully combined numerous masculine identities, including scientist, missionary, teacher, and explorer, to craft a flamboyant persona that won him lasting respect in Japan. Less suited to Massachusetts, Clark’s inflated persona destroyed his academic and scientific career after his return, however. This chapter explores the construction of personae in “home” and “abroad” contexts and the tensions and opportunities that emerge from travel between them.

Judarnas historia i Halmstad

Carlsson, Carl Henrik

Part of Moderniteten som framgång och tragedi, p. 51-64-, 2021.

Fascism and (Transnational) Social Movements: A Reflection on Concepts and Theory in Comparative Fascist Studies

Dulić, Tomislav

Part of Fascism, p. 202-227, 2021.

Scholars have recently begun advocating for the application of social movement theory in the analysis of the rise and development of fascist political entities. While representing a welcome effort to increase the theoretical depth in the analysis of fascism, the approach remains hampered by conceptual deficiencies. The author addresses some of these by the help of a critical discussion that problematises the often incoherent ways in which the concept of ‘movement’ is used when describing fascist political activity both within and across national borders. The analysis then turns to the application of social movement theory to the historical example of the Ustašas. While recent research on social movements has begun to explore the role and character of transnationalism, this case study analysis suggests that the lack of supra-national organisations during the period of ‘classic’ fascism prevented the emergence of a ‘transnational public space’ where fascist movements could have participated. The conclusion is that rather than acting and organising on a ‘transnational’ level, fascist entities appear to have limited themselves to state-based international ‘knowledge-transfer’ of a traditional type.

Tysk-judisk inflytande på svensk-judiskt hjälparbete, 1933–39

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of Heimat Sverige?, p. 331-347, 2021.

Med bittert bläck: Exilförfattaren Werner Lansburgh i Sverige

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of Heimat Sverige?, p. 307-326, 2021.

Jacob Ettlinger. En otypisk tysk jude i Sverige

Carlsson, Carl Henrik

Part of Heimat Sverige? Tysk-judisk emigration till Sverige 1774-1945, p. 79-88-, 2021.

Judarnas historia i Sverige

Carlsson, Carl Henrik

Natur och kultur, 2021.

”Den som pekar på andras brister visar därigenom sina egna”

Rudberg, Pontus

Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 117-118, 2021.

Multiethnica Volume 41

Dulić, Tomislav; Gröndahl, Satu, 2021.

Från hjälp till självhjälp: Emgranternas självhjälp och dess verksamhet från grundandet 1938 till avvecklingen på 1950-talet

Scholz, Michael F.; Müssener, Helmut

Part of Heimat Sverige?, p. 369-408, 2021.

I denna artikel beskrivs ursprunget till, blomstringstiden och de sista åren av Emigrantenselbsthilfe (ES), en självhjälpsorganisation för tyskspråkiga judiska emigranter, som hittills har försummats i den samtida historiska forskningen. Två av ES:s nyckelpersoner, Fritz Hollander och Wolfgang Steinitz, uppmärksammas särskilt, och orsakerna till att ES nästan "glömts bort" diskuteras.

Genmäle till Maria Karlsson: Om Förintelsens lärdomar

Bortz, Olof

Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 704-711, 2021.

Att komma hem: Identitetsskapande i modern samisk litteratur

Gröndahl, Satu, Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 101-121, 2021.

In this article, I examine how modern Sámi identity is described in the novels of Annica Wennström and Ann-Helén Laestadius. Both authors deal with female protagonists, who live in cities outside the traditional areas of Sápmi, but who as young adults become deeply interested in their family history. The narrators are relating a historyof denial in which everything that had to do with “Sáminess” should be silenced and forgotten as well as a story about young protagonists who try to reconstruct their individual identity in a modern and globalized world. The theoretical framework derives mainly from social psychology and gender studies. The relationship between modernity and the individual “self” has been analysed by Anthony Giddens who suggests that globalization has been linked with extensive consequences for the personal life on an individual level,and the self has become a reflexive project that each individual must construct and preserve.Wennström’s and Laestadius’ novels are challenging the borders ofthe collective identity of their group. The novels speak for a widened and more open collective Sámi identity, which includes the Sámis living in urban environments, and even those who do not master the Sámi language. The protagonists are also very much aware of the changeability and conceptuality of self-identity, as they became aware of their own possibilities to create a reflexive and trustworthy self-narrative. Both authors are writing about protagonists whose self-identity is been processed in a profound,even distressing, way. In the end of the novels, the protagonists have acquired enough self-regard and integrity to maintain the feeling that their “self” is living and they can reflexively control it.

Memories in Conflict: Historical Trauma, Collective Memory and Justice Since 1989

Dulić, Tomislav, 2021.

This volume explores the relationship between political change and collective memory about traumatic historical events since 1989. Departing from an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective that bridges the divide between the humanities and social sciences, four empirical chapters provide in-depth analyses of the profound effect the changes that began with the fall of the socialist system in Eastern Europe have had on the way in which traumatic memories of the past have been dealt with during the last three decades.By exploring case studies from Poland, Croatia, the United Kingdom and Chile, the contributions show how traumatic collective mem-ories have been used in state-sponsored memory production, for the purpose of national mobilisation and as a means by which to mobilise social movements. While focusing on different perspec-tives across time and space, the case studies thus highlight the con-nection between collective memory, identity and calls for justice on both societal and group levels.

Jewish archives and sources in the Nordic countries: The current state of affairs and future perspectives

Pataricza, Dóra; Muir, Simo; Bak, Sofie Lene; Følner, Bjarke et al.

Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 54-80, 2021.AbstractThis article aims to give an overview of Jewish archives and archival sources in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Besides describing significant existing collections, the article looks into ongoing archival projects, digitizing and infrastructure programs, and maps out future challenges.