Denna undersökning behandlar relationerna mellan högmodernism, rasbiologi och industrialiseringen av Norrland under tidigt 1900-tal. Syftet är att analysera de samband som fanns mellan teknikutbredningen, främst i form av vattenkraft, i traditionellt samiska områden och rasbiologins väg till att bli ett etablerat forskningsfält. Herman Lundborg, som var drivande i processen för ett statligt institut för rasbiologi i Sverige, hade särskilt fokus på samerna vilket gör det intressant att studera hans idéers påverkan på industrialiseringen i Norrland. De källor som används är främst riksdagstryck gällande samer, vattenkraft och avvittring och kompletteras av annat tryckt material från intressenter för och emot industrialiseringen samt tryckt material om rashygien och rasbiologi. Genom att använda Scotts teorier om högmodernism, Adas teori om kolonial vetenskap och Headricks teori om teknik som verktyg för kolonisering nåddes slutsatserna att tekniken fungerat både som verktyg och motiv för Norrlands kolonisering. Rasbiologin gav legitimitet till idéer om rasers olika värde bidrog till det osynlighetsgörande av samerna som var nödvändigt för att kunna exploatera naturresurser inom renbeteslandet.

This paper is an historical investigation of three political ideas presented in the newspaperFäderneslandet (”The Fatherland”) during the year of 1866. The ideas are the writers viewof the working class, the treatment of the abolishment of the estate-based parliament andthe election of the new bi-cameral parliament and their view of the ideology ofscandinavianism.

This essay examines how the magazines Skogen and Sveriges Natur have used the concept ofsustainable forestry in their editorial pages, as opinion leaders, during the period 1977-2006and analyzes how the concept has changed in meaning during these years.

This thesis set out to study the concept of non-human animals in En piga bland pigor (1914)and Kåtornas folk (1916) by the journalist and author Ester Blenda Nordström (1891-1948).By contextualizing contemporary views and ideas of non-human animals by the turn of the20th century, the conceptions are analyzed through different societal perspectives. How is themeeting between Nordström, as an emancipated upper-class woman, and the marginalisedgroups of people depicted in the books affecting her view of the non-human animals? Thisquestion originates from the understanding that the presence of non-human animals inhistorical material testifies not only of hierarchical relations and cultural notions but above allit shows something about humans. That is why this thesis uses contemporary ideas of animalwelfare, gender and hygiene to understand the intersectional connection between theconceptions of humans and animals. The study shows an ambivalence in the way of viewinghumans and animals, where expressed feelings of compassion are used both as a way ofindicating that the rights of exposed groups in society should be defended and at the sametime as a way of reinforcing boundaries. Boundaries between different groups of people,classes, humans and animals.

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Denna studie undersöker förståelsen och konstruerandet av gemenskap bland senmedeltidanunnor. Studien baseras på så kallade Schwesternbücher (”systerböcker”), av hagiografininspirerade textsamlingar om uppkomsten av och livet i nunnekloster. Källmaterialet utgörs avböckerna från klostren Töss, Oetenbach och St. Katharinental i den dominikanska provinsenTeutonia. Fokus för studien är en samlingshandskrift som innehåller dessa tre böcker ochgjordes för att främja 1400-talets Observansreform. Genom en sympatisk läsning ifrågasättsdominanta antaganden ur tidigare forskning om böckernas funktion och betydelse. Böckernavisas ha en genomtänkt utbildningsfunktion för att stärka individerna och deras gemenskap somuppnås genom skicklig navigering av förväntningar från genre, teologi, och klostrets vardag.Studien öppnar för nya forskningsansatser angående rvidden och betydelsen av nunnors nätverki den senmedeltida tyskspråkiga regionen.

In this essay I will show the changes and continuity expressed in the official journal for the Swedish sports movement, Svensk Idrott. More precisely, the purpose of this essay is to investigate how the ideals of the Swedish sports movement changed or remained the same during the period 1929-1979. To further enable me to answer this my questions are as follows: What goals does the journal wish to achieve? Which groups and persons do they want to reach? How do they wish to work to achieve this? My material is the official journal for the Swedish sports movement Svensk Sport. It was a journal founded in 1929 with the expressed purpose of showing the work, goals and other aspects of Riksidrottsförbundet as well as to promote the sports movement. It eventually ended in 2013, but I have chosen to end my investigation of it in 1979 due to economic changes that caused the sports world as a whole to drastically change. My results are that due to economical and ideological changes related to commercialisation, amateuristic ideals and a democratic and feministic push within the larger people's movement changed Svensk Sport from a journal propagating amaturistic ideals with the man in focus to a journal propagating a sports for all people with less hostility to sports as a career choice.

Colonialism is a word coated with history of trauma, opression and self-governance, something most people only apply to the past. However, most people do not realize that colonialism is still alive within our modern community and all the different levels of it. This essay is a analysis if colonialism exists within the swedish archival world in the context of the indigenous people of Sweden: the Sámi. The essay shall discuss how colonialism has affected Swedish archival ways of working in regard to Sámi issues and documenation, but also how colonialism affects todays archival work and the discussion around who should manage the historical items and documets that have been stolen from the Sámi people by Sweden. As the Sámi people live in four different countries, it’s needed to point out that this essay will be focusing on the Swedish side of Sápmi, as the situation in Finland, Norway and Russia are entierly different in regard to politics and, archival practices, yet some of the discussion will be around the Norwegian work with Sámi archives and discussing how it might be applicable to Sweden. As I am part of the Sámi and indingenous community this essay will be using a indingenous perspective of colonalism and the process of decolonisation and the affect it has on our communities, not only does it affect Sweden but globally and why indigenous people are working towards de-colonizing it even if it goes against typical archival practices. As i have the knowledge in both perspectives I will discuss why this is such a complex subject and how the process of de-colonization of swedish archives looks from the Swedish and archival perspective and the Sámi indigenous.

The essay examines how parts of the Swedish bourgeois public viewed the French Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne and his essays that appeared in a Swedish translation in 1923. The essay covers the period 1850–1925, a period marked by rapid technological and economic development as well as an ideological battle between conservative idealist-religious and radical materialist-liberal currents of thoughts. In the essay Jürgen Habermas´ concept of the "bourgeois public" and Franklin L. Baumer's concept of "the new enlightenment" are used in the theoretical platform. The source material consists of articles in the press, private notes of cultural dignitaries and various literary works. The essay shows that Montaigne and his essays influenced two different Enlightenments, first as a precursor to original Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, and later as a source of inspiration for later currents of ideas within the Swedish New Enlightenment during the 19th century. Montaigne was introduced by the radicals of the new enlightenment in a Sweden that started the journey towards modernity, while it was a conservatively oriented intellectual elite that in a significantly modernized Sweden who adopted him in connection with the translations. This implied that the view of Montaigne changed from a progressive Renaissance force to a view of him as a thoughtful Stoic thinker but still with a strong emphasis on his humanism.

The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate the presented usage of folk costumes in three different folk costume exhibitions and what this presented usage may be a consequence of. The essay's issues are: What usage of the folk costume is currently represented within Swedish folk costume exhibits? What implications can be found in this representation? What are the museum's opinions on the representation and its implications? The Swedish folk costume is classified as both immaterial cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. This means that it is important to preserve both its immaterial and material qualities, one of these is the costumes use. By equating the modern way of viewing the costume as solely formal and occasion based clothing to festive folk costume and the historical view of the costume as dress to the everyday folk costume we can compare which way of perceiving the costume dominates. The exhibits studied are Dalarnas Museums, Blekinge Museums and Kulturen i Lunds folk costume exhibitions. The folk costume pieces in the exhibition were divided into categories and compared, then interviews were conducted with the museum workers to gain a further understanding of the comparative results. The survey shows that there is a gap in both the exhibitions and collections when it comes to everyday folk costumes. Consequently the modern way of viewing the folk costume is mostly present in the exhibition. Some causes may be collection bias through early collection methods, visitor interest and the museums role and responsibilities to society. Further research may be performing the same survey on a larger scale to further validate the thesis conclusions.