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1	Alla vägar bär till fjälls : En undersökning om snö i det norska nationalprojektet under sent 1800-tal Bohlin, Rebecka January 2024 (has links) All Roads Lead to the Snow-Capped Mountains: An Examination of Snow in Norwegian Nation Building During the Late 19th Century. Uppsala University: Dep. of History of Science and Ideas, Bachelor of Art’s thesis, spring term 2024. This essay examines three literary works by Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. The purpose is to explore the ways in which snow played a part in Norwegian nationalism at the end of the 19th century. At the time that Nansen’s books were originally published, Norway had been at the political and cultural mercy of its neighboring nations for the past five centuries. An ambition for complete independence was brewing, and Fridtjof Nansen became part of a group of intellectuals tasked with creating a new national identity, one that was constructed through the creation of cultural borders and visions of a nation aligned with a perceived glorious past. National romanticism had a strong grip on Europe in general during this time, and infusing the national identity with a romanticized nature was commonplace. Norway is no exception to this, but the argument put forth here is that snow played a particular part in creating the new nation, aside from the rest of nature. Fridtjof Nansen personified, through his own activism and resistance to the unions, the Norwegian identity, and became in a sense synonymous with it. Through his personal relationship with snow, snow became personal to the nation. Norway snow nationalism national identity borealism nature polar research national romanticism Norge snö nationalism nationell identitet borealism natur polarforskning nationalromantik History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria
2	Från föhn till feu! : Esrange och den norrländska rymdverksamhetens tillkomsthistoria från sekelskiftet 1900 till 1966 / From föhn to feu! : The history of Esrange and the Northern Swedish spaceactivity from the turn of the century 1900 until 1966 Backman, Fredrick January 2010 (has links) <p>This essay is about the origin, planning and establishment of the European Space Research Organisation's (ESRO) sounding rocket base Esrange outside Kiruna in Northern Sweden. Three main questions are examined. First I show there were not just scientific and technical but also political, economical as well as military reasons to build a European rocket base. Second, I scrutinize the reasons to choose Northern Sweden as the location for the rocket base. As it turns out, the main reasons were the favourable location of Northern Sweden within the aurora oval zone, the proximity of the Kiruna Geophysical Observatory, and the possibility to use a large, although not quite uninhabited, area where the launched rockets could crash. Finally, I examine the difficulty of talking about boundaries of various kinds, such as temporal, spatial and functional. The essay also provides a discussion on possible ways to continue research on this topic.</p> Esrange Kiruna space physics geophysics rocket engineering technology ESRO ESA northern lights aurora observatory research station Vassijaure Abisko STS history of science polar rocket base Esrange Kiruna Norrland rymdverksamhet rymdfysik geofysik raket teknologi samer ESRO ESA norrsken aurora borealis observatorium forskningsstation Vassijaure Abisko STS vetenskapsstudier vetenskapshistoria polarforskning norrskensforskning raketbas History of science Vetenskapshistoria History of science and ideas Idé- o lärdomshistoria History of technology Teknikhistoria History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria Technology and culture Teknik och kultur Other earth sciences Övrig geovetenskap Geophysics Geofysik Space engineering Rymdteknik Space physics Rymdfysik
3	Från föhn till feu! : Esrange och den norrländska rymdverksamhetens tillkomsthistoria från sekelskiftet 1900 till 1966 / From föhn to feu! : The history of Esrange and the Northern Swedish spaceactivity from the turn of the century 1900 until 1966 Backman, Fredrick January 2010 (has links) This essay is about the origin, planning and establishment of the European Space Research Organisation's (ESRO) sounding rocket base Esrange outside Kiruna in Northern Sweden. Three main questions are examined. First I show there were not just scientific and technical but also political, economical as well as military reasons to build a European rocket base. Second, I scrutinize the reasons to choose Northern Sweden as the location for the rocket base. As it turns out, the main reasons were the favourable location of Northern Sweden within the aurora oval zone, the proximity of the Kiruna Geophysical Observatory, and the possibility to use a large, although not quite uninhabited, area where the launched rockets could crash. Finally, I examine the difficulty of talking about boundaries of various kinds, such as temporal, spatial and functional. The essay also provides a discussion on possible ways to continue research on this topic. Esrange Kiruna space physics geophysics rocket engineering technology ESRO ESA northern lights aurora observatory research station Vassijaure Abisko STS history of science polar rocket base Esrange Kiruna Norrland rymdverksamhet rymdfysik geofysik raket teknologi samer ESRO ESA norrsken aurora borealis observatorium forskningsstation Vassijaure Abisko STS vetenskapsstudier vetenskapshistoria polarforskning norrskensforskning raketbas History of science Vetenskapshistoria History of science and ideas Idé- o lärdomshistoria History of technology Teknikhistoria History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria Technology and culture Teknik och kultur Other earth sciences Övrig geovetenskap Geophysics Geofysik Space engineering Rymdteknik Space physics Rymdfysik

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