Progress or Perish: Northern Perspectives on Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781409404248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

Aini Linjakumpu;Sandra Wallenius

Opis

Drawing on contemporary and historical case studies from Finland, Sweden and Norway, Progress or Perish highlights the roles that art, culture and academic research play alongside technology and economics as bearers of change, approaching the study of progress from the human level. By turning attention towards communities and the everyday social activities of individuals in their socio-cultural and microhistorical contexts, this volume links the idea of progress to the emancipation and empowerment of collectives. Multidisciplinary in nature, Progress or Perish brings together the work of leading scholars to explore the changes that individual and social agency can effect. It engages with the wider theoretical and methodological debates to be of key interest to sociologists, geographers and anthropologists, as well as those with interests in gender studies, cultural and environmental history, literary studies and political science.

Recenzje

'Progress or Perish offers a freshening blow from the North to the analysis of social change. It reveals the social construction of progress through detailed study of micro-histories, arts and common experiences hitherto often written off in existing literature. It is a worthy contribution to those intrigued by the Northern communities, be they sociologists, geographers, cultural historians or lay observers of political life.' Samu Pehkonen, University of Tampere, Finland

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Aini Linjakumpu, Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo; Chapter 2 History as a Project of Progress? The North as a Focus of Attention, Marja Tuominen; Chapter 3 'Chapters' of Progress '” The Case of a Village Idiot, Pälvi Rantala; Chapter 4 Progress and Emotions in Lapland, Aini Linjakumpu; Chapter 5 Remembering and Forgetting the Second World War in Finland: The Politics of Memory in Online Discussions, Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo; Chapter 6 Narratives of Progress in the Politics of Urho Kekkonen and the Agrarian League, Petri Koikkalainen; Chapter 7 Northern Universities and the Changing Status of Minorities, Lars Elenius; Chapter 8 Slow Activism: Art in Progress in the North, Mirja Hiltunen; Chapter 9 From Emotional Memory to Active Awareness: Counter-Memory and Resistance in Torne Valley Finnish Literature, Riitta Kontio; Chapter 10 Women Behind the Camera in the Early Twentieth Century at the Arctic Circle: A Step Towards Independence, Mervi Autti; Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks, Aini Linjakumpu, Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo;

O autorze

Aini Linjakumpu is Lecturer of Politics in the Department of Social Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo is a researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland.