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Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:45
I-2 RUR10 The future of European Rural History: approaches and perspectives
Room N1 O1
Network: Rural Chair: Piet van Cruyningen
Organizers: - Discussant: Carl-Johan Gadd
Marion Leffler : The construction of social memory and history in farm workers' autobiographies in Sweden in the late 1940s
This paper will examine the construction of a class-based version of history and social memory in the autobiographies of Swedish farm workers in the 1940s. These autobiographies were initiated by the Swedish Farm Workers' Union and the Nordiska museet (Nordic museum) in 1945, as the so called statare system came ... (Show more)
This paper will examine the construction of a class-based version of history and social memory in the autobiographies of Swedish farm workers in the 1940s. These autobiographies were initiated by the Swedish Farm Workers' Union and the Nordiska museet (Nordic museum) in 1945, as the so called statare system came to an end. Out of 140 autobiographies, 21 were selected by the iniators for publication. It can be argued that these selected autobiographies were considered to be representative of the social memory and sense of history of the farm workers at that time. (Show less)

Janken Myrdal : The agricultural history of Sweden
"´The agricultural history of Sweden" has been published in five volumes, 2100 pages (in Swedish). The first volume was published 1998 and the last is published 2003. They cover the periods:
Vol 1 - to AD 1000
Vol 2 - 1000-1700
Vol 3 - 1700-1870
Vol 4 - 1870-1945
Vol 5 - 1945-2000
I have been ... (Show more)
"´The agricultural history of Sweden" has been published in five volumes, 2100 pages (in Swedish). The first volume was published 1998 and the last is published 2003. They cover the periods:
Vol 1 - to AD 1000
Vol 2 - 1000-1700
Vol 3 - 1700-1870
Vol 4 - 1870-1945
Vol 5 - 1945-2000
I have been the main editor and also wrote vol 2. I should like to present how the project was planned, and also theories, methods and terminology we discussed during the process of research and writing. The project was interdisciplinary with authors from agricultural history, economic history, archaeology, historical geography, archaeology and ethnology. (Show less)

Anton Schuurman : Rural culture between modernisation and globalisation
In the classical modernisation model the countryside was viewed as traditional and static. Then in the nineteenth century it was suddenly modernised. In this essay I want to contribute to the renewal of the history of rural culture. At the same time I want to renew the concept of modernisation ... (Show more)
In the classical modernisation model the countryside was viewed as traditional and static. Then in the nineteenth century it was suddenly modernised. In this essay I want to contribute to the renewal of the history of rural culture. At the same time I want to renew the concept of modernisation by comparing it with the concept of glocalisation. I this manner I want to free the rural inhabitants from their role as victims of progress and to emphasis that modenisation is a process and not a change of state.

I begin by describing the modernity of the Dutch countryside in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I the argue that in the nineteenth century the position of the countryside changed in response to the process of nation-building, industrialisation and commercialisation. In the period 1850-1950/1970 the countryside prospered thanks to the process of modernisation. Nevertheless, during this period the perception of the countryside was quite different. It was seen as traditional. Ironically this traditional image was partly created by the process of modernisation.

To get a better idea of rural culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century I distinguish three waves of change: the civilisation offensive, pillarisation and regionalism. I describe the impact on rural culture of gentleman farmers and of the religious groups and, finally, the development and construction of regional cultures within the nation-state.

In my conclusion I draw a comparison with contemporary processes of political, economical, social and cultural transformation arising from European integration and globalisation. Once again we are seeing a search for identity and national and nationalistic reactions. One of the concepts used for analysing these contemporary chagnes, ‘glocalisation’, gives me the oportunity to emphasise that modernisation must not be seen as a simple unilinear process, but as a stuctured process. (Show less)



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