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Adventures of an export salesman : travel, race, and sex abroad in a 1970s Finnish pornographic magazine
During the 1970s, pornographic magazines that envisioned the Finnish man sovereignly enjoying sexual pleasures in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and the Far East became extremely popular in Finland. In this article it is argued that pornographic magazines functioned as geographical as well as sexual maps; through the medium of magazines, Finnish readers were educated to think o
The walking stick in the nineteenth-century city : Conflicting ideals of urban walking
This article reflects on the role of the walking stick in the nineteenth-century city and explores the nature of the criticisms directed at it. The criticism and mocking of certain ways of holding the cane display the deep conflicts within the culture of urban strolling concerning how to take part in it, and who were allowed to do so. By identifying an irritation with canes, we see that there was
A Passport to Peace? : Modern Tourism and Internationalist Idealism
Catchy slogans about tourism’s peace-promoting qualities abound—‘passport to peace’, ‘a vital force for peace’, and ‘the peace industry’, to name but a few. Yet, despite the critical scrutiny of the peace–tourism nexus in recent decades, its historical origins remain unexplored. This article traces the historical roots of the idea that tourism can help advance peace and international understanding
Historical GIS and Guidebooks : A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions
This article demonstrates the value of “scalable reading” of historical travel guides, combining traditional close reading with computer-assisted distant reading. Aiming to scrutinize the persistence of older tourist attractions under communism, we analyse guidebooks intended for similar audiences but produced under different political regimes. More specifically, we compare three travel guides to
Reading patterns : Dressmaking sections in women’s magazines in the 1960s and 1970s
På 1960- och 70-talet var det vanligt att svenska damtidningar hade särskilda avdelningar för hemsömnad av kläder. I en tid då konfektion var dyrt hade sy själv-sidorna en viktig funktion i konkurrensen om de kvinnliga läsarna. Tonåringar läste tidningarna i jakt på modeller att kopiera för att kunna klä sig enligt det senaste modet. Trots betydelsen av sådana specialavdelningar har de endast fåttIn the 1960s and 1970s, many women’s magazines had special sections for home dressmaking. At a time when ready-to-wear clothing was expensive, the sew-it-yourself pages had an important function to win over competition among female readers. Teenagers read the magazines in search of clothing designs to copy in order to dress according to the latest fashion. Despite the importance of such special se
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A Clash of Ideals : The Introduction of Televised Information in Sweden, 1969–1972
In 1969, a government report concluded that there was a need for closer contact between the citizens and Swedish government agencies. Television, at this time still considered a new medium, was highlighted in the report as a valuable form of mass communication with great yet unfulfilled promise as a disseminator of government information. A heated debate about the role and function of government i
The Many Faces of Performative Politics : Satires of Statesman Bernhard von Bülow in Wilhelmine Germany
While historical and contemporary thinkers have described politics as theater, this article moves beyond this representation of politics to understand how performance was central to politics around the turn of the twentieth century. It does so through an analysis of a large volume of hitherto unstudied caricatures of the German statesman Bernhard von Bülow. While historians usually describe satire
Distant reading televised public information : The communication of Swedish government agencies, 1978-2020
This study focuses on the Swedish public information programme Anslagstavlan, a unique audiovisual communication tool for Swedish government agencies since 1972 and an important part of Sweden’s audiovisual cultural heritage. Whereas digital research methodologies for data-driven text analysis have been developed and established over the last decades, the use of digital tools in the analysis of au
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This thesis is a study of the moral, medical, and socioeconomic arguments in favor of a racial hygienic sterilization legislation carried out in conservative, social democratic and socialist newspapers in Denmark from 1911-1923. While the sterilization legislation did not come into effect until 1933, the question was heavily discussed publicly in the preceding years. The public belief in omniscien
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter | The Subject of History 24 Sep KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter 24 September 2025 15:00 to 17:00 Seminar Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho, PhDs at the Department of Communication LU, will present a draft for a book chapter on how families engage in cosy med
Humaniora i välfärdssamhället : Kunskapshistorier om efterkrigstiden
Humaniora genomgick en djupgående förändring under efterkrigstiden, både som vetenskapsfält och kulturell företeelse. Av många kom humanistiska studier gradvis att uppfattas som en överflödig lyxföreteelse och klassisk bildning tappade mark i utbildningssystemet. Naturvetenskap, medicin och samhällsvetenskap hade avgjort lättare att motivera sin existens i folkhemmets Sverige. Men även om humaniorThis book highlights the diverse roles of the humanities in the history of the Swedish welfare society. This society has often been seen as dominated by an instrumental view of knowledge that rewarded the social sciences, natural sciences and technology, but the contributions in this book show the significant role that the humanities played in the Swedish welfare state. Various forms of humanistic
From socialist hero to capitalist icon : The cultural transfer of the East German children’s television programme Unser Sandmännchen to Sweden in the early 1970s
Based on a case study of the import of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)children’s programmeUnser Sandm€annchento Sweden in the early 1970s, thisarticle explores the cultural recoding at work in the processes of transnational mediaexchange. Using archival source material from both Germany and Sweden as well asSwedish press debate, the article argues for an entangled media perspective on ColdWar
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter | Historia 24 sep KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter 24 september 2025 15:00 till 17:00 Seminarium Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho, PhDs at the Department of Communication LU, will present a draft for a book chapter on how families engage in cosy media practi
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter | Historiska institutionen 24 sep KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter 24 september 2025 15:00 till 17:00 Seminarium Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho, PhDs at the Department of Communication LU, will present a draft for a book chapter on how families engage in c
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter | The joint faculties of humanities and theology 24 Sep KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter 24 September 2025 15:00 to 17:00 Seminar Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho, PhDs at the Department of Communication LU, will present a draft for a book chapter on how fam
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter
KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter | Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna 24 sep KOM Seminar Series: Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho - draft for a book chapter 24 september 2025 15:00 till 17:00 Seminarium Magnus Johansson and Hario Priambodho, PhDs at the Department of Communication LU, will present a draft for a book chapter on how fami
KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Håkan Johansson - “Climate concern among the superrich – the case of Conno
KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Håkan Johansson - “Climate concern among the superrich – the case of Connoisseur” | Historia 10 sep KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Håkan Johansson - “Climate concern among the superrich – the case of Connoisseur” 10 september 2025 13:00 till 15:00 Seminarium Håkan Johansson, Professor at the Department of Social Work, LU presents his ongoing research on the theme “Climate conc