Förändrade förväntningar? Framtidskulturer i Sverige och Svensk-Amerika 1904–1935
(2020) HISS31 20201History
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Den här uppsatsen behandlar förflutna framtider. I fokus för undersökningen står en större svensk liberal och urban kultursfär som inkluderar delar av Sverige och Svensk-Amerika under 1900-talets fyra första decennier. Undersökningens källmaterial utgörs av nyårskrönikor i Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Amerikanska Posten under årsskiftena 1904 till 1935. Metodiskt undersöks materialet komparativt genom tre kronologiska fallstudier i syfte att skapa längre framtidskulturella trendlinjer ur vilken kulturell kontinuitet och transformation kan utläsas.
Undersökningens resultat visar på en betydande kontinuitet avseende den svensk-amerikanska framtidskulturen. I Sverige kännetecknas istället perioden av en påtaglig framtidskulturell... (More) - Den här uppsatsen behandlar förflutna framtider. I fokus för undersökningen står en större svensk liberal och urban kultursfär som inkluderar delar av Sverige och Svensk-Amerika under 1900-talets fyra första decennier. Undersökningens källmaterial utgörs av nyårskrönikor i Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Amerikanska Posten under årsskiftena 1904 till 1935. Metodiskt undersöks materialet komparativt genom tre kronologiska fallstudier i syfte att skapa längre framtidskulturella trendlinjer ur vilken kulturell kontinuitet och transformation kan utläsas.
Undersökningens resultat visar på en betydande kontinuitet avseende den svensk-amerikanska framtidskulturen. I Sverige kännetecknas istället perioden av en påtaglig framtidskulturell transformation. Ett av undersökningens mest noterbara resultat är att kriser, likt första världskriget och den stora depressionen, inte till fullo påverkade föreställningarna om framtiden på de sätt som tidigare forskning visat. Exempelvis har tidigare forskning ofta betonat krisernas betydelse för kulturell förändring. I undersökningen framträder exempel där framtidskulturerna knappt förändras alls såväl som exempel där förändringen på en längre trendlinje är att betrakta som tillfällig. Vidare visar undersökningen hur det vid flera tillfällen inte enbart existerar en temporalitet utan multipla. Genom undersökningens komparativa ansats har det också varit möjligt att identifiera kulturella särdrag i de båda tidningarna. Det mest utmärkande är det individualistiska tilltalet som präglar Svenska Amerikanska Posten och det mer kollektivistiska och samförståndsbetonade som präglar Dagens Nyheter.
I uppsatsen introducerar jag också två nya begrepp i form av framtidskultur och framtidsobjekt. Begreppen fungerar mycket väl för den aktuella undersökningen men bedöms även kunna vara tillämpbara i annan framtidshistorisk forskning. Uppsatsens teoretiska ansats är inspirerad av Reinhart Kosellecks kategorier erfarenhetsrum och förväntningshorisont, Michel Foucaults teorier om subjekt och objekt, Johan Asplunds modell för idékritisk forskning samt Bernt Skovdahls analys av framstegstanken. (Less) - Abstract
- This thesis examines the cultures of the future (framtidskulturer) during the first four decades of the 20th century in a large Swedish urban and liberal cultural sphere including Sweden and Swedish America. The source material consists of New Year chronicles in the newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Amerikanska Posten between 1904 and 1935. By examining the historical futures in the Swedish and the Swedish American newspapers, the thesis places itself on both the newly established historical research field of historical futures as well as on the well-established Swedish American research field.
The results indicate, to a large extent, a continuity in the culture of the future in Swedish Ame-rica during the period. In Sweden the... (More) - This thesis examines the cultures of the future (framtidskulturer) during the first four decades of the 20th century in a large Swedish urban and liberal cultural sphere including Sweden and Swedish America. The source material consists of New Year chronicles in the newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Amerikanska Posten between 1904 and 1935. By examining the historical futures in the Swedish and the Swedish American newspapers, the thesis places itself on both the newly established historical research field of historical futures as well as on the well-established Swedish American research field.
The results indicate, to a large extent, a continuity in the culture of the future in Swedish Ame-rica during the period. In Sweden the period is instead characterized by transformation. One of the most significant results of the examination shows that the crises during the period, especially World War I and The Great Depression, did not affect the cultures of the future in some of the ways that previous researchers have argued. Previous research has for example often empha-sized crises as catalyst for cultural change. I show that in some of the cases the cultures are al-most not changed at all, and in other cases the change is just temporary. I also show, in line with Helge Jordheim’s theory of multiple temporalities, that in some cases there are not just one tem-porality but multiple. By comparing Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Amerikanska Posten, it has been possible to identify distinguished cultural features in both newspapers that otherwise would not have been discovered. The most noteworthy is the individualistic approach to the future that characterized Svenska Amerikanska Posten and the more collectivistic approach in Dagens Nyheter.
In the thesis I also construct two new concepts, culture of future (framtidskultur) and object of future (framtidsobjekt), that can be used when researching historical futures. I also develop a new method to examine historical futures which emphasizes a medium-long historical perspec-tive in which continuity and transformation are examined. The theoretical approach is inspired by Reinhart Koselleck’s two categories: the space of experience and the horizon of expectation, Michel Foucault’s theory of subjects and objects, Johan Asplund’s theoretical model for idea-critical research on future studies and Bernt Skovdahl’s analysis of the idea of progress during the 19th and 20th centuries. (Less)
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- author
- Törnblom, Rasmus LU
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- organization
- course
- HISS31 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Framtidshistoria, Förflutna framtider, Framtidskultur, Framtidsobjekt, Svensk-Amerika, Framstegstanken, Samförstånd, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Amerikanska Posten, Framtidsförväntningar, Koselleck, den stora depressionen, första världskriget
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- Swedish
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- 9016334
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- 2020-06-22 08:59:30
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- 2020-06-22 20:05:22
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abstract = {{This thesis examines the cultures of the future (framtidskulturer) during the first four decades of the 20th century in a large Swedish urban and liberal cultural sphere including Sweden and Swedish America. The source material consists of New Year chronicles in the newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Amerikanska Posten between 1904 and 1935. By examining the historical futures in the Swedish and the Swedish American newspapers, the thesis places itself on both the newly established historical research field of historical futures as well as on the well-established Swedish American research field.
The results indicate, to a large extent, a continuity in the culture of the future in Swedish Ame-rica during the period. In Sweden the period is instead characterized by transformation. One of the most significant results of the examination shows that the crises during the period, especially World War I and The Great Depression, did not affect the cultures of the future in some of the ways that previous researchers have argued. Previous research has for example often empha-sized crises as catalyst for cultural change. I show that in some of the cases the cultures are al-most not changed at all, and in other cases the change is just temporary. I also show, in line with Helge Jordheim’s theory of multiple temporalities, that in some cases there are not just one tem-porality but multiple. By comparing Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Amerikanska Posten, it has been possible to identify distinguished cultural features in both newspapers that otherwise would not have been discovered. The most noteworthy is the individualistic approach to the future that characterized Svenska Amerikanska Posten and the more collectivistic approach in Dagens Nyheter.
In the thesis I also construct two new concepts, culture of future (framtidskultur) and object of future (framtidsobjekt), that can be used when researching historical futures. I also develop a new method to examine historical futures which emphasizes a medium-long historical perspec-tive in which continuity and transformation are examined. The theoretical approach is inspired by Reinhart Koselleck’s two categories: the space of experience and the horizon of expectation, Michel Foucault’s theory of subjects and objects, Johan Asplund’s theoretical model for idea-critical research on future studies and Bernt Skovdahl’s analysis of the idea of progress during the 19th and 20th centuries.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Förändrade förväntningar? Framtidskulturer i Sverige och Svensk-Amerika 1904–1935}},
year = {{2020}},
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