Defying the rule of the count. Establishing the People's House in Vanneberga
(2021) SGEM08 20211Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- This thesis aims to understand the implications of the People’s House in the village of Vanneberga, focusing on the years around its establishment in the early 20th century. Located in the southern Swedish province of Skåne, the house was founded in a rural area much dominated by the landed estate of Trolle-Ljungby. The building association that created the house comprised people from the area of which many were living and working within the domains of the estate. Examining documents generated during the first years of the house, this thesis studies the implications of the house by considering it in relation to both broader societal circumstances of the period, as well as the specific social relations at landed estates. Applying the... (More)
- This thesis aims to understand the implications of the People’s House in the village of Vanneberga, focusing on the years around its establishment in the early 20th century. Located in the southern Swedish province of Skåne, the house was founded in a rural area much dominated by the landed estate of Trolle-Ljungby. The building association that created the house comprised people from the area of which many were living and working within the domains of the estate. Examining documents generated during the first years of the house, this thesis studies the implications of the house by considering it in relation to both broader societal circumstances of the period, as well as the specific social relations at landed estates. Applying the concept of heterotopia of resistance, it discusses how the house, as a specific type of space, can be perceived as reflecting and concurrently contesting the social order of the time and place of its establishment. The study argues that the early structure of the People’s House in Vanneberga reflected the complex social stratification in rural areas at the time, while it also constituted a unification of the occasionally incompatible interests embedded in this complexity. The thesis furthermore considers the creation and the managing of the house as based on collective principles that in themselves formed a resistance to the prevailing societal order and that engendered a type of public sphere. The house also constituted a resistance in relation to the social order of Trolle-Ljungby estate, both materially and symbolically. (Less)
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- Björner, Elisabeth LU
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- SGEM08 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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- language
- English
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- 9049177
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abstract = {{This thesis aims to understand the implications of the People’s House in the village of Vanneberga, focusing on the years around its establishment in the early 20th century. Located in the southern Swedish province of Skåne, the house was founded in a rural area much dominated by the landed estate of Trolle-Ljungby. The building association that created the house comprised people from the area of which many were living and working within the domains of the estate. Examining documents generated during the first years of the house, this thesis studies the implications of the house by considering it in relation to both broader societal circumstances of the period, as well as the specific social relations at landed estates. Applying the concept of heterotopia of resistance, it discusses how the house, as a specific type of space, can be perceived as reflecting and concurrently contesting the social order of the time and place of its establishment. The study argues that the early structure of the People’s House in Vanneberga reflected the complex social stratification in rural areas at the time, while it also constituted a unification of the occasionally incompatible interests embedded in this complexity. The thesis furthermore considers the creation and the managing of the house as based on collective principles that in themselves formed a resistance to the prevailing societal order and that engendered a type of public sphere. The house also constituted a resistance in relation to the social order of Trolle-Ljungby estate, both materially and symbolically.}},
author = {{Björner, Elisabeth}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Defying the rule of the count. Establishing the People's House in Vanneberga}},
year = {{2021}},
}