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Stordriftsambitioner : statliga attitydförändringar från småbruk till stordrift ur ett kunskapshistoriskt perspektiv

Petersson, Robin LU (2025) HISS33 20251
History
Abstract (Swedish)
In this paper we dive deep into the interwar agricultural policys and how they became to be.
The aim is a better understanding of how the state thought the future to be in a time where change happened everywhere. From 1950 to 1970 around 131 000 agricultural units disappeared, far too many to be explained by natural causes. Through an analysis of several government public investigations we come to understand that this change is one of many where the state and the farmers have to react to the circtumstances of the world in order to survive. We note a change in attitudes where the smallholding farms and homesteads was encouraged and funded by the public in the early years of the 1900s while the same where doomed ineffective and a waste of... (More)
In this paper we dive deep into the interwar agricultural policys and how they became to be.
The aim is a better understanding of how the state thought the future to be in a time where change happened everywhere. From 1950 to 1970 around 131 000 agricultural units disappeared, far too many to be explained by natural causes. Through an analysis of several government public investigations we come to understand that this change is one of many where the state and the farmers have to react to the circtumstances of the world in order to survive. We note a change in attitudes where the smallholding farms and homesteads was encouraged and funded by the public in the early years of the 1900s while the same where doomed ineffective and a waste of workers in the 1940s.
With a perspective based of the principles in history of knowledge we can examine and interpret these changes in attitudes. With a thoroughly discussion about the production and circulation of knowledge, by and in between different actors, we get a deeper understanding of how knowledge plays a role in a major societal breakthrough. The paper results in how events that have no direct correlation to agriculture forces new knowledge of farming conditions to come about. We also find that already established knowledge needs to circulate in order to have an impact. (Less)
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author
Petersson, Robin LU
supervisor
organization
course
HISS33 20251
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Småbruk, Stordrift, Kunskapshistoria, Statliga offentliga utredningar, Jordbrukspolitik, Samhälleliga genombrott
language
Swedish
id
9211639
date added to LUP
2025-09-04 12:14:16
date last changed
2025-09-04 12:14:16
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  abstract     = {{In this paper we dive deep into the interwar agricultural policys and how they became to be.
The aim is a better understanding of how the state thought the future to be in a time where change happened everywhere. From 1950 to 1970 around 131 000 agricultural units disappeared, far too many to be explained by natural causes. Through an analysis of several government public investigations we come to understand that this change is one of many where the state and the farmers have to react to the circtumstances of the world in order to survive. We note a change in attitudes where the smallholding farms and homesteads was encouraged and funded by the public in the early years of the 1900s while the same where doomed ineffective and a waste of workers in the 1940s.
With a perspective based of the principles in history of knowledge we can examine and interpret these changes in attitudes. With a thoroughly discussion about the production and circulation of knowledge, by and in between different actors, we get a deeper understanding of how knowledge plays a role in a major societal breakthrough. The paper results in how events that have no direct correlation to agriculture forces new knowledge of farming conditions to come about. We also find that already established knowledge needs to circulate in order to have an impact.}},
  author       = {{Petersson, Robin}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Stordriftsambitioner : statliga attitydförändringar från småbruk till stordrift ur ett kunskapshistoriskt perspektiv}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}