Social movements in 1980s Sweden : : contention in the welfare state / / edited by Helena Hill, Andrés Brink Pinto.

This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the 1980s as unilaterally dominated by right-wing politics and neoliberalism, as we...

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Superior document:Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements Series
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (209 pages) :; illustrations (black and white, and color).
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; Helena Hill and Andrs Brink Pinto
  • 2. Actors behind Contention over the Welfare State in the 1980s; Jenny Jansson and Katrin Uba
  • 3. Legitimizing and Enacting Contradictory Ideals: Squatting in Sweden in the 1980s; Dominika V. Polanska
  • 4. When Anarchism Met Punk; Markus Lundstrm
  • 5. 'The Winter Palace' in Malm: Subversive Activists, Welfare-state Aarchists, or Just a Slightly Radical Cultural Association?; Fredrik Egefur
  • 6. The Environmental Movement between Institutionalization and Conflict; Monica Quirico
  • 7. Peace Actions and Mainstream Media: Framing Nuclear Disarmament Protests in Welfare Sweden; Anton hman
  • 8. The End of a Performance: Swedish Rent Strikes in the 1980s; Hannes Rolf
  • 9. Action without Contention? Contextualizing Social Movements in 1980s Sweden; Bart van der Steen.