Progress or perish
Subtitle: Northern perspectives on social change
By: edited by Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781409404248; 9781409404255
Subjects: Case studies; Economic conditions; Social change; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo; title: History as a project of progress? : North as a focus of attention / Marja Tuominen; title: Chapters of progress : the case of a village idiot / Pälvi Rantala; title: Progress and emotions in Lapland / Aini Linjakumpu; title: Remembering and forgetting the second World War in Finland / Sandra Wallenius; title: Narratives of progress in the politics of urho Kekkonen and the Agrarian League / Petri Koikkalainen; title: Northern universities and the changing status of minorities / Lars Elenius; title: Slow activism : art in progress in the North / Mirja Hiltunen; title: From emotional memory to active awareness : counter-memory and resistance in Torne Valley Finnish literature / Riitta Kontio; title: Women behind the camera in the early 1900s at the arctic circle : a step toward independence / Mervi Autti; title: Concluding remarks / Aini Linjakumpu and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo.