Overview
- Uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions
- Points to the histories of experience and emotions as a novel way of studying nations and nationalism
- Introduces a number of new methodological approaches to understand the experiences of the nation
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience (PSHE)
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About this book
This open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions. It revolves around the following questions: What kinds of experiences have engendered national mobilization and feelings of national belonging? How have political and societal conflicts turned into new communities of experience and emotion? What kinds of experiences have been integrated into, or excluded from, the national context in different instances? How have people internalized or contested the nation as a context for their personal, family and minority-group experiences? In what ways has the nation entered and affected people’s intimate spheres of life? How have “national” experiences been transmitted to children in the renewal of the nation? This edited collection points to the histories of experience and emotions as a novel way of studying nations and nationalism. Building on current debates in nationalism studies, it offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the historical construction of “lived nations,” and introduces a number of new methodological approaches to understand the experiences of the nation, extending from the investigation of personal reminiscences and music records to the study of dreams and children’s drawings.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Feeling and Conceptualizing the Nation
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Nation of Encounters and Conflicts
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Experiential Edges of the Nation
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Nation Embodied and Materialized
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Epilogue
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ville Kivimäki is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, and one of the series editors of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience.
Sami Suodenjoki is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland.
Tanja Vahtikari is Senior Lecturer at Tampere University, Finland.
The editors of the book work in the Lived Nation research team at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences.
Sami Suodenjoki is Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland.
Tanja Vahtikari is Senior Lecturer at Tampere University, Finland.
The editors of the book work in the Lived Nation research team at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
Editors: Ville Kivimäki, Sami Suodenjoki, Tanja Vahtikari
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69882-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69881-2Published: 08 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69884-3Published: 08 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69882-9Published: 07 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-8960
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8979
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 392
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social History, Historiography and Method, History of Modern Europe