The article explores some of the composite concepts of democracy that were used in Sweden, primarily by the Social Democrats during the interwar years. Should these be seen as pluralizations of the collective singular democracy or as something qualitatively new? By showing how these concepts relate to each other and to democracy as a whole, the article argues that they should be considered statements about democracy as one entity, that democracy did not only concern the political sphere, but was generally important throughout the whole of society. The article also examines the Swedish parliamentarians' attitudes toward democracy after the realization of universal suffrage, and argues that democracy was eventually perceived as such a positive concept that opponents of what was labeled democratic reforms had to reformulate the political issues into different words in order to avoid coming across as undemocratic.
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Democracy in the Plural?
The Concepts of Democracy in Swedish Parliamentary Debates during the Interwar Years
Anna Friberg
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2012
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- Research Article
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- 12–35 (24 total)
Being There While Not Being There
Reflections on Multi-sited Ethnography and Field Access in the Context of Forced Migration
Laura K. McAdam-Otto and Sarah Nimführ
: ‘An assemblage is the product of multiple determinations that are not reducible to a single logic … As a composite concept … assemblage implies heterogeneous, contingent, unstable, partial, and situated [inherent tensions]’ (Ong and Collier quoted in
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 41–61 (21 total)