Street mirrors, surveillance, and urban communities in early modern Finland

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ID2391035
AutoresTimo Ylimaunu (0000-0003-2455-4887, University of Oulu, autor de correspondencia), Jennifer Symonds (0000-0002-5151-5448, University of Amsterdam), James Symonds, Paul R Mullins (0000-0002-0998-8196, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis), Anna‐kaisa Salmi (0000-0002-0745-385X, University of Aberdeen), Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Risto Nurmi (0000-0001-8436-8416, University of Oulu), Titta Kallio-Seppä (0000-0003-2127-2358, University of Oulu), Tiina Kuokkanen (0000-0002-6797-4059, University of Oulu), Annemari Tranberg (0000-0001-9445-7703, University of Oulu)
Año2014
Volumen19
Número2
Páginas145-167
Fecha de publicación2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183514521923
OpenAlexW2106163616
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas38

This article discusses street mirrors or 'gossip mirrors', in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban populations and feelings of insecurity caused by greater regional and transnational mobility. Mirrors, in this sense, were one material mechanism in the process of modernization and the development of individuality

Archaeology · Espionage · Feeling · Gossip · Modernization theory · Political science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law