Johan Heinsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Heinsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinsen |
| SIGNATURE | HEINSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9823-9009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period
This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international literature has worked to re-conceptualize histories of labour coercion. Current trends in global labour history have emphasized the interrelational nature of labour regimes, eschewing traditional boundaries of free and unfre…
Carceral Chains
This article examines early modern convicts’ experiences of extramural penal labour institutions – known in their time as slaveries. It centres on Denmark’s main slaveries in Copenhagen and analyses data collected from the books keeping track of the inmates. On this basis, the article examines their experiences at connected moments: before entry, at entry, in the extraction of labour, and at exit. The article describes how these moments linked to…
Mercenary Punishment
This article examines the entangled logics of corporal and carceral punishments of mercenary soldiers in eighteenth-century Denmark. Beginning with the story of a single man and his unfortunate trajectory through a sequence of punitive measures before his death as a prison workhouse inmate, the article looks at how punishments of soldiers communicated in multiple ways and were used to a variety of ends that were both typical and atypical within e…
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia
In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion…
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour
New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taki…
Det første fængsel
Ind og ud af slaverierne
I tidligt moderne Danmark-Norge blev mandlige forbrydere ofte dømt til hårdt arbejde i institutioner kendt som slaverier. Arbejdet kom både hæren og flåden til gode. De største af denne type institutioner var Trunken (1620-1741), der var placeret på Københavns flådeværft, og Stokhuset (1741-1860), der lå i det nordlige København. Om natten var fangerne spærret inde i disse fængsler. Om dagen arbejdede de i større slæng på havnen eller rundtomkrin…
Dissonance in the Danish Atlantic
In 1683 the fragile Danish Atlantic was shaken by a mutiny orchestrated by a coalition of common sailors and convicts. On the way to St. Thomas in the Caribbean, they seized the ship, Havmanden, and killed their superiors. Among the dead was the newly appointed governor of St. Thomas, Jørgen Iversen. He was a veteran of Atlantic colonization and had been the governor of the Caribbean colony from its foundation in 1672 to 1680. In his absence the …
Nothing but Noyse
On early modern ships on the Atlantic Ocean, the sounds that the maritime lower classes produced with their tongues led the captains and officers to consider members of these classes as savage as the colonial others. The argument presented here explores the ship as a world of sound and its lower classes' place within larger colonial soundscapes. This demonstrates how the sailor inhabited an ambivalent place between self and other. He lived within…
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour
New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taki…
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia
In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion…
Dissonance in the Danish Atlantic
In 1683 the fragile Danish Atlantic was shaken by a mutiny orchestrated by a coalition of common sailors and convicts. On the way to St. Thomas in the Caribbean, they seized the ship, Havmanden, and killed their superiors. Among the dead was the newly appointed governor of St. Thomas, Jørgen Iversen. He was a veteran of Atlantic colonization and had been the governor of the Caribbean colony from its foundation in 1672 to 1680. In his absence the …
Mercenary Punishment
This article examines the entangled logics of corporal and carceral punishments of mercenary soldiers in eighteenth-century Denmark. Beginning with the story of a single man and his unfortunate trajectory through a sequence of punitive measures before his death as a prison workhouse inmate, the article looks at how punishments of soldiers communicated in multiple ways and were used to a variety of ends that were both typical and atypical within e…
Ind og ud af slaverierne
I tidligt moderne Danmark-Norge blev mandlige forbrydere ofte dømt til hårdt arbejde i institutioner kendt som slaverier. Arbejdet kom både hæren og flåden til gode. De største af denne type institutioner var Trunken (1620-1741), der var placeret på Københavns flådeværft, og Stokhuset (1741-1860), der lå i det nordlige København. Om natten var fangerne spærret inde i disse fængsler. Om dagen arbejdede de i større slæng på havnen eller rundtomkrin…
Dissonance in the Danish Atlantic
In 1683 the fragile Danish Atlantic was shaken by a mutiny orchestrated by a coalition of common sailors and convicts. On the way to St. Thomas in the Caribbean, they seized the ship, Havmanden, and killed their superiors. Among the dead was the newly appointed governor of St. Thomas, Jørgen Iversen. He was a veteran of Atlantic colonization and had been the governor of the Caribbean colony from its foundation in 1672 to 1680. In his absence the …
Nothing but Noyse
On early modern ships on the Atlantic Ocean, the sounds that the maritime lower classes produced with their tongues led the captains and officers to consider members of these classes as savage as the colonial others. The argument presented here explores the ship as a world of sound and its lower classes' place within larger colonial soundscapes. This demonstrates how the sailor inhabited an ambivalent place between self and other. He lived within…
Det første fængsel
Ind og ud af slaverierne
I tidligt moderne Danmark-Norge blev mandlige forbrydere ofte dømt til hårdt arbejde i institutioner kendt som slaverier. Arbejdet kom både hæren og flåden til gode. De største af denne type institutioner var Trunken (1620-1741), der var placeret på Københavns flådeværft, og Stokhuset (1741-1860), der lå i det nordlige København. Om natten var fangerne spærret inde i disse fængsler. Om dagen arbejdede de i større slæng på havnen eller rundtomkrin…
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour
New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taki…
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia
In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion…
Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period
This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international literature has worked to re-conceptualize histories of labour coercion. Current trends in global labour history have emphasized the interrelational nature of labour regimes, eschewing traditional boundaries of free and unfre…
Carceral Chains
This article examines early modern convicts’ experiences of extramural penal labour institutions – known in their time as slaveries. It centres on Denmark’s main slaveries in Copenhagen and analyses data collected from the books keeping track of the inmates. On this basis, the article examines their experiences at connected moments: before entry, at entry, in the extraction of labour, and at exit. The article describes how these moments linked to…
Mercenary Punishment
This article examines the entangled logics of corporal and carceral punishments of mercenary soldiers in eighteenth-century Denmark. Beginning with the story of a single man and his unfortunate trajectory through a sequence of punitive measures before his death as a prison workhouse inmate, the article looks at how punishments of soldiers communicated in multiple ways and were used to a variety of ends that were both typical and atypical within e…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Coercion (linguistics (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works)