Anne Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3779621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | BERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0797-4871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mobility Disability, Education and the Welfare State Policy-Making and the Integration of Children with Mobility Disabilities into the Public School System in Post-War Sweden
This article investigates how and why children with mobility disabilities were gradually integrated into the public school system in Sweden in the post-war era, c. 1950–1970. Through a qualitative analysis of the policy process, focusing on the conceptual and ideological contents of policies and motives, I argue that the shift from segregation to integration should be understood as part of social democratic state formation. Firstly, I show how th…
Academic Riot Grrrls
The Sacrificial Economy
Free church organisations were a vital part of Christian evangelical revivalism in the Nordic countries around the turn of the century in 1900. In this paper, a new piece is added to the puzzle regarding why free churches developed and survived. Against the background of a case study of the Swedish Uppsala Missionary Congregation's cultural economy 1870s–1890s, it is argued that a particular rationality — a sacrificial economy — was an important …
Empire of Rags and Bones
This book argues that waste management was at the center of the Nazi regime’s imperialist practice, its genocidal war, and the Holocaust. Since waste was simultaneously a contaminating threat, a sign of inefficiency, and a precious resource, ideas about waste avoidance and recycling informed calculations about labor exploitation and murder. With the proclamation of the Four-Year Plan in 1936, the idea of a closed-loop economy undergirded Nazi pre…
Nazi Recycling and the Remnants of Genocide
Ook tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vormde de verwerking van afval voor het lokale en het nationale nazibestuur een uitdaging. Het regime leek zich meer te bekommeren om de vodden die de gevangenen aan hun lijf droegen dan om het welzijn van de gevangenen zélf, merkt professor Anne Berg (universiteit van Pennsylvania) in haar bijdrage op. In ‘Nazi recycling and the remnants of genocide’ buigt de Amerikaanse historica zich over de geschiedenis van …
Expanding Political Capital
This article seeks to introduce a new historical explanation as to why left-wing working-class women engaged in liberal, middle-class organisations during the first wave of feminism. The article specifically deals with middle-class associations and clubs that had educational purposes. Instead of focusing on the larger explanatory scheme of the power of patriarchal societal structures or bourgeois feminisms as a hegemonic force, the account revolv…
The Sound of Atrocity
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is an extraordinary film, not because of its message or its visual aesthetic, not for its placed timelessness or gut-punching metaphors. It is an extraordinar
Carceral Recycling
Carceral recycling-a system of camp-based waste labor-was instrumental to the Judeocide. Tracing the connections between resource fetishism and ideas about cleanliness, this article shows that waste utilization lay at the heart of a destructive matrix that exploited camp and prison labor in the service of racial purification and imperial expansion. The Nazi regime imagined itself as resource poor and spaceless and accordingly mined junk and peopl…
The Gespenst of Postcolonial Theory
“What is going on in Germany?” asked Natalie Zemon Davis after Munich suspended the acclaimed play Vögel ( Birds ) by Wajdi Mouawad in November 2022. Davis, a renowned historian, had been deeply involved in the play's conception and production only to see it pulled for alleged antisemitism and Holocaust relativization. 1 This was not an isolated example. 2
Diligent and docile workers
The educational system in nineteenth-century Sweden was, as in many other industrialising states, segregated by social class. Children of the economically and politically marginalised classes were educated in basic primary subjects in the nationwide Folkskola (primary schools). From 1868 to the early 1940s, the government issued, subsidised, and distributed the Läsebok för folkskolan (Reader for Primary School; “the Reader”). Besides poems and so…
A Rubbished World
In this article I offer a comparative analysis of the relationship between waste and large-scale social crises. Drawing on the history of extremes, the history of Nazi Germany to be precise, I argue that garbage itself functions as a language of crisis that translates seemingly insurmountable social problems into questions of cleanup, upkeep and order. The encroachment of waste often inspires crisis rhetoric, yet it is almost always a symptom of …
Gendered democratic experiences? Men and women in workers’ organizations in mid–19th-century Sweden
This article analyses the democratic experiences of men and women engaged in early workers’ organizations in Sweden in the mid–19th-century. The source materials were membership criteria for over 120 organizations and manuscripts from four workers’ organizations. The article shows that engagement in the early workers’ movement in Sweden was gendered. All organizations were open to men, but women’s opportunities were limited. In addition, the demo…
The market and ‘the making’
The first phase of class formation in mid-nineteenth-century Sweden was characterized by its liberal stance. The first workers’ organizations in continuous operation focused on attaining political rights and representation; offered self-help, education and social and economic support; and were engaged in neither socialist agitation nor contentious politics. The middle classes and even the bourgeoisie often supported these endeavours in various wa…
Julia Sneeringer. A Social History of Early Rock ’n’ Roll in Germany
With a detailed history of the particular social tensions and opportunities that characterized Hamburg’s beat scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Julia Sneeringer illustrates the dynamics of consumer capitalism at their most powerful. In A Social History of Early Rock ’n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to the Beatles, 1956–69, she describes the scene as both “a laboratory of democratization” (2) and a vehicle to reproduce prescripti…
Motor competence and physical fitness among children attending nature preschools and traditional preschools
Nature provides a wide range of potential affordances for children’s play. Whether children attending nature preschools have better motor competence and physical fitness than children attending traditional preschools is not known. In a cross-sectional study, we compared the motor competence (Movement ABC-test) and physical fitness (Physical fitness test) of children in four nature preschools (N = 43) and four of their neighboring traditional pres…
The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society
This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society. Although this idea is extremely common in modern capitalist societies, here it is turned on
The Nazi rag-pickers and their wine
This article offers a first attempt to examine systematically the politics of waste and recycling in the Third Reich, one of the first modern states to articulate ‘zero waste’ as a political goal. It presupposes that waste, both in its material realities and its everyday representations, offers a powerful guide to any society's implicit order. With respect to Nazi Germany, the suggestion that such presumably neutral materials as trash, waste and …
The State of Autonomy
In this article it is argued that between 1870 and 1910 the Swedish social liberal state used economic grants as a political tool in order to govern parts of the sector of social movements. State grants given to non-formal education, folk high schools, organizations that held lectures for the working class, and organizations that set up libraries are the point of departure for the analysis. The specific governing measure consisted of making the s…
Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture
Journal Article Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870–c. 1995 Get access Ida Blom. Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870–c. 1995. Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 2012. 192 pp., $45.95. Annika Berg, Ph.D. Annika Berg, Ph.D. Department of History, Uppsala University, PO Box 628, SE-751 26 U…
Protestant Nations Redefined
The 1991 Declaration on Fact-finding by the United Nations
The 1991 Declaration on Fact-finding by the United Nations Axel Berg Axel Berg * Foreign Office, Bonn, Germany. The views expressed are the personal views of the writer, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Foreign Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Journal of International Law, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 107–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.ejil.a035811 Published: …
The Dutch Student Christian Movement (Ncsv)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Nazi rag-pickers and their wine
This article offers a first attempt to examine systematically the politics of waste and recycling in the Third Reich, one of the first modern states to articulate ‘zero waste’ as a political goal. It presupposes that waste, both in its material realities and its everyday representations, offers a powerful guide to any society's implicit order. With respect to Nazi Germany, the suggestion that such presumably neutral materials as trash, waste and …
The Dutch Student Christian Movement (Ncsv)
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The 1991 Declaration on Fact-finding by the United Nations
The 1991 Declaration on Fact-finding by the United Nations Axel Berg Axel Berg * Foreign Office, Bonn, Germany. The views expressed are the personal views of the writer, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Foreign Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Journal of International Law, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 107–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.ejil.a035811 Published: …
Protestant Nations Redefined
The State of Autonomy
In this article it is argued that between 1870 and 1910 the Swedish social liberal state used economic grants as a political tool in order to govern parts of the sector of social movements. State grants given to non-formal education, folk high schools, organizations that held lectures for the working class, and organizations that set up libraries are the point of departure for the analysis. The specific governing measure consisted of making the s…
Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture
Journal Article Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870–c. 1995 Get access Ida Blom. Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870–c. 1995. Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 2012. 192 pp., $45.95. Annika Berg, Ph.D. Annika Berg, Ph.D. Department of History, Uppsala University, PO Box 628, SE-751 26 U…
The Nazi rag-pickers and their wine
This article offers a first attempt to examine systematically the politics of waste and recycling in the Third Reich, one of the first modern states to articulate ‘zero waste’ as a political goal. It presupposes that waste, both in its material realities and its everyday representations, offers a powerful guide to any society's implicit order. With respect to Nazi Germany, the suggestion that such presumably neutral materials as trash, waste and …
The Capitalist State and the Construction of Civil Society
This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society. Although this idea is extremely common in modern capitalist societies, here it is turned on
Motor competence and physical fitness among children attending nature preschools and traditional preschools
Nature provides a wide range of potential affordances for children’s play. Whether children attending nature preschools have better motor competence and physical fitness than children attending traditional preschools is not known. In a cross-sectional study, we compared the motor competence (Movement ABC-test) and physical fitness (Physical fitness test) of children in four nature preschools (N = 43) and four of their neighboring traditional pres…
Gendered democratic experiences? Men and women in workers’ organizations in mid–19th-century Sweden
This article analyses the democratic experiences of men and women engaged in early workers’ organizations in Sweden in the mid–19th-century. The source materials were membership criteria for over 120 organizations and manuscripts from four workers’ organizations. The article shows that engagement in the early workers’ movement in Sweden was gendered. All organizations were open to men, but women’s opportunities were limited. In addition, the demo…
The market and ‘the making’
The first phase of class formation in mid-nineteenth-century Sweden was characterized by its liberal stance. The first workers’ organizations in continuous operation focused on attaining political rights and representation; offered self-help, education and social and economic support; and were engaged in neither socialist agitation nor contentious politics. The middle classes and even the bourgeoisie often supported these endeavours in various wa…
Julia Sneeringer. A Social History of Early Rock ’n’ Roll in Germany
With a detailed history of the particular social tensions and opportunities that characterized Hamburg’s beat scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Julia Sneeringer illustrates the dynamics of consumer capitalism at their most powerful. In A Social History of Early Rock ’n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to the Beatles, 1956–69, she describes the scene as both “a laboratory of democratization” (2) and a vehicle to reproduce prescripti…
A Rubbished World
In this article I offer a comparative analysis of the relationship between waste and large-scale social crises. Drawing on the history of extremes, the history of Nazi Germany to be precise, I argue that garbage itself functions as a language of crisis that translates seemingly insurmountable social problems into questions of cleanup, upkeep and order. The encroachment of waste often inspires crisis rhetoric, yet it is almost always a symptom of …
Diligent and docile workers
The educational system in nineteenth-century Sweden was, as in many other industrialising states, segregated by social class. Children of the economically and politically marginalised classes were educated in basic primary subjects in the nationwide Folkskola (primary schools). From 1868 to the early 1940s, the government issued, subsidised, and distributed the Läsebok för folkskolan (Reader for Primary School; “the Reader”). Besides poems and so…
The Gespenst of Postcolonial Theory
“What is going on in Germany?” asked Natalie Zemon Davis after Munich suspended the acclaimed play Vögel ( Birds ) by Wajdi Mouawad in November 2022. Davis, a renowned historian, had been deeply involved in the play's conception and production only to see it pulled for alleged antisemitism and Holocaust relativization. 1 This was not an isolated example. 2
Empire of Rags and Bones
This book argues that waste management was at the center of the Nazi regime’s imperialist practice, its genocidal war, and the Holocaust. Since waste was simultaneously a contaminating threat, a sign of inefficiency, and a precious resource, ideas about waste avoidance and recycling informed calculations about labor exploitation and murder. With the proclamation of the Four-Year Plan in 1936, the idea of a closed-loop economy undergirded Nazi pre…
Nazi Recycling and the Remnants of Genocide
Ook tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vormde de verwerking van afval voor het lokale en het nationale nazibestuur een uitdaging. Het regime leek zich meer te bekommeren om de vodden die de gevangenen aan hun lijf droegen dan om het welzijn van de gevangenen zélf, merkt professor Anne Berg (universiteit van Pennsylvania) in haar bijdrage op. In ‘Nazi recycling and the remnants of genocide’ buigt de Amerikaanse historica zich over de geschiedenis van …
Expanding Political Capital
This article seeks to introduce a new historical explanation as to why left-wing working-class women engaged in liberal, middle-class organisations during the first wave of feminism. The article specifically deals with middle-class associations and clubs that had educational purposes. Instead of focusing on the larger explanatory scheme of the power of patriarchal societal structures or bourgeois feminisms as a hegemonic force, the account revolv…
The Sound of Atrocity
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is an extraordinary film, not because of its message or its visual aesthetic, not for its placed timelessness or gut-punching metaphors. It is an extraordinar
Carceral Recycling
Carceral recycling-a system of camp-based waste labor-was instrumental to the Judeocide. Tracing the connections between resource fetishism and ideas about cleanliness, this article shows that waste utilization lay at the heart of a destructive matrix that exploited camp and prison labor in the service of racial purification and imperial expansion. The Nazi regime imagined itself as resource poor and spaceless and accordingly mined junk and peopl…
Academic Riot Grrrls
The Sacrificial Economy
Free church organisations were a vital part of Christian evangelical revivalism in the Nordic countries around the turn of the century in 1900. In this paper, a new piece is added to the puzzle regarding why free churches developed and survived. Against the background of a case study of the Swedish Uppsala Missionary Congregation's cultural economy 1870s–1890s, it is argued that a particular rationality — a sacrificial economy — was an important …
Mobility Disability, Education and the Welfare State Policy-Making and the Integration of Children with Mobility Disabilities into the Public School System in Post-War Sweden
This article investigates how and why children with mobility disabilities were gradually integrated into the public school system in Sweden in the post-war era, c. 1950–1970. Through a qualitative analysis of the policy process, focusing on the conceptual and ideological contents of policies and motives, I argue that the shift from segregation to integration should be understood as part of social democratic state formation. Firstly, I show how th…
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