[H-verkko] CFP: Theme issue: Poverty of a Beggar and a Nobleman. Experiencing and Encountering Impoverishment in the Nineteenth-century Finland

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Theme issue: Poverty of a Beggar and a Nobleman. Experiencing and Encountering
Impoverishment in the Nineteenth-century Finland
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Call for Papers

Theme issue:

Poverty of a Beggar and a Nobleman. Experiencing and Encountering Impoverishment
in the Nineteenth-century Finland

Social mobility and threshold age between early modern and modern era are
regarded as characterizing features of 19th century. The boundaries of
traditional estates became more and more flexible and finally lost their
dominating standing. At the same time the proportion of the landless people was
growing. Everyday life was based on old mentalities and practices but societal
and institutional changes required new kind of orientation to the future all
over in Northern Europe. This caused threats and direct impoverishment for
people in various levels of society.

Previous research has shown that the attitudes towards the poor changed during
the nineteenth century. So far the focus of previous research has been on the
public discussion on poverty, charity as an agency of new citizenship, the
politics of poor relief, and its religious background. Thus, the definitions of
poverty have been formulated by the contemporaries of 19th century; on the one
hand thinkers and on the other hand those, who provided aid for the poorest of
the poor.  However, working out poverty needs to be seen from the perspective
of those individuals experiencing hard times, too. Especially in Finland, this
view has so far concentrated on the end of the century. Thus it is time to reach
the long 19th century in whole and particularly its beginning. We argue that
understanding the nineteenth-century impoverishment still requires research on
how it was lived through and struggled against on the micro level in different
social segments of society.

We are looking for articles that diversify and give new empirical,
methodological or comparative approaches to the image of impoverishment in the
nineteenth-century Finland.

The proposals can relate to some of the following themes (not limited to):

Finland and Northern Europe - comparative viewpoints on the impoverishment
Poverty and the social backgrounds of Finnish-American immigrants
Status and lifestyle threatened: perspectives on impoverishment of higher and
lower social groups (nobility, gentry, civil servants, clergy, students,
merchants, free-holder peasants, landless people, workers, etc.)
Incurring debts and failed business
Microhistorical perspectives on subjective experiences of poverty
Representations and contexts of poverty in contemporary art and literature
Poverty and gender
Poverty in the lineage of generations and societal changes in the 19th century 
 
Strategies of survival (education, social networks, etc.)

Please submit proposals of 350-500 words either by email to Pirita Frigren,
pirita.frigren at jyu.fi and Tiina Hemminki, tiina.hemminki at jyu.fi.

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2013. Deadline for first versions of accepted
articles: November 30, 2013.

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Tiina Hemminki <tiina.hemminki at jyu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 1.7.2013