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Doing Their Own Thing Stockholm During the 1970S Squatting Movements in Copenhagen and Stockholm During the 1970S
Social Movements in the Nordic Countries since 1900 89 Natasha Vall links: Natasha Vall rechts: Squatting Movements in Copenhagen and Doing their own Thing Stockholm during the 1970s Squatting Movements in Copenhagen and Stockholm during the 1970s Abstract This article offers a comparative assessment of squatting and urban occupation in two Nordic cities, focussing upon the much profiled example of Christiania in Copenhagen and the lesser moment of squatter agitation in southern Stockholm during the 1970s. Firstly it examines the two cases against a backdrop of crises in the Nordic welfare state, and especially its housing model. Secondly the article places the experience of Chris- tiania and Stockholm within the context of both the 1960s counterculture, as well as the community activism of the 1970s. Finally the comparison of Christiania Free Town in Copenhagen and the quarter Mullvaden in Stockholm emphasises the importance of creative practices to squatting and community activism during the 1970s. This theme has often formed the background of traditional studies of the political struggles mobilised by squats. However, the following discussion reveals that creative activists often played a significant role in forging international networks that carried the ambitions of alternative living beyond their local contexts. During the 1970s grass roots movements emerged in European cities whose protagonists occupied and squatted vacant and forgotten buildings. City spaces in flux, abandoned or awaiting redevelopment by municipal governments distracted by their preoccupa- tion with the newly emerging problem of suburban anomie, were rich pickings for a youth movement that gave expression to a sense of urban dislocation symptomatic of the transition to post-industrial society. -
Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform Project
Nordic Prostitution Policy Reform Project The “promiscuous” and the “shy”: Denmark and Norway – A historic comparative analysis of pornography legislation Inga Margrete Ydersbond The NPPR Working Paper Series: The Politics of Commercial Sex 2012:01 March 2012 NPPR Project http://nppr.se Division of History & Politics University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK ISSN pending This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. 1 ! The “promiscuous” and the “shy”: Denmark and Norway - A historic comparative analysis of pornography legislation Inga Margrete Ydersbond University of Oslo, Norway [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explain why the two neighbouring Nordic countries Norway and Denmark, despite many political and cultural similarities, have had very different legal frameworks regulating pornography. Denmark was the first country in the world legalizing both literary (1967) and pictorial pornography (1969). Norway, on the other hand, to this date has had one of Europe’s strictest regulations, and legalized “hardcore” pornography as late as in 2006. Through combining the method of “most similar designs” with process tracing, this paper makes a historical comparative analysis of the political development leading to the different legislative outcomes. The paper argues that there are several reasons why the countries’ legislations represent opposite ends of the spectre in Europe. First, Christian conservative values have been much more widespread in Norway than in Denmark, as seen by an influential Christian Conservative party and massive popular resistance against liberalization in the four decades after World War 2. -
Pornography, Sex Crime, and Public Policy
Pornography, Sex Crime, and Public Policy PORNOGRAPHY, SEX CRIME, AND PUBLIC POLICY Berl Kutchinsky Professor of Criminology Institute of Criminology and Criminal Science University of Copenhagen Denmark PORNOGRAPHY IS A CURIOUS EXAMPLE OF AN ISSUE WHICH HAS GROWN VERY quickly from a state of insignificance to become a major social issue¾at least in some parts of the world. From the very beginning¾in the early 1960s¾of what has been termed the 'modern pornography wave', there has been controversy over nearly all aspects of the topic: definition, amounts and contents of material, uses and users, economy and, most importantly, effects. This paper outlines the development of pornography in a historical perspective and from a Danish point of view. It will then deal with the issue of the possible effects of pornography on sexual offences. Historical Background Erotic art is probably as old as art itself. Sexual themes appear in the artistic creations of all times and cultures. The first erotic paintings, sculptures and writings were probably produced by the first painters, sculptors and writers in the early youth of humanity, and every milestone in the arts usually saw new developments in the field of erotica. For example, Johann Gutenberg developed the art of printing around 1448, and one of the very first books to appear in print was Il Decamerone, Boccacio's erotic masterpiece. Suppression of freedom of the press¾a phenomenon which is a significant part of the history of eroticism¾followed immediately after. In 1497, sections of the Decameron were thrown into Savonarola's 'bonfire of the vanities' in Florence. -
Sex and Violence: Can Research Have It Both Ways?
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology Psychology, Department of June 1977 Sex and Violence: Can Research Have It Both Ways? Richard A. Dienstbier University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub Part of the Psychiatry and Psychology Commons Dienstbier, Richard A., "Sex and Violence: Can Research Have It Both Ways?" (1977). Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology. 221. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/221 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Psychology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Journal of Communication 27:3 (Summer 1977), pp. 176–188. Copyright © 1977 the Annenberg School of Communication; published by Blackwell Publishing. Used by permission. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0021-9916 Effects of Television Sex and Violence: Can Research Have It Both Ways? by Richard A. Dienstbier A personality model approach helps sort out the apparent contradictions between the Pornography and Violence Commission fi ndings. During the last decade, the literature on media exposure has been dominated by a single theoretical system of personality functioning—the social learning mod- el. The model emphasizes that the disinhibition of already-learned behavior, the learning of new behaviors, and the establishment of patterns of personality re- sult from observing the behavior of other people (models) and from vicarious re- inforcement upon viewing those models successfully engaging in rewarded se- quences of behavior. -
Space for Urban Alternatives?
Space for Urban Alternatives? Christiania is a squatted area in the district of Chris- tianshavn in Copenhagen, located less than one mile from the Royal Danish Palace and the Danish parlia- ment. It stretches over 49 hectares (32, excluding the water in the moats) and consists of old military bar- racks and parts of the city’s ramparts dating from the seventeenth century; as well as a number of build- ings constructed after 1971 (when the Freetown was proclaimed). The area offers city life as well as life in the countryside. Today approximately 900 people live in Christiania. According to the latest public census (2003), 60 per cent of these were male and 20 per cent were under 18 years old. Further, 60 per cent had el- ementary school as their highest level of education. While there is a group with a substantial registered in- come, two-thirds of the population either receive so- cial assistance or have no registered income. The Free- town is divided into 14 self-governing areas and all decisions affecting the whole of Christiania are taken by the Common Meeting, which is ruled by consen- sus democracy. Map: Hasløv & Kjærsgaard. Space for Urban Alternatives? Christiania 1971–2011 Editors: Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede and Tomas Nilson gidlunds förlag This book is also available for free download at Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (GUPEA), www.gupea.ub.gu.se Cover: Leah robb © the authors, 2011 isbn 978-91-7844-830-2 Printed by BALTO print, Vilnius 2011 Contents Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede and Tomas Nilson introduction: -
Sense & Censorship the Vanity of Bonfires
* * * * * * * * * * SENSE & CENSORSHIP THE VANITY OF BONFIRES Resource Materials on Sexually Explicit Material, Violent Material and Censorship: Research and Public Policy Implications by Marcia Pally * * * * * * * * * * * Acknowledgments I would like to thank Americans for Constitutional Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation for their support and encouragement through all stages of this project. Thanks also to Cleo Wilson for picking up all the dropped stitches, to John Dixon for his elegant design, to Cindy Rakowitz, Jennifer Maguire and Jill Chukerman for their attention to public relations, to Carmen Armillas for her computer and inputting skills, to Arlan Bushman for proofreading, and to Sue Dickey for her administrative assistance. Special gratitude goes to Bari Nash for her tireless fact-checking, to Pam for sticking by me through all the trials, errors and paper, and to the bracing vision of the Constitution, which continues to inspire and cheer me. Sense and Censorship is a publication of Media Coalition/Americans for Constitutional Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation. The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of its sponsors. Media Coalition/Americans for Constitutional Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation make Sense and Censorship available as a valuable contribution to the discussion of public policy, censorship and the First Amendment. Copyright © 1991 by Marcia Pally. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Resource Materials on Sexually Explicit E. Effects of exposure to sexually explicit material on Material, Violent Material and Censorship: social stability and the public good (studies by Dolf Research and Public Policy Implications Zillmann and Jennings Bryant, and peer responses) 29 Table of Contents 3.