Creating the City Identity, Memory and Participation Conference Proceedings

Creating the City Identity, Memory and Participation Conference proceedings edited by Pål Brunnström & Ragnhild Claesson Creating the City Identity, Memory and Participation Conference proceedings edited by Pål Brunnström & Ragnhild Claesson Tack till Leif Ljungbergs stiftelse som genom ett generöst bidrag möjliggjort denna publikations tryckning och grafiska formgivning. Titel: Creating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation. Conference proceedings Proceedings from the conference ‘Creating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation’ at Malmö University 9-10 February, 2017. © Authors, 2019 Institute for studies in Malmö´s history, Malmö University Malmö University Publications in Urban Studies (MAPIUS 23) Print: Tryckservice, Ängelholm ISBN (pdf ): 978-91-87997-13-6 ISBN (tryck): 978-91-87997-12-9 ISSN: 1654-6881 Contents Introduction 7 Part 1: Authors Writing the City 17 Where have you been? Creating the city av Carolyn Steedman 18 Kvinnorna och den kluvna staden. Röster ur samtidens arbetar litteratur av Anna Williams 45 Klass och kön i Stockholm omkring 1910. Martin Koch, Maria Sandel, Sigfrid Siwertz och Elin Wägner av Catrine Brödje 55 Maria Sandel och staden av Ewa Bergdahl 65 Interaktionen mellan storstads modernism och arbetar litteratur 1927–1932: exemplet Artur Lundkvist av Per-Olof Mattsson 78 Part 2: History Writing and Narrating the City 97 Det ständigt nya arvet. Om nyttan av historiska minnen i Stockholm och Lüneburg av Heiko Droste 98 Fragment av stadens kulturarv av Kerstin Gunnemark 112 Historiebruk i Solas Karlstad. Nöjesliv och traditionsbildning längs Rännan av Peter Olausson 120 Vem tar plats? Normkritiska perspektiv på lokalhistoria av Elisabeth Högdahl & Anja Petersen 139 ”Platsen för industrialismens drama”. Om Söder i Helsingborg och bokverket Svensk stad av Karin Gustavsson 160 (Re)constructing identity through the past: the memories of Stalinist purges in Moscow. Identity construction on the verge of memory and heritage av Olga Zabalueva 179 “Vyborg is ours”. The collective memory of a lost Finnish city av Chloe Wells 194 Part 3: Transforming the City – Planning and Redevelopment 217 Minnet av Kiruna. Tid, historia och representation av en stad i omvandling av Johanna Overud 218 Omvandling av industriområden. Minnen och verksamheter av Eva Dahlström Rittsél 237 Åldrade världar eller framtidens urbana tillgångar? En studie längs Göteborgs industriella älvstrand av Gabriella Olshammar 254 Från 1500-talets Nya Lödöse till 2000-talets Gamlestaden. Ny identitet från gammalt material? av Mattias Öbrink, Ivonne Dutra Leivas & ChristinaToreld 289 Equality in Death. Sigurd Lewerentz and the Planning of Malmö Eastern Cemetery 1916–1973 av Ingrid Campo-Ruiz 299 Part 4: Counter-Narratives and Spatial Practices for Change 301 The narrative battle of Jerusalem. Analysing the politics of place-making in a contested city av Ann-Catrin Kristianssen 302 New collective identities and alliances. A study of activism in Möllevången, Malmö av Christina Hansen 329 Vad är den svenska modellen? Socialdemokratisk historieskrivning i den samtida “tiggeridebatten” av Erik Hansson & Maria Persdotter 343 Contentious Politics and the Welfare State. Squatting in Sweden 1968–2016 av Dominika V. Polanska 363 Stockholm av Jenny Wrangborg 386 Graffiti. Urbana platser och norrländsk natur av Anja Örn & Tomas Örn 388 “Keep Fighting Malmö”. Graffiti and the negotiations of interest and control at Open walls av Erik Hannerz & Jacob Kimvall 395 “We are favela”. An ethographic account on the production of identities, cultures and places av Vinícius Zanoli & Rubens Mascarenhas Neto 421 Part 5: Museum Work – Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives 441 Museums need to stop being dinosaurs av Carlos Tortolero 442 The Museum of Movements. Presenting the results of a feasibility study and introducing the next step av Fredrik Elg 459 Bland kaféer, bordeller, parker, skyltfönster och kök. Mångdimensionella vandringar i stadens rum av Karin Carlsson & Rebecka Lennartsson 472 Communicating Migration History. The House of Emigrants, Gothenburg av Lars Hansson 487 Part 6: Inquiring and Collecting – Methods of Understanding the City 497 Ethnography on inter-ethnic encounters av Tiina-Riitta Lappi & Pia Olsson 498 How to Collect Radical Political Material in the 21st Century. A Project in the City of Malmö, Sweden av Fredrik Egefur 516 Platsverkstan – Berättelser om Märsta av Annelie Kurttila 523 Planning Culturally for Equitable Cities av Lia Ghilardi 529 Mapping Memory Routes. A Multisensory Approach to Migration Heritage and Urban Studies av Alda Terracciano 538 Hemlös i Helsingborg av Birgitta Witting 548 Part 7: Non-profit Associations and Patrons as History Making Actors 565 Utmaningen att arbeta som en ideell organisation i dagens samhälle. Exemplet Malmö Förskönings- och Plant eringsförening av Inger Lindstedt 566 Ideella föreningar som näring för skapandet av goda samhällen. Öresundsregionens mecenater – Aktörer, inter aktion och kontexter av Kjell Å Modéer 581 Hembygdsförening i storstad. Malmö Fornminnes- förening/ Malmö Kulturhistoriska förening av Göran Larsson 591 Author presentations 598 Introduction Cities are places of constant contradictions – on the one hand culturally rich and diverse places with interesting entanglements of social and spatial relations, on the other hand sites of inequality, seg- regation and conflict. There are obviously various and sometimes opposing understandings, narrations and representations of a city. From an urban history perspective, it is adequate to critically ask: how do history-making and representations of a city’s past contrib- ute to create cities and trajectories of urban development? To un- derstand this, we need to pay attention to how urban phenomena are historicised, categorised, preserved and used in official history, and in urban planning. How cities are narrated and projected will influence what kind of city it is possible to imagine, what is understood as problematic, and consequently how and for whom cities are planned and developed.1 This correlation between history and future-making places questions of power at the centre of urban history and development. The question of The Right to the City has since the 1960s been widely addressed by urban activists, NGO:s, public institutions and academia. From Henri Lefebvre’s radical concept expressed in 1968, as “a demand for a transformed and renewed access to urban life”,2 of rights to urban life for all; through acts of land appropria- tion by dispossessed citizens; human rights struggles for equal representation across class, gender, race and sexuality; to more moder- ate municipal inclusion agendas – The Right to the City concept has come to encompass a variety of intentions and perspectives on right claims, lately also seen reduced to a watered down slogan.3 Howev- er, we think there are very interesting perspectives and insights to be gained from using the concept as a starting point for a renewed debate. Whether with an egalitarian or more distributive approach, questions of how rights relate to urban space are not fixed or uncon- tested but have to be constantly practiced and critically exercised to make rights matter, and to advance social justice.4 We believe that the fields of urban history and cultural heritage need to be further included and problematized in such debates and inquiries. It is cru- cial to discuss how history-making and narratives of the past play CREATING THE CITY 7 a role in the way perceptions and ideals of cities and citizens are portrayed, understood and legitimatised in the present. An obvious example of why this is important is the way populist movements use idealised and homogenised narratives of the past to forward a political agenda whose impact on democracy and justice can be disputed. This anthology has its origin in the conferenceCreating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation, in Malmö, Sweden, 9-10 Feb- ruary 2017,5 arranged by the Institute for Studies in Malmö’s His- tory (IMH) – a research institute affiliated with the Urban Studies department at Malmö University. The conference gathered schol- ars from various disciplines, such as history, anthropology, literature, geography, sociology, political science and media and communica- tion; and practitioners as archive and museum professionals, urban planners, architects and artists. With a mix of Swedish and interna- tional participants, approximately 90 presentations were organised in thematic sessions. The anthology comprises of 38 texts (chap- ters), written in English or Swedish, each correlating to individual presentation at the conference. The texts, we believe, all engage in urban history, life, politics and governance in ways that can be related to The Right to the City concept, even if the authors themselves do not use this concept. They do however interrogate related questions such as: Who are represented by a city’s official history and mediated collective memory, and who are excluded? How are city identities created and marketed – and for whose benefit? What forms of struggles and resistance are created to challenge dominant histories, and whose dreams and utopias are expressed in municipal visions for urban futures? From different perspectives, the authors discuss and problematize these and similar issues, some through case studies of specific places, others through literature and document studies. Several authors interrogate and discuss power relations in connection to class, gender or racialisa- tion. The examples

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