Cooperation and Confrontation in Nordic Civil Societies since 1800 [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: Experiences of Cooperation and Confrontation in Nordic Civil Societies??Part 1:?Nordic Civil Society  Theoretical Perspectives??2. Expansion and Incorporation: Nordic Civil Society in a Weberian Perspective??3. Nordic Civil Society through Changes of New Technologies and Knowledge Society: How is the Function of Civil Society Affected???Part 2:?Civil Society, the State and the Market in a Nordic Context??4. Ordering the Social  Socializing the Order: Navigating Trust between Civil Society and State in the Swedish Realm around 1800??5. Emerging Civil Society in Iceland: Enlightenment Ideas and Old Norse Heritage??6. Military Sports in Northern Clothing: How Sharpshooting became Nordic Heritage??7. Hybridity and Blurred Borders between Market and Civil Society: The Case of Danish Cooperatives, Savings Banks and Corporations??8. A Relationship Shaped by Interdependency: The Norwegian Refugee Council and the Norwegian State??9. S?mi Art and Literature as Peaceful Pillar of S?mi Civil Society??Part 3:?Civil Society and Transnational Encounters??10. A Networked Scandinavia: Scandinavian Associations and Transnational Cooperation??11. State Civil Servants and Voluntary Nordic Cooperation: The Nordic Federation of Public Administration 19191952??12. From War Effort to Development Aid: The Scandinavian Red Cross Societies and Korea??13. Explosive Waste: Scandinavian Anti-Nuclear Movements Campaign against the Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel? 14. Epilogue: What was Nordic about Nordic Civil Society?

This book examines Nordic civil societies from 1800 until today, by studying the roles of voluntary action and associations in the Nordic region and beyond.

Sunniva Engh is Professor of Modern History, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of OslãQ