Peoplehood in the Nordic World
A part of the series The Nordic World (5) , and the subject areas Social sciences and Cultural studies
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What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation but of a household, church, or state. The term remains a battlefield of mixed or even opposing interests and has developed at least three different meanings: a political unit, a cultural entity, and a social multitude.
Modern historian Ove Korsgaard focuses on the crucial struggles over who has (or has not) belonged to the people over the past 175 years, and elucidates their implications for state and nation building in Denmark and other Nordic countries.
Karina Bell Ottosen
MSc in Information Science. Karina is responsible for the social sciences area, particularly the development of the series The Nordic World and Magtudredningen 2.0. She is our Foreign Rights manager and in charge of Aarhus Universitetforlag's international profile, including co-publishing with American and British university presses. Karina has a background as an editor at Gyldendal Academic and Forlaget Ajour.
