Hvem är, som ej vill, att Bröder skola älska hvarandra? Skandinaviens folk äro ju syskon. En narrativ och idéhistorisk undersökning av Skandinavismen

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Tilda Hansson

Summary, in Swedish

The present thesis analyses the political and cultural ideas, as well as the narrative, articulated in the mid of the 19th century by prominent members of the student movement actively engaged in the pan-nationalistic, ideological current of scandinavianism. The research’s empirical material that conveys the narrative and idéas of the student movement was written and published in the early 1840s by the students' Danish board. It contains a retelling of the student unions meetings in Sweden during 1843, and includes as well the ideological speeches that were held, poems that were told, as songs that were sung. Using the theoretical perspectives from nationalism studies and the methodology of narrative analysis and intellectual history. The scandinavist messages and meanings are analysed and discussed. The analytical chapter of the thesis is structured and operationalised with the help of three thematic categories: geography and nature, the academia and science, and lastly, youth and seniority. The study concludes that the student ideas constructed a continuity oriented narrative of togetherness and community, shared heritage and common future as well as intellectual and cultural power.

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