The policing of alcoholics: Power and resistance in early welfare-state Sweden.
What in this article is called 'the policing of alcoholics' was a process involving several agents and institutional bodies, including but not limited to, officials and at the alcoholics' institutions, regional and local temperance boards, police authorities and local poor-law boards as well and sev...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 545 - 567 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=159736215&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 159736215 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03468755 9DR jtl: Scandinavian Journal of History issn: 03468755 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2022 vid: 47 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 159736215 10.1080/03468755.2022.2035813 ppf: 545 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 322KB tig: atl: The policing of alcoholics: Power and resistance in early welfare-state Sweden. aug: au: Nilsson, Roddy affil: Professor Emeritus, Department of Historical Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden su: Police power Welfare state Social order State formation Police Sweden sug: subj: Sweden Police power Welfare state Social order State formation Police keyword: alcoholics Policing ab: What in this article is called 'the policing of alcoholics' was a process involving several agents and institutional bodies, including but not limited to, officials and at the alcoholics' institutions, regional and local temperance boards, police authorities and local poor-law boards as well and several others. For the welfare state in the making, the recalcitrant and morally depraved alcoholic represented an anomaly, someone who did not really belong to society. Policing was in the last instance legitimated by the role it played in the process of creating a new social order. The early welfare state should not mainly be seen as a form of 'liberal' governance but as a state formation where a continuity with older forms of governance, i. e. policing, existed. The empirical material for this article is taken from the alcoholics' institution at Svartsjö in the late 1930s and early 1940s. By being subjected to the workings of the power apparatuses in institutions like these, an undifferentiated mass of vagrants, beggars, drunkards, petty criminals, and unruly and socially troublesome people were transformed into a new welfare category, the alcohol abusers. Importantly, this was a process to which the alcohol abusers, through their resistance, also contributed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Scandinavian Journal of History is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Scandinavian Journal of History holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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