Magi och medborgarskap diskuteras vanligtvis i skilda sammanhang. I finländsk och svensk litteratur från mitten av 1800-talet ställs emellertid häxor och medborgare i direkt relation till varandra. Bonden har ofta lyfts fram som företrädare för folket, men denna artikel visar att även häxan fick representera nationen på olika sätt i litteraturen vid mitten av 1800-talet. I århundraden hade stat och kyrka brännmärkt trolldom som en pakt med Satan, som onda makters sätt att verka i världen. Under 1800-talet förändrades förståelsen av ondskans problem-liksom förståelsen av folket. "Folket" gavs olika innebörder i olika politiska läger. I såväl liberala nationalistiska demokratiseringsrörelser som i konservativ "officiell nationalism" var dock begreppen "folk" och "medborgare" centrala. 2 Det moderna medborgarskapsbegreppet var vid mitten av 1800-talet fortfarande under konstruktion. 3 Det uppfattades i hög grad som en
Anna Bohlin: Memory, Forgetting and the Production of Locality in the New South Africa This article explores remembering and forgetting as a social and cultural process by focussing on the memory of forced removals, carried out during apartheid, in Kalk Bay, a small fishing town in Cape Town, South Africa. Among those who live in the town today, the memory of these removals has largely disappeared. The article argues that the “forgetting” of these events is related to the construction of Kalk Bay as a particular kind of locality, shaped by the fishing tradition, which is characterized by a certain form of tolerance and multiculturalism, as well as by the absence of apartheid. This image of Kalk Bay, along with its denial that forced removals took place, has allowed for a shifting set of responses to contemporary issues in the new democratic South Africa. Meanwhile, those who were forced to leave the town, and who have resettled in townships in the outskirt of Cape Town, construe a memory of Kalk Bay which serves as a critique of their current area of living. In both places the memory of Kalk Bay and its history are thus represented in social portraits that emphasize certain aspects while downplaying or omitting others. The article argues that such social portraits are created and maintained as part of a larger project of locality production.
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