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- Title
Simultaneous places: visiting, playing and representing Vimmerby, the village of Astrid Lindgren's childhoods.
- Authors
Economou, Konstantin
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the visitor centres in and around the town of Vimmerby in Sweden. It delves into the practices and meanings expresses by some visitors, activities of child's play, practices of family representations and snapshots, and discourses associated to author Astrid Lindgren and to childhood life. It explores how the sites communicate the perceived culture and history they tried to capture and they are used.
- Subjects
VIMMERBY (Sweden); SWEDEN; VISITORS' centers; LINDGREN, Astrid, 1907-2002; CHILD rearing; COMMUNICATION &; society
- Publication
Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1835-2340
- Publication type
Essay