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- Title
Ungkarlsfenomenet - eller hur tid och tidpunkt spelar skilda roller i olika tider vid förvandling av jordbrukslandskap.
- Authors
Wästfelt, Anders
- Abstract
Here and there, among forests and fields, we can still glimpse traces of unmodernised, former arable land. Why did 20th-century modernisation fail to yield consistent, universal results, and why does some land remain unchanged from past eras? The article sheds light on this question using a detailed agrarian-geographical study of the village of Sötåsa, which is situated south of Värnamo and east of Oh in Jönköping County. Current agrarian-historical research suggests predominant family influence at times of generational change, and how problems can arise when a farm passes from one generation to the next. A time-geographical approach shows how a decline in the number of family formations in the interwar years can be seen as a constraint that gave rise to the bachelor phenomenon. The article also highlights and discusses how this phenomenon, in turn, postponed later generational transitions for so long that modernisation was no longer relevant. This delay, and the reversionary inheritance that resulted, meant that nephews and nieces inherited farms in an era when they were agriculturally redundant. Farms were retained for various reasons, but strong local family ties meant they were rarely sold. The article shows how opportunities for action open and close at the interface of interpersonal and societal contexts at times of succession. By learning how these opportunities were constrained in the interwar years, we can understand the dearth of modernisation in certain agricultural contexts.
- Subjects
ARABLE land; FARMS; INHERITANCE &; succession; CHRONOLOGY; GENERATIONS
- Publication
Bebyggelsehistorisk Tidskrift, 2019, Issue 77, p74
- ISSN
0349-2834
- Publication type
Article