This article discusses the extent and conditions of Jewish participation in Swedish society c. 1870-1900. Whereas earlier research on Jewish history in Sweden had pictured this period as a time of ...peaceful integration, recent studies have stressed the continuities of cultural representations of ‘the Jew’ as essentially different from ‘the Swede’. Taking the city of Gothenburg as an example, this article offers a new approach by discussing the role of conflicting national and urban elements within liberal self-identification. With regard to urban identities, attitudes of toleration and religious pluralism went side by side with the liberal representation of Gothenburg as being different – different from its rural hinterland, but also from the capital Stockholm. These images of Gothenburg as being exceptionally progressive and open-minded facilitated Jewish participation in the city’s communal politics and associational life. On a national level, however, the ambiguities of Swedish liberal thinking persisted: An increasingly politicised discussion about national identity from the 1880s onwards reveals that the protagonists of Gothenburg liberalism had far greater difficulties in including Jews into their vision of the Swedish nation than the imagined liberties of Gothenburg city culture would suggest.
In this paper business owner expectations regarding revenue changes due to a general smoking ban are analyzed using a survey mailed out to all restaurants, bars, cafés and nightclubs in Gothenburg, ...Sweden. A reasonable interpretation of the survey responses is that as many as 74% of the establishments do not expect to be severely hurt by a
general smoking ban applying to the
entire restaurant sector. The econometric results show that the owners are more likely to expect a decrease in revenues the larger their share of smoking customers. Moreover, establishments that are smoke-free are less likely to expect negative economic effects compared to those that currently allow smoking. Also, establishments with a non-smoking section are less likely to expect negative economic effects from a general smoking ban. No strong effect of the type of establishment (café, bar, or restaurant) on expected changes in revenues is detected, although establishments with late night hours are more likely to expect financial losses.
Social assistance receipt among first-time unemployed in Sweden is investigated by analysing data files obtained by merging register data from the city of Goteborg. First-time unemployed males were ...observed during 1993 and 1994 and were followed in the register of social assistance recipients for 18 months after the debut. Many of the newly unemployed had no access to unemployment compensation. Slightly more than one out of five newly unemployed became social assistance recipients. Lengthy periods of unemployment combined with no access to unemployment compensation signify a high risk of becoming a social assistance recipient. This risk varies a great deal with age, citizenship, human capital and job search activity of the unemployed.
Report of a Joint Task Force of the European Council of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and the International Association of Public Transport (IAPT), created in 2002 to explore ways to improve ...communication and cooperation among public transport service providers, local authorities, and representatives of the disabled community. Also available in French. Also available on the Internet. Includes experiences in four cities: Gothenburg (Sweden), Grenoble (France), Prague (Czech Republic), and Liverpool (Merseyside)(United Kingdom).
Marieholmstunnel Christiansen, Susanne; Schou-Bojesen, Thomas; Kasper, Thomas ...
Tunnelling and underground space technology,
April 2022, 2022-04-00, 20220401, Letnik:
122
Journal Article
Recenzirano
•Immersed tunnel in Gothenburg, Sweden, with three 102 m long elements.•Urban construction with limited space, difficult transport logistics, ship traffic.•Soil conditions with 60–100 m of soft clay ...layer, difficult deep excavations.•Construction pit with steel tubes, underwater excavation and underwater bottom slab.•Tunnel elements temporarily supported on steel piles while being sandflowed.
The Marieholm tunnel is a part of the Marieholm Connection Project, which connects the Port of Gothenburg and the Industries at Hisingen with the central part of Gothenburg. The closed section is 500 m long with three traffic lanes in each direction. This paper presents some of the main decisions and challenges, which shaped the construction of the Marieholm project. The challenge of the project was construction in the city with limited space and difficult transport logistics together with ongoing ship traffic. Both up and down stream an existing tunnel and bridges limited transportation width and depth. Soil conditions with 60–100 m of soft (Gothenburg) clay layer made deep excavations difficult. The immersed tunnel was constructed as three 102 m long elements constructed one after the other in a dry dock within the alignment. The construction pit was built with steel tubes as retaining walls, underwater excavation and a bottom slab cast underwater. During construction wall deflection, bottom heave and strut forces were closely monitored. The tunnel elements were temporarily supported on steel piles while being sandflowed.
The purpose of this article is to deepen the understanding of the spread of participatory governance arrangements (PGAs) in urban politics. While PGAs tend to be viewed from a democratization angle, ...several studies interpret them as part of other logics, such as public management ideals and neoliberal governmentality. By analyzing the policy content, political roots and motives behind the politics of 'citizen dialogue' in the city of Göteborg, Sweden, this article provides empirical insight and elaborates on how the turn toward participatory governance can be understood both from an idealist and a cynical perspective.
The Palaeoproterozoic (1.90-1.60 Ga) crust of central Fennoscandia was intruded repeatedly by dolerite dikes and sills during the Neo- and Mesoproterozoic eons. We report 17 new baddeleyite U-Pb ...dates comprising six generations of dolerites (in Ma): Blekinge-Dalarna dolerites 946-978; Protogine Zone dolerites 1,211-1,221; Central Scandinavian Dolerite Group 1,264-1,271; Tuna dikes and age equivalents in Dalarna 1,461-1,462; Varmland dolerites approximately 1,568; Breven-Hallefors dolerites approximately 1,595. The favoured tectonic model implies that the majority of these suites were related to active margin processes somewhere west (and possibly south) of the Fennoscandian Shield. Dolerite intrusions are interpreted to reflect discrete events of back-arc extension as the arc retreated oceanward. Initial Hf and Nd isotope compositions of the dolerite swarms fall between CHUR and normal-depleted mantle, and suggest a variably depleted and re-enriched mantle as the source for the here investigated 1.6 to 0.95 Ga old mafic rocks. Repeated recycling of older crustal components, mainly sediments (dominated by material with short residence ages) in earlier subduction systems may have been very efficient at producing geochemically and isotopically variably enriched lithospheric mantle sections beneath the Fennoscandian Shield. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Flow field–flow fractionation (FlFFF) coupled to an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS) has been used to determine the chemical composition of colloids from a freshwater sample as a ...function of size. Organic carbon and iron are the most abundant colloidal components, and are considered as the major carrier phases for other chemical elements present. The size distribution of organic carbon colloids shows a single peak with an estimated hydrodynamic diameter between 1 and 1.5 nm, while the iron colloids show a more complex distribution centred at larger colloid sizes with estimated hydrodynamic diameters up to 5 nm. The association of 32 trace elements with these two carrier colloids has been quantified by deconvolution analysis, and the resulting distributions are shown to be chemically consistent. The observed distributions are also shown to be broadly consistent with predictions from speciation modelling for the subset of 8 elements for which appropriate stability constants are available.
A large landslide in Tuve (Gothenburg, Sweden, 1977) initiated the development of a model for slope stability analysis taking the deformation-softening of soft sensitive clays into consideration. The ...model studies triggering agents and five phases in progressive slope failure are identified: (1) in situ, (2) disturbance, (3) unstable “dynamic”, (4) transitory (or permanent) equilibrium, and (5) “global” failure. The clay resistance in these phases may differ widely; mostly due to different rates of loading. Two time-dependent failure criteria are defined: (i) the triggering load condition in the disturbance phase 2 and (ii) the transitory equilibrium in phase 4, indicating whether minor downhill displacements or a veritable landslide catastrophe will occur. The analysis explains why downhill landslides tend to spread over vast areas of almost horizontal ground further downslope. The model has been applied to landslides in Scandinavia and Canada. Three case studies are briefly discussed. The model is a finite difference approach, where local downhill deformations caused by normal forces is maintained compatible with deviatory shear deformations above — and, if relevant, below — the potential (or the established) failure surface. Software and an easy-to-use spreadsheet are introduced as well as recent developments.
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