All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Deindustrialization and Collective Identity
| The topic of my paper is the effect of deindustrialization to the collective identity among metal industrial workers in a local community (Finnish gun factory 1893-1991). The focus is on the traditional identity, (masculine)humour and narration, and the commitment of different kind of political ideologies in the families in different generations. I approach the theme of collective identity with methods of oral history, and use interview-materials filmed by myself since year 1996. The basic hypothesis is that when industrial plants are closed down and not replaced, and service industries increase (deindustrialization) it has a decisive effect on the erosion and change in the local (working-class) cultures. Where to draw the line between the hero and anti-hero, pride and humility? If the collective tradition is the way to interpret the history, we have to ask: whose history? Who are the working class people, if people don't have work to do?
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