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Per Högselius Receives Funding from The Swedish Research Council

Photo: Wikicommons. The last French troops leave Dortmund in October 1924
Published Dec 14, 2022

The Swedish Research Council announced in November that they will fund the project “Carbon Transnationalism: Cooperation and Conflict around Coal in Interwar Europe” with 4.8 million SEK. Per Högselius will lead the project, cooperating with Aliaksandr Piahanau and former Division postdoc Marta Musso.

- The project highlights that coal was extracted, processed and burnt in transnational exploitative systems, involving complex cross-border relations, and that coal fundamentally changed the political, economic, social and cultural relations between and within countries, Per explains and continues:

- We explore how actors engaged in coal transnationalism against the backdrop of war-time memories, radical economic ups and downs, rapid technical change, geopolitical instability, the rise of authoritarian regimes, protectionism, dreams of autarky and visionary pan-Europeanism. The project approaches coal transnationalism from the perspective of the import-dependent nations, with a focus on three regions: Northern Europe (especially Sweden and Denmark), Central Europe (Austria and Hungary) and Southern Europe (Italy and France).

The project will start in 2023 and run until the end of 2025.

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