Permanence of the Family Farm Questioned: Rural Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Estonia and Sweden

Tiina Peil and Madeleine Bonow

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2014, vol. 45, issue 2, 247-267

Abstract: The family farm has symbolic significance in many parts of the world. In this paper we argue that the “rooted” identity of the farmer emerged as a reaction to rapid modernization in society and that, in actual fact, the nineteenth century rural communities were both geographically and socially mobile. We examine how kinship ties were expressed in spatial terms with the help of two examples from Harjumaa in north Estonia and Västergötland in south Sweden. These micro-histories are taken both to illuminate and subvert some of the key ideas about identity, belonging, and mobility of the nineteenth-century farmer.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2013.835563

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