Search results for "postwar"

ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, 1946–1952

2022

This essay introduces the work conducted by Albert O. Hirschman at the Federal Reserva Bank. His main areas of interest, on which he produce original research, were European postwar reconstruction and integration; country studies (Italy and France, particularly), alternative modes of economic development; the role of the US in assisting reconstruction and development.

Kontrolloitu sopeutuminen : ortodoksinen siirtoväki sotien jälkeisessä Ylä-Savossa (1946-1959)

2010

‘Cos I’m a Survivor’ : Narratives of coping and resilience in recollections of difficult childhood in post-war Finland

2018

In post-war Finland thousands of children experienced poor upbringing, neglect and abuse, and had to deal with their experiences without social support from adults. In this article we study how difficult and bitter experiences related to childhood crises are remembered, reinterpreted and reframed in later life and in contemporary Finland. As research material we use both oral and written reminiscences of childhood in the post-war years collected in the period 2014–2016. We argue that in the recollections of difficult childhood coping and resilience emerge as major narrative themes. Although informants in their childhood were forced to suffer in silence, they remember themselves as being res…