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Magnus Gustafson is a doctoral student in history and history didactics and has a focus on rhetorical strategies in the Social Democratic movement. In his phd he writes about the female pioneer Agda Östlund (1870–1942) and her rhetorical strategies in the voting struggle and as a member in parliament. Gustafson is a member of The Nordic Network for Research on Working-Class Literature which organizes researchers interested in working-class literatures from the Nordic countries. For more information: https://nordarb.mau.se/. He is also a member of Working-class Studies Association. For more information: https://workingclassassn.org/
Publications
"'A small step forward can be as important as a big one' – Parliamentary debate about the first abortion law in Sweden in 1938", in Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol. 9, Nr 1 (2024) [(https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/workingclassstudies/article/view/8895)]
”Storie operaie dalla Svezia” (”Arbetarberättelser från Sverige”) av Magnus Gustafson och Magnus Nilsson, i Jacobin Italia, 30 mars, 2024. Översättning till italienska av Alberto Prunetti [(https://jacobinitalia.it/storie-operaie-dalla-svezia/)]
"Agda Östlund och Helga Karlsen – två socialdemokratiska kvinnliga pionjärer i Norden, en komparativ retorisk studie", in Nordisk arbejderlitteratur. Internationale perspektiver og forbindelser, red. Anker Gemzøe, Nicklas Freisleben Lund, Magnus Nilsson, Erik Svendsen, Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2023
"Problems and possibilities for Swedish working-class literature in a neoliberal age", in Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol. 8, Nr 1 (2023) [(https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/workingclassstudies/article/view/8043)]
"Första abortlagen blev Agdas sista strid", Bärgslagsbladet, 18 maj, 2023
"Biografin som metod och vetenskaplig genre", Kulturdelen, 3 februari, 2023, [(http://www.kulturdelen.com/2023/02/03/biografin-som-metod-och-vetenskaplig-genre/)]
"Akademin och cancelkulturen", Opulens, 26 januari, 2023 [[(https://www.opulens.se/opinion/debatt/akademin-och-cancelkulturen/)]
"Med modersrollen som progressiv politisk strategi", Opulens, 20 november, 2022 [(https://www.opulens.se/existentiellt/helgessan-med-modersrollen-som-progressiv-politisk-strategi/)]
"‘Mister Speaker! I therefore have no claim’ – Agda Östlund’s Entrance in the Parliamentary Debate in March 1922 in a Historical and Rhetorical Perspective", in Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol. 7, Nr 1 (2022) [(https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/workingclassstudies/article/view/7237)]
"Hundra år sedan Agdas revolutionerande tal i riksdagen", Bärgslagsbladet, 11 mars, 2022
”Striden om folkhemmet – rumsliga motiv i valrörelseretoriken 1921”, in Arbejderhistorie 2021:2
”'Från mörkret stiga vi mot ljuset' Den socialdemokratiska memoaren som historieskrivning, retorisk genre och litterär konstruktion” in the anthology Identitet i en föränderlig värld: sju nya historieskrivningar, Skrifter med historiska perspektiv nr 26, Malmö 2021
”Outsidern, narren och fackombudet – vittnesroller i samtida arbetarlitteratur”, in the anthology Arbetarförfattaren – litteratur och liv (2020)
"Äntligen stod kvinnan i talarstolen", website Demokrati100, (https://demokrati100.se/antligen-stod-kvinnan-i-talarstolen/)]
”Egensinne och skötsamhet i tidig arbetarlitteratur” i Mot ljuset – en antologi om arbete, arbetare och arbetarrörelse (2019)
”Amason och moder: retoriska strategier hos Agda Östlund”, in Personhistorisk Tidskrift 2018:1 (http://personhistoriskasamfundet.org/download/nr-12018/?wpdmdl=1294)
"Köpings kvinnliga pionjär", in the anthology Morske män, Köpingsboken 2018
”Socialist och kvinna i riksdagsdebatten – retoriska strategier och litterära grepp hos Agda Östlund 1922–1940” in the anthology Berättelser om arbete, arbetare och arbetarrörelse (2017)
Together wit Beata Agrell, Åsa Arping and Christer Ekholm editor for the anthology ”Inte kan jag berätta allas historia?” Föreställningar om nordisk arbetarlitteratur (2016)
Masterthesis ”Från mörkret stiga vi mot ljuset” Den socialdemokratiska memoaren som retorisk genre: exemplen Palm, Erlander och Persson (Gupea 2015) (https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/38251)
”'Från mörkret stiga vi mot ljuset' Om välfärdsstatens barndom, mognad och förfall mot bakgrund av socialdemokratiska memoarer” in the anthology Från Bruket till Yarden: nordiska perspektiv på arbetarlitteratur (2014)
Conference Papers
WCSA, Working-class Studies Association, 6-8 June 2024, Suny Old Westbury, New York. Paper with the headline “'Our language will crush their bullshit!' Association of Working-class Writers as a counterforce in the right-wing wave nineties in Sweden".
IASS, International Association for Scandinavian Studies, 3-6 August 2021, Vilnius. Paper in a session about working-class literature: "Problem och möjligheter för arbetarlitteraturen i en nyliberal tid" (Problems and possibilites for Swedish working-class literature in a neoliberal age)
Publications
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2025 | Doctoral thesis, monograph
Äntligen stod kvinnan i talarstolen: Agda Östlunds retoriska karriär och socialdemokratins genombrott
Magnus Gustafson
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2024 | Article in journal
“A small step forward can be as important as a big one”: Parliamentary debate about the first abortion law in Sweden in 1938
Magnus Gustafson
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2023 | Article in journal
Problems and possibilities for Swedish working-class literature in a neoliberal age
Magnus Gustafson
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2023 | Chapter in book
Agda Östlund och Helga Karlsen: två socialdemokratiska kvinnliga pionjärer i Norden, en komparativ retorisk studie
Magnus Gustafson
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2022 | Article in journal
"Mister Speaker! I therefore have no claim": Agda Östlund’s Entrance in the Parliamentary Debate in March 1922 in a Historical and Rhetorical Perspective
Magnus Gustafson