Guest post by Johanna Sköld, Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal and Klara Andersson. Child Studies Unit, Department of Thematic Studies and the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. E-mail: johanna.skold@liu.se In her famous work Dust: Archive and the Cultural History (2001), Carolyn Steedman stated that “the Historian who goes to the Archive must always […]
Category Archives: Ethics
Do Mothers have a Right to Secrecy rather than Privacy?
Reflections on Family Secrecy around Danish German Children Born of War Martina Koegeler-Abdi Danish mothers often hid the identity of a biological father from their child, if the father in question was a German soldier during the WWII Occupation. Even as adults many of these children born of war (chibows) did not know about their […]