Gustav Berry

I am director of a first cycle course on landscape and garden history for students in the landscape architecture and landscape engineering programs. I also teach on themes related to my research on modern agrarian and rural history on various courses. 

My main research project concerns the publishing activities of the Swedish farmers' movement 1920-1970. Through studies of agrarian press and literary fiction in the form of farmer novels, the project explores how printed media was used to mitigate a period of intense agrarian change. 

I have a backround in the history of education. I hold a phd in sociology of education from Uppsala university. My thesis explored the rationale of rural domestic education in Sweden in the age of high modernity and showed how schooling and extension in rural domesticity was directly related to real and imagined problems of womens' flight from the land. 

”Planer för en ny tillvaro”, Historisk tidskrift 2024.

”Mediating Modernity: the Social History of Rural Domestic Education in Northwestern Europe”, ingår i Living with the Land: Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth Century Europe – a handbook, Oldenbourg: De Gruyter 2023.

Den självstyrda periferin: lanthushållsundervisningen och styrningen av den svenska landsbygden 1890-1970/The Self-Governed Periphery: Rural Domestic Education and the Governance of the Swedish Countryside, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 2023.