Helena Hill is Associate Professor of the History of Ideas and Lecturer in Gender Studies at Södertörn University in Sweden. Helena’s main research areas are social and political movements, gender and sexuality in a historical perspective and gender equality.  Andrés Brink Pinto is Associate Professor of History and Researcher in Gender Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Andrés’ main research areas are radical social movements, urban history and the history of sexuality.

• 1. Introduction; Helena Hill and Andrés Brink Pinto.- 2. Actors behind Contention over the Welfare State in the 1980s; Jenny Jansson and Katrin Uba.- 3. Legitimizing and Enacting Contradictory Ideals: Squatting in Sweden in the 1980s; Dominika V. Polanska.- 4. When Anarchism Met Punk; Markus Lundström.- 5. 'The Winter Palace' in Malmö: Subversive Activists, Welfare-state Aarchists, or Just a Slightly Radical Cultural Association?; Fredrik Egefur.- 6. The Environmental Movement between Institutionalization and Conflict; Monica Quirico.- 7. Peace Actions and Mainstream Media: Framing Nuclear Disarmament Protests in Welfare Sweden; Anton Öhman.- 8. The End of a Performance: Swedish Rent Strikes in the 1980s; Hannes Rolf.- 9. Action without Contention? Contextualizing Social Movements in 1980s Sweden; Bart van der Steen.

Helena Hill is Associate Professor of the History of Ideas and Lecturer in Gender Studies at Södertörn University in Sweden. Helena’s main research areas are social and political movements, gender and sexuality in a historical perspective and gender equality.  Andrés Brink Pinto is Associate Professor of History and Researcher in Gender Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Andrés’ main research areas are radical social movements, urban history and the history of sexuality.

• 1. Introduction; Helena Hill and Andrés Brink Pinto.- 2. Actors behind Contention over the Welfare State in the 1980s; Jenny Jansson and Katrin Uba.- 3. Legitimizing and Enacting Contradictory Ideals: Squatting in Sweden in the 1980s; Dominika V. Polanska.- 4. When Anarchism Met Punk; Markus Lundström.- 5. 'The Winter Palace' in Malmö: Subversive Activists, Welfare-state Aarchists, or Just a Slightly Radical Cultural Association?; Fredrik Egefur.- 6. The Environmental Movement between Institutionalization and Conflict; Monica Quirico.- 7. Peace Actions and Mainstream Media: Framing Nuclear Disarmament Protests in Welfare Sweden; Anton Öhman.- 8. The End of a Performance: Swedish Rent Strikes in the 1980s; Hannes Rolf.- 9. Action without Contention? Contextualizing Social Movements in 1980s Sweden; Bart van der Steen.