Building the state with information 1660-1848
Name of applicant
Laura Skouvig
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 25,000
Year
2024
Type of grant
Field Trips / Research Stays < 100,000
Summary
The project aims to present new knowledge about state building as interactions between state and people through circulation, exchange, and translation of information. The project wants to understand how information practices such as gathering, organizing, and storing created and transformed information from people's everyday information into state information: information actionable for governing.