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AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IRON CURTAIN
Thank you Chris Beach for providing me with such great maps and
illustrations which helped to lift my material in such a great way and to
Jonathan Robson and Per Lindblom at Södertörn University Publications
for their excellent work with the layout and graphics of this thesis. Thanks
also to Rodrigo Trompiz for his always patient help and comments on my
language and to Mirja Arnshav who made sure my Swedish was legible.
Always making me feel welcome during visits to Stockholm University
were fellow doctoral students Jenny Nyberg, Cecilia Ljung, Ingrid Berg and
Elin Engström. Thank you!
I must also thank everyone who helped me during my fieldwork to
access areas, find information, get in contact with people or who shared
their own stories and memories. Thank you Claudia Melisch and Jamie
Sewell for being such lovely guides and friends during my visits to Berlin. A
big thank you goes to the Swedish-Slovenian Friendship Association and in
particular Lojze Hribar who has shown such interest in my work and helped
me in all ways possible – even being my personal guide in Slovenia! Great
help was also provided by the Nova Gorica Regional museum and the
director Andrej Malnič during my fieldwork in Slovenia and by the Podyji
Park administration during my fieldwork in the Czech Republic. The fieldwork
in the Czech Republic was made possible through a grant from Albert
and Maria Bergströms Stiftelse which I received in 2010.
I also want to thank family and friends who have always supported and
put up with me through times of stress, confusion and great excitements. A
big thank you to my former colleagues, and good friends, Andrea Bradley
and Sefryn Penrose for always listening, reading, commenting and generally
just being there. Thank you Lisa Söderbaum-Beach who is always on the
other end of a phone, Anke Marsh with whom I have shared the adventures
of archaeology ever since we first started as undergraduates, Kristin Ilves
with whom I have shared the aches and pains of doctoral life as well as an
office during part of my research, Anders Udd for helping me see my material
in a less academic and a more colourful way and to Cecilia Minning
who has been a good friend and neighbour always at the ready with a cup of
coffee. Thank you all for your friendship and support!
Thank you to my mum and dad, Eva-Lena and Lennart Nilsson, and my
sister Åsa Moberg for always showing an interest and for providing all that
critical support with babysitting, dinners, wood chopping and other things
that makes a stressed doctoral student’s life so much easier. And last but by
no means least thank you John and Tage: to my John for always understanding
and providing all that ground service when I have had my head
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