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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
    Adriana Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen, Maria Karlsson
    Pages 1-15 Open Access
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  3. Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund
      Asbjørn Grønstad
      Pages 19-31 Open Access
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    3. The Mother, the Hero, and the Refugee: Gendered Framings of Vulnerability in Margreth Olin’s De andre (2012) and Leo Ajkic’s Flukt (2017)
      Elisabeth Oxfeldt
      Pages 33-53 Open Access
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    4. Shared, Shamed and Archived Images of Vulnerable Bodies: On the Nexus of Media, Feminism and Freedom of Speech in Scandinavia
      Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
      Pages 55-78 Open Access
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  4. The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 79-79
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    2. Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees
      Odin Lysaker
      Pages 81-102 Open Access
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    3. Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge
      Melissa Gjellstad
      Pages 103-125 Open Access
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    4. Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Commitment in Swedish TV Drama?
      Per Vesterlund
      Pages 127-148 Open Access
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  5. Societies of Perfection and Resisting Normalcy

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 149-149
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    2. Vulnerability and Disability in Contemporary Nordic Literature: Linn Ullmann’s Grace and Sofi Oksanen’s Baby Jane
      Jenny Bergenmar
      Pages 151-171 Open Access
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    3. Life of a Fatso: Young, Fat and Vulnerable in a Scandinavian Society of Perfection
      Elise Seip Tønnessen
      Pages 173-194 Open Access
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    4. Vulnerable Viewer Positions: Queer Feminist Activists Watching Paradise Hotel
      Fanny Ambjörnsson, Ingeborg Svensson
      Pages 195-219 Open Access
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  6. Mobilising the Pain of Others

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 221-221
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    2. The Art of Begging
      Adriana Margareta Dancus
      Pages 223-246 Open Access
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    3. Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö
      Erling Björgvinsson, Mahmoud Keshavarz
      Pages 247-266 Open Access
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    4. Facing War: On Veterans, Wounds, and Vulnerability in Danish Public Discourse and Contemporary Art
      Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen
      Pages 267-290 Open Access
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    5. The Politics of True Crime: Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio’s P3 Documentary
      Mats Hyvönen, Maria Karlsson, Madeleine Eriksson
      Pages 291-314 Open Access
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  7. Back Matter
    Pages 315-324
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About this book

Introduction

In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is vulnerability distributed in terms of margin and centre, normality and deviance? And how can vulnerability be used to move audiences towards each other and accomplish change? We address these questions in an interdisciplinary study that brings examples from celebrated and provocative fiction and documentary films, TV-series, reality TV, art installations, design, literature, graphic art, radio podcasts and campaigns on social media.   

Keywords

Open Access Productive Vulnerability Scandinavian Contemporary Art Welfare State Gendered Bodies Privilege Aesthetics

Editors and affiliations

  • Adriana Margareta Dancus
    • 1
  • Mats Hyvönen
    • 2
  • Maria Karlsson
    • 3
  1. 1.University of South-Eastern NorwayBakkenteigen/BorreNorway
  2. 2.Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
  3. 3.Uppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden

About the editors

Adriana Margareta Dancus is Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern, Norway. Dancus researches at the crossroads of gender and ethnicity studies, with a focus on contemporary Scandinavian film and literature. She is the author of Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women (2019).

 

Mats Hyvönen is a Media scholar at Uppsala University, Sweden, and coordinator for the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program. Hyvönen’s research interests are mainly in media history, especially the study of the public sphere as a vulnerable space and how the media both resist and facilitate that vulnerability. Recent publications include (as editor and contributor) Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education (Springer, 2018).

 

Maria Karlsson is a Literature scholar at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is on the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program’s advisory board. She has worked on women’s fin-de-siécle novels, audiences, and media dramaturgy. At present, she works on charity and readers; on provocative art in media and politics, and on Swedish radio documentaries.


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