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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.

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Author:   Adriana Margareta Dancus ,  Mats Hyvönen ,  Maria Karlsson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9783030373849

ISBN 10:   3030373843
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   18 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.     Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture.- Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen & Maria Karlsson.- Part I: Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege.- 2.     Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund.- Asbjørn Grønstad.- 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.- 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.- Part II: The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State.- 5.     Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees.- Odin Lysaker.- 6.     Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge.- Melissa Gjellstad.- 7.     Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Commitment in Swedish TV-drama?.- Per Vesterlund.- Part III: Societies of Perfection and Resisting Normalcy.- 8.     Vulnerability and Disability in Contemporary Nordic Literature: Linn Ullmann’s Grace and Sofi Oksanen’s Baby Jane.- Jenny Bergenmar.- 9.     Life of a Fatso: Young, Fat and Vulnerable in Scandinavian Society of Perfection.- Elise Seip Tønnessen.- 10. Vulnerable Viewer Positions: Queer Feminist Activists Watching Paradise Hotel.- Fanny Ambjörnsson & Ingeborg Svensson.- Part IV: Mobilizing the Pain of Others.- 11. The Art of Begging.- Adriana Margareta Dancus.- 12. Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö.- Erling Björgvinsson & Mahmoud Keshavarz.- 13. Facing War: On Veterans,Wounds, and Vulnerability in Danish Public Discourse and Contemporary Art.- Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen.- 14. The Politics of True Crime: Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio’s P3 Documentary.- Mats Hyvönen, Maria Karlsson & Madeleine Eriksson.

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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. Shehas 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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