Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
- Part I. Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege
- Part II. The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State
- Part III. Societies of Perfection and Resisting Normalcy
- Part IV. Mobilising the Pain of Others
- Back Matter