Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
Contributor(s)
Dancus, Adriana Margareta (editor)
Hyvönen, Mats (editor)
Karlsson, Maria (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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
European Cinema and TV; Arts; Scandinavian; Comparative Literature; Open Access; Productive Vulnerability; Contemporary Art; Welfare State; Gendered Bodies; Privilege; Aesthetics; Performing arts; The arts: general issues; Language: reference & general; Scandinavian languagesDOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37382-5Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2020Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanClassification
Films, cinema
Television
The arts: general topics
Language: reference and general
Literature: history and criticism