Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
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.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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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
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University of South-Eastern Norway Bakkenteigen/Borre, Norway. 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. Her most recent book, Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2019), is a cultural and socio-political analysis of contemporary films by Scandinavian women as they use their own experiences with glob- ally relevant issues such as race, gender, mental illness, bullying and the trauma of migration.
Adriana Margareta Dancus (Editor)
Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden. Mats Hyvönen is Media Scholar at Uppsala University and coordinator for the Engaging Vulnerability Research Programme. 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 facil- itate that vulnerability. Recent publications include (as co-editor and contributor) Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education (Springer, 2018).
Mats Hyvönen (Editor)
Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden. Maria Karlsson is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and Rhetoric at the Department of Literature at Uppsala University. She is on the advi- sory board of the Engaging Vulnerability Research Programme (www. engagingvulnerability.se). Her research interests have mainly been narra- tion in women’s fin-de-siécle (nineteenth/twentieth century) fiction, audi- ences and media dramaturgy. Currently, her work is on begging letters from readers; on provocative art in a context of media and politics, and on vulnerability and the Swedish radio documentary.
Maria Karlsson (Editor)
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