Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

• Other Authors: Dancus, Adriana Margareta (Editor), Hyvönen, Mats (Editor), Karlsson, Maria (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2020
• Subjects: Film, TV & radio; The arts: general issues; Language: reference & general; Literature: history & criticism; European Cinema and TV; Arts; Scandinavian; Comparative Literature; Open Access; Productive Vulnerability; Contemporary Art; Welfare State; Gendered Bodies; Privilege; Aesthetics; Performing arts; Scandinavian languages
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (324 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-37382-5

Access

Open Access