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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dancus, Adriana Margareta.
Other Authors: Hyvönen, Mats., Karlsson, Maria.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
  • On Vulnerability
  • On the State
  • Overview of the Book
  • References
  • Part I Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege
  • 2 Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund
  • References
  • 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)
  • Gendered Positions
  • The Soft, National Body: Olin's Maternal Framing of De andre
  • The 'Invading' Other: Ajkic's Hero Framing in Flukt
  • Feminist Alternatives to the White Man's Burden
  • References
  • 4 Shared, Shamed and Archived Images of Vulnerable Bodies: On the Nexus of Media, Feminism and Freedom of Speech in Scandinavia
  • The Sharing of Shame in SKAM
  • Freedom of Speech, Sexual Freedom and Vulnerable Bodies
  • Private Content and Copyright, Public Concerns and Public Service
  • The Vulnerable 'Body' Speaks Back
  • Constructing a Bioethical Meta-Body Online
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State
  • 5 Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees
  • Introduction
  • Vulnerability as a Human Condition
  • Child Refugees-The 'Most Vulnerable'
  • Refugee Patients
  • Vulnerability as an Existential Precondition
  • Vulnerable to Moral Injury
  • Falling Out of Time
  • Protracted Refugee Situations
  • Time as a Normative Resource
  • Time as a Scarce Good
  • Waiting Guarantee
  • Ethics of the Temporary
  • Embodied Human Dignity
  • Towards a Waiting Guarantee
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge
  • Embodied Vulnerability of the Infertile in Øresund
  • ART History-Swedish and Danish State Provisions.
  • The Bridge-Involuntarily Childless Women Become Mothers
  • The Bridge-Surrogacy and Donor Gametes to Counter Infertility
  • The Bridge-Donor-Conceived Children and Resilience
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 7 Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Commitment in Swedish TV Drama?
  • Past and Present
  • The Insufficient Welfare
  • A New Strategy-a Drama of Vulnerability
  • Pictures of Health Care in the Welfare State
  • Visualized Media in the Welfare State
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • Disability, Vulnerability and Literature: An Overview
  • Baby Jane: Vulnerability, Precarity and Dependence
  • Grace: Vulnerability, Illness and Control
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9 Life of a Fatso: Young, Fat and Vulnerable in a Scandinavian Society of Perfection
  • Young and Vulnerable
  • Vulnerability and Resistance
  • Miss-A Network of Relations
  • A Vulnerable Body
  • Social Vulnerability
  • A Year of Change
  • Whose Problem Is It Anyway?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 10 Vulnerable Viewer Positions: Queer Feminist Activists Watching Paradise Hotel
  • The Viewers and Their Context
  • Paradise Hotel and the Reality Genre
  • Reality Shows, Agency and Vulnerability-A Theoretical Approach
  • Watching as Political World Making
  • A Distant Reality
  • Approaching 'The Ordinary'
  • When Reality TV Becomes Reality-From Lesbian Heaven to Paradise Hotel
  • Too Much of a Good Thing
  • Managing Vulnerabilities-A Queer Feminist Viewer Position
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IV Mobilising the Pain of Others
  • 11 The Art of Begging
  • Begging and Vulnerability
  • The Use of Real People in Art
  • Delegating Performance in Toleranshuvan Reloaded.
  • Sharing Performance in It Could Have Been Me
  • Begging Migrants in Art and the Tactics of Vulnerability
  • References
  • 12 Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö
  • Scandinavian Participatory Design: Aspirations to Side with the Vulnerable
  • Parting Participants by Participation
  • Disconnecting by Connecting
  • Refusal of the Vulnerable Parts
  • References
  • 13 Facing War: On Veterans, Wounds, and Vulnerability in Danish Public Discourse and Contemporary Art
  • Introduction
  • Speaking of War-September 5th
  • Framing Wounds
  • Wounding Politicians-RAMT II
  • Transposing Wounds-RAMT II
  • Facing Veterans of War-RAMT II
  • Facing the Other-RAMT I
  • Being Haunted-the Political Potential of Streaming Blood
  • References
  • 14 The Politics of True Crime: Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio's P3 Documentary
  • Vulnerability and Emotion
  • Radio Documentary and Crime Documentary
  • P3 Documentary
  • P3 Documentary and the Controversial Case
  • Women and Children, Fear and Horror. P3 Documentary's Selection of Murders
  • Family, Murder, Intimacy
  • The Function of Experts
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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