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The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for
combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth
and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens
when Sweden and Finland - two countries topping global indexes for
competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity,
and equality - start doubting themselves and their future? Is the
Nordic Model at a crossroads? Historically, consensus, continuity,
social cohesion, and broad social trust have been hailed as key
components for the success and for the self-images of Sweden and
Finland. In the contemporary, however, political debates in both
countries are increasingly focused on risks, threats, and worry.
Social disintegration, political polarization, geopolitical
anxieties, and threat of terrorism are often dominant themes. This
book focuses on what appears to be a paradox: countries with low
income differences, high faith in social institutions, and
relatively high cultural homogeneity becoming fixated on the fear
of polarization, disintegration, and diminished social trust.
Unpacking the presentist discourse of "worry" and a sense of
interregnum at the face of geopolitical tensions, digitalization,
and globalization, as well as challenges to democracy, the chapters
take steps back in time and explore the current conjecture through
the eyes of historians and social scientists, addressing key
aspects of and challenges to both the contemporary and future
Nordic Model. In addition, the functioning and efficacy of the
participatory democracy and current protocols of decision-making
are debated. This work is essential reading for students and
scholars of the welfare state, social reforms, and populism, as
well as Nordic and Scandinavian studies. The Open Access version of
this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for
combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth
and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens
when Sweden and Finland - two countries topping global indexes for
competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity,
and equality - start doubting themselves and their future? Is the
Nordic Model at a crossroads? Historically, consensus, continuity,
social cohesion, and broad social trust have been hailed as key
components for the success and for the self-images of Sweden and
Finland. In the contemporary, however, political debates in both
countries are increasingly focused on risks, threats, and worry.
Social disintegration, political polarization, geopolitical
anxieties, and threat of terrorism are often dominant themes. This
book focuses on what appears to be a paradox: countries with low
income differences, high faith in social institutions, and
relatively high cultural homogeneity becoming fixated on the fear
of polarization, disintegration, and diminished social trust.
Unpacking the presentist discourse of "worry" and a sense of
interregnum at the face of geopolitical tensions, digitalization,
and globalization, as well as challenges to democracy, the chapters
take steps back in time and explore the current conjecture through
the eyes of historians and social scientists, addressing key
aspects of and challenges to both the contemporary and future
Nordic Model. In addition, the functioning and efficacy of the
participatory democracy and current protocols of decision-making
are debated. This work is essential reading for students and
scholars of the welfare state, social reforms, and populism, as
well as Nordic and Scandinavian studies. The Open Access version of
this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the
Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in
socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did
Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet
drama? Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of
an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping
Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the
period, illuminating the extensive connections between media
industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their
counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were
forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and
aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting,
functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which
media circulates today-from film festivals, to satellite networks,
to coproductions. Considering film, literature, radio, photography,
computer games, and television, Remapping Cold War Media offers a
transnational history of postwar media that spans Eastern and
Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Cuba, the United States, and
beyond. Contributors draw on extensive archival research to reveal
how media traveled across geopolitical boundaries; the processes of
translation, interpretation, and reception on which these travels
depended; and the significance of media form, content, industries,
and infrastructures then and now.
Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the
Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in
socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did
Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet
drama? Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of
an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping
Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the
period, illuminating the extensive connections between media
industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their
counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were
forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and
aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting,
functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which
media circulates today-from film festivals, to satellite networks,
to coproductions. Considering film, literature, radio, photography,
computer games, and television, Remapping Cold War Media offers a
transnational history of postwar media that spans Eastern and
Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Cuba, the United States, and
beyond. Contributors draw on extensive archival research to reveal
how media traveled across geopolitical boundaries; the processes of
translation, interpretation, and reception on which these travels
depended; and the significance of media form, content, industries,
and infrastructures then and now.
This collection brings together an exciting group of established
and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film
theory and new developments in the field and in film culture
itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such
topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism,
activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for
scholars of both film and feminism.
Anu Koivunen analyses the historicity as well as the
intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on
a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking
about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. Koivunen argues that
the Niskavuori films have mobilised readings in terms of history
and memory, feminist nationalism and mens movement, left-wing
allegories and right-wing morality as well as realism and
melodrama.
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