Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

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