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Contesting Nordicness from Scandinavianism to the Nordic Brand

Author : Jani Marjanen
Publisher : De Gruyter Oldenbourg
ISBN 13 : 9783110735017
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Nordicness from Scandinavianism to the Nordic Brand written by Jani Marjanen and published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the Nordic countries Nordic? The terms 'Nordic' and 'Scandinavian' are increasingly used in wide range of political and cultural contexts. Historically they have been associated with political projects and institutions (the Nordic Council), while also functioning as categories of analysis in academic research (Nordic model, Nordic welfare states). Often associated with positive meanings, the term 'Nordic' has also become a resource for commercial and cultural branding (Nordic noir, Nordic design). The adjectives Nordic and Scandinavian are however flexible and contested concepts that have been used - and continue to be used - in varying, often contradictory and inherently political ways. How has the rhetoric of 'Nordicness' been used in different times and places, and how do we explain its continued appeal? What do the different terms Nordic and Scandinavian have in common, and are there any particular circumstances or historical periods in which the rhetoric has been particularly popular? How do we account for its current popularity? Through selected case studies, the book provides a historical and open-ended narrative of the making of the Nordic region. This account includes not only the success story of the region, but also the alternative, and sometimes sinister, paths that have been part of this process. It highlights the role of political contingency in region building in a way that is relevant for understanding not only the past but also the future of any region-building process.

Contesting Nordicness

Author : Jani Marjanen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110730154
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Nordicness written by Jani Marjanen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terms ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are widely used to refer to the politics, society and culture of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. But why have people felt the need to frame things as Nordic and why has the adjective Nordic become so prominent? This book adopts a rhetorical approach, analysing the speech acts which have shaped the meanings of the term. What do the different terms Nordic and Scandinavian have in common, and how have the uses of these terms changed in different historical periods? What accounts for the apparent upsurge in uses of the rhetoric of Nordicness in the 2010s? Drawing on eight case studies of the uses of Nordic and Scandinavian from the nineteenth century to the present day, the book explores the appeal and the flexibility of the rhetoric of Nordicness, in relation to race, openness, gender equality, food, crime fiction, Nordic co-operation and the Nordic model. Arguing that ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian’ are flexible and contested concepts that have been used in different, often contradictory and inherently political ways, the book suggests that the usage of the term has evolved from a means of creating a cultural community, to forging political co-operation and further to marketing models in politics and popular culture. The rhetorical approach also shows how many of the hallmarks of Nordic political culture, such as the Nordic model, Nordic gender equality or Nordic openness are more recent conceptualisations than usually assumed. As such, the book argues for the need to turn attention away from analysing the different components of Nordicness into studying how, when, and for what purpose different features were made Nordic.

English in the Nordic Countries

Author : Elizabeth Peterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003805094
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book English in the Nordic Countries written by Elizabeth Peterson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In this unique volume, international experts explore how this came to be, what English usage and integration looks like in different spheres of society and the economy in these countries, and the implications of this linguistic phenomenon for language attitudes and identity, for the region at large, and for English in Europe and around the world. Led by Elizabeth Peterson and Kristy Beers Fägersten, contributors provide a historical overview to the subject, synthesize the latest research, illustrate the roles of English with original case studies from diverse communities and everyday settings, and offer transnational insights critically and in conversation with the situation in other Nordic states. This comprehensive text is the first book of its kind and will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of World/Global Englishes and English as a lingua franca, language contact and dialect studies/language varieties, language policy, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, and Nordic/Scandinavian and European studies.

Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms

Author : Ruth Hemstad
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000903559
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms written by Ruth Hemstad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe. An actor and practice oriented approach is applied at the expense of more essentialist categorizations of what pan-nationalism is, or is not to underline both the synchronic and diachronic diversity of various pan-national movements. A range of expert international scholars discuss encounters, transfers, similarities and differences among pan-movements in Norden and Europe based on a broad empirical material, focusing on Scandinavianism/Nordism, pan-Slavism, pan-Turanism, pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism, and the position of Britishness in Great Britain. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of nationalism, European history, European studies and Scandinavian studies, history, social science, political geography, civil society and literary studies.

Urban Life in Nordic Countries

Author : Heiko Droste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003802583
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Urban Life in Nordic Countries written by Heiko Droste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical studies, this book investigates the particular urban history of the North from the 17th century until today in a comparative, Northern perspective. Urban Life in Nordic Countries is the result of a conference on "Urbanity in the Periphery" held in Stockholm on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University, aimed at establishing the field of the urban history of the North and creating a network of urban historians of the North. With a broad range of contributions from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Estonia, the volume seeks to further discourse on the region within national and transnational lenses, and to highlight possibilities for new cooperation among researchers. Urban history is a transdisciplinary subject, engaging not only historians but also ethnologists, sociologists, urban planners, and cultural geographers, and this book targets all scholars whose work requires a historical understanding of the Northern town. European urban historians outside the region will also find this text valuable as one of the few studies to consider the urban history of the continent from a North-centered viewpoint.

Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education

Author : John Benedicto Krejsler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040108202
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education written by John Benedicto Krejsler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research. The book interrogates what unites and divides Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and analyses how the notion of the Nordic dimension has become conceptualised and institutionalised in different educational settings. Comparative studies of national education policies and practice across these five small North European countries – and Scotland as a case beyond – explore how the Nordic dimension relates to national, regional and transnational collaborations. Further, the book queries the degree to which what are typically considered Nordic approaches to social welfare, gender equality, diversity and international outlook have, in actual fact, affected education. Ultimately, the book explores the realities and myths associated with the idea of the Nordic dimension, and in relation to the wider context of integration within the European region. The book will be of interest to researchers, scholars and postgraduate students working in international and comparative education; education policy and politics; teaching and learning; and in European cultural studies.

Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion

Author : Fredrik Norén
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031051718
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion written by Fredrik Norén and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial histories. The return of propaganda in contemporary debate underlines the need to historically contextualize the role and function of persuasive communication activities in the Nordic region and beyond. Building on an empirically situated approach, the chapters in this volume break new ground by covering a range of themes, from cultural diplomacy and nation branding to media materiality and information infrastructures. In doing so, the book stresses that the Nordic welfare epoch, with its associated epithet the “Nordic Model”, was built not only on governance, social security and economic productivity, but also on propaganda and persuasion.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031362535
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire written by Simon Bacon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change

Author : Anne Hellum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000959465
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change written by Anne Hellum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model’s systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

Author : Greg Bak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003832849
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving written by Greg Bak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever- changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records. Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data to easy user access. However, digitization also poses challenges for archival practitioners worldwide. Bringing together contributions from practitioners and academics to offer a range of international case studies, this book offers practical solutions for archivists in terms of governance, technologies and processes. It highlights and analyses the cornerstones of the Nordic model of archiving: reliance on standards; powerful regulatory instruments -, especially in public sector archiving, including legislation; and collaboration between archivists and government agencies, and among different tiers of central and local government. While showcasing work in the Nordic region for the benefit of archivists and record keepers globally, this volume also challenges the limits of the Nordic model with insights drawn from international archival theory. The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving offers a new perspective on archiving that will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students of archiving, digital archives and records management.

New Nordic Peace: Nordic Peace and Conflict Resolution Efforts

Author : Hagemann, Anine
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289361433
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book New Nordic Peace: Nordic Peace and Conflict Resolution Efforts written by Hagemann, Anine and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, the Nordic countries have been a region of peace, with the ability to resolve conflicts peacefully among themselves, and a region for peace, actively promoting peace globally. Although efforts to actively brand the Nordic region are ongoing, the Nordic Peace brand is an area with untapped potential. The Nordics have rich traditions for working together on peace and conflict resolution. These joint efforts have grown organically and informally from like-mindedness, letting the common Nordic culture and ways of working foster integration among them where relevant. The people working in the Nordic countries on Nordic cooperation and peace recognize the potential of strengthening the Nordic Peace brand. One area of special potential is increasing focus on the shared Nordic priorities of prevention and the women, peace and security agenda as part of the Nordic Peace brand.

Nordic Consumer Culture

Author : Søren Askegaard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030049337
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Consumer Culture written by Søren Askegaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpacking the complexities of Nordic consumer culture, this edited collection responds to the growing interest in regionalism within consumer research and marketing. By taking a closer look at the interaction between the state and the market in Nordic countries, the authors examine how consumer behaviour is impacted by the region’s unique context. Important elements of Nordic culture are explored, such as its underlying element of mythology and the concept of ‘hygge,’ an object of global consumption. Those studying consumer behaviour, branding, and marketing more generally, will find this book a fascinating contribution to research.

The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images

Author : Haldor Byrkjeflot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000504034
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images written by Haldor Byrkjeflot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims about the exceptionality of Nordic models, and the diffusion and impact of Nordic experiences and ideas. Providing original case studies, the book further examines how the Nordic models have been constructed, transformed and circulated in time and in space. It investigates the actors and channels that have been involved in circulating models: journalists and media, bureaucrats and policy-makers, international organizations, national politicians and institutions, scholars, public diplomats and analyses where and why models have travelled. Finally, the book shows that Nordic models, perspectives, or ideas do not always originate in the Nordic region, nor do they always develop as deliberate efforts to promote Nordic interests. This book will be of key interest to Nordic and Scandinavian studies, European studies, and more broadly to history, sociology, political science, marketing, social policy, organizational theory and public management. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Faceless Killers

Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099535270
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Faceless Killers written by Henning Mankell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of a farming couple in Sweden unleashes a wave of xenophobia when it is learned that the woman's dying words were "foreigner." The case is given to Inspector Kurt Wallender, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.

Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries

Author : Erik Hagaseth Haug
Publisher : Career Development
ISBN 13 : 9789004428072
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries written by Erik Hagaseth Haug and published by Career Development. This book was released on 2020 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Career brings together individuals' paths through life, learning and work. It describes how people interface with social institutions including the education system, employers, civil society and the state. Because our careers are socially and culturally embedded it matters where they are enacted. Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries explores what kind of context the Nordic region offers for the pursuit of career, how the development of careers are supported in welfare societies, and how career guidance is enacted in this context. The Nordic region encompasses an area in Northern Europe and the Northern Atlantic comprising Denmark, Sweden, Norway as well as Finland to the east and Iceland in the Atlantic. It includes also the self-governing areas of Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. This region has long been seen as a source of progressive policy innovation in education and employment and this book focuses and explores the place, the enactment and the theories of career guidance in these Nordic countries"--

The Extreme Gone Mainstream

Author : Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069119615X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Extreme Gone Mainstream written by Cynthia Miller-Idriss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book comes at a time that could hardly be more important. Miller-Idriss opens up a completely new approach to understanding the processes of violent radicalization through subcultural products...(and) will surely become a standard work in the study of right-wing extremism."--Daniel Koehler, founder and director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies.dies.

Locating Nordic Noir

Author : Kim Toft Hansen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319598155
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Locating Nordic Noir written by Kim Toft Hansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The authors position the development of Nordic Noir in the global market for popular television drama and place the international attention towards Nordic crime dramas within regional development of drama production in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Consequently, Nordic Noir is read as both a transnational financial and creative phenomenon and as a local possibility for community building. Offering a comprehensible, scholarly and methodologically original approach to the popularity of Nordic television crime dramas, this volume is aimed at readers with an interest in crime drama as well as scholars and students of television drama.