Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

Adriana Margareta Dancus is Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern, Norway. Dancus researches at the crossroads of gender and ethnicity studies, with a focus on contemporary Scandinavian film and literature. She is the author of Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films by Women (2019). Mats Hyvönen is a Media scholar at Uppsala University, Sweden, and coordinator for the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program. Hyvönen’s research interests are mainly in media history, especially the study of the public sphere as a vulnerable space and how the media both resist and facilitate that vulnerability. Recent publications include (as editor and contributor) Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education (Springer, 2018).  Maria Karlsson is a Literature scholar at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is on the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program’s advisory board. Shehas worked on women’s fin-de-siécle novels, audiences, and media dramaturgy. At present, she works on charity and readers; on provocative art in media and politics, and on Swedish radio documentaries.

• 1.     Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture.- Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen & Maria Karlsson.- Part I: Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege.- 2.     Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund.- Asbjørn Grønstad.- 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).- Elisabeth Oxfeldt.- 4.     Shared, Shamed and Archived Images of Vulnerable Bodies: On the Nexus of Media, Feminism and Freedom of Speech in Scandinavia.- Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen.- Part II: The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State.- 5.     Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees.- Odin Lysaker.- 6.     Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge.- Melissa Gjellstad.- 7.     Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Commitment in Swedish TV-drama?.- Per Vesterlund.- 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.- Jenny Bergenmar.- 9.     Life of a Fatso: Young, Fat and Vulnerable in Scandinavian Society of Perfection.- Elise Seip Tønnessen.- 10. Vulnerable Viewer Positions: Queer Feminist Activists Watching Paradise Hotel.- Fanny Ambjörnsson & Ingeborg Svensson.- Part IV: Mobilizing the Pain of Others.- 11. The Art of Begging.- Adriana Margareta Dancus.- 12. Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö.- Erling Björgvinsson & Mahmoud Keshavarz.- 13. Facing War: On Veterans,Wounds, and Vulnerability in Danish Public Discourse and Contemporary Art.- Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen.- 14. The Politics of True Crime: Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio’s P3 Documentary.- Mats Hyvönen, Maria Karlsson & Madeleine Eriksson.