Index

• Adorno, Theodor,38, 42, 49–51

• Ahlbäck, Pia Maria, 173

• Alaimo, Stacy,220–21

• Allatta! 2040, 4, 131, 133, 148–50

• anthropocene
  • agency,142, 216, 233; (see also climate change: agency)
  • anthropocene fiction (term), 93
  • criticism of notion,220–21
  • in fiction,4, 18, 28–31, 99–100, 108, 194; (see also climate change: in fiction)
  • use of notion,182–83

• anthropocentrism,104–105
  • criticism of,29–30, 232–33, 241, 246, 248
  See also posthumanism

• apocalypse
  • in Christian thought,7n25, 56, 105–106, 236
  • in environmental discourse,94, 99, 101, 106, 142–46
  See also apocalyptic fiction; post-apocalyptic fiction

• apocalyptic fiction,7, 55–57, 59–61, 63–70, 94, 220.; See also post-apocalyptic fiction

• Arctic, the,4, 22n20, 31, 131–50
  • passim.

• Atwood, Margaret,68, 114
  • The Handmaid’s Tale,58, 59–60

• Bakhtin, Mikhail,58, 111

• Bale, Kjersti,237–38

• Barthes, Roland,52–53

• Bauman, Zygmunt,63–64

• Bergman, Kerstin,75–76

• Blake, Linnie,60–61, 62

• Bloch, Ernst,1, 41–42, 52, 233–34, 236, 243

• Björk, 31

• Bødker, Benni,10, 57–59, 62–70

• Booth, Michael, 19

• bourgeois novel, the,95–96

• Boye, Karin,11, 229–44, 247

• Brown, Norman O.,51–52

• Callenbach, Ernest,17–18

• capitalism,57, 97–98, 147, 161–62, 218.; See also neoliberalism

• Chakrabarty, Dipesh,141–42, 216

• childhood
  • nation and,111, 153–55, 164–66, 173–75
  • nature and,154–55, 158, 164–70
    • passim.,175, 201
  • writing for children,111–12, 208–209

• chronotope,58, 111

• Clark, Timothy, 237

• climate changeSee also anthropocene
  • agency,137, 148
  • climate trauma,213–15, 220
  • in fiction,4, 28, 93–108
    • passim.,131–50
    • passim.,213–25
    • passim.
  • problem of representing,8–9, 29n25, 94–97, 132, 143–44
  • colonialism,21, 78, 137–38, 141, 146–49
  • communism.See Marxism; socialism: communist
  • Concept of Utopia, The.See Levitas, Ruth
  • consumerism,64, 97, 107, 127–28, 161n36, 194n61, 218
  • Currie, Mark,5–6
  • crime fiction.See Nordic Noir
  • critical theory,48, 50.; See also Adorno, Theodor; Horkheimer, Max; Marcuse, Herbert
  • Crownshaw, Richard,216, 218

• dark ecology.See Morton, Timothy

• Davidson, Peter, 133

• defamiliarisation,6, 25

• democracy,2, 35–36, 62, 67.; See also social democracy; welfare state, the

• dystopiaSee also young adult dystopias
  • agency in,9, 145–46

• ecological(see climate change: in fiction)

• classic (social) dystopia,7, 9, 136, 234

• critical dystopia,146, 149

• definition of,1, 5, 9, 56, 135, 214

• in historical overview,6, 57, 136

• relation to utopia,5, 7, 11, 102, 127–28

• eco-dystopian realism,94, 97, 108

• eco-gothic,28–29, 31

• education.See under welfare state, the

• Einhorn, Ewa,21–22

• Engdahl, Horace,3, 36–53

• environmental crisis,6–8, 93–108
  • passim.,127–28, 218–19, 221–22.
  See also climate change

• extinction (human),4, 101–103, 106, 107–8, 139, 142–43, 150, 206, 213

• Fagerholm, Monika,10, 153–76
  • passim.

• feminism,38, 46–47, 171n79, 220, 231n10, 237–41

• Finland-Swedish culture,10, 155–56, 170–76

• Finnish weird,4, 11, 28, 244

• Fitting, Peter,135, 146

• folkhemmet,160.; See also Nordic exceptionalism; welfare state, the

• Foucault, Michel,41, 230, 235.; See also heterotopia

• Frankfurt school, the.See critical theory

• gender,2, 200, 231n10, 245–46
  • gender equality,2, 46–47, 78
  • nature and,237–40

• Ghosh, Amitav,8, 94, 95–96, 100

• Giroux, Henry A.,60–62, 68–69

• global warming.See climate change

• Golding, William, 201

• Greenland,3, 131–150
  • passim.
  • relation to Denmark,140, 141, 149

• Gustav I (Gustav Vasa),119, 120–23, 124

• Hansson, Heidi,134–35

• Haraway, Donna,30n52, 230–43
  • passim., 248

• Hilson, Mary, 2

• Hinde, Dominic, 19

• Hintz, Carrie,208–209

• Hersey, John, 188

• heterotopia,41, 230–31, 235–36, 240–42, 248

• Holberg, Ludvig,4, 19, 22–27

• Holmgren, Ola,42, 50–51

• Horkheimer, Max, 38

• Hulth, Sonja,112–128

• Huxley, Aldous,7n23, 58

• individualism,78, 96, 114, 241

• industrialisation,126, 136, 213

• Inuit, the,137–138

• inequality,87–88, 124, 157, 159, 219.; See also social justice

• Itäranta, Emmi,7, 28, 214–25

• Jakobson, Roman, 101

• Jenks, Chris,166–67

• Jordskott, 29–30

• Kaplan, E. Ann,8, 135, 214–15

• Kåreland, Lena,168, 174n95

• Kim, Jeuno JE,21–22

• Kircher, Athanasius,23, 24, 134

• Kluge, Alexander,49, 50

• Kod (magazine),47–48

• Kosík, Karel, 43

• KRIS (magazine),2, 35–37, 38n11, 40–41, 47–52

• Lapland.See Sámi

• Larsson, Stig,36–37, 45–48, 74

• Laxdal, Eiríkur,19, 26

• Levine, Caroline, 95

• Levitas, Ruth,1, 5, 44, 69, 73

• Luckhurst, Roger,56n6, 61, 64n42, 214

• Lundberg, Ulla-Lena,172n83

• Lynge, Aqqaluk, 138

• MacLeod, Janine,219, 223–24

• Mankell, Henning,19, 74, 77–78, 87

• Marcuse, Herbert,42–43

• Martinson, Harry,9, 181–95

• Marxism,3, 35–38, 41–46, 112

• Mazzarella, Merete,171n80

• Melberg, Arne,41, 48

• More, Thomas,1, 19, 59, 67, 79–80, 134, 181–82, 235

• Morton, Timothy, 30

• Moss, Sarah,4, 131–33, 137–39, 141–47

• Mostue, Sigbjørn,10, 197–202, 205–10

• Moylan, Tom,26, 146

• Näsholm, Thomas,47–48

• nationalism.See nordic exceptionalism

• Natov, Roni,158, 159, 169

• Negt, Oskar,49, 50

• neoliberalism,19, 57, 60–64, 68, 161–62, 241

• Nesbø, Jo,74, 87

• Nikolajeva, Maria, 209

• Nilsson, Johanna,11, 230, 242–44, 247

• Nineteen Eighty-Four. See Orwell, George

• Nixon, Rob,218.; See also slow violence

• Norden, use of notion,2–3, 22n20.; See also Nordic states, the

• Nordic exceptionalism,18–21, 24.See also under welfare state, the

• Nordic Horizons, 84

• Nordic model, the.See welfare state, the

• Nordic mythology,4, 23–24, 26–30

• Nordic Noir,3, 19, 29, 73–79, 86–89, 163

• Nordic states, the
  • environmental protection in,2, 17–18
  • perceived unity of,2, 18, 21, 22n20
  See also welfare state, the

• Nordic Summer University,37–41, 45–46, 52

• Nordin, Sofia,9–10, 197, 201–10

• Nordisk Forum (magazine), 37

• North, idea of the,21–22, 113–14, 133

• nostalgia,21–22, 29, 153–55, 160–61, 172, 174–75.; See also pastoral

• nuclear weapons,6, 182–88, 194

• Nussbaum, Martha C.,230, 235, 240

• oil,99–100, 107, 148–49, 213, 216

• Ojajärvi, Jussi, 162

• Olsson, Anders,3, 36, 48

• Olsson, Hagar,234, 241

• Ord och Bild (magazine),51–52

• Orwell, George,7n23, 58, 182

• Ostry, Elaine,208–209

• Ovid,26n37, 28, 30

• pandemic,6, 57, 132, 138–39, 142–44, 202

• pastoral,28n42, 37–38, 46, 112, 117, 118, 125–26, 134–35, 153–76
  • passim.

• dark pastoral,158–60, 168–70

• petrofiction,100.; See also oil

• Pifer, Ellen,167–68

• populism, far-right,6, 19–20, 78, 87

• Porden, Eleanor Anne, 141

• post-apocalyptic fiction,7, 10, 37, 55–61, 63–70, 99, 131–32, 142, 148, 197–210
  • passim.,213–25
  • passim.

• posthuman(ism),28–29, 30, 104–106, 224n42, 240, 248

• postmodernism
  • in academy, 36
  • in literature,10, 157, 164, 173, 175

• Pulliam, June Michele,57, 60

• Principle of Hope, The. See Bloch, Ernst

• Proffitt, Jennifer M.,55, 61–62, 68

• psychoanalysis,46, 51, 52

• racism,21, 78

• Rankin, Ian, 79

• Rauma, Iida,8, 94–95, 97–108

• realist novel, the,8, 94–98, 101

• Reinfeldt, Fredrik, 68

• Ricoeur, Paul,36n4

• Romero, George A.,55–56, 61, 63, 64

• Rosenfeld, Aaron S., 8

• Rothberg, Michael,213, 215

• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 166

• Rudbeck, Olof,4, 19, 22–23

• Sanders, Bernie,18, 20n12

• Sámi,3, 28n42, 114

• Sargent, Lyman Tower,55–56, 58, 135, 146, 206

• Sargisson, Lucy, 69

• satire,9, 37–38, 46, 127, 181–82, 190, 195

• sexuality,46–47, 103–104, 200, 246

• Shelley (Wollstonecraft), Mary,21, 141

• Siikala, Anna-Leena, 159

• Silis-Høegh, Bolatta, 148

• Sinisalo, Johanna,11, 230, 244–47

• Sjöwall, Maj,19, 74, 87

• slow violence,218–19, 225

• social democracy,2, 35, 73, 76–77, 80, 84, 86, 161, 164

• socialism
  • communist,42, 46; (see also Marxism)
  • democratic(see social democracy)
  • Scandinavian, 19

• socialist realism,38, 50

• social justice,2, 64
  • climate change and, 219
  • as Nordic ideal,2, 18, 86, 89

• Sörlin, Sverker, 183

• Staalesen, Gunnar,74, 77–78, 86–87

• Stableford, Brian, 136

• Stougaard-Nielsen, Jacob,77–78, 87–88

• sublime,132–33, 136–38, 143, 150

• Swedish Academy, the,3, 47n41

• Swift, Jonathan,25–27

• Taylor, Affrica, 169

• Templin, Rich,55, 61–62, 68

• Trexler, Adam,94, 95–96

• utopia
  • in aesthetic theory,48–52
  • as blueprint for society (classic utopia),60, 67, 234
  • concrete utopia,42, 52, 233, 248; (see also Bloch, Ernst)
  • critical utopia(nism),10, 26, 58–60, 69, 149
  • definition of,1, 5
  • and desire,1, 3, 73, 80
  • history of Nordic utopian thought,18–21
  • and hope,1, 5, 11, 42
  • Marxist utopia,35–36, 41–51, 112
  • national politics and,3, 17–18, 19, 80–86, 113, 127
  • and nature,7n23, 231–32, 241; (see also pastoral)
  • negative utopia,36, 50, 53
  • Nordic states conceived as,18–21, 73, 76, 79–89
  • transformative utopianism,58, 60, 62, 65, 70

• Utopia.See More, Thomas

• Vachula, Richard,136–38

• Vieira, Fátima,55–56, 59, 69

• Wahlöö, Per,19, 74, 87

• waste,65, 93, 127, 218–19.; See also oil

• Weisman, Alan,141–42

• Weitze, Charlotte, 30
  • welfare state, theSee also Nordic states, the
    • criticism of,10, 19–20, 20n12, 62–64, 68, 78, 86–87, 161–62
    • education and,61, 77, 126, 154, 163–65
  • Nordic countries as model for,17–18, 73, 76–77, 80–89
    • passim.,160
    (see also utopia: Nordic states conceived as)
  • origins of,2, 2n7, 126, 153–54, 156, 160
  • Westerstahl Stenport, Anna,136–38

• Westö, Kjell,172n83

• White, Hayden,112, 127

• Williams, Raymond, 162

• Wolfe, Cary,240, 248

• World War II,126, 153–54, 158, 183–85

• young adult dystopias,9–11, 55, 163, 197–210
  • agency in,9, 207–10
  • allegory in,198, 206–207
  • pedagogical function of,208–209

• Zamyatin, Yevgeny,7n23

• Zverev, Alexei,6–7