Table of
contents
Series editor’s preface
ix
Introduction
1
Part 1.Nordic welfare state utopianism
15
From
Niels Klim to Björk’s
Utopia
Some historical and present trajectories of utopia
and dystopia in the Nordic tradition
17
Crisis after utopia
Intellectuals, academics and the Scandinavian
debate on utopia at the turn of the 1980s: The case
of the Swedish Magazine
KRIS
35
Utopianism reinstated
The fall and rise of a society in Benni Bødker's
Zombie City
55
An ethnographic account of the Nordic utopia in
Scotland
73
Part 2.Nature in transformation
91
Creeping into the present
Ida Rauma’s
Seksistä ja
matematiikasta as eco-dystopian
realism
93
Snowy State
The Children’s History of Sweden
111
Frozen futures or tropical Greenland?
Climate change arctopias in
Cold
Earth and
Allatta!
2040
131
Children of the district
Pastoral and the welfare state in Monika
Fagerholm’s
The end of the glitter
scene novels
153
Part 3.Confronting dystopian futures
179
Harry Martinson’s
Aniara as a
Menippean satire for the Anthropocene
181
Who is in power, you say?
Two young adult dystopias from modern day
Scandinavia
197
Remembering in the age of global warming
Emmi Itäranta’s
Memory of Water
as ecological trauma fiction
213
Space for love or arts of living on a damaged
planet
Dystopia and utopia in novels by Karin Boye,
Johanna Nilsson and Johanna Sinisalo
229
Index
253
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