In Praise of Sweden
Author : Maxwell Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Sweden
ISBN :
Author : Maxwell Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Sweden
ISBN :
Author : Elisabeth Åsbrink
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1925693708
What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model? In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi — their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in their perfectly designed society from the future. But what if we have invested all our faith in a fantasy? What if Sweden has in fact never been as moderate, egalitarian, dignified, or tolerant as it would like to (have us) think? The recent rise to political prominence of an openly neo-Nazi party has begun to crack the illusion, and here now is Swede Elisabeth Åsbrink, who loves her country ‘but not blindly’, presenting twenty-five of her nation’s key words and icons afresh, in order to give the world a clearer-eyed understanding of this fascinating country …
Author : Anita Olson Gustafson
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1501757628
Author : Kajsa Norman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178738182X
Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation. Sweden's elites shirked responsibility and rushed to discredit him. Although Sweden boasts the world's oldest free press, its history of homogeneity and social engineering has created a culture where few dare dissent from consensus, those who do are driven to extremes, and there is no place for outsiders--even those who conform. In this groundbreaking book, investigative journalist Kajsa Norman turns her fearless gaze on the oppressive forces at the heart of Sweden's 'model democracy'. Weaving the history of its social politics with the stories of Frick and other outcasts, Norman exposes the darkness in the Swedish soul.
Author : Daniel Ekeroth
Publisher : Bazillion Points Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Death metal (Music)
ISBN : 9780979616310
Includes "A-Z of Swedish death metal bands - encyclopedia," with band histories and performers.
Author : Barbara Stoeltie
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783822858684
Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230270735
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Anton Svensson
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681443406
The thrilling sequel to the ripped-from-the-headlines crime novel about three brothers who became Sweden's most wanted criminals, and the father who made them that way. After six years in prison, Leo Duvnjac is free. Prosecuted for numerous crimes--including ten bank robberies, planting a bomb in Stockholm's Central Station, and pulling off northern Europe's largest-ever weapons theft--he was convicted of just two robberies in the end. Unreformed, Leo has spent his imprisonment plotting one final heist, but he only has a brief window following his release to pull it off. The plan is to steal more than 100 million Swedish crowns from Sweden's largest police station--and then disappear forever. It is a decision that will threaten what remains of his relationships with his father and brothers, who also went to prison for the earlier robberies, and set him on a collision course with the aggressive cop who sent them to jail, John Broncks.
Author : Keith M. Murphy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2019-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0801455790
Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following around the world. Design in Sweden has more than just an aesthetic component, however. Since at least the late nineteenth century, Swedish politicians and social planners have viewed design as a means for advocating and enacting social change and pushing for a more egalitarian social organization. In this book, Keith M. Murphy examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural meanings this relationship holds for Swedish society. Over the course of fourteen months of research in Stockholm and at other sites, Murphy conducted in-depth interviews with various players involved in the Swedish design industry—designers, design instructors, government officials, artists, and curators—and observed several different design collectives in action. He found that for Swedes design is never socially or politically neutral. Even for common objects like furniture and other household goods, design can be labeled "responsible," "democratic," or "ethical"— descriptors that all neatly resonate with the traditional moral tones of Swedish social democracy. Murphy also considers the example of Ikea and its power to politicize perceptions of the everyday world. More broadly, his book serves as a model for an anthropological approach to the study of design practice, one that accounts for the various ways in which order is purposefully and meaningfully imposed by designers on the domains of human life, and the consequences those impositions have on the social worlds in which they are embedded.
Author : Lena Andersson
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1635420040
From one of Sweden’s most astute cultural critics, a razor-sharp comedy of the progress and ruin of the industrial welfare state, told through the story of a single family. Ragnar Johansson is born in 1932, a transformative moment in Swedish history. He has Swedish social democracy flowing through his veins—convinced it lifted humankind out of the dark ages and into modernity, he cherishes it. At times Ragnar despises his mother, Svea, whose perpetual baking, scrubbing, and canning represent the poverty of the peasantry. Ragnar, for his part, hails the efficiency of washing machines and prefab food. Once he has children himself, he raises them in accordance with his values, standing in the ski track supporting his daughter Elsa as she works hard to become one of the best skiers in the country. While Svea is a relic of the past, Elsa represents hope for the future. In time, however, Ragnar realizes that the world is changing. Is his golden age coming to an end? In Son of Svea, Lena Andersson offers a characteristically funny, wise, and moving family chronicle about the social transformations that unite and divide us, and about finding the courage to be true to oneself.