Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture -- On Vulnerability -- On the State -- Overview of the Book -- References -- Part I Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege -- 2 Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben �Ostlund -- References -- 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) -- Gendered Positions -- The Soft, National Body: Olin's Maternal Framing of De andre -- The 'Invading' Other: Ajkic's Hero Framing in Flukt -- Feminist Alternatives to the White Man's Burden -- References -- 4 Shared, Shamed and Archived Images of Vulnerable Bodies: On the Nexus of Media, Feminism and Freedom of Speech in Scandinavia -- The Sharing of Shame in SKAM -- Freedom of Speech, Sexual Freedom and Vulnerable Bodies -- Private Content and Copyright, Public Concerns and Public Service -- The Vulnerable 'Body' Speaks Back -- Constructing a Bioethical Meta-Body Online -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State -- 5 Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees -- Introduction -- Vulnerability as a Human Condition -- Child Refugees-The 'Most Vulnerable' -- Refugee Patients -- Vulnerability as an Existential Precondition -- Vulnerable to Moral Injury -- Falling Out of Time -- Protracted Refugee Situations -- Time as a Normative Resource -- Time as a Scarce Good -- Waiting Guarantee -- Ethics of the Temporary -- Embodied Human Dignity -- Towards a Waiting Guarantee -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge -- Embodied Vulnerability of the Infertile in �resund -- ART History-Swedish and Danish State Provisions.

The Bridge-Involuntarily Childless Women Become Mothers -- The Bridge-Surrogacy and Donor Gametes to Counter Infertility -- The Bridge-Donor-Conceived Children and Resilience -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Commitment in Swedish TV Drama? -- Past and Present -- The Insufficient Welfare -- A New Strategy-a Drama of Vulnerability -- Pictures of Health Care in the Welfare State -- Visualized Media in the Welfare State -- Epilogue -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Disability, Vulnerability and Literature: An Overview -- Baby Jane: Vulnerability, Precarity and Dependence -- Grace: Vulnerability, Illness and Control -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Life of a Fatso: Young, Fat and Vulnerable in a Scandinavian Society of Perfection -- Young and Vulnerable -- Vulnerability and Resistance -- Miss-A Network of Relations -- A Vulnerable Body -- Social Vulnerability -- A Year of Change -- Whose Problem Is It Anyway? -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Vulnerable Viewer Positions: Queer Feminist Activists Watching Paradise Hotel -- The Viewers and Their Context -- Paradise Hotel and the Reality Genre -- Reality Shows, Agency and Vulnerability-A Theoretical Approach -- Watching as Political World Making -- A Distant Reality -- Approaching 'The Ordinary' -- When Reality TV Becomes Reality-From Lesbian Heaven to Paradise Hotel -- Too Much of a Good Thing -- Managing Vulnerabilities-A Queer Feminist Viewer Position -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Mobilising the Pain of Others -- 11 The Art of Begging -- Begging and Vulnerability -- The Use of Real People in Art -- Delegating Performance in Toleranshuvan Reloaded.

Sharing Performance in It Could Have Been Me -- Begging Migrants in Art and the Tactics of Vulnerability -- References -- 12 Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malm�o -- Scandinavian Participatory Design: Aspirations to Side with the Vulnerable -- Parting Participants by Participation -- Disconnecting by Connecting -- Refusal of the Vulnerable Parts -- References -- 13 Facing War: On Veterans, Wounds, and Vulnerability in Danish Public Discourse and Contemporary Art -- Introduction -- Speaking of War-September 5th -- Framing Wounds -- Wounding Politicians-RAMT II -- Transposing Wounds-RAMT II -- Facing Veterans of War-RAMT II -- Facing the Other-RAMT I -- Being Haunted-the Political Potential of Streaming Blood -- References -- 14 The Politics of True Crime: Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio's P3 Documentary -- Vulnerability and Emotion -- Radio Documentary and Crime Documentary -- P3 Documentary -- P3 Documentary and the Controversial Case -- Women and Children, Fear and Horror. P3 Documentary's Selection of Murders -- Family, Murder, Intimacy -- The Function of Experts -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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