Contesting Nordicness from Scandinavianism to the Nordic Brand / / edited by Jani Marjanen, Johan Strang, Mary Hilson.

The terms 'Nordic' and 'Scandinavian' are widely used to refer to the politics, society and culture of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. But why have people felt the need to frame things as Nordic and why has the adjective Nordic become so prominent? This book adopts...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Helsinki yearbook of intellectual history ; Volume 2
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Rhetorical Perspective on Nordicness: From Creating Unity to Exporting Models / Johan Strang, Jani Marjanen and Mary Hilson
  • Scandinavian Sympathies and Nordic Unity: The Rhetoric of Scandinavianness in the Nineteenth Century / Ruth Hemstad
  • The Nordic in the Scientific Racial Discourses in the United States and Northern Europe in the Interwar Period: The Passing of Greatness / Merle Weßel
  • From the "Middle Way" to The Nordic Way: Changing Rhetorics of the Nordic Model in Britain / Mary Hilson and Tom Hoctor
  • The Rhetoric of Nordic Cooperation: From the Other Europe to the Better Europe? / Johan Strang
  • Nordic Gender Equality: Between Administrative Cooperation and Global Branding / Pirjo Markkola
  • Transparency and Nordic Openness in Finland: Ideational Shift, Invented Tradition, and Anders Chydenius / Tero Erkkilä
  • New Nordic Cuisine: Performing Primitive Origins of Nordic Food / Lily Kelting
  • Nordic Noir: Branding Nordicness as British Boreal Nostalgia / Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors.