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September 15, 2024

Between Growth and Security Swedish Social Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way

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Free Download Jenny Andersson, "Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0719074398 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.3 mb
The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state. However as the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) embarked on its Third Way in 1981, this outlook on social policy as a productive investment was replaced by the identification of social policy as a cost and a burden for growth. This book discusses the components of this ideological turnaround from Swedish social democracy’s post-war notion of a strong society, to its notion of a Third Way in the early 1980s.

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September 13, 2024

Swedish Children’s Cinema History, Ideology and Aesthetics

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Free Download Malena Janson, "Swedish Children’s Cinema: History, Ideology and Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 3031570006 | 2024 | 323 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 26 MB
Swedish children’s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of the 1990s through the early 2000s, and the multiple, exceedingly popular, Astrid Lindgren adaptations across the decades. Devoted to exploring this cinematographic legacy, this book offers close readings across academic disciplines, probing various genres, eras, media debates, transmediations, and audience-receptions. Childhood studies, with its critical comprehension of society’s changing notions of childhood, here serves as a key framework in fruitful combination with, inter alia, feminist, queer, intermedial, postcolonial, and eco-critical perspectives. This collection fills an important knowledge gap on Swedish film history as well as the distinctly Nordic tradition of children’s culture, and thereby contributes to the burgeoning field of international children’s cinema research. It is introduced with a foreword by Mark Cousins.

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April 25, 2024

Kids of Knutby Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation

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Free Download Sanja Nilsson, "Kids of Knutby: Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation "
English | ISBN: 3031369807 | 2023 | 255 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book tells the story of the children and youth of the charismatic new religious commune Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden. It recounts the history of the congregation, which started out as a part of the Swedish Pentecostalmovement in 1921. In the 1990s, it developed into a new religion, when the congregation’s female pastor embraced the role of the Bride of Christ. The congregation became widely known in 2004 when one of its members was murdered by another member, the latter claiming to have been acting on orders from God. In 2018, the congregation dissolved after a few years of internal crisis.

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April 25, 2024

Exploring Swedish International Adoption Desire Transracial Bodies and Nation-Building in the ‘Goodest’ Country

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Free Download Richey Wyver, "Exploring Swedish International Adoption Desire: Transracial Bodies and Nation-Building in the ‘Goodest’ Country"
English | ISBN: 3031388003 | 2023 | 172 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is a critical study of international adoption in Sweden, based on analysis of adoption-related texts, images and videos. The author argues that representations of adoption, and specifically of the bodies of international, transracial adoptees, are used to create and sustain myths of Swedish exceptionalism, concealing the nation’s colonial, racist and eugenic histories. The book challenges the virtuous perception of international adoption, and exposes and critiques the underlying racism and violence of both the adoption industry and the shaping of Sweden as a ‘good’ nation. It will appeal to students and scholars of adoption and migration, as well as those engaged in anti-racism research.

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