A Utopia Like Any Other

Inside the Swedish Model

Dominic Hinde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2016
Luath Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-910745-32-8 (ISBN)

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A Utopia Like Any Other is an accessible and easy to understand guide to contemporary Sweden and its politics. Part travelogue, part academic primer and part reflection on our own need for utopias, the book takes readers on a journey from the 1930s to the present day and from an Arctic iron mine to the suburbs of Shanghai. On its way it features a migrant camp, political festivals, radical feminist activists and concrete housing projects, TV talk shows and celebrity economists, faded bathing resorts, neo-Nazis, and the Scottish independence referendum. All of these different locations and characters are used to explain the Swedish model; what it is, how it works and what it means for the rest of the world.

Dominic Hinde holds an undergraduate degree in German and Scandinavian Studies and a Masters by Research from the University of Edinburgh on environmental narratives in Sweden. He also work as a professional literary translator and freelance journalist, writing about Scotland in Sweden and the Scandinavian countries internationally.

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One: Everybody’s Utopia

Chapter Two: A Workers’ Utopia

How Sweden made work pay

Chapter Three: Democratic Utopia

Sweden’s diverse democracy

Chapter Four: A Feminist Utopia

How Sweden is halfway to equality

Chapter Five: Svennotopia

The struggle for Swedishness

Chapter Six: Ecotopia

A sustainable country in a dirty world

Chapter Seven: Cultural Utopia

How Sweden became a cultural powerhouse

Chapter Eight: Metropia

How Sweden built its homes for people

Chapter Nine: A Moderate Utopia

The new Swedish model

Chapter Ten: A Utopia Like Any Other

How Sweden’s future is everyone’s future

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 212 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
ISBN-10	1-910745-32-4 / 1910745324
ISBN-13	978-1-910745-32-8 / 9781910745328
Zustand	Neuware