Part 1.Nordic welfare state utopianism

15

From Niels Klim to Björk’s Utopia: Some historical and present trajectories of utopia and dystopia in the Nordic tradition 17

Nicole Pohl

Crisis after utopia: Intellectuals, academics and the Scandinavian debate on utopia at the turn of the 1980s: The case of the Swedish Magazine KRIS 35

Luc Lefebvre

Utopianism reinstated: The fall and rise of a society in Benni Bødker's Zombie City 55

Peter Kostenniemi

An ethnographic account of the Nordic utopia in Scotland 73

Laila Berg

Part 2.Nature in transformation

91

Creeping into the present: Ida Rauma’s Seksistä ja matematiikasta as eco-dystopian realism 93

Juha Raipola

Snowy State: The Children’s History of Sweden 111

Björn Sundmark

Frozen futures or tropical Greenland? Climate change arctopias in Cold Earth and Allatta! 2040 131

Johannes Riquet

Children of the district: Pastoral and the welfare state in Monika Fagerholm’s The end of the glitter scene novels 153

Teemu Jokilaakso

Part 3.Confronting dystopian futures

179

Harry Martinson’s Aniara as a Menippean satire for the Anthropocene 181

Daniel Ogden

Who is in power, you say? Two young adult dystopias from modern day Scandinavia 197

Øygunn Skodvin Prestegård

Remembering in the age of global warming: Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water as ecological trauma fiction 213

Riitta Jytilä

Space for love or arts of living on a damaged planet: Dystopia and utopia in novels by Karin Boye, Johanna Nilsson and Johanna Sinisalo 229

Judith Meurer-Bongardt

Index 253

Table of contents

Part 1.Nordic welfare state utopianism

Part 2.Nature in transformation

Part 3.Confronting dystopian futures