Waterworlds revisited

Spätestens die Hitzewelle des letzten Sommers hat die Abwesenheit von Wasser zum gesellschaftsfähigen Thema auch in solchen mitteleuropäischen Regionen werden lassen, in denen sonst kaum die Sorge um die Verfügbarkeit von Wasser besteht. Vor dem Hinter…

Swedishness on Stage

Globalization, stagflation and economic uncertainty challenged the Swedish welfare model during the 1980s, driving renegotiations of state-market relations domestically as well as re-conceptualizations of Sweden’s place in the world internationally. Th…

‘New Gustavians’

The early 1990s saw Sweden severely hit by financial crisis, electoral upheaval and a swift reorientation within political elites resulting in an application to join the European Union (EU). Focusing on the Swedish blockbuster exhibition project Le Sol…

Pipe Dreams of the Nouveaux Riches

World expos are occasions for the type of rhetorical display known as “epideictic,” and as such, they provide glimpses into how a nation wants to be seen at a particular point in time. In this article, I probe into Norway’s pavilion at the 1992 expo in…

Stories of Siblinghood

This article analyzes newspaper representations of Nordic neighboring countries at the 1994 winter Olympics. Held in Lillehammer, Norway, the games constituted an enormous sporting success for the Norwegians, while neighboring Finland and Sweden fared …