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A Utopia Like Any Other: Inside the Swedish Model
Dominic Hinde
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910745328
SKU
V9781910745328
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-16
About Dominic Hinde
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.
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