The Landscapes of Eco-Noir
Journal: Nordicom review/NORDICOM review
Year: 2020

Abstract This article examines the Norwegian climate fiction television series Okkupert [ Occupied ] (2015–), focusing on the ways in which it reveals the complicity of Nordic subjects in an ecological dystopia. I argue that in illuminating this complicity, the series reimagines the Norwegian national self-conception rooted in a discourse of Norway's exceptionalist relation to nature. I show how Norway's green (self-)image is expressed through what I call “white ecology” – an aesthetics of white