Made in Sweden
Subtitle: 25 ideas that created a country
By: Elisabeth Åsbrink
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781912854011
Subjects: Quality of life; Social life and customs; Politics and government; Social aspects; Manners and customs
Work titles: Orden som formade Sverige
Description: In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi - their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in their perfectly designed society from the future. But what if we have invested all our faith in a fantasy? What if Sweden has in fact never been as moderate, egalitarian, dignified, or tolerant as it would like to (have us) think? The recent rise to political prominence of an openly neo-Nazi party has begun to crack the illusion, and here now is Swede Elisabeth Asbrink, who loves her country `but not blindly', presenting twenty-five of her nation's key words and icons afresh, in order to give the world a clearer-eyed understanding of this fascinating country.