The Nordic World

Author : Christian Bjørnskov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788772193250
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness written by Christian Bjørnskov and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many commentators have attributed the Nordic region's high levels of happiness to its particular interpretation of the welfare state, this does not provide a convincing explanation. The Nordic welfare states have changed considerably over time, and Iceland does not share this feature. Instead, the most important factor to come out of international comparisons is the importance of social trust - the ability to trust other people one does not know personally. The Nordic countries constitute the most trusting region in the world, and judging from studies of communities of immigrants from these places to the US, they have done so for a very long time. Also, the populations in three of the five countries are characterised by their very strong sense of personal freedom. These factors contribute to a fuller and richer life. This book ends by discussing to what extent these factors can be exported to other parts of the world.

Author : Torben M. Andersen
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299333949
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Performance in the Nordic World written by Torben M. Andersen and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic model rests on two pillars: the social safety net and the provision of services like education, childcare, and healthcare for all. It can also be characterized as an employment model, since its financial viability depends upon a high labor participation rate with very few working poor. Economist Torben M. Andersen lays out the model's structure and highlights factors important for understanding its economic performance. He then looks into specific policy areas based on Denmark's experiences and addresses the challenges arising from new technologies and globalization.

Author : Tim van Gerven
Publisher : National Cultivation of Cultur
ISBN 13 : 9789004507340
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandinavism written by Tim van Gerven and published by National Cultivation of Cultur. This book was released on 2022 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite its failure as a political mobilizer, Scandinavism as a cultural movement would have a great impact on national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by stressing common ethnolinguistic, mythological and historical roots. This cultural vision is traced in the long 19th century, specifically in its interactions and overlaps with the various nationally specific manifestations of cultural nationalism. Through an in-depth analysis of an extensive corpus of cultural products - ranging from novels and poetry to public commemorations, painting and street name signs - this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism was successful in forging a common pan-Scandinavian identity that supplemented and strengthened national-identity formation in the three nationalities it aimed to unify"--

Author : Nils Asle Bergsgard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000049574
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World written by Nils Asle Bergsgard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World explores the Nordic model of sport and outdoor life with respect to such issues as sport facilities, mountain guiding, women and ethnic minorities, urban planning, anti-doping, health, elite sport coaching and leadership, and the globalization of sport. The aims of the volume are twofold. First, it advances knowledge of Nordic sport and outdoor life, as important fields of social activity in their own rights. Second, it enhances the understanding of the ‘Nordic model’ of society, and the ways in which this is constructed, explored and challenged within and through sport and outdoor life activities. In doing so, the contributors explore a range of key themes, notably: how modern Nordic sport and outdoor life activities emerged and are organized through specific social policies; how they may challenge or harbour forms of social exclusion, particularly in regard to gender or minority populations; how they are affected by, and respond to, deviant practices such as doping; how they may contribute to alleviating social problems; and how they confront major structural challenges and changes, such as the impacts of globalization and the continuing dominance of neoliberal economic policies. Interdisciplinary in approach, Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World is essential reading for those studying Nordic sports and societies, and will also appeal to students, academics and wider readers with interests in sport studies, sociology, social policy, cultural studies, anthropology and public health. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Author : Sven Tägil
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319749
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World written by Sven Tägil and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors review the historical experiences and the modern roles of ethnic minorities in the emergence of nationalism in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. They show how Nordic countries provide models for the study of ethnicity in other Old World countries based on integral nationality, and examine nationalism and territorial ethnic minorities in various areas of the region. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carsten Jensen
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299334147
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equality in the Nordic World written by Carsten Jensen and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By most measures, the Nordic countries regularly rank among the best in terms of equality and business friendliness. Political scientist Carsten Jensen delves into what is exceptional about equality in the region, and outlines “the four equalities” that set it apart: economic, intergenerational, gender, and health. The four types of equality have their origins in unique political compromises made in the twentieth century. The resulting social market economies of these countries affect their growth and levels of equality even today.

Author : Nina Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788772195919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature in the Nordic World written by Nina Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces Nordic children's literature and some of the children portrayed in these stories: from the little matchbox girl and the small boy revealing the nakedness of the emperor in Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales to independent boys and girls in more recent children's books. It provides an account of the role played by books in the lives and upbringing of children in the Nordic countries from the 18th century Enlightenment until today. The emergence of a specific market for children's books coincided with early school reforms, and children's literature has been used for education, entertainment and aesthetic experiences, for disciplining and debate, for strengthening of traditions and for experimenting with new ideals and lifestyles. The book addresses these and the changes and continuities in the relationship between child readers and adult authors, artists, publishers, teachers, librarians and parents. Important contexts that explain the world of children's books in the Nordic countries are introduced: family patterns and values, pedagogical methods and everyday routines in crèches, kindergartens and schools, different types of libraries - as well as literary and artistic trends in everchanging media. Many such developments interact with European and global trends, but distinctive features of Nordic children's culture, cherishing the voices of independent, active and creative children, are visible - both in the books themselves and in the ways in which they are used.

Author : Tim van Gerven
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004507353
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 written by Tim van Gerven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an in-depth analysis of historicist literature and art, this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism, despite its failure as a political mobilizer, was highly successful in strengthening and extending national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Author : Michael Booth
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250061970
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Almost Nearly Perfect People written by Michael Booth and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED THE #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUME Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another. Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? In The Almost Nearly Perfect People Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are, and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn't easy being Scandinavian.

Author : Mirja Österberg
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9185509493
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Narratives of the Second World War written by Mirja Österberg and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the dramatic events of the Second World War been viewed in the Nordic countries? In this book leading Nordic historians analyse post-war memory and historiography. They explore the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war. How have national interpretations been shaped by official security-policy doctrines? And in what way has the end of the Cold War affected the Nordic narratives? The authors not only present the overarching themes that set the Nordic experience of the Second World War apart from other European narratives, but also describe the distinctive post-war characteristics of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Key concepts such as national identity, memory culture, and the moral turn are placed in their Nordic context. Bringing new nuance to the post-war history of Europe, this is the first work to focus on Nordic narratives of the war, and is valuable reading for students, academics, and all who have an interest in the historiography of the Second World War or modern European history.