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Can I read Return to sender – American Images of the Nordic Welfare States and Nordic Welfare State Branding on EtoBox?
Return to sender – American Images of the Nordic Welfare States and Nordic Welfare State Branding by Carl Marklund; Klaus Petersen is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Return to sender – American Images of the Nordic Welfare States and Nordic Welfare State Branding about?
In this article, we study the relationship between the United States of America and Norden, first showing how images of the Nordic model were constructed and reproduced in the United States from the 1920s until the 1960s. We find both utopias and dystopias in these narratives. Second, the article argues that these American images, narratives, and stereotypes did not only fulfill a function in the American debate, but were also relayed back to Norden, and affected debate, nation-branding strategies, and self-understandings there. During the Cold War, furthermore, the Nordic welfare state image gained a new currency which reached well beyond national borders, far into transnational space.
Who reads Return to sender – American Images of the Nordic Welfare States and Nordic Welfare State Branding?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Carl Marklund; Klaus Petersen
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)