Description
Book SynopsisA 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 explain the Swedish model; what it is, how it works and what it means for the rest of the world.
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Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction
Chapter One: Everybody’s Utopia
Chapter Two: A Workers’ Utopia
How Sweden made work pay
Chapter Three: Democratic Utopia
Sweden’s diverse democracy
Chapter Four: A Feminist Utopia
How Sweden is halfway to equality
Chapter Five: Svennotopia
The struggle for Swedishness
Chapter Six: Ecotopia
A sustainable country in a dirty world
Chapter Seven: Cultural Utopia
How Sweden became a cultural powerhouse
Chapter Eight: Metropia
How Sweden built its homes for people
Chapter Nine: A Moderate Utopia
The new Swedish model
Chapter Ten: A Utopia Like Any Other
How Sweden’s future is everyone’s future
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