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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
► pp. 17–34

From Niels Klim to Björk’s Utopia

Some historical and present trajectories of utopia and dystopia in the Nordic tradition

| Oxford Brookes University
Article outline
  • “Project Norden”
  • Subterranean utopias: A sacred geography
  • The Anthropocene
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 November 2022
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