Danish Welfare Exports as the “New Bacon”: Myth and Meaning of the Nordic Welfare Model as Glocal Cultural Commodity

Stine Bjerregaard and Dannie Kjeldgaard ()
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Stine Bjerregaard: University of Southern Denmark
Dannie Kjeldgaard: University of Southern Denmark

Chapter 8 in Nordic Consumer Culture, 2019, pp 171-191 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract While consumer culture theory (CCT) has been increasingly concerned with market-level dynamics, little research has been done to understand the relationship between state and market in a global social and economic order. The Nordic context provides an ideal context to address this gap and in this chapter we set out to explore how the idea of the Nordic welfare model is leveraged as a brand in processes of cultural commodification. More specifically, we explore how particular public welfare services are articulated as market offerings in an export context. To do so, we take a starting point in globalization literature, while theoretically framing cultural commodification as myth marketing. We situate our discussion in macro-social explanatory frameworks, including not only social and cultural contexts but also political and institutional contexts, and unfold the productive capacity of state/market dialectics as regards market creation dynamics.

Keywords: Market formation; Cultural commodification; Neoliberalism; Elderly care; Nordic welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04933-1_8

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