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Higher education institutions have been profoundly reshaped by processes associated with neoliberalism. In this chapter, Larsen outlines the ways in which Denmark has ushered in market-driven reforms to the Danish higher education system to enhance their institutional competitiveness over the past 30 years. Research on the impacts of neoliberal higher education reforms on faculty is reviewed and the author discusses her experiences (at a Canadian university) with market-driven, accountability reforms. The chapter shifts direction and provides the reader with an overview of the concept of hygge, an idealized Danish term that has connotations of coziness, safety, friendliness, and intimacy. Larsen recounts her experiences as a Canadian academic on sabbatical at a Danish university in 2017, illustrating the ways in which she experienced hygge in the Danish university setting. In the final section of the chapter, Larsen argues that hygge can be viewed as a retreat from the individualism, competition, market stratification and other challenges associated with neoliberalism. Hygge marks out the boundaries between the cold and heartless marketplace and the warm and cozy home, and despite critiques that is instantiates exclusions, hygge offers hope to resist the alienation associated with neoliberalism and provide an alternative ethos for close and safe social relations within academia.

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- Higher Education, Hope, Denmark, Hygge

The atmosphere of coziness, or “hygge” as it is referred to in Denmark, gives certain places such as cafés a particular appeal, that of providing an experience of pleasant relaxation in the here and now. This article argues that coziness can be seen as a pleasant experience of interiority, and that there are new and valuable understandings of such urban atmospheres to be gained by considering the role of co-presence with other people: How subjects relate both to fellow consumers on site, and the surrounding urban crowd. The article calls attention to the way that social and material dynamics interrelate in constituting this form of urban ambience, as the weaving of intersubjective space mirrors the interiority and porosity of material form. What arises is an experience of being pleasantly, anonymously co-present with other people´s social circles and urban movements.

- by Jeppe Trolle Linnet
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- Anthropology, Phenomenology, Urban Studies, Third Space

In preparation for this book, two scholars who have both spent considerable time and energy delving into the concept of hygge came together to have a conversation about this supposedly unique Danish concept that has recently caught the global public’s imagination. Lounging in one chair was Jeppe Linnet, a Danish anthropologist with a Ph. D. in the area of consumer culture theory, specifically focusing on hygge. In the other chair was Jonathan Bean, an American who also focused his doctoral work on hygge and whose recent work connects taste, design and consumption.

- by Jonathan Bean
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- Sociology, Architecture, Space and Place, Atmospheres (Architecture)

Hygge is a keyword in Danish culture and a product of the distinctive
Danish social ethos which developed in the late 19th and early 20th Century. The aim of this chapter is to provide a semantic and ethnopragmatic analysis of the concept hidden in this word, and the two main questions are: What does hygge mean, and which cultural values are co-construed with the word? (Ch3 in "Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition")

- by Carsten Levisen
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- Cultural Studies, Semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, Hygge

The article comnents on the amazing enthusiasm generated by the now popularised concept of "hygge" from Denmark. The so-called Danish secrets to happiness have been brought into vogue in Poland as well as other countries worldwide. The author tries to show that the reach of this concept is much broader than - the area of trendy lifestyles or competition from Nordic neighbourhood, for instance Swedish idea "lagom". Namely, patriotism and its cultural practises in the everyday life lie at the root of all Danish inclination for I comfort and cosiness.

When troops are deployed in distant theaters of war as part of international military coalitions, winning the hearts and minds of the home population is a critical and difficult task. In this article we explore, how Denmark has recently come to embrace military interventions and normalize war. We argue that this has happened through a dual process, involving on the one hand a militarization of culture and history by which military values are imposed on people, and on the other a cultural domestication of the military by which cultural values are imposed on the military. The two co-existing processes expound apparently contradictory values of courage and coziness, but we argue that these constitute a productive ambiguity that facilitates an understanding of Denmark’s new role as a warring nation as consistent with or even reinforcing and promoting prevailing understandings of Danish-ness. In and around military operations in Afghanistan, they also constitute a cultural resource that is mobilized. This happens when Danish soldiers create physical quarters at their base, in which they restitute while experiencing elements of Danishness in the style of socialization that they practice, and in the atmosphere of the place. Cultural understandings of Danish character and history also provide a resource for the soldiers´ next of kin, and the Danish Defence authorities, when they account for the “Danishness” of the soldiers as being both unscathed by the experience of war, and as providing support for their professional approach to soldiering.

- by Jeppe Trolle Linnet and +1
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- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, War Studies, Culture

On a warm 1st of July 2018, two scholars who have both spent considerable time and energy delving into the concept of hygge came together, to have a conversation about this supposedly unique Danish concept that has recently caught the global public’s imagination.
They met in a wooden cottage north of Copenhagen. Lounging in one chair was Jeppe Linnet, a Danish anthropologist with a PhD in the area of Consumer Culture Theory, specifically focusing on hygge. In the other chair was Jonathan Bean, an American who also focused his doctoral work on hygge and whose recent work connects taste, design, and consumption

- by Daša Ličen
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- Anthropology, Material Culture Studies, Happiness and Well Being, Nostalgia

- by Jeppe Trolle Linnet
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- Sociology, Architecture, Space and Place, Atmospheres (Architecture)

Columna sobre cómo el Estado de bienestar danés repercute en su filosofía de vida: el hygge.

- by Enrique Núñez-Mussa
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- Travel Writing, Hygge, Estados De Bienestar, Dinamarca