Sweden's image, aligning with a clearly neoconservative axis'
Anne-Françoise Hivert | Jenny Andersson, historian: 'We are seeing a remodeling of Sweden's image, aligning with a clearly neoconservative axis' | As Sweden prepares for its parliamentary elections on September 13, the expert in social democracy discusses the societal changes that have shaped Sweden since the 1990s. ■ Jenny Andersson is a professor of the history of ideas and sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden. Since 2020, she has led a program titled "Neoliberalism in the Nordics," which brings together researchers from eight universities in the region. She holds a doctorate in economic history, is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research, and is affiliated with the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po in Paris. ■ A few days before Sweden's parliamentary elections on September 13, she discussed the main issues affecting Swedish society, from social inequalities to questions around migration. ■ How did Sweden get to this point? We need to go back to the 1990s and the severe crisis that hit Sweden. Some see it as the last major crisis of structural industrial capitalism, while others consider it one of the first contemporary financial crises. In any case, it triggered a profound shift in the Nordics, particularly in Sweden. [...]