A Battle for the Post-War Mind: Social Imaginaries of Brainwashing, Resilience and the Welfare Citizen in Sweden and Denmark, c. 1950–1970
This article examines Scandinavian debates about brainwashing and human automatons in the 1950s and 1960s, situating them within the intersecting contexts of the Cold War, post-war welfare-state formation and rapid technological change. It argues that, whereas US understandings of brainwashing were largely framed in te...