This book adopts a non-nation-state-confined approach to the examination of Denmark, inviting reflection on new ways to conceptualise a Europe paralysed by crises. Focusing on the global strands which have produced understandings of selfhood, it calls for the production of narratives which better capture how European nations are shaped by that cannot be understood in (national) isolation, but are contingent on ideas about the nation's globality. As such, it examines how colonialism shaped national self-perceptions and considers colonialism's unfinished business, as well as contemporary…mehr
This book adopts a non-nation-state-confined approach to the examination of Denmark, inviting reflection on new ways to conceptualise a Europe paralysed by crises. Focusing on the global strands which have produced understandings of selfhood, it calls for the production of narratives which better capture how European nations are shaped by that cannot be understood in (national) isolation, but are contingent on ideas about the nation's globality. As such, it examines how colonialism shaped national self-perceptions and considers colonialism's unfinished business, as well as contemporary migration and attempts to stage - and re-stage - global interventions.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lars Jensen is Associate Professor at Cultural Encounters, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University. He is the author of Beyond Britain. Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies, and main editor of Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. He has co-edited two volumes on the "Postcolonial Nordic", Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond. At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, and Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region. Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities. He is also co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures Continental Europe and its Empires.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Locating Denmark in Postcolonial Europe 2. Danish "Tropical" Colonial History - National Historiography Globalised 3. Political Narratives of the Emerging Postcolonial North Atlantic 4. The Delusionary Art of Devolution 5. Greenlandic Modernisation and the Evolution of Development Aid 6. Tourism, Restoration and the Restaging of Colonialism 7. Brawny Nation - Contemporary Danish War Films 8. Contemporary Denmark - a Retrospective Timeline References Index
Introduction 1. Locating Denmark in Postcolonial Europe 2. Danish "Tropical" Colonial History - National Historiography Globalised 3. Political Narratives of the Emerging Postcolonial North Atlantic 4. The Delusionary Art of Devolution 5. Greenlandic Modernisation and the Evolution of Development Aid 6. Tourism, Restoration and the Restaging of Colonialism 7. Brawny Nation - Contemporary Danish War Films 8. Contemporary Denmark - a Retrospective Timeline References Index
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