Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe (eBook, PDF)

Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging
Redaktion: Engebretsen, Elisabeth L.; Liinason, Mia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With a focus on the Nordic region, this book explores contemporary struggles around 'identity politics' in Europe, considering various forms racist, colonialist, sexist forms of discrimination and exclusion, and the ways in which the marginalized struggle against gendered, colonial and racist legacies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000907407
• Artikelnr.: 68030473

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth L. Engebretsen is a Professor in the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (2014). Mia Liinason is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund, Sweden. She is the author of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Turkey and Scandinavia. Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance (with Selin Cagatay and Olga Sasunkevich, 2022) and Equality Struggles: Women's Movements, Neoliberal Markets and State Political Agendas in Scandinavia (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Transforming Identities in Contemporary Nordic Europe
2. 'Welcome to the Most Privileged, Most Xenophobic Country in the World!'
Affective Figurations of Whiteness in the Making of a Danish Citizen
3. Exploring Challenges and Potentialities for Antiracist Education in the
Nordic Countries: Cases from Finland and Denmark
4. Autobiographical Flesh: Understanding Western Notions of Humanity
through Una Marson (1905-1965)
5. 'It's Our Bodies, We are the Experts!': Countering Pathologisation,
Gate-keeping and Danish Exceptionalism through Collective Trans Knowledges,
Coalition-building and Insistence
6. Gayness between Nation Builders and Money Makers: From Ideology to New
Essentialism
7. (Not) in the Name of Gender Equality: Migrant Women, Empowerment,
Employment, and Minority Women's Organizations
8. 'Home is where the cat is': The Here-There of Queer (un)belonging
9. The Poetics of Climate Change and Politics of Pain: Sámi Social Media
Activist Critique of the Swedish State
10. Varieties of Exceptionalism: A Conversation