Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region (eBook, PDF)

Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Redaktion: Loftsdóttir, Kristín; Jensen, Lars

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Produktbeschreibung

Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the manner in which contemporary discourses in Nordic society are rendered meaningful or obscured by references to past events and tropes related to the practices and ideologies of colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134764358
• Artikelnr.: 44777737

Autorenporträt

Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Iceland. She is co-editor of Topographies of Globalization: Politics, Culture and Language and author of The Bush is Sweet: Identity, Power and Development among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger. Lars Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is author of Unsettling Australia: Readings in Australian Cultural History and co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Nordic exceptionalism and Nordic 'others', KristÃn
Loftsdóttir and Lars Jensen; Colonial discourse and ambivalence: Norwegian
participants on the colonial arena in South Africa, Erlend Eidsvik;
Colonialism, racism and exceptionalism, Christina Petterson; 'Words that
wound': Swedish Whiteness and its inability to accommodate minority
experiences, Tobias Hÿbinette; Belonging and the Icelandic others:
situating Icelandic identity in a postcolobial context, KristÃn
Loftsdóttir; Transnational influences, gender equality and violence in
Muslim families, Suvi Keskinen; Reading history through Finnish
exceptionalism, Anna Rastas; Danishness as Whiteness in crisis: emerging
post-imperial and development aid anxieties, Lars Jensen; Bodies and
boundaries, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen and Serena Maurer; Intimacy with the
Danish nation-state: my partner, the Danish state and I - a case study of
family reunification policy in Denmark, Linda Lund Pedersen; Aesthetics and
ethnicity: the role of boundaries in contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian
art, Anne Heith; Index.