ISBN:
9781315547275
,
9781283572613
,
9781409444824
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (182 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Studies in migration and diaspora
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic Region
DDC:
305.809
Keywords:
Whites Race identity
;
Scandinavia
;
National characteristics
;
Exceptionalism Scandinavia
;
Postcolonialism Scandinavia
;
Electronic books
;
Nordeuropa
;
Politische Identität
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Kolonialismus
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Einwanderer
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Nordische Staaten
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Politische Identität
;
Kolonialismus
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Einwanderer
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic "others" / Kristín 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 e-experiences / Tobias Hübinette -- Belonging and the Icelandic others : situating Icelandic identity in a postcolonial context / Kristín 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 -- Breasts and boundaries / Serena Maurer & Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen -- 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 boundary-marking in contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian art / Anne Heith -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
,
List of contributorsList of figures ; Series editor's preface ; Introduction : Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic "others"
,
Colonial discourse and ambivalence : Norwegian participants on the colonial arena in South Africa
,
Colonialism, racism, and exceptionalism
,
"Words that wound" : Swedish whiteness and its inability to accommodate minority e-experiences
,
Belonging and the Icelandic others : situating Icelandic identity in a postcolonial context
,
Transnational influences, gender equality, and violence in muslim families
,
Reading history through Finnish exceptionalism
,
Danishness as whiteness in crisis : emerging post-imperial and development aid anxieties
,
Breasts and boundaries
,
Intimacy with the Danish nation-state : my partner, the danish state and I : a case study of family reunification policy in Denmark
,
Aesthetics and ethnicity : the role of boundary-marking in contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian art
,
Index.
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