Title: Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic Region : exceptionalism, migrant others and national identities /
Authors: Kristín Loftsdóttir, 1968-; Jensen, Lars
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2012
Subjects: White people Race identity Scandinavia.; National characteristics; Exceptionalism Scandinavia.; Postcolonialism Scandinavia.
Abstract: This title examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the manner in which discourses in Nordic society are rendered meaningful by references to past events and tropes related to the practices and ideologies of colonialism.
Contents: List of contributors -- List of figures -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction : 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.