Name: Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
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Author: Loftsdóttir, Kristín ; Jensen, Lars
ISBN: 9781409444817

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Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities

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Physical Book

Publisher

Routledge

Author

Loftsdóttir, Kristín ; Jensen, Lars

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

1409444813

ISBN13

9781409444817

Synopsis "Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities"

This book 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. Against the background of Nordic 'exceptionalism', it explores the manner in which the interwoven racial, gendered and nationalistic ideologies associated with the colonial project form part of contemporary Nordic identities. An important challenge to national identities that can become increasingly inward looking, Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region sheds light on the ways in which certain notions and structural inequalities, understood as residue from the colonial period, become recreated or projected onto different groups. Presenting a variety of case studies drawn from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Greenland, Denmark and Iceland, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and humanities conducting research in the fields of race and ethnicity, identity and belonging, media representations of 'the other' and colonialism and postcolonialism.

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