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Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic Region : exceptionalism, migrant others and national identities / by Kristin Loftsdóttir and Lars Jensen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in migration and diasporaPublication details: F arnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315547275 (electronic bk.)
  • 1315547279 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.809 23
LOC classification:
  • HT1575 .K75 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
List of contributors -- List of figures -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction : Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic "others" / Kristin 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 / Kristin 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 Sami and Tornedalian art / Anne Heith -- Index.
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List of contributors -- List of figures -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction : Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic "others" / Kristin 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 / Kristin 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 Sami and Tornedalian art / Anne Heith -- Index.

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