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

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Author(s): Kristín Loftsdóttir, Lars Jensen
Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Year: 2012

Language: English

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction Nordic Exceptionalism and the Nordic ‘Others’
1 Colonial Discourse and Ambivalence: Norwegian Participants on the Colonial Arena in South Africa
2 Colonialism, Racism and Exceptionalism
3 ‘Words That Wound’: Swedish Whiteness and Its Inability to Accommodate Minority Experiences
4 Belonging and the Icelandic Others: Situating Icelandic Identity in a Postcolonial Context
5 Transnational Influences, Gender Equality and Violence in Muslim Families
6 Reading History through Finnish Exceptionalism
7 Danishness as Whiteness in Crisis: Emerging Post-Imperial and Development Aid Anxieties
8 Bodies and Boundaries
9 Intimacy with the Danish Nation State: My Partner, the Danish State and I – A Case Study of Family Reunification Policy in Denmark
10 Aesthetics and Ethnicity: The Role of Boundaries in Sámi and Tornedalian Art
Index