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Complying with Colonialism: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region
Suvi Keskinen, Salla Tuori, Sara Irni, and Diana Mulinari, editors
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Complying with Colonialism presents a complex analysis of the habitual weak regard attributed to the colonial ties of Nordic Countries. It introduces the concept of ’colonial complicity’ to explain the diversity through which northern European countries continue to take part in (post)colonial processes. The volume combines a new perspective on the analysis of Europe and colonialism, whilst offering new insights for feminist and postcolonial studies by examining how gender equality is linked to ’European values’, thus often European superiority. With an international team of experts ranging from various disciplinary backgrounds, this volume will appeal not only to academics and scholars within postcolonial sociology, social theory, cultural studies, ethnicity, gender and feminist thought, but also cultural geographers, and those working in the fields of welfare, politics and International Relations. Policy makers and governmental researchers will also find this to be an invaluable source.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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List of Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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1 Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Nordic Models of Welfare and Gender
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PART 1: Postcolonial Histories/Postcolonial Presents
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2 Colonial Complicity: The ‘Postcolonial’ in a Nordic Context
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3 The Nordic Colonial Mind
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4 The Flipside of my Passport: Myths of Origin and Genealogy of White Supremacy in the Mediated Social Genetic Imaginary
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5 The Promise of the ‘Nordic’ and its Reality in the South: The Experiences of Mexican Workers as Members of the ‘Volvo Family’
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6 Stranger or Family Member? Reproducing Postcolonial Power Relations
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7 Historical Legacies and Neo-colonial Formsof Power? A Postcolonial Reading of the Bosnian Diaspora
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PART 2 Welfare State and its ‘Others’
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8 When Racism Becomes Individualised: Experiences of Racialisation among Adult Adoptees and Adoptive Parents of Sweden
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9 Contradicting the ‘Prostitution Stigma’: Narratives of Russian Migrant Women Living in Norway
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10 Postcolonial and Queer Readings of ‘Migrant Families’ in the Context of Multicultural Work
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11 ‘Experience is a National Asset’: A Postcolonial Reading of Ageing in the Labour Market
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12 Licorice Boys and Female Coffee Beans: Representations of Colonial Complicity in Finnish Visual Culture
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PART 3 Doing Nation and Gender: The Civilising Mission ‘at Home’
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13 Guiding Migrants to the Realm of Gender Equality
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14 Institutional Nationalism and Orientalized Others in Parental Education
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15 Whose Feminism? Whose Emancipation?
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16 ‘Honour-Related Violence’ and Nordic Nation-Building
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Index
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
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