Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic Region exceptionalism, migrant others and national identities /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Kristβin Loftsdβottir,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10590609
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245 0 0 |a Whiteness and postcolonialism in the Nordic Region  |b exceptionalism, migrant others and national identities /  |c edited by Kristβin Loftsdβottir, Lars Jensen. 
260 |a Burlington, Vt. :  |b Ashgate,  |c 2012. 
300 |a xii, 182 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a List of contributors -- List of figures -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction : Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic "others" / Kristβin Loftsdβottir 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 Hθubinette -- Belonging and the Icelandic others : situating Icelandic identity in a postcolonial context / Kristβin Loftsdβottir -- 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 Hvenegκard-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 Sβami and Tornedalian art / Anne Heith -- Index. 
650 0 |a Whites  |x Race identity  |z Scandinavia. 
650 0 |a National characteristics. 
650 0 |a Exceptionalism  |z Scandinavia. 
650 0 |a Postcolonialism  |z Scandinavia. 
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