Complying With Colonialism: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region

by Irni; Sara

• ISBN13: 9780754674351
• ISBN10: 0754674355
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 volumes 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: postcolonialism and the Nordic models of welfare and gender, Diana Mulinari, Sari Irni, Suvi Keskinen and Salla Tuori

Postcolonial Histories/Postcolonial Presents: Colonial complicity: the `postcolonial' in a Nordic context, Ulla Vuorela

The Nordic colonial mind

The flipside of my passport: myths of origin and genealogy of white supremacy in the mediated social genetic imaginary

The promise of the `Nordic' and its reality in the South: the experiences of Mexican workers as members of the `Volvo family'

Stranger or family member? Reproducing postcolonial power relations

Historical legacies and neo-colonial forms of power? A postcolonial reading of the Bosnian diaspora

Welfare State and Its `Others': When racism becomes individualised: experiences of racialisation among adult adoptees and adoptive parents of Sweden

Contradicting the `prostitution stigma': narratives of Russian migrant women living in Norway

Postcolonial and queer readings of `migrant families' in the context of multicultural work

'Experience is a national asset'

a postcolonial reading of age in the labour market

Licorice boys and female coffee beans: representations of colonial complicity in Finnish visual culture

Doing Nation and Gender: the Civilising Mission `At Home': Guiding migrants to the realm of gender equality

Institution nationalism and orientalised others in parental education

Whose feminism? Whose emancipation?

'Honour'-related violence and Nordic nation-building

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