Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Introduction: Nordic Exceptionalism and the Nordic ‘Others’
• The Nordic Countries in the World
• Theorizing the Postcolonial
• Racism in a Global and European Perspective
• References
• 1 Colonial Discourse and Ambivalence: Norwegian Participants on the Colonial Arena in South Africa
• Introduction
• Non-Colonial Countries, Colonial Discourse and Mythmaking
• Spaces of Colonialism
• Contact Zone, Semi-Periphery and Colonial Encounters
• Norway as a Colonial Nation?
• Migrants and Complicit Colonialists?
• Migrant Ambivalent? A Case from the Cape Colony
• Allegations of Monopoly
• Ambivalence and Appropriation of Neutral Space
• Colonial Relations and Ambivalence
• Conclusion
• Archival Sources
• References
• 2 Colonialism, Racism and Exceptionalism
• Denmark, the Benevolent Colonial Master
• The Danish Racial State
• Conclusion
• References
• 3 ‘Words That Wound’: Swedish Whiteness and Its Inability to Accommodate Minority Experiences
• Introducing Swedish Whiteness and White Melancholia
• Why Certain Words Wound
• To Believe in the Orient
• The Beloved Swedish N-Word
• Subcultural Anti-Semitic Humour
• White Melancholia in Sweden
• References
• 4 Belonging and the Icelandic Others: Situating Icelandic Identity in a Postcolonial Context
• Icelandic Exceptionalism
• Multiculturalism in Iceland and the Colonial Past
• Discussion and Final Points
• References
• 5 Transnational Influences, Gender Equality and Violence in Muslim Families
• Immigration Debates in Finland
• Material and Methods
• Othering Narratives and Racial Hierarchies
• Transnational Influences and the Symbolism of the Veil
• Gender Equality and Muslim Girls ‘Breaking Their Chains’
• Between Fiction and Reality
• Gender, Nation and Race in the Postcolonial Finland
• References
• 6 Reading History through Finnish Exceptionalism
• Finnish – or Nordic – Exceptionalism?
• The Politics of the N-Word
• Finnish Exceptionalism in School Books
• Exceptionalism and National Treasure
• References
• 7 Danishness as Whiteness in Crisis: Emerging Post-Imperial and Development Aid Anxieties
• Connecting Danish Attitudes to Greenland and Development Aid
• References
• 8 Bodies and Boundaries
• New Citizens in Denmark
• Model Immigrants
• Nudity and Modernity
• Tradition and Modernity
• Conclusion
• References
• 9 Intimacy with the Danish Nation State: My Partner, the Danish State and I – A Case Study of Family Reunification Policy in Denmark
• Introduction
• Theoretical Approach
• Danishness, Whiteness and Other Nationalities
• A Restless Story – A Short History of Danish Immigration Policy
• A Life through Documents – The Application Form and the Process of Applying
• Racialized Privileges as Policy Generator
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• Legal Judgments
• 10 Aesthetics and Ethnicity: The Role of Boundaries in Sámi and Tornedalian Art
• Tacit Majority Ethnicities
• Minorities in Advanced Industrial Societies
• History
• Language
• Aesthetics and Ethnic Boundaries
• References
• Index