Complying with colonialism: gender, race and ethnicity in the Nordic region
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England Ashgate ©2009
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The colonial ties of the Nordic countries are usually regarded as weak, their international relations being characterised by development aid, peace building or cooperation, rather than by colonialism or imperialism. However, this text presents a more complex analysis
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Nordic Models of Welfare and Gender; PART 1 Postcolonial Histories/Postcolonial Presents; 2 Colonial Complicity: The 'Postcolonial' in a Nordic Context; 3 The Nordic Colonial Mind; 4 The Flipside of my Passport; 5 The Promise of the 'Nordic' and its Reality in the South; 6 Stranger or Family Member? Reproducing Postcolonial Power Relations; 7 Historical Legacies and Neo-colonial Forms of Power?; PART 2 Welfare State and its 'Others'; 8 When Racism Becomes Individualised
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 276 pages)
ISBN:9780754674351
0754674355
9780754691457
0754691454

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