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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774731203321

Autore

Engebretsen Elisabeth L

Titolo

Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe : Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2023

Milton : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781000907414

1000907414

9781003245155

1003245153

9781000907407

1000907406

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Classificazione

SOC026000SOC031000SOC032000

Altri autori (Persone)

LiinasonMia

Disciplina

305.0948

Soggetti

Identity politics

Marginality, Social - Scandinavia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Transforming Identities in Contemporary Nordic Europe 2. 'Welcome to the Most Privileged, Most Xenophobic Country in the World!' Affective Figurations of Whiteness in the Making of a Danish Citizen 3. Exploring Challenges and Potentialities for Antiracist Education in the Nordic Countries: Cases from Finland and Denmark 4. Autobiographical Flesh: Understanding Western Notions of Humanity through Una Marson (1905-1965) 5. 'It's Our Bodies, We are the Experts!': Countering Pathologisation, Gate-keeping and Danish Exceptionalism through Collective Trans Knowledges, Coalition-building and Insistence 6. Gayness between Nation Builders and Money Makers: From Ideology to New Essentialism 7. (Not) in the Name of Gender Equality: Migrant Women, Empowerment, Employment, and Minority Women's Organizations 8. 'Home is where the cat is': The Here-There of Queer (un)belonging 9. The Poetics of Climate Change and Politics of Pain: Sámi Social Media Activist Critique of the Swedish



State 10. Varieties of Exceptionalism: A Conversation.

Sommario/riassunto

With a focus on the Nordic region, this book explores contemporary struggles around 'identity politics' in Europe, considering various forms racist, colonialist, sexist forms of discrimination and exclusion, and the ways in which the marginalized struggle against gendered, colonial and racist legacies.