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  • Afro-Sweden

    Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country

    by Ryan Thomas Skinner ...
    A compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diasporaContemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history, Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In Afro-Sweden, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • White Innocence

    Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

    by Gloria Wekker ...
    In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building

    Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond

    by Eivind Å. Skille ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building. Focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it addresses how colonization variously impacts organizational arrangements and everyday sporting life in a modern world.Through detailed case data from the Norwegian side of Sápmi (the land of the Sámi), this book ... Read more

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  • Antinomies of Art and Culture

    Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

    by Antonio Negri, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss ...
    In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

    re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Imagining Resistance

    Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

    Edited by J. Keri Cronin, Kirsty Robertson ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Feeling Canadian

    Television, Nationalism, and Affect

    by Marusya Bociurkiw ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    “My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography

    Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions

    Edited by Peter Jakobsen, Erik Jönsson, Henrik Gutzon Larsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been ... Read more

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  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lions of the North

    Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism

    by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum ...
    Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. These actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden, Denmark, and Norway during the 1980s and 1990s by rallying around white power music and skinhead subculture. But though nationalists once embraced ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Making a Scene

    Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden

    by Kimberly A. Creasap ...
    In the three largest cities in Sweden, social movement “scenes”—networks of social movement actors and the places they inhabit—challenge threats such as gentrification. The geography of the built environment influences their ability to lay claim to urban space and to local political processes. In Making a Scene, Kimberly Creasap emphasizes that it is the centrality, concentration, and visibility ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Need to Help

    The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism

    by Liisa H. Malkki ...
    In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD