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Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries

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Editors:
  1. Peter Hervik

    1. Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  • One of the first books to grapple with the topic of Nordic racialization
  • Engages with mass media and empirical research findings through the framework of critical race theory, an emerging lens in the Scandinavian context
  • Important implications across disciplines including race and ethnic studies, sociology, gender studies, and culture and media studies

Part of the book series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference (ATSIAD)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. Denials of Racism and Racialization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Talking Color-Blind: Justifying and Rationalizing Attitudes Toward Interracial Marriages in Sweden

      • Sayaka Osanami Törngren
      Pages 137-162

    3. The Vices of Debating Racial Epithets in Danish News Media Discourse

      • Mantė Vertelytė, Peter Hervik
      Pages 163-181

    4. Anti-Racism from the Margins: Welcoming Refugees at Schengen’s Northernmost Border

      • Carolina S. Boe, Karina Horsti
      Pages 183-201

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 295-302
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About this book

This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries. Examining critical media events in this heavily mediatized society, the contributors explore how processes of racialization take place in an environment dominated by commercial interests, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim narratives and sentiments, and a surprising lack of informed research on national racism and racialization. Overall, in tracing how these individual events further racial inequalities through emotional and affective engagement, the book seeks to define the trajectory of modern racism in Scandinavia.  


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“The book can be recommended to everyone who is studying and who is engaged with issues of racism in the Nordic countries and whether inside or outside the academia as the chapters taken together offer the reader a relatively comprehensive overview of how race operates in different ways in contemporary Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.” (Tobias Hübinette, Nordic Journal of Migration Research NJMR, Vol. 9 (2), 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Peter Hervik

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Peter Hervik is Associate Professor of Migration Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. Hervik has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Yucatec Maya of Mexico, researched the emergence of neo-racism and populism in Denmark, and studied women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. 

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