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

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

Edited By Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason Copyright 2023
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find... Read more

1. Introduction: transforming identities in contemporary Europe

Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and Mia Liinason

2. ‘Welcome to the most privileged, most xenophobic country in the world’. Affective figurations of white Danishness in the making of a Danish citizen

Linda Lapina

3. Educational challenges for Nordic exceptionalism: epistemic injustice in the absence of antiracist education

Kris Clarke and Manteì Vertelyteì

4. Autobiographical flesh: understanding Western notions of humanity through the life and selected writings of Una Marson (1905-1965)

Jéssica Nogueira Varela

5. ‘It’s our bodies, we are the experts!’: countering pathologisation, gate-keeping and Danish exceptionalism through collective trans knowledges, coalition-building and insistence

Nico Miskow Friborg

6. Gayness between nation builders and money makers: from ideology to new essentialism

Anna-Maria Sörberg

7. (Not) in the name of gender equality: migrant women, empowerment, employment, and minority women’s organizations

Christel Stormhøj

8. ‘Home is where the cat is’: the here-there of queer (un)belonging

Ramona Dima and Simona Dumitriu

9. The poetics of climate change and politics of pain: Sámi social media activist critique of the Swedish state

AkvileÌ Buitvydaitė and Elisabeth L. Engebretsen

10. Varieties of exceptionalism: a conversation

Selin Cagatay, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevitch

Biography

Elisabeth L. Engebretsen is a Professor in the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (2014).

Mia Liinason is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund, Sweden. She is the author of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Turkey and Scandinavia. Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance (with Selin Cagatay and Olga Sasunkevich, 2022) and Equality Struggles: Women’s Movements, Neoliberal Markets and State Political Agendas in Scandinavia (2018).

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