Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique

Suvi Keskinen · Pauline Stoltz · Diana Mulinari

Nov 2020 · Springer Nature

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This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of nationalism and right-wing populism. The book contextualizes these recent events in the long histories of racial and colonial power relations embedded in Nordic societies and their gender equality and welfare state regimes. It examines the role of whiteness and racism and seeks to decolonize feminist knowledge and genealogies of feminist movements in the region. The contributions provide in-depth knowledge on the different orientations, dilemmas and tactics that feminisms develop in these challenging times and show the centrality of antiracist and decolonizing critiques of feminisms. They further highlight the strategies of feminist and related antiracist and indigenous movements in regards to ideas about hope, solidarity, intersectionality, and social justice.

Chapters 6, 7, 9 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

About the author

Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-editor of Complying with Colonialism: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region (2009) and Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity (2019).

Pauline Stoltz is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the author of Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflict (2020) and former Chief Editor of NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (2013-2015).

Diana Mulinari is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. Among her latest publications are “Hegemonic Feminism Revisited: On the Promises of Intersectionality in Times of the Precarisation of Life” (with P. de los Reyes, published in NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2020) and the book Essential writings on Intersectionality, Labour and Ecofeminism (with F. Khayaat F. and N. Räthzel, 2020).

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