Even in Sweden : racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination / Allan Pred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pred, Allan, 1936-2007.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination.

Culture conflict.

Ethnic relations.

Sweden--Ethnic relations.

Sweden.

Culture conflict--Sweden.

Race discrimination--Sweden.

Physical Description:

xvii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]

Summary:

Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racisms throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century -- "even in Sweden," a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of Sweden's generous immigration policies now find themselves the object of discrimination and worse.

Through the cascading juxtaposition of many voices, including his own, Pred describes the intensifying cultural racism of the 1990s, the proliferation of negative ethnic stereotypes, and the spatial segregation of the non-Swedish. He quotes the newspaper Dagens Nyheter: "It is high time that Sweden reconsider its self-image as the stronghold of tolerance" (July 21, 1998), and analyzes the strategies that allow people to keep that self-image. Perhaps the greatest strength of Even in Sweden is that Pred gives to the social consequences of global economic restructuring some very specific faces and places and a multitude of expressions of human will, both ill and good.

Contents:

(Pre)facing unEVENness in Sweden xi

1 Racisms: The Spectre Haunting Europe Is the Spectre Haunting Sweden 1

2 Dirty Tricks: The Racial Becomes the Spatial, the Spatial Becomes the Racial 57

3 Otherwheres and Otherwhens: Excerpts from a Gazetteer of Collective Remembering and Forgetting 186

4 Brute Facts: Nightmares in the Banal Daylight of the Everyday 224

5 Beyond Dirty Tricks and Their Nightmarish Outcomes? A Coda of Contradictions 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and index.

ISBN:

0520223322

0520224493

OCLC:

43599067