Exceptionalism / Lars Jensen and Kristín Loftsdóttir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Lars, author.

Kristín Loftsdóttir, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Key ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exceptionalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Lars Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters in the Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the author of Postcolonial Denmark: Nation Narration in a Crisis Ridden Europe and Postcolonial Europe, and co-editor of Crisis in the Nordic Countries and Beyond and Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region. Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Iceland. She is the author of We Are All African Here: Race, Mobilities and West-Africans in Europe, Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland and the co-editor of Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region, Messy Europe and Teaching 'Race' with a Gendered Edge.

Contents:

From colonial to postcolonial exceptionalism

Welfare state exceptionalism in the Nordic countries and Britain

Nation-building and nation branding

Altered states of exceptions: Africa-Europe/US-Latin America

Exceptionalism in the times of crisis and pandemics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Jensen, Lars. Exceptionalism

ISBN:

9781000440966

1000440966

9781003082330

1003082335

Publisher Number:

40030873129

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.