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dc.contributor.editorHoegaerts, Josephine
dc.contributor.editorLiimatainen, Tuire
dc.contributor.editorHekanaho, Laura
dc.contributor.editorPeterson, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-29T09:55:51Z
dc.date.available2022-08-29T09:55:51Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58063
dc.description.abstractThis multidisciplinary volume reflects the shifting experiences and framings of Finnishness and its relation to race and coloniality. The authors centre their investigations on whiteness and unravel the cultural myth of a normative Finnish (white) ethnicity. Rather than presenting a unified definition for whiteness, the book gives space to the different understandings and analyses of its authors. This collection of case-studies illuminates how Indigenous and ethnic minorities have participated in defining notions of Finnishness, how historical and recent processes of migration have challenged the traditional conceptualisations of the nation-state and its population, and how imperial relationships have contributed to a complex set of discourses on Finnish compliance and identity. With an aim to question and problematise what may seem self-evident aspects of Finnish life and Finnishness, expert voices join together to offer (counter) perspectives on how Finnishness is constructed and perceived. Scholars from cultural studies, history, sociology, linguistics, genetics, among others, address four main topics: 1) Imaginations of Finnishness, including perceived physical characteristics of Finnish people; 2) Constructions of whiteness, entailing studies of those who do and do not pass as white; 3) Representations of belonging and exclusion, making up of accounts of perceptions of what it means to be ‘Finnish’; and 4) Imperialism and colonisation, including what might be considered uncomfortable or even surprising accounts of inclusion and exclusion in the Finnish context. This volume takes a first step in opening up a complex set of realities that define Finland’s changing role in the world and as a home to diverse populations.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.otherracism; migration; multiculturalism; colonialism; coloniality; whitenessen_US
dc.titleFinnishness, Whiteness and Colonialityen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.33134/HUP-17en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy20cefb8d-481a-4a27-af02-aec9567fecb5en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690721en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690745en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789523690752en_US
oapen.pages373en_US
oapen.place.publicationHelsinkien_US


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