Colonialism and Swedish History: Unthinkable Connections?

Fur, Gunlög

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6202-6_2

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“…Sweden's self-understanding excludes its colonial past and present (Jansson 2018, 88-89), even though it has been part of the transatlantic slave trade, the overseas colonization exercised by many European empires (Fur 2013;Sjöström 2001) and has an Indigenous population targeted by colonial practices. Additionally, Sweden is, like many other Western nation-states, an immigrantreceiving country with linguistic-cultural integration policies often presupposing national homogeneity.…”

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Revitalizing the Indigenous, integrating into the colonized? The banal colonialism of immigrant integration in Swedish Sápmi

Carlsson

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In an endeavour to understand connections between immigration policy and contemporary colonialism on Indigenous territory, this study investigates how state-led immigrant integration policies and practices reproduce colonialism in Swedish Sápmi. It explores the applicability of scholarship on settler colonialism on Sweden and develops the notion of banal colonialism by combining scholarship on settler and everyday colonialism with banal nationalism. Drawing from state documents regulating immigrant integration and semi-structured interviews conducted with integration workers in Swedish Sápmi, the study shows that immigrant integration policy largely silences the colonial past and present of Sweden. While the implementation of national-level policies on Indigenous land reproduces majority-centred narratives, also practices challenging the colonial order are identified. The study shows how the notion of banal colonialism captures mundane colonial practices, but also brings attention to instances where immigrant integration policy has the potential of challenging settler colonialism.

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Revitalizing the Indigenous, integrating into the colonized? The banal colonialism of immigrant integration in Swedish Sápmi

Carlsson

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…In retrospect, it is easy to see how this regime worked in parallel with other characteristics of industrial modernity such as a high valuation of technology, rationality, an anthropocentric logic, and an emerging resource nationalism in the Arctic (Childs, 2016;McCannon, 2012), linking natural resources to the prowess and prosperity of the nation and the welfare of its citizens. It was also a period of generalized racism and ideas of Western and white supremacy with little or no respect for indigenous populations and their interests and livelihoods (Broberg & Roll-Hansen, 1996;Fur, 2013;Fur & Hennessey, 2020;Gaski, 1993). There was a Scandinavian colonialism, and a significant part of it had a northerly direction (Naum & Nordin, 2013).…”

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Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction

Sörlin

2021

Polar Record

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The “Arctic Uchronotopias” special issue of Polar Record is an important contribution to scholarly reflection on resource extraction. The ideas, perspectives, and empirical cases that we encounter have significance for extractivism wherever it takes place, both inside and outside of the Arctic region. To see extractivism through an Arctic lens is particularly useful since it brings up many of the issues that are often at stake in extraction activities, but not always at the same time: geopolitics, transboundary relations, environmental and climate impacts, cultural and natural heritage, indigenous relations, rights issues, local and regional development, and lives and fates of communities. Above all, these papers bring out the full spectrum of issues and tensions related to ongoing major global shifts, such as the Great Acceleration and Overheating, and those transformations of which resource extraction forms a major part. The research presented in Arctic Uchronotopias demonstrates that affect and emotions have explanatory value in the geopolitics of Arctic resource extraction. It also shows that emotional and cognitive experience and wisdom carry values and properties that conventional Environmental Impact Assessments and other technologies of evaluation and decision-making can capture.

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“…In the history painted by some scholars in the aftermath of Second World War, it was deemed to be unimaginable that the idea of race would exist in a welfare state more than as an exception (Fur, 2013). Behind this fear of “race” hides a dangerous unawareness that racism is not just a historical parenthesis and did not automatically disappear as peace was declared (de los Reyes et al., 2005).…”

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Bringing diversity to nature: Politicizing gender, race and class in environmental organizations?

Arora‐Jonsson

Ågren

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Environmental organizations play an important role in mainstream debates on nature and in shaping our environments. At a time when environmental NGOs are turning to questions of gender-equality and ethnic diversity, we analyze their possibilities to do so. We argue that attempts at ethnic and cultural diversity in environmental organizations cannot be understood without insight into the conceptualizations of nature and the environment that underpin thinking within the organization. Serious attempts at diversity entail confronting some of the core values on nature-cultures driving the organization as well as understanding the dimensions of power such as class, gender, and race that structure its practices. We study what nature means for one such organization, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, and the ways in which thinking about nature dictates organizational practice and sets the boundaries of their work with diversity in their projects on outdoor recreation. We base our analysis on official documents and interviews, analyze how “diversity” and “gender-equality” are represented in the material and reflect on the interconnections as well as the different trajectories taken by the two issues. Our study shows that the organization’s understanding of nature is a central and yet undiscussed determinant of their work with diversity that closes down as much as it opens up the space for greater inclusion of minorities. We argue that for environmental organizations wanting to diversity membership, a discussion of what nature means for people and their relationships to each other and nature is vital to any such efforts.

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Colonialism and Swedish History: Unthinkable Connections?

Cited by 41 publications

References 11 publications

Revitalizing the Indigenous, integrating into the colonized? The banal colonialism of immigrant integration in Swedish Sápmi

Revitalizing the Indigenous, integrating into the colonized? The banal colonialism of immigrant integration in Swedish Sápmi

Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction

Bringing diversity to nature: Politicizing gender, race and class in environmental organizations?

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