Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical ImaginationAllan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism 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 maintain 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
Racisms The Spectre Haunting Europe Is the Spectre Haunting Sweden | 1 |
Dirty Tricks The Racial Becomes the Spatial the Spatial Becomes the Racial | 57 |
Otherwheres and Otherwhens Excerpts from a Gazetteer of Collective Remembering and Forgetting | 186 |
Brute Facts Nightmares in the Banal Daylight of the Everyday | 224 |
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Page vii - The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.