Rikke Andreassen,Kathrine Vitus's Affectivity and Race: Studies from Nordic Contexts PDF

By Rikke Andreassen,Kathrine Vitus

ISBN-10: 1472453492

ISBN-13: 9781472453495

This booklet offers new empirical stories of social distinction within the Nordic welfare states, on the way to boost novel theoretical views at the daily practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With awareness to the explicit political and cultural landscapes of the Nordic nations, Affectivity and Race attracts on quite a few resources, together with tv programmes, information media, fictional literature, interviews, ethnographic observations, educating curricula and coverage files, to discover the ways that principles approximately affectivity and emotion have the funds for new insights into the event of racial distinction and the unfolding of political discourses on race in numerous social spheres. Organised round the topics of the politicisation of race via impact, the best way that race produces have an effect on and the affective adventure of race, this interdisciplinary assortment sheds gentle at the position of emotions within the formation of subjectivities, how race and whiteness are affectively circulated in public lifestyles and the ways that feelings give a contribution to regimes of inclusion and exclusion. As such it is going to attract students around the social sciences, with pursuits in sociology, anthropology, media, literary and cultural experiences, race and ethnicity, and Nordic studies.

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