Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- List of figures -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction : Nordic exceptionalism and the Nordic "others" / Krist�in Loftsd�ottir and Lars Jensen -- Colonial discourse and ambivalence : Norwegian participants on the colonial arena in South Africa / Erlend Eidsvik -- Colonialism, racism, and exceptionalism / Christina Petterson -- "Words that wound" : Swedish whiteness and its inability to accommodate minority e-experiences / Tobias H�ubinette -- Belonging and the Icelandic others : situating Icelandic identity in a postcolonial context / Krist�in Loftsd�ottir -- Transnational influences, gender equality, and violence in muslim families / Suvi Keskinen -- Reading history through Finnish exceptionalism / Anna Rastas -- Danishness as whiteness in crisis : emerging post-imperial and development aid anxieties / Lars Jensen -- Breasts and boundaries / Serena Maurer & Kirsten Hveneg�ard-Lassen -- Intimacy with the Danish nation-state : my partner, the danish state and I : a case study of family reunification policy in Denmark / Linda Lund Pedersen -- Aesthetics and ethnicity : the role of boundary-marking in contemporary S�ami and Tornedalian art / Anne Heith -- Index.

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