Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality

Author

Liimatainen, Tuire ; Hoegaerts, Josephine ; Hekanaho, Laura ; Peterson, Elizabeth

Year

2022

Publisher

Helsinki University Press

Type

BOOK

Description

This 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.

Genetic Criticism in Motion

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile, The experience of Peruvian migrants, The experience of Peruvian migrants

Honorable Bandit

Implementing a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Fee Schedule for Physician Services

How Do We Know What Information Sharing Is Really Worth? Exploring Methodologies to Measure the Value of Information Sharing and Fusion Efforts

សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ ប៊ែលធី អន្តរជាតិ

World Wide E-Library

Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality

Description

Genetic Criticism in Motion

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile, The experience of Peruvian migrants, The experience of Peruvian migrants

Honorable Bandit

Honorable Bandit

Implementing a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Fee Schedule for Physician Services

Implementing a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Fee Schedule for Physician Services

How Do We Know What Information Sharing Is Really Worth? Exploring Methodologies to Measure the Value of Information Sharing and Fusion Efforts

How Do We Know What Information Sharing Is Really Worth? Exploring Methodologies to Measure the Value of Information Sharing and Fusion Efforts

Ecuador

Ecuador