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Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. It is a book that points to why and how Sweden is to be included in global decolonial struggles.
Sweden is often displayed as an ethnoracially homogenous country without any colonial history: an open and tolerant human rights champion, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and in solidarity with the Global South. For over twenty years, authors Michael McEachrane and Louis Faye have been challenging this account, pointing to Sweden's involvement in colonial histories and legacies, its racialized nationhood, and embedded colonial structures. This important new book reflects a decolonial turn in research, emphasizing that coloniality is far from over, and that challenging global injustices remains an unfinished and open-ended process. Chapters in the book consider the resistance of the Sámi people to Swedish colonialism, whether Sweden owes the Caribbean reparations for its colonization of Saint Barthélemy and involvement in the transatlantic trade, Sweden's involvement in a colonial global economy, and how white European identification is embedded in Swedish politics, nation-building, and society. Engaging and insightful, Decolonial Sweden invites readers to reconsider Swedish attitudes toward race, colonialism, and international relations.
This book is an essential read for Post- and Decolonial scholars and students of Critical Race Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies, Africana Studies, International Relations, Global Development, and Political Science, as well as for anyone interested in Sweden's place in the world.
Contents
Introduction Part I: Swedish Colonialism 1. Decolonizing Nature in the North: The (Post-)Apocalyptic Environmentalism of the Swedish Sámi 1950-2020 2. A Decolonial Understanding of Sámi Landscapes and Human-Nature Relations in Sweden 3. What, If Anything, Does Sweden Owe the Caribbean? 4. Decolonial Blackness and Indigeneity in Sweden: An Email Conversation Part II: The Welfare State 5. Racial Social Democracy and the Swedish Welfare State: Part I 6. Racial Social Democracy and the Swedish Welfare State: Part II 7. The Power of Silence: Variations in the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism Among White Male-dominated Trade Unions in Sweden 8. Decolonizing Swedish Health Care: Challenges and Ways Forward 9. Coloniality, Whiteness and Systemic Racism in Sweden: An Email Conversation Part III: Global Entanglements 10. Swedish Capital and the Coloniality of the Global Economy: Industrial Relations at LAMCO in the 1960s 11. Progress as Neo-colonialism: Why Decoloniality Must Imply a Farewell to Development 12. Decoloniality and Structural Racism in Swedish Development Assistance 13. Toward a Green Transition: A Post- and Decolonial Analysis of the Green State of Sweden 14. (De)Colonial Sweden in the World: An Email Conversation
