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White melancholia: A historicised analysis of hegemonic whiteness in Sweden
Karlstads University, Sweden.
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO). Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6560-5957
2023 (English)In: The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies / [ed] Rikke Andreassen, Catrin Lundström, Suvi Keskinen and Shirley Anne Tate, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, 1, p. 308-320Chapter in book (Refereed)
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The chapter develops an analysis of the phenomenon of white melancholia in Sweden after the ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015. White melancholia denotes how the loss of the old homogeneous and the good anti-racist Sweden produces contradictory and complex feelings among both ‘racists’ and ‘anti-racists’. Whereas Sweden has perceived itself having accomplished something of a post-racial utopia since the 1970s, the country is now facing a new reality of superdiversity, which marks the end of two different, but interrelated, hegemonic whiteness regimes. Yet, colour-blindness is still hegemonic and issues of race and whiteness are taboo subjects. The authors regard contemporary Sweden as a white nation in crisis and diagnose Swedish whiteness as suffering from what can be conceptualised as a white melancholic state.

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Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, 1. p. 308-320
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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193298Libris ID: j1tk5j6dgp0nmc4fISBN: 9780367637699 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-193298DiVA, id: diva2:1753745
Available from: 2023-04-28 Created: 2023-04-28 Last updated: 2024-09-20Bibliographically approved

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