An Epilogue
I den bästa av världar [In the best of worlds]Den bästa av dagar [The best of days]Vi slapp ju nazister [We did not have Nazis]Så vad ska vi klaga? [So what should we complain about?]In the above poem, trans* activist and spoken word poet Yolanda Aurora B
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luralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality “There is a hegemonic narrative of Sweden as an exemplary and exceptional feminist nation-state, one that exists in a secular, migrant-friendly, and market-friendly, liberal democracy. Yet this narrative’s racial and religious exclusions and conflicts— of which there are many—have led feminists and LGBTQ activists to question the terms of normative belonging, and to probe the tensions and frictions of contemporary Sweden. This necessary and powerful collection of essays reveals both the exclusions of this exceptionalist national narrative, one that the editors and authors trenchantly term “neocolonial,” and the demands of feminist, queer and trans artists, researchers, migrants, and activists striving to produce lives that think a different Sweden: of communities that are plural, transnational, multi-racial, transformative, radical and ever-changing. —Inderpal Grewal Professor Emerita, Yale University
Erika Alm • Linda Berg Mikela Lundahl Hero Anna Johansson • Pia Laskar Lena Martinsson Diana Mulinari • Cathrin Wasshede Editors
Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism
Editors Erika Alm Department of Cultural Sciences University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden Mikela Lundahl Hero School of Global Studies University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden Pia Laskar Department of Research and Collections National Historical Museums of Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Diana Mulinari Department of Gender Studies University of Lund Lund, Sweden
Linda Berg Umeå Centre for Gender Studies Umeå University Umeå, Sweden Anna Johansson Division of Social Work and Social Pedagogy University West Trollhättan, Sweden Lena Martinsson Department of Cultural Sciences University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden Cathrin Wasshede Department of Sociology and Work Science University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Västra Götalands Län, Sweden
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