Nordic Exceptionalism in Development Assistance?
Author: Hilde Beate Selbervik
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9788280621603
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Official Development Assistance of Nordic Countries
Author: Elina Mäkelä
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9789516835542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region
Author: Kristín Loftsdóttir
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1134764359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the manner in which contemporary discourses in Nordic society are rendered meaningful or obscured by references to past events and tropes related to the practices and ideologies of colonialism. Against the background of Nordic 'exceptionalism', it explores the manner in which the interwoven racial, gendered and nationalistic ideologies associated with the colonial project form part of contemporary Nordic identities. An important challenge to national identities that can become increasingly inward looking, Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region sheds light on the ways in which certain notions and structural inequalities, understood as residue from the colonial period, become recreated or projected onto different groups. Presenting a variety of case studies drawn from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Greenland, Denmark and Iceland, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and humanities conducting research in the fields of race and ethnicity, identity and belonging, media representations of 'the other' and colonialism and postcolonialism.
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New Nordic Peace: Nordic Peace and Conflict Resolution Efforts
Author: Hagemann, Anine
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9289361433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For a long time, the Nordic countries have been a region of peace, with the ability to resolve conflicts peacefully among themselves, and a region for peace, actively promoting peace globally. Although efforts to actively brand the Nordic region are ongoing, the Nordic Peace brand is an area with untapped potential. The Nordics have rich traditions for working together on peace and conflict resolution. These joint efforts have grown organically and informally from like-mindedness, letting the common Nordic culture and ways of working foster integration among them where relevant. The people working in the Nordic countries on Nordic cooperation and peace recognize the potential of strengthening the Nordic Peace brand. One area of special potential is increasing focus on the shared Nordic priorities of prevention and the women, peace and security agenda as part of the Nordic Peace brand.
Do-Gooders at the End of Aid
Author: Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 110848879X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that policymakers capitalize on Scandinavia's humanitarian reputation in world affairs to legitimize their policy and diplomatic interests.
The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics
Author: Jon Pierre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0199665672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.
Nordic Prison Practice and Policy - Exceptional Or Not?
Author: Thomas Ugelvik
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-07-29
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1136698892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by leading prison scholars from the Nordic countries as well as selected researchers from the English-speaking world 'looking in', this book explores and discusses the Nordic jurisdictions as contexts for the specific penal policies and practices that may or may not be described as the 'exception from the rule'.
The Europeanisation of Development Policy
Author: Maurizio Carbone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1351703358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impact of Europe on national development policies has largely been overlooked. By exploring Member State interactions with and through the EU level across a number of different issues, this volume looks to herald a new research agenda. The picture emerging from the empirical evidence is that of modest degrees of Europeanisation. Resistance to Europe can be attributed to different factors, some operating at the domestic level (e.g. established cultural and normative structures, different types of veto players) and others related to the existence of several groupings with alternative policy prescriptions (e.g. Nordic donors, like-minded countries, former colonial powers). Even where there are signs of convergence (or divergence) between the development policies of the various Member States, they may be due to other influences rather than pressures coming from the EU. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.
Navigating Colonial Orders
Author: Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1782385401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
