Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Nordic Models of Welfare and Gender; PART 1 Postcolonial Histories/Postcolonial Presents; 2 Colonial Complicity: The 'Postcolonial' in a Nordic Context; 3 The Nordic Colonial Mind; 4 The Flipside of my Passport; 5 The Promise of the 'Nordic' and its Reality in the South; 6 Stranger or Family Member? Reproducing Postcolonial Power Relations; 7 Historical Legacies and Neo-colonial Forms of Power?; PART 2 Welfare State and its 'Others'; 8 When Racism Becomes Individualised
Summary
The colonial ties of the Nordic countries are usually regarded as weak, their international relations being characterised by development aid, peace building or cooperation, rather than by colonialism or imperialism. However, this text presents a more complex analysis
