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Decolonial Sweden

By: Michael McEachrane (Editor), Louis Faye (Editor)

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Paperback | 16 December 2024 | Edition Number 1

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338 Pages

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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 Swedenâs 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 S¡mi people to Swedish colonialism, whether Sweden owes the Caribbean reparations for its colonization of Saint Barth©lemy and involvement in the transatlantic trade, Swedenâs 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 Swedenâs place in the world.

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Foregrounding how Sweden has directly and indirectly benefited from colonial subjugation, both as a settler colonial state and as a member of the larger white-European polity, the chapters of Decolonial Sweden gather a compelling and well-researched much needed account of how the colonial and racial conditions of global capital reach all and every corner of the planet.

Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Unpayable Debt (2022), New York University, USA.

Decolonial Sweden offers a much-needed reminder that coloniality is both unexceptional and specific, situated; that our scholarship and politics have to engage this tension and that we have to do this collectively, using various registers and languages. This volume is a welcome tool in the struggle against colonial amnesia and disavowal.

Olivia U. Rutazibwa, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

An incredibly important and groundbreaking seminal work which fills many gaps left out of Sweden's colonial history and national imaginary. This book offers sharp, clear-eyed discourse, which should open minds, educate, and stoke much needed flames of change.

L?la Akinmade Akerstroem, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black

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