Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination: 8 (California Studies in Critical Human Geography) - Tapa blanda

Pred, Allan

 
9780520224490: Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination: 8 (California Studies in Critical Human Geography)
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ISBN 10: 0520224493 ISBN 13: 9780520224490
Editorial: University of California Press, 2000

Sinopsis

Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of Sweden's generous immigration policies now find themselves the object of discrimination and worse. Through the cascading juxtaposition of many voices, including his own, Pred describes the intensifying cultural racism of the 1990s, the proliferation of negative ethnic stereotypes, and the spatial segregation of the non-Swedish. He quotes the newspaper "Dagens Nyheter": "It is high time that Sweden reconsider its self-image as the stronghold of tolerance" (July 21, 1998), and analyzes the strategies that allow people to maintain that self-image. Perhaps the greatest strength of "Even in Sweden" is that Pred gives to the social consequences of global economic restructuring some very specific faces and places and a multitude of expressions of human will, both ill and good.

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Allan Pred is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Recent among his many books are Recognizing European Modernities (1995) and Reworking Modernity (with Michael J. Watts, 1992).

De la contraportada

"A tour de force"—Orvar Löfgren, co-author of Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life

"Written in a striking, experimental style, this is an insightful and impressive book on a topic of enormous contemporary significance."—James Ferguson, author of Expectations of Modernity

"Pred works with a powerful set of ideas and arresting empirical materials to create a series of interlocking, overlapping, and superimposed spaces within which modern racism is brought into view with a shocking clarity. "—Derek Gregory, author of Geographical Imaginations

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"A tour de force"Orvar Löfgren, co-author of Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life

"Written in a striking, experimental style, this is an insightful and impressive book on a topic of enormous contemporary significance."James Ferguson, author ofExpectations of Modernity

"Pred works with a powerful set of ideas and arresting empirical materials to create a series of interlocking, overlapping, and superimposed spaces within which modern racism is brought into view with a shocking clarity. "Derek Gregory, author ofGeographical Imaginations

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University of California Press
Año de publicación
2000
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ISBN 10 
0520224493
ISBN 13 
9780520224490
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Número de páginas
338
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9780520223325: Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination: 8 (California Studies in Critical Human Geography)

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ISBN 10:  0520223322 ISBN 13:  9780520223325
Editorial: University of California Press, 2000
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