This book adopts a global approach to analysing Danish nationhood in the current context of a Europe paralysed by crises. Focusing on the global strands which have produced understandings of national selfhood as a consequence of a series of historical and contemporary global encounters, it calls for the production of narratives which better capture how European nations, including Denmark, are shaped by narratives that cannot be understood in (national) isolation, but are contingent on ideas about the nation’s globality. In historical terms, this entails examining how colonialism shaped national self-perceptions; in a contemporary context, it requires looking at colonialism’s unfinished business. The first chapters revisits colonialism throughout the Danish empire. In the second section, the book revisits Danish (post-1945) attempts to restage global interventions and military intervention since 2000, and considers how migration since 1965 has led to a profound questioning of relationships with the non-European world – and increasingly with Europe itself. Postcolonial Denmark situates Denmark at the centre of a number of current and ever more urgent challenges facing Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and cultural studies with interests in Europe, the Nordic region through a postcolonial, a whiteness and a decolonial inspired approach.
Historicising postcolonial Europe -- Postcolonial Europe regionalised -- The nation-empires and their legacy -- Postcolonial Europe in the time of crisis.
The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, ...
Finally, the book develops scenarios for the future and concludes by pointing out how the continuation of the community of the realm may have a better chance if conceived as an 'ever looser union'.
“Introduction: Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond.” In Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir and Lars Jensen, 1–18.
He is currently finishing a manuscript on postcolonial Denmark, which examines how Denmark has dealt with its colonial history and how contemporary Denmark's post-imperial anxieties over migration reflect this broader history.
'The Danish African: Wolle Kirk, Whiteness and Colonial Complicity.' Kult. Postkolonial temaserie, no. 11: 45–64. ... 'Politisk og faglig aktivitet i Grønlands LO: Hjemmestyret skal ikke være forklædt dansk kolonipolitik [Political and ...
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 ...
Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures.
'Book Review: Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic by Kenneth Olwig'. Geographical Review, 93(1), pp 136–138. Dodgson, Charles L (1879). Euclid and his Modern Rivals. London: Macmillan. Olwig, Kenneth R (1996).
He has published numerous books and articles on Scandinavian film and literature, especially Nordic noir, including Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia (2008) and Scandinavian Crime Fiction (co-edited with Paula Arvas, 2011).