This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of nationalism and right-wing populism. The book contextualizes these recent events in the long histories of racial and colonial power relations embedded in Nordic societies and their gender equality and welfare state regimes. It examines the role of whiteness and racism and seeks to decolonize feminist knowledge and genealogies of feminist movements in the region. The contributions provide in-depth knowledge on the different orientations, dilemmas and tactics that feminisms develop in these challenging times and show the centrality of antiracist and decolonizing critiques of feminisms. They further highlight the strategies of feminist and related antiracist and indigenous movements in regards to ideas about hope, solidarity, intersectionality, and social justice.

Chapters 6, 7, 9 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Pauline Stoltz is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Diana Mulinari is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden.

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Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-editor of Complying with Colonialism: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region (2009) and Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity (2019).

Pauline Stoltz is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the author of Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflict (2020) and former Chief Editor of NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (2013-2015). Diana Mulinari is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. Among her latest publications are Hegemonic Feminism Revisited: On the Promises of Intersectionality in Times of the Precarisation of Life (with P. de los Reyes, published in NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2020) and the book Essential writings on Intersectionality, Labour and Ecofeminism (with F. Khayaat F. and N. Räthzel, 2020).

Inhalt

1. Contextualising Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial CritiquePauline Stoltz, Diana Mulinari and Suvi Keskinen
2. Co-Optation and Feminisms in the Nordic Region: 'Gender-Friendly' Welfare States, 'Nordic Exceptionalism' and IntersectionalityPauline Stoltz
   Part I Feminist struggles over gender equality, welfare and solidarity
3. Gender, Citizenship and Intersectionality: Contending with Nationalisms in the Nordic RegionBirte Siim
4. Changing Feminist Politics in a 'Strategic State'Anna Elomäki, Johanna Kantola, Anu Koivunen and Hanna Ylöstalo
5. 'Danishness', Repressive Immigration Policies and Exclusionary Framings of Gender EqualityChristel Stormhøj ** **Part II Decolonising feminisms in the Nordic region
6. Nordic Academic Feminism and Whiteness as an Epistemic HabitUlrika Dahl
7. Indigenising Nordic Feminism: A Sámi Decolonial CritiqueAstri Dankertsen
8. Samieh Women at the Threshold of Disappearance: Elsa Laula Renberg (1877-1931) and Karin Stenberg's (1884-1969) Challenges to Nordic FeminismStine H. Bang Svendsen Part III Antiracism and speaking the truth to power
9. And They Cannot Teach Us How to Cycle. The Category of Migrant Women and Antiracist Feminism in SwedenDiana Mulinari
10. Antiracist Feminism and the Politics of Solidarity in Neoliberal TimesSuvi Keskinen

11. Rethinking Design: A Dialogue on Anti-racism and Art Activism from a Decolonial PerspectiveFaith Mkwesha and Sasha Huber

12. Epilogue: We should all be dreaming vol. 3Maryan Abdulkarim and Sonya Lindfors