From the postcolonial to the colonial and back

Lars Jensen

From the postcolonial to the colonial and back

Lars Jensen

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Abstract

This paper argues for the continued need to reconnect issues of postcoloniality to the colonial. In particular with the contemporary discourse in the Nordic countries on migrancy there is a tendency to see it as a phenomenon unfolding in a largely ahistorical space as a process of coming to terms with a new reality of multicultural society, as if there is no multicultural historical precedence in the Nordic countries, internally as well as externally through the Nordic countries participation in the project of colonialism.

Original language	English
Publication date	Oct 2010
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - Oct 2010
Event	Challenging colonialism and homogenising modernity - Tromsø, Norway Duration: 6 Oct 2010 → 9 Oct 2010

Symposium

Symposium	Challenging colonialism and homogenising modernity
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Tromsø
Period	06/10/2010 → 09/10/2010

Access to Document

http://www.valentin.uu.se/research/DINO/abstractsSYMP%20OCT%202010.pdf

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