Richey Wyver
Biographic Data
| ID | 668803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richey Wyver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyver |
| SIGNATURE | WYVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0895-301X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is adoption an environmental threat? Domestication fantasies in Swedish adoption narratives
In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book's question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that 'generalised domestication' is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment. This is a way of being in the world that…
Too brown to be Swedish, too Swedish to be anything else
While international adoptions to Sweden have fallen in line with global trends, the presence of the transracial adoptee body remains central to myths of good (white) Swedishness. This article explores the desire for and performance of the international transracial adoptee as a mimic Swede. Analysing published Swedish international transracial adoption narratives, it draws on Bhabha’s concept of mimicry to critically deconstruct the idea of a hier…
From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism
Despite the international adoption industry’s global decline and increased criticism of the ethics of the industry, international adoption continues to be largely unproblematized and celebrated in Sweden. Arguing adoption is central to national myths of Swedish goodness and integral to fantasies of an anti-racist, caring nation, this essay analyses the use of international transracial adoptees in adverts by multinational flat-packed furniture com…
Eating the [M]Other
Drawing on bell hooks’ classic essay Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, this article discusses ethnic consumption fantasies of white Swedish international adopters. The article uses deconstructive narrative analysis techniques to explore racial desires concealed and revealed in adopters’ descriptions of international transracial adoptee bodies in published Swedish adoption texts. Taking the use of food race metaphors (for example, almond ey…
Eating the [M]Other
Drawing on bell hooks’ classic essay Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, this article discusses ethnic consumption fantasies of white Swedish international adopters. The article uses deconstructive narrative analysis techniques to explore racial desires concealed and revealed in adopters’ descriptions of international transracial adoptee bodies in published Swedish adoption texts. Taking the use of food race metaphors (for example, almond ey…
Too brown to be Swedish, too Swedish to be anything else
While international adoptions to Sweden have fallen in line with global trends, the presence of the transracial adoptee body remains central to myths of good (white) Swedishness. This article explores the desire for and performance of the international transracial adoptee as a mimic Swede. Analysing published Swedish international transracial adoption narratives, it draws on Bhabha’s concept of mimicry to critically deconstruct the idea of a hier…
Eating the [M]Other
Drawing on bell hooks’ classic essay Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, this article discusses ethnic consumption fantasies of white Swedish international adopters. The article uses deconstructive narrative analysis techniques to explore racial desires concealed and revealed in adopters’ descriptions of international transracial adoptee bodies in published Swedish adoption texts. Taking the use of food race metaphors (for example, almond ey…
From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism
Despite the international adoption industry’s global decline and increased criticism of the ethics of the industry, international adoption continues to be largely unproblematized and celebrated in Sweden. Arguing adoption is central to national myths of Swedish goodness and integral to fantasies of an anti-racist, caring nation, this essay analyses the use of international transracial adoptees in adverts by multinational flat-packed furniture com…
Too brown to be Swedish, too Swedish to be anything else
While international adoptions to Sweden have fallen in line with global trends, the presence of the transracial adoptee body remains central to myths of good (white) Swedishness. This article explores the desire for and performance of the international transracial adoptee as a mimic Swede. Analysing published Swedish international transracial adoption narratives, it draws on Bhabha’s concept of mimicry to critically deconstruct the idea of a hier…
Is adoption an environmental threat? Domestication fantasies in Swedish adoption narratives
In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book's question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that 'generalised domestication' is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment. This is a way of being in the world that…
Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mythology (2 works)