David Jansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 813436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Jansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Jansson |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5123-1357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Europe as a big house – examining plantation logics in contemporary Europe
As a way to address the current postcolonial moment, characteristic of ongoing relations of resource extraction and border control, we turn to the metaphor of the plantation, offering an interpretation of Katherine McKittrick’s idea of plantation logics. Plantation museums, centered on former planters’ mansions (the ‘big house’) in the U.S., are important vehicles for narrating the historical period of slavery. However, such historical sites have…
Southering and the politics of heritage: The Psychogeography of Narrating Slavery at Plantation Museums
This paper argues that an appreciation of the effects of ‘southering’, or the identity discourse of internal orientalism in the U.S., is key to understanding the historical interpretation provided at plantation museums and the challenges associated with narrative transformation at these heritage sites. An analysis of two plantation museums in Louisiana shows that efforts to transform the whitewashed narratives that fail to account for the psychog…
Who's afraid of the 'beggar'? A psychoanalytic interpretation of the crises triggered by the begging of 'EU migrants' in Sweden
The presence of poor migrants from the EU countries of Romania and Bulgaria (mainly Roma subjects) who beg in Swedish cities has since 2010 caused a collective crisis in Sweden, affecting Swedish identity and institutions such as the (local and national) welfare state. Employing a psychoanalytic framework, inspired primarily by Lacan and Žižek, we describe the various dimensions of this crisis and explain the socio-psychological processes that pr…
Deadly exceptionalisms, or, would you rather be crushed by a moral superpower or a military superpower
In this essay, I consider the ways in which nationalism in both the U.S. and Sweden relies on notions of exceptionalism, and I discuss what this means materially for their own populations and for the world. The analysis consists of two lines of attack against both these assumptions of exceptionalism â one focusing on psychological processes and the other political economy processes. I examine the historical development of the ideas of U.S. and Sw…
The Work of Southering: "Southern Justice" and the Moral Landscape of Uneven Racism
This article seeks to stimulate a discussion about the ways in which scholars may reproduce the identity discourse of internal orientalism (here called "southering") and the moral landscape of uneven racism in the process of critiquing injustice in the southeastern states. It points to the problems with making explicit and unsubstantiated comparisons on issues such as racism between the "South" and "North" and highlights discursive forms that ris…
Racialization and “Southern” Identities of Resistance: A Psychogeography of Internal Orientalism in the United States
This article examines the "voices of the Others" of internal orientalism in the United States. Internal orientalism creates a binary of the imagined spaces of "America" and "the South," simultaneously racializing both spaces as white spaces. The article explores the extent to which this discourse informs a "Southern" resistance identity among members of the white "Southern" nationalist organization the League of the South, and African American re…
The head vs. the gut: Emotions, positionality, and the challenges of fieldwork with a Southern nationalist movement
The Haunting of the South: American Geopolitical Identity and the Burden of Southern History
The evocative figure of a South haunted by its troubled past is a staple of representations of the region, and such representations not only create a problematic identity for the region but simultaneously produce a privileged national identity through the process of internal orientalism. This article connects internal orientalism with the notion of the double Janus to explain the similarities between America's attitude toward Southern history and…
A Geography of Racism’: Internal Orientalism and the Construction of American National Identity in the Film Mississippi Burning
This article examines the contribution of the film Mississippi Burning to the construction of American national identity within the context of the discourse of internal orientalism. This discourse consists of a tradition of representing the American South as fundamentally different from the rest of the United States, and an important strand of this tradition involves construing ‘the South’ as a region where racism, violence, intolerance, poverty …
Internal orientalism in America: W.J. Cash’s The Mind of the South and the spatial construction of American national identity
Society in time and space: A Geographical Perspective on Change
American National Identity and the Progress of the New South in National Geographic Magazine
This article examines how National Geographic Magazine's coverage of the U.S. South contributed to the production of an exalted American national identity. The framework of internal orientalism is employed to explain the role of the South as an internal other in the national discourse and to show how even positive representations of the South are often implicated in this othering. In the pages of National Geographic, the New South's progress is m…
Internal orientalism in America: W.J. Cash’s The Mind of the South and the spatial construction of American national identity
The head vs. the gut: Emotions, positionality, and the challenges of fieldwork with a Southern nationalist movement
A Geography of Racism’: Internal Orientalism and the Construction of American National Identity in the Film Mississippi Burning
This article examines the contribution of the film Mississippi Burning to the construction of American national identity within the context of the discourse of internal orientalism. This discourse consists of a tradition of representing the American South as fundamentally different from the rest of the United States, and an important strand of this tradition involves construing ‘the South’ as a region where racism, violence, intolerance, poverty …
American National Identity and the Progress of the New South in National Geographic Magazine
This article examines how National Geographic Magazine's coverage of the U.S. South contributed to the production of an exalted American national identity. The framework of internal orientalism is employed to explain the role of the South as an internal other in the national discourse and to show how even positive representations of the South are often implicated in this othering. In the pages of National Geographic, the New South's progress is m…
Racialization and “Southern” Identities of Resistance: A Psychogeography of Internal Orientalism in the United States
This article examines the "voices of the Others" of internal orientalism in the United States. Internal orientalism creates a binary of the imagined spaces of "America" and "the South," simultaneously racializing both spaces as white spaces. The article explores the extent to which this discourse informs a "Southern" resistance identity among members of the white "Southern" nationalist organization the League of the South, and African American re…
The Haunting of the South: American Geopolitical Identity and the Burden of Southern History
The evocative figure of a South haunted by its troubled past is a staple of representations of the region, and such representations not only create a problematic identity for the region but simultaneously produce a privileged national identity through the process of internal orientalism. This article connects internal orientalism with the notion of the double Janus to explain the similarities between America's attitude toward Southern history and…
Who's afraid of the 'beggar'? A psychoanalytic interpretation of the crises triggered by the begging of 'EU migrants' in Sweden
The presence of poor migrants from the EU countries of Romania and Bulgaria (mainly Roma subjects) who beg in Swedish cities has since 2010 caused a collective crisis in Sweden, affecting Swedish identity and institutions such as the (local and national) welfare state. Employing a psychoanalytic framework, inspired primarily by Lacan and Žižek, we describe the various dimensions of this crisis and explain the socio-psychological processes that pr…
Europe as a big house – examining plantation logics in contemporary Europe
As a way to address the current postcolonial moment, characteristic of ongoing relations of resource extraction and border control, we turn to the metaphor of the plantation, offering an interpretation of Katherine McKittrick’s idea of plantation logics. Plantation museums, centered on former planters’ mansions (the ‘big house’) in the U.S., are important vehicles for narrating the historical period of slavery. However, such historical sites have…
Internal orientalism in America: W.J. Cash’s The Mind of the South and the spatial construction of American national identity
Society in time and space: A Geographical Perspective on Change
American National Identity and the Progress of the New South in National Geographic Magazine
This article examines how National Geographic Magazine's coverage of the U.S. South contributed to the production of an exalted American national identity. The framework of internal orientalism is employed to explain the role of the South as an internal other in the national discourse and to show how even positive representations of the South are often implicated in this othering. In the pages of National Geographic, the New South's progress is m…
A Geography of Racism’: Internal Orientalism and the Construction of American National Identity in the Film Mississippi Burning
This article examines the contribution of the film Mississippi Burning to the construction of American national identity within the context of the discourse of internal orientalism. This discourse consists of a tradition of representing the American South as fundamentally different from the rest of the United States, and an important strand of this tradition involves construing ‘the South’ as a region where racism, violence, intolerance, poverty …
The Haunting of the South: American Geopolitical Identity and the Burden of Southern History
The evocative figure of a South haunted by its troubled past is a staple of representations of the region, and such representations not only create a problematic identity for the region but simultaneously produce a privileged national identity through the process of internal orientalism. This article connects internal orientalism with the notion of the double Janus to explain the similarities between America's attitude toward Southern history and…
The head vs. the gut: Emotions, positionality, and the challenges of fieldwork with a Southern nationalist movement
Racialization and “Southern” Identities of Resistance: A Psychogeography of Internal Orientalism in the United States
This article examines the "voices of the Others" of internal orientalism in the United States. Internal orientalism creates a binary of the imagined spaces of "America" and "the South," simultaneously racializing both spaces as white spaces. The article explores the extent to which this discourse informs a "Southern" resistance identity among members of the white "Southern" nationalist organization the League of the South, and African American re…
The Work of Southering: "Southern Justice" and the Moral Landscape of Uneven Racism
This article seeks to stimulate a discussion about the ways in which scholars may reproduce the identity discourse of internal orientalism (here called "southering") and the moral landscape of uneven racism in the process of critiquing injustice in the southeastern states. It points to the problems with making explicit and unsubstantiated comparisons on issues such as racism between the "South" and "North" and highlights discursive forms that ris…
Deadly exceptionalisms, or, would you rather be crushed by a moral superpower or a military superpower
In this essay, I consider the ways in which nationalism in both the U.S. and Sweden relies on notions of exceptionalism, and I discuss what this means materially for their own populations and for the world. The analysis consists of two lines of attack against both these assumptions of exceptionalism â one focusing on psychological processes and the other political economy processes. I examine the historical development of the ideas of U.S. and Sw…
Who's afraid of the 'beggar'? A psychoanalytic interpretation of the crises triggered by the begging of 'EU migrants' in Sweden
The presence of poor migrants from the EU countries of Romania and Bulgaria (mainly Roma subjects) who beg in Swedish cities has since 2010 caused a collective crisis in Sweden, affecting Swedish identity and institutions such as the (local and national) welfare state. Employing a psychoanalytic framework, inspired primarily by Lacan and Žižek, we describe the various dimensions of this crisis and explain the socio-psychological processes that pr…
Southering and the politics of heritage: The Psychogeography of Narrating Slavery at Plantation Museums
This paper argues that an appreciation of the effects of ‘southering’, or the identity discourse of internal orientalism in the U.S., is key to understanding the historical interpretation provided at plantation museums and the challenges associated with narrative transformation at these heritage sites. An analysis of two plantation museums in Louisiana shows that efforts to transform the whitewashed narratives that fail to account for the psychog…
Europe as a big house – examining plantation logics in contemporary Europe
As a way to address the current postcolonial moment, characteristic of ongoing relations of resource extraction and border control, we turn to the metaphor of the plantation, offering an interpretation of Katherine McKittrick’s idea of plantation logics. Plantation museums, centered on former planters’ mansions (the ‘big house’) in the U.S., are important vehicles for narrating the historical period of slavery. However, such historical sites have…
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