Somebody Else, Somewhere Else

Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination in Sweden

Bibliographic Data

ID10962016
AuthorsAllan Pred (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume29
Issue4
Pages383-416
Publication date1997-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntipode (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8330.00053
OpenAlexW1981643291
LanguageEN
Citations received31

In conjunction with recurrent economic dislocations and the restructuring and melting of national capitalisms into one another, there has been a resurgence of racisms in Europe; even in Sweden, a country long stereotyped as an international champion of equality and economic and political justice. An array of concrete and racialized spaces has emerged and contributed to the further spread of racism. Deeply enmeshed in this process is a disjuncture between racist attitudes and behaviors, and a widely held image of the self and the nation as altruistic and just. Confronted by such internal dissonance, many, if not most, Swedes resolve matters through denial and projection: believing or asserting that the country's only racists are either skinhead youths or right‐wing extremists, “somebody else.” The contradiction between the racisms and national identity is also commonly culturally reworked through projecting upon other locations as well as other groups. To demonstrate the complexities and internal contradictions of this popular geographical imagination, this paper provides a detailed depiction and critique of one of its elements—the municipality of Sjöbo

Aesthetics · Champion · Cognitive dissonance · Contradiction · Depiction · Epistemology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Racism · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology

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