Description:
Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. This book is an essential read for Post- and Decolonial scholars and students of Critical Race Studies, Africana Studies, International Relations, Global Development, and Political Science.
Review Quotes:
"Foregrounding how Sweden has directly and indirectly benefited from colonial subjugation, both as a settler colonial state and as a member of the larger white-European polity, the chapters of Decolonial Sweden gather a compelling and well-researched much-needed account of how the colonial and racial conditions of global capital reach all and every corner of the planet."
Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Unpayable Debt (2022), New York University, USA
"Decolonial Sweden offers a much-needed reminder that coloniality is both unexceptional and specific, situated; that our scholarship and politics have to engage this tension and that we have to do this collectively, using various registers and languages. This volume is a welcome tool in the struggle against colonial amnesia and disavowal."
Olivia U. Rutazibwa, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
"An incredibly important and groundbreaking seminal work that fills many gaps left out of Sweden's colonial history and national imaginary. This book offers sharp, clear-eyed discourse, which should open minds, educate, and stoke much-needed flames of change."
Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black