White ignorance, race, and feminist politics in Sweden
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Author
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English
Abstract
This article discusses the Swedish government’s policy document on a feminist policy to reduce and prevent men’s violence against women. Permeated by racial ignorance and politics of difference this document systematically and consistently excludes and ignores racial and ethnic power structures and their consequences in migrant minorities’ daily lives and experience. The article raises questions about why some knowledge is silenced or abandoned while some is embraced and encouraged. Within a wider intersectional framework, and through critical race theory and ignorance studies, it investigates the knowledge produced in the government document and the way it reproduces, maintains, and normalizes racial otherness and social exclusion. © 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Subject
Race
Gender
Gendered racism
Research and policy
Swedish feminist politics
White ignorance
Publication Title
Publication Year
2020
Publication Date
2020
Source
Scopus
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Physical Description
vol. 43, n. 16, pp. 249-267