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- Bajramović, Sanela, 1979-
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Hierarchical Sisterhood : Supporting Women's Peacebuilding through Swedish Aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993-2013
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines possibilities and challenges faced by international interveners in a post-socialist and violently divided area. The study object is the Swedish foundation Kvinna till Kvinna, formed in 1993 during the Bosnian war, originating from the peace movement and supported by the Swedish government aid agency Sida. The aim is to contextualize and analyze Kvinna till Kvinna’s two decades of engagement in peacebuilding in Bosnia. The encounter with domestic women’s NGOs is of particular interest. By focusing on rhetoric, practice and silences, the ambition has been to understand the international/local relationship from the perspective of both actors. In terms of methodology, this study combines a hermeneutic approach with that of oral history. The empirical material utilized consists of both written and oral sources, the majority of which appear in research for the first time. To capture the complexity of the peacebuilding endeavor, critically scrutinize it and discern its benevolence, this research draws inspiration from postcolonial and semiperipherality theories, as well as influential theorizing on peacebuilding, sisterhood and solidarity. This study shows that even well-intentioned, locally-focused external efforts, constrained by donor agendas and circumstances on the ground, contain problematic characteristics common in the era of liberal peace. While subscribing to the idea of transnational sisterhood, Kvinna till Kvinna also presented a belief in Swedish supremacy and demonstrated a lack of interest in local knowledge. It sought to educate and change its Bosnian counterparts by using soft methods. Further, the findings challenge idealized images of the ‘local’ as a peace-loving force for change and a powerless victim of Western domination. The hierarchical sisterhood that over time evolved between the two actors, founded on basic shared values related to women’s situation, was driven by mutual benefit. Acknowledging advantages of this type of transnational encounters in peacebuilding contexts, the study raises questions about dilemmas in them and underlines the importance of rhetorical listening.
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Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds : Toward Revised Histories
- 2017
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Brydon, Forsgren, and Fur’s Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds demonstrates the value of reading for concurrences in situating discussions of archives, voices, and history in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Starting with the premise that our pluriversal world is constructed from concurrent imaginaries yet the role of concurrences has seldom been examined, the collection brings together case studies that confirm the productivity of reading, looking, and listening for concurrences across established boundaries of disciplinary or geopolitical engagement. Contributors working in art history, sociology, literary, and historical studies bring examples of Nordic colonialism together with analyses of colonial practices worldwide. The collection invites uptake of the study of concurrences within the humanities and in interdisciplinary fields such as postcolonial, cultural, and globalization studies.
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- Fur, Gunlög, 1957-
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A Nation of Women. : Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians.
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America. In Delaware society, to be a woman meant to engage in activities performed by women, including diplomacy, rather than to be defined by biological sex. Among the Delaware, being a "woman" was therefore a self-identification, employed by both women and men, that reflected the complementary roles within Delaware society. Decades of interaction with other cultures gradually eroded the positive connotations of being a woman. To salvage some sense of gender complementarity men and women redrew the lines of their duties more rigidly. Some Delawares asserted a masculine identity as a warring nation, others sught ways to retain an older understanding of what it meant to be a women and peacemakers.
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- Fur, Gunlög, 1957-
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Always Already Cosmopolitan : Indigenous People and Swedish Modernity
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Ingår i: European Cosmopolitanism. - London : Routledge. - 9781138961104 - 9781315659992 ; , s. 65-81
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter the already and always transnational links of indigenous peoples are focused as they became visible and utilized in 20th century European and international politics. An increasing academic focus on classification and developmental determinism painted indigenous peoples as static societies that hinted at European prehistory, and as the century progressed, stood in need of protection and special support in attempts to bring them into modernity. As relics of the past indigenous peoples - at least in certain parts of the world - were also perceived with nostalgia for an idyllic life lost in the rapid and ruthless scramble for industrialization. Indigenous peoples, however, were never just foils for European and Western imagination. Sami people in northern Scandinavia spanned four nation states, advocated for rights and forged transnational alliances already in the beginning of the 20th century. After World War II contacts increased between indigenous peoples in the north of the European continent and in North America. Individuals and groups crossed boundaries and travelled for leisure, for the purpose of labour opportunities, and in order to influence the political process. An international language of indigeneity grew out of these contacts, and demonstrated that while on the one hand marginalized and victims of Europe's colonial and imperial reach, indigenous peoples were also and always agents of change and reflection in a manner that both contributes to and challenges understandings of cosmopolitanism.
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- Fur, Gunlög, 1957-
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Captain Jack's Whip and Borderlands of Swedish-Indigenous Encounters
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Ingår i: Swedish-American Borderlands. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. - 9781517908584 - 9781517907518 ; , s. 192-210
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1874, Captain Jack’s riding (Modoc resistance leader) came to the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm. How did the whip end up in a glass case in Sweden? What happened along its way across the Atlantic? What significance did it acquire and how did that change over time and space? Borderlands as cross-border relations emphasizes conceptual boundaries, fluidity and multiple identities. The whip twines together a history of colonialism; from its reminder of the Spanish introduction of the horse to its decontextualized enclosure in a museum showcase it offers an entry point for rethinking encounters between Swedes and American Indians.
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- Fur, Gunlög, 1957-
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Colonial Fantasies : American Indians, indigenous peoples, and a Swedish discourse of innocence
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Ingår i: National Identities. - : Routledge. - 1460-8944 .- 1469-9907. ; 18:1, s. 11-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines representations of American Indians in a Swedish family magazine from the 1860s/1870s, tying these ‘Indian stories’ to perceptions carried by emigrants to the Americas. It argues that these representations conveyed a certain notion of the colonial process that allowed Swedes to both participate in and disavow the more unsavoury aspects of what the magazine called ‘race wars’. An emerging discourse of innocence connected popular images with debates about emigration and scholarship in racial biology, which allowed both Swedes and Swedish-Americans to view themselves as modern and unconnected to the burdens of a colonial past.
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