Background Characters? The Nordic Region and European Colonialism

• Authors: Marta Grzechnik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article presents an overview of the literature regarding colonialism in the Nordic countries. Although the Nordic region is not commonly associated with colonialism, a critical look at its direct and indirect involvement in the process of European expansion has recently been developed in scholarship on the region. Direct involvement refers to the control of overseas territories (e.g. in India, modern day Ghana, and the Caribbean) and active participation in the networks of trade (including slave trade), shipping, missionary activity, etc. Indirect involvement, or colonial complicity, refers to the idea that Nordic societies produced and reproduced systems of knowledge that underpinned the colonial system and the global racial hierarchies.

Keywords

EN

Scandinavia,; Nordic region,; colonialism,; post-colonialism,; colonial complicity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Studia Scandinavica
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1 (21)
• Pages: 128-137

Dates

published

2017-12-17

Contributors

author

Marta Grzechnik

Identifiers

DOI

10.26881/ss.2017.21.08