Exceptionalism by Lars Jensen
Through comparative case studies from around the world, this book maps the concept exceptionalism, investigating its meaning and uses while demonstrating the ways in which it manifests itself in different historical and geographical settings, coming to occupy an important narrative position in relation to different nation states.-
Thought as a System
-
Symbolic Construction of Community
-
Social Capital
-
Social Identity
-
Moral Panics
-
Risk
-
Childhood
-
Racism
-
Cosmopolitanism
-
Leisure
-
Citizenship
-
Lifestyles
-
Transgression
-
Globalization
-
Superdiversity
-
Populism
-
Nihilism
-
Community
-
Human Rights
-
Culture
-
Austerity
-
Patriarchy
-
Knowledge
-
Class
-
Sexuality
-
Consumption
-
Refugia
-
Transnationalism
Lars Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters in the Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the author of Postcolonial Denmark: Nation Narration in a Crisis Ridden Europe and Postcolonial Europe, and co-editor of Crisis in the Nordic Countries and Beyond and Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region.
Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Iceland. She is the author of We Are All African Here: Race, Mobilities and West-Africans in Europe, Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland and the co-editor of Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region, Messy Europe and Teaching ‘Race’ with a Gendered Edge.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780367535209 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367535203 |
| Title | Exceptionalism |
| Author | Lars Jensen |
| Series | Key Ideas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |