New dimensions of diversity in Nordic culture and society / edited by Jenny Björklund and Ursula Lindqvist.

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Cultural amnesia and AIDS : breaking the silence in Sweden / Timothy Ryan Warburton -- Diversity and intimacy in Denmark : regulations, celebrations and condemnation / Rikke Andreassen -- New faces of a new phase : the politics of visibility among young Muslim women in Sweden / Pia Karlsson Minganti and Leila Karin Österlind --The new cradle of western civilization : hypertexts, global networks, and the Finland-Swedish novel Diva / Kristina Malmio --The "Caspian Case" and its aftermath : transgender people's use of facebook to engage discriminatory mainstream news coverage in Denmark / Tobias Raun -- An open letter to Beatrice Ask / Jonas Hassen Khemiri --The Swedish REVA debate : an interview with Jonas Hassen Khemiri / Rachel Willson-Broyles -- Dancing with the stállu of diversity : a Sámi perspective / Troy Storfjell -- Did Breivik care about race? : Scandinavian radical nationalism in transition / Benjamin R. Teitelbaum -- The specter of Danish Empire : The Prophets of Eternal Fjord and the writing of Danish-Greenlandic history / Kirsten Thisted -- Statelessness and belonging : Kurdish Youth in Sweden / Barzoo Eliassi -- From diversity to precarity : reading childhood in Ruben Östlund's film Play (2011) / Amanda Doxtater -- Class revisited in contemporary Swedish literature / Anna Williams -- The representation of class in post-industrial and multicultural Sweden : aesthetic-political strategies in Kristian Lundberg's Yarden / Magnus Nilsson -- Caregiving fathers in Norway : fiction and reality / Melissa Gjellstad -- "Still a lot of staring and curiosity" : racism and the racialization of African immigrants in Iceland / Kristín Loftsdóttir.

In the new millennium, categories of identity have become particularly destabilized with the emergence of a new generation of people in the Nordic region who demand more dynamic and fluid identities. New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society reinvestigates the tired concept of "diversity" to make room for dynamic new realities, as well as the ample new questions to which they give rise. This volume assumes diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity. Given that the Nordic countries consistently rank among the world's wealthiest, most educated, and most egalitarian.

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