Begging, thought to be an inherently un-Swedish phenomenon, became
a national fixture in the 2010s as homeless Romanian and Bulgarian
Roma EU citizens arrived in Sweden seeking economic opportunity.
People without shelter were forced to use public spaces as their
private space, disturbing aesthetic and normative orders, creating
anxiety among Swedish subjects and resulting in hate crimes and
everyday racism. Parallel with Europe’s refugee crisis in the
2010s, the “begging question” peaked. The presence of the
media’s so-called EU migrants caused a crisis in Swedish society
along political, juridical, moral, and social lines due to the
contradiction embodied in the Swedish authorities’ denial of
social support to them while simultaneously seeking to maintain the
nation’s image as promoting welfare, equality, and antiracism. In
The Begging Question Erik Hansson argues that the material
configurations of capitalism and class society are not only
racialized but also unconsciously invested with collective
anxieties and desires. By focusing on Swedish society’s response
to the begging question, Hansson provides insight into the
dialectics of racism. He shrewdly deploys Marxian economics and
Lacanian psychoanalysis to explain how it became possible to do
what once was thought impossible: criminalize begging and make
fascism politically mainstream, in Sweden. What Hansson reveals is
not just an insight into one of the most captivating countries on
earth but also a timely glimpse into what it means to be human.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Authors: |
Erik Hansson
|
| Foreword by: |
Don Mitchell
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
354 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-2503-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-4962-2503-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781496225030 |
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