Exceptionalism

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.

List of contents

Introduction 1. From Colonial to Postcolonial Exceptionalism 2. Welfare state exceptionalism in the Nordic countries and Britain 3. Nation-building and Nation Branding 4. Altered states of exceptions: Africa-Europe/ US-Latin America 5. Exceptionalism in the Times of Crisis and Pandemics

About the author

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.

Summary

This volume crucially provides an analytical and comparative approach, investigating the meaning and uses of the concept of exceptionalism, while demonstrating the ways in which it manifests itself in different historical and geographical settings. Exceptionalism offers comparative case studies from different parts of the world, showcasing the way in which exceptionalism has come to occupy an important narrative position in relation to different nation-states, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Nordic countries, various European nations and countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. An introduction to and overview of a term that has come to define the past and present identity of many nations, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Lars Jensen, Lars (Roskilde University Jensen, Lars Loftsdottir Jensen, Kristin (University of Iceland) Loftsdottir, Kristín Loftsdóttir
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780367535193
• ISBN: 978-0-367-53519-3
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Key Ideas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Europe, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Colonialism & imperialism, Political science & theory, Colonialism and imperialism, Political science and theory, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence