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Exploring Swedish international adoption desire = transracial bodies and nation-building in the 'goodest' country /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exploring Swedish international adoption desire/ by Richey Wyver.
Reminder of title:	transracial bodies and nation-building in the 'goodest' country /
Author:	Wyver, Richey.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2023.,
Description:	xiii, 159 p. :illustrations, digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Intercountry adoption - Sweden. -
Subject:	Sweden - Fiction. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38801-9
ISBN:	9783031388019

Exploring Swedish international adoption desire = transracial bodies and nation-building in the 'goodest' country /
Wyver, Richey.

Exploring Swedish international adoption desiretransracial bodies and nation-building in the 'goodest' country /[electronic resource] :by Richey Wyver. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xiii, 159 p. :illustrations, digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction: Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire -- 2. Race, Colonialism, Eugenics, and International Adoption in Sweden -- 3. From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness -- 4. Eating the [M]Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives -- 5. "Too Brown to be Swedish, Too Swedish to be Anything Else": Mimicry and Menace in Swedish Adoption Narratives -- 6. Representation and Resistance: Challenging Swedish Adoption Desire -- 7. Conclusion.

This book is a critical study of international adoption in Sweden, based on analysis of adoption-related texts, images and videos. The author argues that representations of adoption, and specifically of the bodies of international, transracial adoptees, are used to create and sustain myths of Swedish exceptionalism, concealing the nation's colonial, racist and eugenic histories. The book challenges the virtuous perception of international adoption, and exposes and critiques the underlying racism and violence of both the adoption industry and the shaping of Sweden as a 'good' nation. It will appeal to students and scholars of adoption and migration, as well as those engaged in anti-racism research. Richey Wyver, PhD, is a Learning Designer and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Having lived in Sweden for several years, he graduated with an MA in International Migration and Ethnic Relations from Malmö University, before pursuing a PhD in Sociology in Auckland. His doctoral research forms the basis of this book. Dr Wyver's research interests also cover racism and anti-racism, and environmental sociology and sustainability.

ISBN: 9783031388019

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-38801-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1435143
Intercountry adoption
--Sweden.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

829380
Sweden
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: HV875.58.S8

Dewey Class. No.: 362.734

Exploring Swedish international adoption desire = transracial bodies and nation-building in the 'goodest' country /
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