This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of nationalism and right-wing populism.

1. Contextualising Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique (Pauline Stoltz, Diana Mulinari and Suvi Keskinen).- 2. Co-Optation and Feminisms in the Nordic Region: 'Gender-Friendly’ Welfare States, ‘Nordic Exceptionalism’ and Intersectionality (Pauline Stoltz).- Part I Feminist struggles over gender equality, welfare and solidarity.- 3. Gender, Citizenship and Intersectionality: Contending with Nationalisms in the Nordic Region (Birte Siim).- 4. Changing Feminist Politics in a ‘Strategic State’ (Anna Elomäki, Johanna Kantola, Anu Koivunen and Hanna Ylöstalo).- 5. ‘Danishness’, Repressive Immigration Policies and Exclusionary Framings of Gender Equality (Christel Stormhøj).- Part II Decolonising feminisms in the Nordic region.- 6. Nordic Academic Feminism and Whiteness as an Epistemic Habit (Ulrika Dahl).- 7. Indigenising Nordic Feminism: A Sámi Decolonial Critique (Astri Dankertsen).- 8. Samieh Women at the Threshold of Disappearance: Elsa Laula Renberg (1877-1931) and Karin Stenberg’s (1884-1969) Challenges to Nordic Feminism (Stine H. Bang Svendsen).- Part III Antiracism and speaking the truth to power.- 9. “And They Cannot Teach Us How to Cycle”. The Category of Migrant Women and Antiracist Feminism in Sweden (Diana Mulinari).- 10. Antiracist Feminism and the Politics of Solidarity in Neoliberal Times (Suvi Keskinen).- 11. Rethinking Design: A Dialogue on Anti-racism and Art Activism from a Decolonial Perspective (Faith Mkwesha and Sasha Huber).- 12. Epilogue: We should all be dreaming vol. 3 (Maryan Abdulkarim and Sonya Lindfors).

This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of nationalism and right-wing populism. The book contextualizes these recent events in the long histories of racial and colonial power relations embedded in Nordic societies and their gender equality and welfare state regimes. It examines the role of whiteness and racism and seeks to decolonize feminist knowledge and genealogies of feminist movements in the region. The contributions provide in-depth knowledge on the different orientations, dilemmas and tactics that feminisms develop in these challenging times and show the centrality of antiracist and decolonizing critiques of feminisms. They further highlight the strategies of feminist and related antiracist and indigenous movements in regards to ideas about hope, solidarity, intersectionality, and social justice.Chapters 6, 7, 9 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. Pauline Stoltz is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark. Diana Mulinari is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. 

“This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary intersectional feminisms. It is a timely and original collection, breaking new ground in the field of gender and women* studies, critical migration and racism studies, Arctic indigenous studies, and design studies. The contributors critique the welfare state and the co-optation of feminisms into neoliberal and right-wing politics from an anti-racist feminist perspective. They decolonise Nordic feminism through highlighting long-standing anti-colonial struggles by Sámi activists, connecting these to contemporary young Women of Color and Black feminist tactics of (dis)identification and anti-racist feminist intersectional struggles in the Nordic Region.” (Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Professor and Chair in General Sociology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany) “This vital collection addresses some of the most urgent questions facing feminists in the Nordic region and beyond. How to decolonise feminism? How to respond to the twin crises of neoliberalism and populism? How to resist racism and structural inequalities within the movement? The book provides an unflinching analysis of power dynamics within feminism, but is underpinned by a politics of hope. It is a must-read for those interested in the possibilities of feminist solidarity.” (Elizabeth Evans, Reader in Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) “By bringing questions of migration, indigeneity and de-coloniality to the forefront of feminist investigations, this important collection provides original insights into recent development of Nordic feminism. While situated in the Nordic countries, the volume will be of interest to anyone interested in how feminism has responded to neoliberalism, right-wing populism and gender conservatism. Significantly, the volume illustrates how new reconfigurations of solidarities can exist across differences – also in a time of exclusionary nationalism and racism.” (Rikke Andreassen, Professor of Culture and Media, Roskilde University, Denmark)

Includes three Open Access chapters accessible on Springer Link here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-53464-6 Engages with current issues, debates and tensions within feminism Connects three key challenges of feminism: neoliberalism, nationalism and colour-blind feminism

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