This book provides an original approach to the connections of race, racism and neoliberalisation through a focus on 'postethnic activism', in which mobilisation is based on racialisation as non-white or 'other' instead of ethnic group membership.

Suvi Keskinen is Professor of Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include racism, antiracism, political activism, and the politics of belonging. She is the co-editor of Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region. Migration, Difference and the Politics of Solidarity (2019) and Feminisms in the Nordic Region. Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique (2021).

1. Introduction

2. Racial Nordicisation and Racial Politics

3. Methodological Routes

4. Creating Communities of Belonging and Naming the 'Common'

5. Autonomous Spaces, Politics and Organising

6. New Representations, Cultural Work and Navigating Neoliberal Rationalities

7. Penal Welfare State, Neoliberal Policies and the Insurgence of the Suburb

8. Histories, Stories and Imaginaries

9. Conclusions