Description: Begging Question : Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitute, Hardcover by Hansson, Erik; Mitchell, Don (FRW), ISBN 1496225031, ISBN-13 9781496225030, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Begging Question : Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitut
Number of Pages: 354 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Begging Question : Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitute
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Erik Hansson
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth Ser.
Format: Hardcover
