What is it about?
Public Quran burnings provoked the Easter Riots of 2022 and justified a nativist shift in Swedish politics to repel the alleged “invasion” of culturally incompatible people and restore the Swedish Model without rolling back the neoliberal reforms that produce rising inequalities and segregation.
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Why is it important?
By operationalizing a novel definition of racism as technology and highlighting the political impact of nostalgia, provocation tactics and affect, the article offers a study of racial capitalism in motion, which currently is transforming Sweden from social to Herrenvolk democracy.
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We wanted to know what happened with Sweden. How can a country that once projected solidarity and social welfare turn into a segregated society of staggering inequalities and seek to handle frustrations by policed efforts to reestablish a cultural homogeneity that never was?
Edda Manga
Multicultural Centre, Stockholm
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This page is a summary of: Easter Riots and the Politics of Autocratization in Reconquista Sweden, March 2026, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004757639-011.
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