Elisabeth L. Engebretsen is a Professor in the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (2014). Mia Liinason is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund, Sweden. She is the author of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Turkey and Scandinavia. Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance (with Selin Cagatay and Olga Sasunkevich, 2022) and Equality Struggles: Women’s Movements, Neoliberal Markets and State Political Agendas in Scandinavia (2018).

• 1. Introduction: Transforming Identities in Contemporary Nordic Europe 2. ‘Welcome to the Most Privileged, Most Xenophobic Country in the World!’ Affective Figurations of Whiteness in the Making of a Danish Citizen 3. Exploring Challenges and Potentialities for Antiracist Education in the Nordic Countries: Cases from Finland and Denmark 4. Autobiographical Flesh: Understanding Western Notions of Humanity through Una Marson (1905-1965) 5. ‘It’s Our Bodies, We are the Experts!’: Countering Pathologisation, Gate-keeping and Danish Exceptionalism through Collective Trans Knowledges, Coalition-building and Insistence 6. Gayness between Nation Builders and Money Makers: From Ideology to New Essentialism 7. (Not) in the Name of Gender Equality: Migrant Women, Empowerment, Employment, and Minority Women’s Organizations 8. ‘Home is where the cat is’: The Here-There of Queer (un)belonging 9. The Poetics of Climate Change and Politics of Pain: Sámi Social Media Activist Critique of the Swedish State 10. Varieties of Exceptionalism: A Conversation

Elisabeth L. Engebretsen is a Professor in the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (2014). Mia Liinason is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund, Sweden. She is the author of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Turkey and Scandinavia. Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance (with Selin Cagatay and Olga Sasunkevich, 2022) and Equality Struggles: Women’s Movements, Neoliberal Markets and State Political Agendas in Scandinavia (2018).

• 1. Introduction: Transforming Identities in Contemporary Nordic Europe 2. ‘Welcome to the Most Privileged, Most Xenophobic Country in the World!’ Affective Figurations of Whiteness in the Making of a Danish Citizen 3. Exploring Challenges and Potentialities for Antiracist Education in the Nordic Countries: Cases from Finland and Denmark 4. Autobiographical Flesh: Understanding Western Notions of Humanity through Una Marson (1905-1965) 5. ‘It’s Our Bodies, We are the Experts!’: Countering Pathologisation, Gate-keeping and Danish Exceptionalism through Collective Trans Knowledges, Coalition-building and Insistence 6. Gayness between Nation Builders and Money Makers: From Ideology to New Essentialism 7. (Not) in the Name of Gender Equality: Migrant Women, Empowerment, Employment, and Minority Women’s Organizations 8. ‘Home is where the cat is’: The Here-There of Queer (un)belonging 9. The Poetics of Climate Change and Politics of Pain: Sámi Social Media Activist Critique of the Swedish State 10. Varieties of Exceptionalism: A Conversation