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Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you asked. #thread #coloniality #decolonization? #language #Finland/
Let’s start with the innocent-Finland discourse. Finland has participated in and benefited from the colonial enterprise in many ways, which other scholars have said more eloquently than me (eg Keskinen et al., 2009).../
yet the notion of Finland being “different”/“innocent” (aka Finnish exceptionalism, eg Rastas, 2012) is persistent. A starting point: raster.fi/2020/03/03/rac… /
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