Mike Classon Frangos
@mfrangos.bsky.social
Associate professor, English literature, based in Växjö and Stockholm, comics, speculative fiction, the Arctic, utopia/dystopia
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This racialised timeline cast the Sámi as premodern and even endangered - narratives that helped justify intensifying resource extraction and colonial settler claims in Sápmi. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The “Savage” Within: The Sámi People and the Archaeology of Whiteness | Isis: Vol 116, No 4
Abstract In this article, I will examine how the Swedish zoologist and archaeologist Sven Nilsson (1787–1883) constructed what I refer to here as the archaeology of whiteness. Whiteness denotes here a...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This racialised timeline cast the Sámi as premodern and even endangered - narratives that helped justify intensifying resource extraction and colonial settler claims in Sápmi. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)
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enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.