In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book’s question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that ‘generalised domestication’ is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment. This is a way of being in the world that seeks to capture, tame, domesticate and control people and non-humans. It seeks to render others docile and to extract value from them. In so doing it leads to the creation of ‘homely spaces’. Following Hage, this article asks: Is adoption an environmental threat? We reflect on the role of international adoption in fantasies of Swedishness using Hage’s concept of domestication to explore the desire for ‘transracial’ bodies of adoptees in white national space. We argue that the adoptee body plays an important role in domesticating the Swedish nation. It is used to represent national myths of goodness, anti-racism and international solidarity; effectively bringing national projects into the home. This is linked to a broader desire for domestication that encompasses colonialism, slavery and species and environmental domination. While our focus is on Sweden – which has the highest per capita adoption rates in the world – we hope that our scholarship can inform adoption issues elsewhere, as well as contribute to sociological debates around extraction and domination in postcolonial contexts more broadly.

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收养会对环境造成威胁吗？瑞典收养叙事中的驯化幻想

2017 年，Ghassan Hage 出版了《种族主义是环境威胁吗？》书中的问题具有误导性。因为哈格并不试图表明前者导致后者，相反，他阐明了两者共同的统治逻辑。哈格指出，“普遍驯化”是最清晰的视角，通过它可以看到种族主义的繁殖和复兴以及对环境的暴力。这是一种寻求捕获、驯服、驯化和控制人和非人类的世界存在方式。它试图让他人变得温顺并从他们身上获取价值。这样做可以创造出“温馨的空间”。继哈格之后，本文提出了这样的问题：收养会对环境造成威胁吗？我们利用哈格的驯化概念来反思国际收养在瑞典性幻想中的作用，以探索白人国家空间中被收养者对“跨种族”身体的渴望。我们认为，被收养者团体在瑞典民族的驯化过程中发挥着重要作用。它被用来代表善良、反种族主义和国际团结的民族神话；切实把国家工程走进千家万户。这与更广泛的驯化愿望有关，包括殖民主义、奴隶制、物种和环境统治。虽然我们的重点是瑞典——它是世界上人均收养率最高的国家——但我们希望我们的学术成果能够为其他地方的收养问题提供信息，并为更广泛的后殖民背景下关于榨取和统治的社会学辩论做出贡献。