This introduction to the special issue departs from elaborating on the issues explored in a project examining right-wing politics and “debates” about racism in Finland. It situates the research gathered in the collection in terms of a shared focus on the disparate networks of organised and opportunistic cultural producers that invest time and labour in the production of racialising and othering discourse and aesthetics, and on the modes and forms of cultural and media production that have, in a relatively short space of time, come to be distributed and adapted across divergent socio-political contexts, and integrated to the situated forms of racism and nationalism given exclusionary force across and within them. It underlines the need to understand the motivated circulation of racializing discourse in the wider context of forms of “postracialism,” and the need for research to move past the paradigm of “hate speech” to get to grips with the significance and impacts of intensively circulated racist “noise.”

对特殊问题的介绍不同于详细阐述在一个项目中探讨的问题，该项目研究了右翼政治和芬兰关于种族主义的“辩论”。它以收集的研究为基础，共同关注有组织和机会主义的文化生产者的不同网络，这些网络在种族化和其他话语和美学的生产中投入时间和劳动，并关注文化和媒体的模式和形式在相对较短的时间范围内的生产活动，将在不同的社会政治环境中进行分配和调整，并在种族隔离和民族主义被排斥的情况下融入到种族主义和民族主义的形式之中。它强调需要在更广泛的“后种族主义，