Limits to Globalization: Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development
at least plausible that other forces could be (more) responsible. For example, Schall focuses very little on the broader rise of neoliberal ideologies outside of Sweden, and I wonder if the availability of such ideologies, along with economic developments that are invoked in the service of such ideologies, might have more to do with political developments in Sweden than Schall's account would suggest. Any study involving recent immigration in the western European context is at risk of being quickly outdated. Schall's book ends just before the escalation of the European migrant crisis, in which Sweden has been one of the major refugee destinations. In the context of this development, Schall's hesitant conclusion about the increasing importance of immigration and ethnicity in Swedish politics should probably be replaced by a more definitive one. The popularity of the far right Sweden Democrats that Schall chronicles through 2014 has become even more startling in the last couple of years, according to polling data. If anything, however, this development just underlines the importance of Schall's final conclusion that if Sweden's social democracy is to survive, it must 'speak back' to both neoliberalism and welfare chauvinism (p. 200) This is likely to be a difficult battle in the current political climate, in Sweden and elsewhere.