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Farmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White Mobilities in the Reality Romance Show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runt Cover

Farmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White Mobilities in the Reality Romance Show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runt

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Open Access
|Dec 2021

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

From left to right: Farmers Andreas and Michel, the host Linda Lindorff, and farmer Leif.

Figure 2

Twitter commentators criticizing the lack of racial diversity in the 2020 season of the Australian Farmer Wants a Wife (Source: Buzzfeed).

Figure 3

Leif, the avocado farmer, based in Spain.

Figure 4

Romantic views through the tourist gaze.

Figure 5

Romantic walks through the tourist gaze.

Figure 6

Arts and crafts as part of the agrotourism experience.

Figure 7

Farmer Andreas who moved to Australia because he was tired of Sweden’s cold weather.

Figure 8

Imagery that accentuates the ‘Terra Nullius’ discourse.

Figure 9

Australia Day and the (unproblematic) celebration of a white nation.

Figure 10

Michel, the Mozambique-based farmer.

Figure 11

The arrival of the four women in Mozambique is accompanied by the exclamation “here we have the paradise”.

Figure 12

Local workers are called in to fix what the visitors break.

Figure 13

Michel is often depicted as a central figure of the local community.

Figure 14

Fundraising imagery while Michel shows ongoing projects aimed at ‘helping’ the locals.53

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.270 | Journal eISSN: 2213-0969
Language: English
Page range: 64 - 82
Published on: Dec 1, 2021
Published by: Sound & Vision
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2021 Georgia Aitaki, Nina Carlsson, published by Sound & Vision
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