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- Lalander, Philip
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Respekt : gatukultur, ny etncitet och droger
- 2009
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Genom ett sjuårigt etnografiskt projekt analyseras och beskrivs framväxten av en glokal gatukultur i ett bostadsområde i Norrköping. I denna hybrida kultur finns en mix av influenser från olika delar av världen, vilket skapar känslor av respektabilitet för unga människor i marginalen. Författaren försöker förstå hur kriminalitet och användande av illegala droger kan förstås i relation till socioekonomiska strukturer och de unga människornas habitus i relation till att leva i en individualiserad och kapitalistisk konsumtionskultur. Genom täta etnografiska beskrivningar bjuds läsaren in i den värld som Lorenzo, David och deras vänner ser som sin.
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- Lalander, Philip
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The Role of Ethnicity in a Local Drug Dealer Network
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1404-3858 .- 1651-2340. ; 9:1, s. 65-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the role of ethnicity in a heroin dealer and consumer network of young men of Chilean descent in Norrköping, Sweden. At the end of the 1990s the young men became involved in the network through contact with a with a large scale dealer who was also of Chilean descent. They worked as street dealers for the top dealer; many of them also began using heroin and eventually developed an addiction. Through over 100 qualitative interviews with 17 of these young men, the article examines identity construction and the competencies they developed on the street that facilitated their eventual work as dealers, as well as the social relations and contacts within the dealer network that played a role in their becoming dealers and users. The findings reveal that due to their perceived experience of being subordinated in society, they became involved in heroin as a means of gaining self respect, dignity and wealth. Departing with a view on ethnicity as something that is constructed rather than fixed and intrinsic, the findings point to how ethnicity, through the young men’s development of and participation in the street culture, merges with aspects of identity including social class and gender, as well as with aspects of ethnicities from other parts of the world. On the whole, the findings suggest that ethnicity as a concept of analysis within drug cultures is less fruitful when separated from other aspects of identity such as social class and gender.
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- Lalander, Philip
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Ungdomskultur, normer och narkotika
- 2008
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Ingår i: Narkotika i Sverige. - : Folkhälsoinstitutet, Östersund.. ; , s. 20-
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Andreasson, Jesper, et al.
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Mellan idrottslig disciplin och gränslöst supande
- 2007
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Ingår i: Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. - 1455-0725 .- 1458-6126. ; 24:5, s. 461-480
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the article is to understand the meaning of subversive situations and collective storytelling in a Swedish male second division handball team. By subversive we mean situations and stories which exceed the limit of what is seen as legitimate outside the secret alliance of the group. The article examines how alcohol functions to transform the scene in which a situation or a collective story becomes subversive.One of the authors spent several years as an active member in the handball team, collecting ethnographical data both from sports settings and related situations involving storytelling, for example, at parties, in dressing rooms, and during team trips to other Nordic countries. In addition interviews were conducted with 17 members of the team. The storytelling and the subversive situations make it possible to create an alternative world, in which the members of the team can overstep different types of rules of conduct and civilized behaviour. This is made possible in part because of the meaning attached to alcohol as a transformer of social reality and also because of the character of the social group as homosocial and secret.
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- Elsrud, Torun, et al.
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Projekt Norrliden : Om småstadspressens etnifiering och genderisering av en förort
- 2007
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 44:2, s. 6-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Norrliden project. Genderisation and ethnification of a low status residential area in the local pressMedia often contributes to segregation by constructing low status residential areas as “different” from what is “normal” and “Swedish”. Research into media representations of these residential areas often focuses big city contexts. Furthermore, research tends to be preoccupied with the construction of ethnic differences, paying little attention to the relationship between construction processes of gender and ethnicity. This article is a critical analysis of how the local daily newspapers in a medium sized town, Kalmar, construct stereotypes of immigrants and gendered identities in the low status residential area Norrliden. Two newspapers were studied in search for articles related to the area, published during the year 2005. Despite the newspapers’ claim that they want to contribute to a more nuanced and less stereotyped image of the residential area the consequences of their work seem to be the opposite. The representation sof the area are coded with stereotypes suggesting that the area is unsafe and dangerous and that the people who live there are motivated by affect and emotions rather than by successful socialisation. These representations are also characterised by notions of ethnicity and gender, as well as class. Norrliden is described as an area in need of change and improvement, as an unfinished project dependent upon aid from the outside. A reading of the 2005 media representations of Norrliden exposes an example of “symbolic violence” in that texts and photographs repeatedly degrade the area and its inhabitants.
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- Elsrud, Torun, et al.
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Projekt Norrliden. : Om småstadspressens etnifiering och genderisering av en förort
- 2007
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. ; :2, s. 6-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media often contribute to segregation by constructing low status residential areas as “different” from what is “normal” and “Swedish”. Research into media representations of these residential areas often focuses big city contexts. Furthermore, research tends to be preoccupied with the construction of ethnic differences, paying little attention to the relationship between construction processes of gender and ethnicity. This article is a critical analysis of how the local daily newspapers in a medium sized town, Kalmar, construct stereotypes of immigrants and gendered identities in the low status residential area Norrliden. Two newspapers were investigated in search for articles related to the area, published during the year 2005. Despite the newspapers’ claim that they want to contribute to a more nuanced and less stereotyped image of the residential area the consequences of their work seem to be the opposite. The representations of the area are coded with stereotypes suggesting that the area is unsafe and dangerous and that the people who live there are motivated by affect and emotions rather than by successful socialisation. These representations are also characterised by notions of ethnicity and gender, as well as class. Norrliden is described as an area in need of change and improvement, as an unfinished project dependent upon aid from the outside. A reading of the 2005 media representations of Norrliden exposes an example of “symbolic violence” in that texts and photographs repeatedly degrade the area and its inhabitants.
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- Kihlström, Jofen, 1970-
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Böjelser & begär : en kritik av medicinens beroendebegrepp
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book is an attempt to formulate a sociological theory of the phenomena which is otherwise known as substance abuse and substance dependency in the medical field.The first step toward such a theory is a critique of how DSM-IV presents diagnostic criteria for substance abuse and substance dependency as if these criteria are valid and reliable ways of measuring mental illness and bodily dysfunction. I point to the fact that these criteria neither are valid or reliable variables for measurement nor theoretically grounded defi nitions of the phenomena. My point is that diagnosis is an elaborate way of disguising moral judgments as medical assessments of illness or dysfunction.The second step towards the formulation of my theory goes via my empirical study of nine men and women who call themselves sex and love addicts. By conducting deep interviews with them I conclude that it is impossible to talk about sex and love addiction without constantly referring to stereotypes and widely held assumptions of alcoholics and drug addicts. Moreover it is apparent that these men and women are making moral judgments about themselves rather than pointing to some form of genuine disruption which they cannot control.From my critique and my empirical study I am able to identify a number of areas that a theory of addiction, as opposed to the medical view where this phenomena are being broken down in two sub categories (abuse and dependency), must be able to handle to explain addiction generally and specifically in relation to alcohol, drugs, sex and other forms of social deviance. A number of philosophical hallmarks of medicine is also identifi ed and seen as part of the problem, therefore I mean that a successful theory of addiction must transcend the mind body dualism of Descartes as it is a cornerstone in the medical view upon and understanding of humans.By reconstructing the habitus and field concepts in Pierre Bourdieus theory of practice I mean that it is possible to understand addiction from an action theory point of view. This discussion is also broadened by a pragmatist discussion of the mind and a neo meadian theory of the emotional self.My conclusion is that addiction can be understood and explained within an action theory which focus upon individual as well as collective action and understand this as habitual practice that is partly embodied and therefore not discursive – habits of which we cannot easily speak is seen as one of the compelling components in addiction rather than a mythical loss of control which is nowhere to be found but as a rhetoric grip stemming from the AA view upon addiction as a disease.
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- Lalander, Philip
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Humanizing the other in ethnographic research. : Deviants “ethnic” minorities are not so deviant after all.
- 2007
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Ingår i: Studying Ethnic Minorities. - : Kopenhagen.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article discusses both Lalander´s own experiences, as well as others', of doing ethnographic studies among people with a different social and ethnical position/background than that of the researcher. The arguments are mainly drawn from a study of young men, commonly classified as second generation immigrants, with a Chilean background living in a low status area in the middle sized Swedish town Norrköping. The researcher aimed at studying how these people with aid of selected images from street culture in Chile, from music styles and films, constructed a masculine street culture involving illicit drug use and criminality. Thus, the article deals with minority issues in a multi-faceted way. The informants represent a minority in the Swedish society because of their immigrant status, but due to their criminal activity they are also a minority in relation to their ethnic group. Between 2002 and now Lalander has developed relationships in this group and thereby also an understanding of processes of identity and culture, such as how they use and construct ethnicity in order to create both personal and social identity. For them being a Chilean referred to positive values about warmness and social openness, while being a Swede referred to negative values such as coldness and hostility towards strangers. As they were participating in criminal activities they were also quite suspicious towards strangers. A Swedish researcher in his late thirties working for the state could have been seen as a representative for the authorities with the task of controlling the informants. But how did those stereotypes work when they met a researcher with a clear membership in the majority group in society? When were issues of ethnicity involved and when were they not, with regard to the relationship between the researcher and the young men? Could it have been an advantage that the researcher was from another ethnic background than their own with regard to access? Lalander argues for a research in which the social interaction under specific circumstances creates social bonds related to feelings of respectability which sometimes exceeds existing stereotypes, both for the persons under study and the researcher. The personal and concrete relationship exceeds the abstract relation between a researcher from the ethnic majority and outsiders from a minority group into something more complex and nuanced.
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