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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
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Social subordination, cultural resistance, transethnic identities
- 2003
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Ingår i: The Multicultural Challenge, Comparative Social Research. - Amsterdam : JAI. - 0762310642 - 9780762310647 ; , s. -285
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- These papers are derived from an international seminar that took place in 2001 in Rosendal, Norway. The Institute for Social Research in Oslo was interested in investigating the general power relations in a given society. Most of the papers reveal a distinct unease over the term multi-cultural
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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
(författare)
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Ethnicity, Social Subordination and Cultural Resistance
- 2003
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Ingår i: Multicultural Challenge. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9780762310647 - 9781849502436 ; , s. 245-261
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article discusses some general features of the dominant discourses of ethnicity and culture, their historical roots and relations to contemporary forms of multiculturalism. It compares different expressions of cultural belonging in European societies taking Sweden as an example. Departing from the complex meaning of culture the problems of essentialism inherent in concepts of culture and ethnicity are discussed. Sweden, as well as other European multiethnic societies, is undergoing a division along ethnic lines. Social inequalities tend to be understood in terms of cultural difference. Culture is usually connected with ethnicity and race and understood as pure, as an ᅵessence,ᅵ as related to some original and eternal ethnic core. In this way important aspects of cultural dynamics in the multiethnic society, not least among young people, are left unobserved. What are usually not recognized are cultural crossings and the emergence of composite identities and their relations to social structure.
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