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- Esholdt, Henriette frees
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Når humor, leg og lyst er på spil : Social interaktion på en multietnisk arbejdsplads
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How can we understand the multi-ethnic workplace as a social meeting place? And what happens if we do not 'frame' in advance the social meeting in the widespread anti-racist frame of understanding? These are the questions that are central to this thesis. Starting from a phenomenological methodology, it is the ambition of the thesis to challenge our usual preconceptions and not pre-define how inter-ethnic relations are to be understood, which is why the thesis - expressed in Goffman's terms - asks: ”What is it that’s going on here?” (Goffman 1974), as a way of finding which framework of understanding should be applied. Based on the part of the lifeworld that unfolds in a multi-ethnic workplace, the thesis examines the social interaction in inter-ethnic collegial relationships as it spontaneously arises and develops in the inter-ethnic collegial relationships in everyday working life. The thesis is based on fieldwork (consisting of participant observation and interviews) at the Food Factory ("Madfabrikken"), a multi-ethnic workplace in the hospitality sector in Denmark. With an auto-ethnographic point of departure, the researcher brings herself into play in the relationships under study, and makes herself an object of observation, reflection and study. In addition to the life at the Food Factory, the thesis is also concerned with the research process, and experiments with different methods of grasping and conveying the life lived in the Food Factory in all its complexity and ambiguity. The thesis explores empirical observations of social interactions, where humour, play and pleasure are on the line. As much as the interplay in the collegial relationships at the Food Factory can be pleasurable and fun, it does, however, bring the risk of danger. It is this duality that is illuminated in this thesis. In the first instance, the humour, play and pleasure are continually on line in the collegial interaction and this contributes to a range of humour-based and sexualized forms of social interaction, where "ethnicity" is defused and enjoyed as an aesthetic and sexualised surface. Secondly, it is true in the sense that humour, play and pleasure risk being on the line or jeopardized, if the rules for the interaction are not mastered or respected. What was previously 'framed' as being pleasurable, sexualized play and teasing at work, or what was set in a humorous frame, is suddenly in danger of being replaced or overtaken by a new 'framing' of the situation as sexual harassment or racism. The thesis does not end up with definitive answers as to how social interaction in a multi-ethnic workplace should be understood and how we can understand it as a social meeting place, but contributes with the knowledge that social interaction in inter-ethnic collegial relationships is vulnerable, ambiguous, fragile, undecidable, manipulable and redefinable. With an object-sensitive eye, the thesis contributes to other, more nuanced narratives about the social meeting of the inter-ethnic relationships - namely the narratives about the life lived and its forms.
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- Esholdt, Henriette Frees
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Virgins, Terrorists, and Ten Children : Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace
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Ingår i: Symbolic Interaction. - : Wiley. - 0195-6086 .- 1533-8665. ; 42:4, s. 691-716
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on fieldwork in a multi-ethnic workplace (an industrial kitchen in Denmark), this article explores immigrants' self-directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships with Danes as it spontaneously develops and plays out in everyday work settings. Approaching ethnic humor from a symbolic interactionist perspective rather than adopting the dominant conflict approach, this article emphasizes the bonding functions of ethnic humor. The article argues that immigrants' engagement in playful behavior with ethnic stereotypes in interactions with Danes is a form of “impression management” in which they defuse ethnic stereotypes and dissociate themselves from them by building joking relationships in the workplace with Danes. A video abstract is available at https://tinyurl.com/esholdt.
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- Frees Esholdt, Henriette
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Har de skandinaviske ISIS-kvinder indtaget operative militære roller i Kalifatet?
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Ingår i: Tidsskrift for islamforskning. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 1901-9580. ; 16:1, s. 84-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Denne artikel bidrager til de aktuelle diskussioner af, hvorvidt skandinaviske ISIS-kvinder har indtaget aktive roller i Kalifatet, ved at levere et overblik over den eksisterende forskning specifikt omhandlende kvinders operative militære roller hos ISIS. Således fokuserer artiklen på diskussionerne omkring, hvorvidt ISIS-kvinderne har deltaget i væbnet jihad som kvindelige krigere på slagmarken eller som selvmordsbombere. Desuden ses der nærmere på, hvad kvinderne har foretaget sig i det kvindelige moralpoliti Al-Khansaa, som er kendt for at være ekstremt brutale i deres håndhævelse af sharia, ligesom der har været diskussioner af, hvorvidt dannelsen af Al-Khansaa skal ses som et skridt mod, at kvinder kunne opnå en mere aktiv militant rolle hos ISIS. Artiklen konkluderer på baggrund af den eksisterende forskning, at det er stærkt tvivlsomt, at de skandinaviske ISIS-kvinder har været krigere i slagmarken eller selvmordsbombere. Derimod er det sandsynligt, at skandinaviske ISIS-kvinder har været en del af Al-Khansaa, hvor de har modtaget militær- og efterretningstræning.
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