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- Opratko, Benjamin, et al.
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Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ethnic and Racial Studies. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0141-9870 .- 1466-4356. ; 44:5, s. 893-905
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers a collectively developed analysis of the Covid-19 crisis as it relates to contemporary cultures of rejection, i.e. the socio-cultural conditions in which authoritarian and right-wing populist politics thrive, in Europe. We explore how the pandemic and its management reinforces, transforms and/or overrides existing antagonisms and institutes new ones in Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Sweden. We discuss how the Covid-19 crisis affects the rise of new statisms; gendered patterns of social reproduction; mobility and migration; digital infrastructures; and new political mobilizations.
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- Ortega Soto, Celina
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Digital discourse, media, and demonstrations in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Cultures of rejection in the covid crisis. - : CuRe Research Team. ; , s. 107-120
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, I approach online and offline expressions of uncertainty, mistrust, dissent, skepticism, and critique through the scope of conspiracy thinking that has emerged in discourses related to the COVID-19 pandemic1. Some of the several important questions that run across the different critical debates and political contexts during the pandemic concern issues of objectivity, knowledge, information, and, broadly speaking, truth. Inspired by this research and questions, this article will seek to analyze the explicit and implicit conditions of their discursive articulation in political mobilizations surrounding the pandemic. More specifically, I explore changes in digital discourse surrounding COVID-19;?I investigate connections between online practices and offline political organization; finally, I study the relation of the people engaged in public protests to the depiction of the protests and the pandemic more generally in mainstream media, with particular focus on the first and second organized anti-COVID-19 measure demonstrations in Stockholm in the spring of 2021. The article will be using the concept of Cultures of Rejection, which looks at the social and cultural relations and articulations in which rejection of otherness takes form, how scapegoats are created, and antagonisms against perceived enemies are nourished2. The concept of Cultures of Rejection can thus guide analyses of everyday practices in relation to processes of rejection, objectification, and affect, and study such practices in relation to the material conditions that lay the ground for such expressions. For this paper I ask the questions: How do people make sense of COVID-19 in Facebook groups in relation to Cultures of Rejection? What role does the media play in the understanding of COVID-19? I seek to answer these questions in the context of Sweden. I will do so by discussing Swedish rejection discourses targeting COVID-19 measures in online spaces on Facebook, together with anti-COVID-19-measure movements, and the media’s depiction of the movement3
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- Soto, Celina Ortega, 1994-
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Swedish ‘cultures of rejection’ and decreasing trust in authority during the COVID pandemic
- 2022
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Ingår i: Patterns of Prejudice. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0031-322X .- 1461-7331. ; 56:4-5, s. 237-257
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While many countries were locking down due to the spread of COVID-19, Sweden remained open with few restrictions, as authorities relied predominantly on a civil sense of responsibility and collective compliance with government recommendations. Drawing on interviews conducted with workers in retail and logistics in 2020–21, ethnographic work in digital environments as well as in public spaces and demonstrations, this article analyses discourses of everyday life and discourses of rejection, exploring how rejections were shaped in reaction to how the government and the Public Health Agency of Sweden handled the pandemic. Ortega Soto's article uses the concept of cultures of rejection—emphasizing a complex compound of values, norms and affects that reject different phenomena in different contexts—to analyse how working and living conditions, political opinions, social views and media habits informed workers' disagreements with and reactions to the official handling of the pandemic, as well as how this may have led to a growing loss of trust in government. Ortega Soto further investigates how the expression of cultures of rejection differs across generations by looking closely into the ways that nostalgia and a sense of loss enhance such responses among various social groups. The article contributes to a wider understanding of the political shifts and cultural changes that were manifested in the context of the pandemic in Sweden.
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Voices of Norrköping
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Voices of Norrköping is a collection of collaborative projects on the topics of migration, diversity, and belonging. These projects, informed by the stories and standpoints of a variety of people, were created by master’s students of the Ethnic and Migration Studies programme at REMESO, Linköping University.While Norrköping is unique in many ways, it also serves as an example of how a city and its community can be transformed by immigration. The articles, essays and art projects presented in this compendium take Norrköping and its inhabitants as a starting point for the discussion of issues which have a broader societal resonance.This publication, the second in a series, would not have been possible without the input and support of those whose voices are featured. Throughout our master’s programme, we have explored the idea that each person’s experience is informed by their position at the intersection of different privileges and oppressions. By understanding that each individual has a unique worldview, we can appreciate that their stories may differ substantially. As a class, we hope that presenting a broad range of views will illustrate that there is no single narrative when it comes to the themes discussed.By listening to these voices, we can begin to understand, and by understanding, we can become more critical of how these themes are presented and dealt with. While some voices are still yet to be heard, we hope that future installments of this series will continue to encourage listening and understanding.Ethnic and Migration Studies (EMS)Class of 2019
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