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- Hellström, Anders, et al.
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Nostalgia and Hope : Narrative Master Frames Across Contemporary Europe
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 2364-4087 .- 2364-4095. - 9783030416942 - 9783030416935 ; , s. 1-16
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War, a certain sense of optimism swept across Europe. Some 25 years later, everything seems radically different. With the considerable inroads made into mainstream politics by right-wing populist parties across the continent, there is no shortage of gloom and worry. Nevertheless, despite numerous examples of retrogressive forms of mobilization, there are also many cases of progressive mobilization. To capture this dynamic complexity, we posit politics as a site of struggle that constitutes an arena for the conflicting demands of the two master frames of nostalgia and hope. Following this logic of a polarized political terrain, the volume is divided into three parts that address both right-wing populist politics across Europe (Part I) and politics beyond party politics through either retrogressive mobilization (Part II) or emancipatory initiatives (Part III).
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- Bak Jørgensen, Martin, et al.
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Transversal Solidarities and the City : An Introduction to the Special Issue
- 2021
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Ingår i: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 47:6, s. 845-855
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The special issue contributes to the exploration of transversal solidarities counterpoised to anexhausted neoliberalism on the one hand and a xenophobic populism on the other. It trackscontours of a multifarious countermovement, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven byreimaginings of the common and the renewal of democracy. The emphasis is on the understandingof contending urban justice movements, welcoming communities and their liaisons in a multiscale(local, national, transnational) perspective. A collection of theoretically informed papers discussescases from urban contexts of Europe and the United States, all riveted by schisms of class, ‘race’/ethnicity and gender, occupied by the ‘migration’ issue and challenged by contending movementsfor social cum environmental sustainability. Exploring examples of social movements and formsof mobilisation in different contexts, the overarching aim is to retrieve options for transversalsolidarities transcending identities while focusing on commonalities.
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- Cinpoeş, Radu, et al.
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Nostalgic Nationalism, Welfare Chauvinism, and Migration Anxieties in Central and Eastern Europe
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 2364-4095 .- 2364-4087. - 9783030416935 - 9783030416942 ; , s. 51-65
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution examines, in the Central and Eastern European context, the interplay between ideals of national specificity, welfare chauvinist appeals, and emerging politics of migration, for the purpose of providing welfare provision to a narrowly defined ethnic group, as promoted by right-wing populist parties in the region. We suggest a comparative framework to account the various positions that such parties occupy in the mainstream political systems in Central and Eastern Europe. Our study deals with the case of a right-wing populist party becoming the main governing force, such as the Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) in Poland; the case of a right-wing populist party as key opposition force, such as the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom, Jobbik) in Hungary; and thirdly, the case of an unsuccessful right-wing populist party, such as the United Romania Party (Partidul România Unită, PRU). For our qualitative analysis we are drawing on the official discourses of these parties as articulated from 2015 onwards, since it marks the beginning of what has come to be referred to as the European refugee crisis. The aim of this chapter is to map out the various electoral strategies employed, with varying degrees of success, which juxtapose cultural protectionist appeals to welfare chauvinist proposals, and consequently shed light on the culture and welfare nexus in the Central and Eastern European context.
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Contending Global Apartheid : Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of unequal development, exclusionary citizenship, and forced migrations. The volume offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. Each intervention proceeds from the idea that cities may accommodate both a humanistic sensibility and a radical potential for social transformation. The figure of the 'migrant' is pivotal. It expounds the prospect of transversal solidarity to capture a plurality of commonalities and to abjure dichotomies between in-group and out-group, the national and the international, or society and institutions.
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- Lundemark, Mai, 1982-
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Constructing Workers of Migrant Background : A study of class and nation myths in trade union practice
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How do trade unions represent workers of migrant background? How are factors that affect the quality of life of workers of migrant background, made sense of and responded to by trade unions trying to reverse declining trade union membership numbers? This thesis takes a qualitative approach and utilises discursive constructions as a semiotic entry point into the social practices of trade unions and their responses to workers of migrant background. Combining semiotic theory of Roland Barthes and Stuart Hall with critical discourse theory of Norman Fairclough, trade union work is conceptualised as a social practice that comprises both semiotic and non-semiotic elements. The study focuses on the discursive work of two unions in Copenhagen, Denmark that represent the bike mechanic and the cleaning trade, respectively. The selection of unions allows for an exploration of similarities and differences within the national setting. The analysis is based on individual and group interviews with 28 union officials and active members, supported and complemented by notes (387 pages) from 56 participant observations (147 observation hours) that were conducted in the two unions over several years. The analysis shows how workers of migrant background are constructed through discourses of class and nation. Analysing the interrelationship between semiotic and non-semiotic elements of union events and practices, a four-cell typology is developed that characterise union responses as either internalisation, externalisation, ignorance or misrepresentation. The type of response is defined according to whether the unions signify their constructions of migrant differences as relevant or irrelevant to union work, and whether they address these differences with uniform or differentiated union action. It is argued that the ways in which constructions of national, ethnic and racial differences are responded to through signification and action are crucial to whether unions work to reinforce or ameliorate social inequalities. Finally, the typology is suggested as a tool to nuance the discussion about the inclusive and/or exclusive character of trade union responses to workers of migrant background.
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- Norocel, Ov Cristian, et al.
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Allt kommer inte att gå åt helvete
- 2020
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Ingår i: Hufvudstadsbladet, Helsinki. - 0356-0724.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in and outside conventional forms of doing politics. It expands on polarized societal processes and external events relevant for the transformation of European welfare systems and the reproduction of national identities today. It evidences the importance of gender in the narrative use of the master frames of nostalgia and hope, either as an ideological tool for right-wing populist and extreme right retrogressive mobilization or as an essential element of progressive intersectional politics of hope. It uses both comparative and single case studies to address different perspectives, and by means of various methodological approaches, the manner in which the master frames of nostalgia and hope are articulated in the politics of culture, welfare, and migration. The book is organized around three thematic sections whereby the first section deals with right-wing populist party politics across Europe, the second section deals with an articulation of politics beyond party politics by means of retrogressive mobilization, and the third and last section deals with emancipatory initiatives beyond party politics as well.
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Politics of precarity : migrant conditions, struggles and experiences
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences, edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, the contributing authors look into precarity. Precarity has become a buzzword in as well academia as among activist. The book depicts precarity as being both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance. The volume asks questions that investigate conditions and resistance across diverse cases such as first generation urbanites in China, migrant pensioners and unemployed youth in Sweden and Spain, refugees in Germany, irregular and regular migrants in Southern Europe, Turkey, Russia the United States and South Africa.Readership - Politics of Precarity is of interest for students and scholars within migration studies, sociology, social anthropology and political economy as well as people interested in the effects of neoliberalism.Table of contents1. From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming Migrant of Labour. An IntroductionCarl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen2. A Geneology of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities in and out of the WorkplaceMaribel Casas-Cortés3. The Precariat strikes back – precarity struggles in practiceMartin Bak Jørgensen4. The Precariat: A View from the SouthRonaldo Munck5. Turkey’s new precariat: Differentiated vulnerability and new alliancesNazli Senses6. Multiplex migration and axes of precarization: Swedish retirement migrants to Spain and their service providersAnna Gavanas and Ines Calzada7. Employment in crisis: Cyprus and the extension of precarityGregoris Ioannou8. Regulating Illegal Work in China: Immigration Law and Precarious Migrant StatusMimi Zou9. Running into nowhere: Educational migration in Beijing and the conundrum of social and existential mobilitySusanne Bregnbæk10. Necropolitics and the Migrant as a Political Subject of Disgust: The Precarious Everyday of Russia’s Labour MigrantsJohn Round and Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko11. Mobile commons and/in precarious spaces: Mapping migrant struggles and social resistanceNicos Trimikliniotis, Dimitris Parsanoglou & Vassilis Tsianos12. The Working Class and the city as Political Platform in New YorkPeter Schultz Jørgensen13. Under the Rainbow: Precarity and People Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa Carl-Ulrik Schierup
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- Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, 1948-, et al.
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An Introduction to the Special Issue. Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences
- 2016
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Ingår i: Critical Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0896-9205 .- 1569-1632. ; 42:7-8, s. 947-958
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current special issue examines the range and strength of analysing contemporary transformations and struggles through the lens of ‘precarity’. Rather than defining a single precariat, the interest is in exploring ‘varieties of precarity’. These take different forms in different parts of the world, on different scales and in different socio-economic contexts, and yet they share certain characteristics in terms of conditions and capacity for agency. Contributions to this volume testify that precarity may be a political proposition as much as a sociological category that offers an analytical description of current transformations. The selection of articles has the ‘politics of precarity’ as a frame of reference. It describes the political economy of neoliberal globalization producing institutionally embedded precarization of labour, livelihoods and citizenship, but also resistance against the systemic structuration within which it is embedded.
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