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- Peterson, Abby, 1949, et al.
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Introduction to the Special Issue “Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Policies and Practices of Exclusion”
- 2014
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Ingår i: Social Inclusion. - 2183-2803. ; 2:3, s. 1-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- On the one hand European countries talk the humanitarian and cosmopolitan politics of inclusion of ethnic minorities with a battery of integration policies, on the other hand these same societies practice the policies and practices of exclusion. In this special issue we address this disjuncture and what we refer to as the European moral dilemma, in much the same way that Gunnar Myrdahl, in his influential study from 1944—The American Dilemma—pointed out that the oppression of Black people living in the US was at odds with the country’s moral grounds, its founding creed that all men are created equal and are endowed “with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence). This special issue does not only include articles from European contexts, however the majority are analyses of European ethnic minority policies and practices. Nonetheless, all of the articles address in different ways how the rhetoric of inclusion is all too often at odds with the practices and policies of exclusion and control. In focus is what we call the policing of ethnicity, that is, the governance of inclusion and exclusion along ethnic lines.
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Legitimacy and the Swedish Security Service's Attempts to Mobilize Muslim Communities
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Ingår i: International journal of criminology and sociology. - 1929-4409. ; 1:1, s. 109-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper addresses how the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) is attempting to mobilize the support of the Muslim communities in their counterterrorism strategy, together with their measures to prevent radicalisation processes among Muslim young people. Under what circumstances can we find voluntary cooperation by Muslim Swedes in the state’s anti-terror policing efforts and under what circumstances can we expect that voluntary cooperation will be withheld? The analysis focuses two intertwined factors which I argue influence voluntary cooperation: the potential unintended consequences of the Security Service’s outreach activities and the link between cooperation, institutional legitimacy and procedural justice. It is argued that both the ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ aspects of the Swedish Security Service’s preventive, respective control and intelligence strategies, interconnect to produce unanticipated and unwanted consequences. The Swedish Security Service’s outreach programme can have the unintended consequence that instead of counteracting radicalization processes, the programme, which targets practicing Muslims as per definition potential terrorists, can very well lead to radicalization among young Muslims with experiences of misrecognition.
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May Day Demonstrations in Five European Countries
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Ingår i: Mobilization: the international quarterly review of social movement research. - 1086-671X. ; 17:3, s. 281-300
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we argue that there is an element of rituality in all political demonstrations. This rituality can be either primarily oriented toward the past and designed to consolidate the configuration of political power—hence official—or oriented towards the future and focused on challenging existing power structures—hence oppositional. We apply this conceptual framework in a comparison of May Day demonstrations in Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in 2010. The demonstrations display significant differences in terms of officiality and oppositionality. Our study provides strong evidence that these differences cannot be explained solely—if at all—by stable elements of the national political opportunity structures. Instead, differences in degrees of oppositionality and officiality among May Day demonstrations should be primarily understood in terms of cultural traditions in combination with volatile factors such as the political orientation of the incumbent government and the level of grievances.
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Police Riots
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Ingår i: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. - Chichester (UK) : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9780470674871 ; , s. 755-758
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- Peterson, Abby, 1949, et al.
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Swedish Trade Unionism – a Renewed Social Movement?
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Ingår i: XVII World Congress of Sociology, Göteborg, 11-17 july 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A Legion of literature has developed referring to a ‘new labour internationalism’ emerging that is a significant break from the influential post-war trend of nation-statist unionism. From the horizon of the Swedish labour movement we interrogate this popular paradigm. On the basis of a questionnaire distributed among marchers during the 2009 May 1st labour demonstrations in Gothenburg we evaluate the potential among grassroots union activists to lend their solidarity to labour struggles beyond Sweden’s borders, as well as their political concern in general for the wider global issues of environmental threats, third world poverty, and human rights. On the basis of interviews with union officials, together with relevant union documents, we investigate union leadership’s position towards trans-border cooperative efforts within the European Union Movement, as well as towards collaboration with other social movement NGO’s on specific issues. The questions we pose focus the Swedish Labour Union’s position towards European labour strategies in the face of the global economic and climate crises and whether these positions can be interpreted as including international solidarity or rather, explicitly or implicitly, elements of chauvinism, paternalism and protectionism. In conclusion we juxtapose our findings from the two studies to investigate differences in support for trans-border union activism.
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Swedish trade unionism: A renewed social movement?
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Ingår i: Economic and industrial democracy. - 0143-831X .- 1461-7099. ; 33:4, s. 621-647
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Claims as to the emergence of a new phase of unionism – social movement unionism – returning to its original ‘counter-cultural roots’, are closely allied with the claims as to a ‘new labour internationalism’ that is a significant break from the influential postwar trend of nation-statist unionism. This article interrogates these two popular paradigms from the perspective of the Swedish labour movement. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with union officials, as well as quantitative analysis of union homepage content and responses to surveys among May Day demonstrators. The general conclusion as regards social movement unionism in Sweden is that the major unions, although increasingly interested in cooperation with social movement organizations, are still far from changing the repertoire of action that has been predominant in the postwar period. International solidarity – among both union officials and grassroots activists – is strongly ambivalent, and attitudes to international support oscillate between charity and self-interest.
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The problem of Loyalty in Greedy institutions
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Ingår i: Psychology of Loyalty. - New York : Nova Science Publishers. - 9781626185722 ; , s. 37-64
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Loyalty is commonly regarded as a virtue, by many social theorists as a lost virtue in an increasingly individualized world. We argue that loyalty is not altogether lost, rather loyalty is institutionally demanded and enforced in certain working life enclaves, amongst others, the police force. In these enclaves, demands for total commitment and exclusive loyalty pose inherent dilemmas that generate problems for both the working environment and the services that the organisation is obligated to deliver. In this chapter we interrogate how ethnicity interfaces with the police culture and organisational structure in a major Swedish police force. We focus on the role that loyalty plays in defining how ethnicity interacts with mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion at the administrative level of the organisation as well as with the structures of rank-and-file police culture. The police authorities, perceived as ‘greedy institutions’, demand and enforce exclusive loyalty. We argue that ethnic minority officers are rigorously tested as regards their loyalty to their fellow officers and to the police organization, and the demands made on their undivided loyalty and the misgivings as to their unstinting loyalty act as barriers to inclusion in the organization. We conclude that loyalty must be moderated if a police force is to work effectively in the best interests of society, or, to put it another way, the greed of greedy institutions must be controlled.
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Trials of loyalty: Ethnic minority police officers as 'outsiders' within a greedy institution
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Ingår i: European Journal of Criminology. - : SAGE Publications. - 1477-3708 .- 1741-2609. ; 9:4, s. 354-369
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we interrogate how ethnicity interfaces with the police culture in a major Swedish police force. While addressing administrative levels, in particular police security officers' screening of new recruits, we focus on the role that loyalty plays in defining how ethnicity interacts with mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in the structures of rank-and-file police culture. The police authorities, perceived as 'greedy institutions', demand and enforce exclusive loyalty. We argue that ethnic minority officers are rigorously tested as regards their loyalty to their fellow officers and to the police organization, and the demands made on their undivided loyalty and the misgivings as to their unstinting loyalty act as barriers to inclusion in the organization.
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Wounds That Never Heal: On Anselm Kiefer and the Moral Innocence of the West German Student Movements and the West German New Left
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Ingår i: Cultural Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 1749-9755 .- 1749-9763. ; 6:3, s. 367-385
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The West German student movements, the student generation of Anselm Kiefer, were a part of the West German awakening as to their collective guilt for the atrocities committed in the Second World War - the Germans-as-perpetrators debate. They entered this debate with a proclamation of innocence, which Anselm Kiefer did not share. In this article I use the empirical lens of biography and the artistic performances of moral self-incrimination in order to understand the collective moral dilemmas posited by the West German students' proclamation of innocence, their position to maintain a moral high ground in their struggle. Kiefer provoked the German Left by recovering the horror of the Holocaust that the Germans in the post-war period (the 1968 students included) mostly wanted just to go away. Movement artist scholars not only challenge the wider society with their truth-claims, they challenge the movement itself, extending the cognitive boundaries for what can be acknowledged at a given moment in the movement's history.
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