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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
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Alterity in Modernity
- 1995
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In: Acta Sociologica. - : Sage Publications. - 0001-6993 .- 1502-3869. ; 38:4, s. 311-322
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Departing from the notion of 'the stranger' in classical sociological literature (Alfred Schutz and Georg Simmel), the paper discusses the significance of two paradigmatic approaches, one of which has discursively branched off into modernity. In a world where the search for roots has become widespread - from the new social movements to the building of new nation-state, from identity politics to national identities - the multiple expression of exclusion has spread. A new kind of European citizen, a 'stranger', is being constructed. I argue that scientific discourses related to the intellectual heritage of Alfred Schutz have helped to create the 'stranger' and the 'non-stranger'. It is further argued that Simmel's approach is an alternative well worth highlighting.
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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
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Book, bread and monument; continuity and change through ethnic memory and beyond
- 1997
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In: Innovation : the European Journal of Social Sciences. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1012-8050 .- 1351-1610 .- 1469-8412. ; 10:2, s. 145-160
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper examines the meaning of ethnic memory as it finds expression in the life stories and identity formation of three young Swedish women of immigrant background. Their identity is formed within afield of tension between what is and what has been. Using the examples of diffèrent metaphors attached to the symbolic space of tradition, they seek to link time and space and thus fragments of migrants’ splintered life. In relating the past to the present and its antagonisms to those of the present, all three girls demonstrate an ability to re‐interpret and to translate tradition into present experience. This, the author maintains, can be understood as a creative capacity out of which a new kind qf self‐orientation is born, and a new sense of home and belonging, come into being. In this way ‘modern ethnic consciousness ‘ takes form as a reflexive linkages across space and time. A new order is created out of the disorder of dissolved continuity.
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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
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Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Culture
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In: European Societies. - : Routledge. - 1461-6696 .- 1469-8307. ; 1:1, s. 105-116
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses the complex meaning of ethnicity and identity in the multicultural society of today with reference to Swedish society. Sweden, a pronouncedly multiethnic society, is today undergoing division along ethnic lines. Social inequalities tend to be understood in terms of cultural difference. This development seems to be characteristic of most European countries. Culture is usually connected with ethnicity and race and understood as pure, as an ‘essence’, as related to some original and eternal ethnic core. In this way important aspects of cultural dynamic in multicultural society are left unobserved. What is usually not recognized are cultural crossings and the emergence of composite identities. Within the framework of multicultural society new cultures, identities and ethnicities are created. Departing from some general features of the dominant discourse on ethnicity, its historical roots and its relations to culture and multicutturalism, I discuss problems of cultural essentialism.
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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
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Feminism and Multiculturalism : Recognition of Difference and Beyond
- 1997
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In: Sosiologisk Tidsskrift. - Oslo : Scandinavian University Press. - 0804-0486 .- 1504-2928. ; :2, s. 127-143
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Women who have immigrated, as well as teh questions of ethnicity and multiculturalism have been invisible in mainstream feminist research in Sweden. In the context of the international feminist debate, however, these issues are gaining high priority. For some time now the importance of pursuing politics of recognition of cultural differences hu been on the agenda. But now the debate is turning towards a critical examination of inherent traps. The article examines the problematic of cultural essentialism - a discursive terrain shared by Feminism and Multiculturalism. Multicultural policies and politics of recognition risk reducing social inequalities to cultural differences and thereby promoting the social exclusion of ethnic minorities. If “recognition” is of an oppositional “other”, and if it fails to acknowledge that identities are hybrid and composite, it risks lapsing into cultural essentialism. In order to counter culturalism. feminists need, it is maintained, to develop a conception of social citizenship which links citizenship to issues of social rights as well as the exigenc’es of a transethnic dialogue and politics of solidarity.
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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-
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Feminism och "de andra" : erkännandets politik, dess potential och fällor
- 1997
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In: Kvinneforskning. - : Norges forskningsråd. - 0806-6256. ; :1, s. 5-11
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sedan begynnelsen av 1990-talet har frågan om erkännandet av kulturella olikheter, samt deras politiska och teoretiska konsekvenser, blivit framträdande i den internationella feministiska forskningen. Nödvändigheten av erkännandet av en mångfald av (sociala, kulturella, sexuella och individuella) erfarenheter och identiteter har med tiden blivit etablerat i den internationella debatten. Men erkännandet av kulturell mångfald kom~ inte minst i Skandinavien ~ att bemötas med motsträvighet, såsom representerande ett splittrande hot mot feminismens politiska enhet och teoretiska kärna. Jag vill i det följande ta upp frågan om erkännandets politik, dess potential och fällor.
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