Lotta Fernstål og Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius. Romska liv och platser: Berättelser om att leva och överleva i 1900-talets Sverige

Denne boka er resultatet av et årelangt prosjekt, med oppstart i 2013, som har inkludert mange menneskers arbeid og flere institusjoner. Vi er nok flere som har hørt om prosjektet i ulike sammenhenger, og gledet oss til å lese mer. Det har endt i en monografi der seks tematisk atskilte, kronologisk ordna kapitler forteller historien til svenske romer i Stockholmsområdet basert på de aktuelle menneskene sine egne opplysninger, og i stor grad med deres egne ord. Boka bygger på et variert empirisk materiale: kart, fotografier, offentlige arkiv og nyhetsreportasjer, men framfor alt på livshistoriske intervjuer med svenske rom. Boka danner et mangefasettert bilde av livsvilkår for en utsatt minoritet i og omkring 1900-tallets Stockholm og vil være interessant for mange. Den skildrer menneskerettskamp så vel som lokalhistorie, hverdagsliv og familiehistorie på en levende og opplysende måte. Selv om forfatterne er forskere og har et forskerperspektiv på materialet sitt, lar de ikke teori og metode stå i veien for den levende fortellingen

Kunnskapsdeling i Statped i Midt-Norge : om barrierer og muligheter for deling av kunnskap

Funn og oppsummering: Vår tydeligste anbefaling til Statped Midt-Norge er at ledergruppen må prioritere fokus på fenomenet kunnskapsdeling gjennom refleksjon og utvikling av kunnskap. I tillegg er det helt avgjørende at det etableres en kultur i organisasjonen som våger å se og bryte barrierene. Samtidig må vi bli flinkere til å reflektere rundt begrepet «tid» og hvordan vi skal utnytte de eksisterende rommene til deling og refleksjon rundt kunnskapsutvikling. Sist, men ikke minst, må vi være bevisste på å utvikle gode relasjoner på tvers av avdelingsskiller og grupperinger både på individ og gruppenivå. Den viktigste utfordringen, vil etter vår mening være å implementere disse tankene i alle deler i organisasjonen

FOOD2GATHER: What is migrants’ food all about in Europe? A media discourse analysis through the lens of controversies

This report is part of the HERANET funded project FOOD2GATHER. The project aims at understanding the question of integration/exclusion of migrants through foodscapes. An important step in this direction is to analyse the contextual framework within which food-related practices, norms and values are embedded in European societies. Food controversies that have raised and have been reported in the media since the “2015 migrants’ crisis” across Europe can reveal important aspects related to such norms and values and indicate possible tensions and compromises. This report presents and discusses relevant food controversies that occurred in the six countries participating in the study (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands). This will generate a contextual overview of the integration/exclusion of migrants through foodscapes. Controversy has been used as a tool and a scanner. Each of the six FOOD2GATHER teams provided two relevant controversies that have reached media attention in the last ten years. One of the two had to be related to halal food. The analysis of the controversies has been conducted by identifying issues they tackled, agents they involved, (public) spaces and situations in which controversies took place and what they produced. A comparative analysis of relevant variables related to migrations, such as the geopolitical position of the countries, organization of reception and food provision, has been conducted as well. The six countries included in the study have different traditions related to migration and have been exposed to the “migrants’ crisis” in different ways. These differences are reflected in the proposed controversies. However, some common traits tend to emerge and reveal power relationships within societies that are different or shared by the countries involved in the project. We show that these power relationships particularly deal with the right to food, citizens’ commitment, identity, the place of religion, animal welfare and political issues. Our study indicates that analysing controversies adds an important dimension to the study of foodscapes. Food controversies that reach the media attention are seldom something migrants have brought up themselves. The migrants’ representation in the media based on food controversies indicated that migrants are given little opportunity to negotiating values and practices, as norms about “the right” quantity and quality of food tend to reproduce the food model of the country they migrate to, also when there is a “positive” focus on ethnic business. To better understand these dynamics, we propose the concept of “food encounters” and illustrate how the type of food encounters can play a role in how foodscapes could evolve or even emerge.Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), OsloMe

Disclosing the Interviewer: Ethnopoetics and the Researcher's Place in Transcribed Interviews

The transcription of oral interviews into textual data is a complex process. Translating spoken language with all its extralinguistic features into some sort of written text presentation – through transcribing it – is time-consuming and fraught with ethical, methodological and theoretical issues. This article’s argument is two-fold: first, it calls for more transparency from researchers in explaining what happens on the way from interview to published text. There are many ways to transcribe, and they fit different purposes. We should be clear as to why we choose different methods. Second, it argues that our disciplines as well as our readers would benefit from us allowing more space to the researcher in transcribed interviews

Partysvensker; GO HARD! En narratologisk studie av unge svenske arbeidsmigranters nærvær i Oslo

For første gang på nesten hundre år har svensker blitt en stor migrantgruppe i nabolandet. De er i dag Norges nest største innvandringsgruppe, noe som på mange måter har blitt opplevd som noe nytt. Det opplevd nye forsterkes av at svært mange av de svenske migrantene er unge, og ofte går inn i ufaglært arbeid og serviceyrker. Deres tydelige nærvær, særlig i hovedstaden, har gitt anledning til å se nærmere på forestillinger om både nordiskhet og migrasjon. Dette prosjektet har undersøkt unge svenske migranter i Oslos selvforståelse og fortellinger om sin migrasjon, og sine liv i Norge – gjennom livsløpsintervjuer og et dybdestudium av en Facebookgruppe. Dessuten hvordan norsker forholder seg til de unge migrantene, lest gjennom breddemedier og populærkulturelle uttrykk. Utgangspunktet for analysen er historiske norsksvenske relasjoner og hvordan de lever videre i samtidas kategoriseringer av blant annet nordiskhet og hvithet, humor som forhandlingsarena, transnasjonalitet på og ut over nettet og dessuten ungdomstid som fenomen. Samlet dannes det et bilde av en migrantgruppe som er populære, og som regnes som lik den norske befolkningen for øvrig, men som samtidig utsettes for andregjøringsprosesser som har mye til felles med det mer utsatte minoriteter lever med. Prosjektet konkluderer med at relasjonene mellom den norske majoritetsbefolkningen og deres «nye» minoritetsgruppe i øyeblikket er i flyt. Verken den norske allmenheten eller de unge svenskene selv har falt helt ned på hvordan gruppa samlet skal eller bør kategoriseres. I mellomtiden håndteres kontaktflater og konfliktpunkter i stor grad gjennom likhet og latter: en forestilling om en grunnleggende likhet mellom de to folkene, og gjennom utstrakt bruk av (aggressiv og/eller vennligsinnet) humor

Speaking Swedish while Black in Norway

Swedes are almost unambiguously considered White in Norway and, therefore, labeled as non-strangers and non-marked. One of the most striking aspects of studying young Swedish labor migrants to the Norwegian capital is their positioning vis-à-vis the (White) majority and other (Black) minorities; they are immigrants categorized as “not quite” or “not real” immigrants. However, this position is contested in different ways, among other things, by othering processes taking place through the microaggressions of “What are you?” encounters, when linguistic differences are noted. This article argues that Swedes are an invisible, but audible, minority in Norway, categorized as outsiders not through phenotypical difference but through linguistic otherness. This labeling through language takes on extra dimensions when the individual migrants in question do not fit phenotypically with the stereotypical understanding of Swedes as the epitome of Northern European Whiteness. Many Swedes arriving in Norway as migrants are neither blond nor blue-eyed; they may be adopted, be of mixed race, or have Middle Eastern, Asian, or African family backgrounds. This article discusses aspects of the negotiations that take place in the intersection of phenotype and linguistic labeling when Swedes are Black migrants in Norway

Pålogga lokalsamfunn

At the centre of attention in local history - as an academic field and as a passion - is the local community. But what is a local community? As a concept, it rests somewhere between the 'ethnic group' of anthropologists and cultural historians, and the 'neighbourhood' of social geographers. We often understand it as a geographically bounded area, within which residents have more political, administrative, and social contact with each other than they have with others. This article argues that life online needs to be taken into account when writing local history, discusses local communities online, and whether local communities may be born digitally

Social generations in popular culture

Karl Mannheim’s concept of social generations has become incredibly influential and has been applied in ever-new ways for almost a century. With what seems to be renewed interest in it post-2000, there is reason to take a closer look at what the concept has been used for. Social generations today seem to be in vogue in the popular imagination, often as a means of creating in-groups and out-groups. This chapter discusses how the concept of social generations seems to have transitioned from being a focus of academic interest to being part of popular culture. Importantly, it has also moved back into academia, with popular terms being used in scholarly work. The uses and abuses of Mannheim’s ideas about social generations are a reminder of the creative life academic terms take on outside academia