Department of Sociology / Sociologiska institutionen (-2011)https://hdl.handle.net/2077/92024-03-28T14:10:56Z2024-03-28T14:10:56ZSvenska för invandrare – brygga eller gräns?Carlson, Mariehttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/401912016-04-08T07:06:27Z2002-01-01T00:00:00ZSvenska för invandrare – brygga eller gräns?
Carlson, Marie
This thesis is intended to increase the understanding of the encounter between a group of “im-migrants with low education” and the Swedish educational system in the form of SFI, Swedish Language Courses for Immigrants. The study uses a social-constructivist interpretative frame-work and discourse analysis in order to elucidate how “knowledge” and learning are orga-nized, handled and articulated within SFI, but also participants’ description of how they are influenced by SFI. The analysis of different actors’ perspectives and ideas focuses upon lan-guage and its usage as an important symbolic medium of power. In addition to a number of key persons within SFI and surrounding institutions, twelve female participants, nine teachers and three school principals at two adult education centres were interviewed. Documents about and for the school, including some of the most important textbooks, were also used in the study.
Analytical elaboration proceeds from the social macrolevel via an institutional mesolevel to the microlevel of participants and their everyday context. The analysis shows that SFI rests upon a “Swedish model of society” anchored in a top-down perspective on welfare and strong educational optimism. SFI educators’ and other employees’ speech, as well as texts in SFI documents, research and debate, presupposes “the Swedish” as the norm, even if not always consciously. They jointly sustain numerous “deficiency discourses” and the study shows that SFI participants are often subjected to corrective efforts and a partially fostering attitude. In addition, when SFI participants are hence positioned as “the others”, a preoccupation with “the Swedish” occurs, which can be understood as an ongoing construction and cultivation of the social majority’s own ethnicity.
On the institutional level, the analysis also reveals complex relationships between SFI and other institutions. SFI teachers, for example, criticize employment office clerks for their inter-pretation and use of the SFI certificate of approval as a sorting instrument for immigrants who apply for work. Similarly, the social service’s attendance checks and intervention in the peda-gogical assignment are questioned. At the same time, these three institutions collaborate in (re)producing “deficiency discourses” and an ambition of improvement directed towards the immigrants. For SFI, the analysis exposes a paradox: discursive exclusion and limited possi-bilities of influence in the instruction on behalf of the participants, despite organizing concepts such as “own responsibility”, “communication”, “critical reflection” and “participation” in the control documents.
On the participants’ level, SFI gives rise to benefits and joy as well as shortcomings and frustrations. SFI studies yield greater opportunities for taking part in more social arenas, give better self-confidence and increase “everyday power”. The shortcomings are for example re-lated to “Swedish” ideas, not least the norm of gender equality and sometimes to feelings of being wrongly attributed traits such as “passive”, “traditional” and “backward”. Dominant per-ceptions of Swedish society, partly conveyed through SFI, seem to force the women into re-flexive resistance, but also to strengthen their role of being a “bridge” to a new life in Sweden.
2002-01-01T00:00:00ZPappadeltid. En väg till högre tidsmässig välfärd och ökad jämställdhet?Larsson, Jörgenhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/289822013-04-23T14:03:31Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZPappadeltid. En väg till högre tidsmässig välfärd och ökad jämställdhet?
Larsson, Jörgen
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZSpace for Urban Alternatives? CHRISTIANIA 1971-2011Amouroux, Christa SimoneBøggild, Signe SophieLund Hansen, AndersHellström Reimer, MariaJarvis, HelenKarpantschof, RenéNilson, TomasStarecheski, AmyThörn, HåkanWasshede, Cathrinhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/265582013-04-23T14:02:43Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZSpace for Urban Alternatives? CHRISTIANIA 1971-2011
Amouroux, Christa Simone; Bøggild, Signe Sophie; Lund Hansen, Anders; Hellström Reimer, Maria; Jarvis, Helen; Karpantschof, René; Nilson, Tomas; Starecheski, Amy; Thörn, Håkan; Wasshede, Cathrin
Thörn, Håkan; Wasshede, Cathrin; Nilson, Tomas
In 1971, a group of young people broke into a closed down military area in Copenhagen. It was located not more than a mile from the Royal Danish Palace and the Danish parliament. Soon, the media published images and reports from the proclamation of the Freetown Christiania, and people travelled from all over Europe to be part of the foundation of a new community.
A 'Christiania Act' passed by a broad parliamentary majority in 1989 legalised the squat and made it possible to grant Christiania the rigth to collective use of the area. However, this was reversed under the Liberal-Conservative government in 2004 when the parliament decided on changes in the 1989 Christiania law. The Freetown has refused to give up its claims on the property so it remains highly contested.
Around 900 people live in Christiania today. It is governed through a decentralised democratic structure, whose autonomy is strongly contingent on the Freetown's external relations with the Danish government, the Copenhagen Municipality, the Copenhagen Police and to the organised crime in connection with the cannabis trade.
This book brings together ten researchers from various disciplines; Sociology, Anthropology, History, Geography, Art, Urban planning, Landscape architecture and Political science to bring thier own reflections on the unique community that is Christiania. In the introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview of the research that has been done on the settlement from the early 1970s to the 2000s.
ERRATA -incorrect reference on page 351. The correct version; Tietjen, A, Riesto, S & Skov, P (eds) 2007, Forankring i forandring: Christiania og bevaring som ressource i byomdannelse, Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Aarhus.; CHAPTERS:
Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede and Tomas Nilson
Introduction: From ‘Social Experiment’ to ‘Urban Alternative’ — 40 Years of Research on the Freetown (p. 7-37);
René Karpantschof
Bargaining and Barricades — the Political Struggle over the Freetown Christiania 1971–2011 (p. 38-67);
Håkan Thörn
Governing Freedom — Debating Christiania in the Danish Parliament (p. 68-97);
Signe Sophie Bøggild
Happy Ever After? The Welfare City in between the Freetown and the New Town (p. 98-131);
Maria Hellström Reimer
The Hansen Family and the Micro-Physics of the Everyday (p. 132-155);
Helen Jarvis
Alternative Visions of Home and Family Life in Christiania: Lessons for the Mainstream (p. 156-180);
Cathrin Wasshede
Bøssehuset — Queer Perspectives in Christiania (p. 181-204);
Tomas Nilson
‘Weeds and Deeds’ — Images and Counter Images of Christiania and Drugs (p. 205-234);
Christa Simone Amouroux
Normalisation within Christiania (p. 235-262);
Amy Starecheski
Consensus and Strategy: Narratives of Naysaying and Yeasaying in Christiania’s Struggles over Legalisation (p. 263-287);
Anders Lund Hansen
Christiania and the Right to the City (p. 288-308)
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZNära inpå: Maskulinitet, intimitet och gemenskap i brandmäns arbetslagEricson, Mathiashttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/253882013-04-23T14:03:23Z2011-05-19T00:00:00ZNära inpå: Maskulinitet, intimitet och gemenskap i brandmäns arbetslag
Ericson, Mathias
This study explores the profession of firefighter, in which the progression of gender equality has been particularly slow compared to many other professions in Sweden. The aim of the study is to explore constructions of masculinity in the firefighter profession and how they are related to specific forms of community among men in this profession. The starting point of the thesis is that one of the central mechanisms of gender segregation is male homosociality, which is men’s search for community with other men. Based on field notes and recorded interviews the study explores how affectionate and intimate relations between men are supported and upheld in this occupation.
The analysis is presented in three parts that explore different aspects of firefighters’ life in the work teams. The first section explores that firefighters’ put value on spatial and temporal settings that demanded that they lived family life at work. They thought that if women were included in the work teams it would become more difficult to share that kind of intimacy. The second section focuses on the joking manner and jargon among firefighters. Being able to respond to brutal jokes and raw jargon confirmed their sense of being close, which was not thought to be able to uphold if women were included in the work teams. The third section focuses on how firefighters relate to the fact that their work is associated with notions of masculinity. It is argued that their ability to both support and criticise their profession’s association with masculine stereotypes enforced these men’s commitment to each other in the teams.
The main contribution of the thesis to a deeper understanding of how men’s hegemony is maintained within this profession is exploring how the notion of homosociality and intimacy between men relates to the concept of masculinity. The thesis concludes that the concept of homosociality makes it possible to highlight other forms of inclusion and exclusion mechanisms than does the concept of hegemonic masculinity. The concept of masculinity emphasises the conflicts and hierarchies between men. The concept of homosociality however emphasises belonging and loyalty among men. It can be used to explore how gender is constructed, through the expectation that homosocial relationships would make possible an exclusive intimacy. That homosociality is valued as a guarantee for exclusive intimacy seems especially important in this profession, where this exclusive intimacy provides men with a sense of belonging and confirmation of having what it takes to be a real firefighter.
2011-05-19T00:00:00Z