Concurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories

Fur, Gunlög

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“…Used in research on colonial asymmetries, indigenous people or, as in this case, migration, the concept of concurrences opens up for a respect for pluralism and entanglements rather than singling out dominant perspectives and separate claims and jurisdictions. Fur (2017) notes, "It is not a multiplicity of histories per se that interests me, but the way in which they become entangled, ensnared by their competing jurisdictions" (p. 51). A challenge for researchers is to acknowledge and handle such a plurality of knowledge regimes and how they are concurrent but also given disparate authority and power to dominate and silence each other (Fur, 2017, p. 42).…”

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A Worthy Reception? Ambivalences in Social Work With Refugees and Migrants in Sweden

Gustafsson

Johansson

2018

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The purpose of this article is to analyze how reception practices and the meaning of a “worthy” reception of refugees and migrants are negotiated in encounters between various receiving actors in times of shifting Swedish migration policies. The analysis is grounded in ethnographic methodology and draws on data collected in 2016. The aim of the study was to document experiences of the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe and Scandinavia from a bottom-up perspective among professionals and volunteers narrated during reference group meetings. The reference groups consisted of representatives from state and municipal agencies, the private sector, and civil society organizations. The actors represented in the mixed reference groups were diverse, but all were involved in reception activities. In the analysis we have combined political philosophy about willingness versus ability to receive refugees and migrants with postcolonial theoretical perspectives on concurrent claims and voices. We identified three themes that are central in the negotiation of the practice and meaning of a “worthy reception”: first, the overlooked existential needs of refugees and migrants; second, the lack of gender- and diversity-sensitive reception practices; and third, ambivalences in relation to various refugees groups in times of shifting migration policies. We recommend that in order to promote a worthy reception of refugees and migrants, existential needs must be taken care of and gender- and diversity-sensitive practices must be developed. Another recommendation is to recognize how migration policy limits a society’s ability to receive refugees and migrants, but also affects the willingness among those actors who receive.

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A Worthy Reception? Ambivalences in Social Work With Refugees and Migrants in Sweden

Gustafsson

Johansson

2018

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Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur

Hennessey

2023

History and Speculative Fiction

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This introductory chapter makes the case that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction are both arguably “literatures of cognitive estrangement.” Both can help expose invisible problematic aspects of their authors’ and readers’ societies and suggest possible solutions or futures. Summarizing relevant existing literature and theoretical perspectives, the chapter suggests the usefulness of the postcolonial concept of concurrences for both modes and different possible ways to define the two. It also investigates the relationship that history and speculative fiction have to colonial ideology and ecocriticism, as well as presenting the structure of the book.

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Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene

Höglund

2023

History and Speculative Fiction

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Ursula Le Guin’s prescient 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven envisions a multitude of utopian or dystopian futures made real by dreams its protagonist is made to have by a manipulating psychologist. The chapter analyzes these layered futures with the help of Gunlög Fur’s concept concurrences (2017) and Kyle Whyte’s observation that Western speculative writing frequently leaves humanity in dystopian and postapocalyptic futures “that erase Indigenous peoples’ perspectives” (2017, 225). The chapter argues that LeGuin’s vision resists the simplistic and single dystopian vision common in normative climate narratives while at the same time centering the ongoing history of colonialism. The ending of the novel thus envisions a radically multifaceted, concurrent, and imperfect future lived in a world made up as much of hope as of ruins.

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Concurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories

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A Worthy Reception? Ambivalences in Social Work With Refugees and Migrants in Sweden

A Worthy Reception? Ambivalences in Social Work With Refugees and Migrants in Sweden

Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur

Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene

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