Ghetto–Society–Problem: A Discourse Analysis of Nationalist Othering

Simonsen, Kristina Bakkær

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“…However, processes of othering also imply selfing (Baumann and Gringrich, 2004). Discourses on the migrant other involve a national self as discourses on the other serve as a spatialised antagonistic identity necessary for the construction of an idea about a homogeneous nation (Simonsen, 2016). In the construction of an "us", a normative preference for sameness outlines difference as the undesirable opposite to sameness (Gullestad, 1989;Essed and Goldberg, 2002).…”

Section: Research Field and Methodological And Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The discourses on ghettoization and segregation reflect discourses about national identity, as these discourses serves as negations that allow national identity to appear as a fixed and full identity (Simonsen, 2016). Through exploring policies as cultural texts, we see how the diverging problematisations reveal different social imaginaries.…”

Section: Governing Urban Diversity In Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden

Jensen

Söderberg

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore problematisations of urban diversity in urban and integration policies in Denmark and Sweden; the paper aims to show how such policies express social imaginaries about the self and the other underlying assumptions of sameness that legitimise diverging ways of managing urban diversity and (re)organising the city.Design/methodology/approachInspired by anthropology of policy and post-structural approaches to policy analysis, the authors approach urban and integration policies as cultural texts that are central to the organisation of cities and societies. With a comparative approach, the authors explore how visions of diversity take shape and develop over time in Swedish and Danish policies on urban development and integration.FindingsSwedish policy constructs productiveness as crucial to the imagined national sameness, whereas Danish policy constructs cultural sameness as fundamental to the national self-image. By constructing the figure of “the unproductive”/“the non-Western” as the other, diverging from an imagined sameness, policies for organising the city through removing and “improving” urban diverse others are legitimised.Originality/valueThe authors add to previous research by focussing on the construction of the self as crucial in processes of othering and by highlighting how both nationalistic and colour-blind policy discourses construct myths of national sameness, which legitimise the governing of urban diversity. The authors highlight and de-naturalise assumptions and categorisations by showing how problem representations differ over time and between two neighbouring countries.

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Section: Research Field and Methodological And Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Governing Urban Diversity In Swedenmentioning

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Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden

Jensen

Söderberg

2021

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“…Denna bild kan emeller-tid ifrågasättas. I Danmark och Sverige har det exempelvis skett en utveckling som resulterat i omfattande polisinsatser riktade mot specifika stads-och bostadsområden (Vainik & Kassman 2018;Balvig, Holmberg & Soei 2017;Bakkaer Simonsen 2016;Foster & Spencer 2011). Studier har pekat på att följden blir att även mindre förseelser oftare polisanmälas när polisen gör områdesfokuserade insatser med avsikt att störa kriminaliteten i grannskapet (Geller & Fagan 2019;Balvig, Holmberg & Soei 2017;Ramey 2015).…”

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“…I Sverige och andra europeiska länder har våld och social oro bland ungdomar som växer upp i socialt utsatta områden framhållits som en allt viktigare samhällsfråga (Balvig m.fl. 2017;Bakkaer Simonsen 2016;Foster & Spencer 2011). Detta har bidragit till att allt större krav ställs på polis, socialtjänst och skola att hantera frågor om risker, säkerhet och trygghet (Geller & Fagan 2019;Vainik & Kassman 2018;Holmberg 2016).…”

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Mellan kontroll och ansvarsgörande

Lunneblad¹

2022

SVT

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Ungdomar som växer upp i områden med hög arbetslöshet och låga skolresultat har i allt större utsträckning kommit att framställas, inte endast som att de befinner sig i en situation som är en risk för dem själva, utan även som att de utgör en potentiell risk för samhället. Det övergripande syftet i artikeln är att undersöka hur professionella som arbetar inom skola, socialtjänst och polis talar om risker för unga som växer upp i områden som av polisen definieras som utsatta områden. Denna fråga rymmer både intresset för hur ungdomar blir subjekt i de professionellas tal, men också ett intresse för hur problem och risker definieras genom de insatser som riktas mot ungdomar. Det empiriska materialet för studien utgörs av fjorton kvalitativa intervjuer med professionella som arbetar inom polis, socialtjänst och skola. Utgångspunkten för studien är en högstadieskola som är lokaliserad i en stadsdel som av polisen klassificerats som särskilt utsatt. Resultatet visar att ett genomgående dilemma i de professionellas berättelser är spänningen mellan kontroll och ansvarsgörande. De ungas riskbeteende framstår som en komplex och mångbottnad problematik. Analysen visar att ungdomarna genom de insatser som genomförs riskerar att själva ansvarsgöras för sina svårigheter och att när frågan om skuld och straff ställs så blir också polisära åtgärder ett alternativ till sociala insatser och samverkan med vårdnadshavare.

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“…Denmark has singular notoriety among Nordic countries in terms of policy toward minority-ethnic neighborhoods due to its creation of a "ghetto list" in 2010 (see Oliveira e Costa & Tunström, 2020: 56-57), labeling and targeting areas of social housing with high levels of socio-economic deprivation as "parallel societies" that the Danish state needed to "dissolve." Widely criticized as the codification of ethnic stigmatization (Bakkaer Simonsen, 2016) and an affront to social citizenship (Seeman, forthcoming), scholars also reveal the ineffectiveness of this policy in overcoming patterns and practices of ethnic segregation (Mechlenborg, 2019).…”

Section: Grappling With Diversification and Socio-spatial Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A very Nordic set of concerns?

Centner¹

2021

NJUS

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This article identifies visionary circumspection as a conceptual vector running through Nordic urban research -a diverse enterprise with robust empirical outputs, but relatively little premium placed on the generation of urban theory. To foster new cross-regional conversations that can bolster the theoretical fecundity of Nordic urban studies, the author overviews key themes in the region's urban research portfolio -well-being, diversification and socio-spatial transformations, governance and development models, and sustainable futures -and then delineates sites in other world regions that are grappling with related topics but sometimes with different approaches or conceptualizations. By situating Nordic urban research vis-à-vis these disparate sites and theoretical repertoires, the article aims to leverage Nordic self-regard and open up discussions that could enable more ambitious theoretical engagements between the region's cities and the rest of the world. Keywords conceptual vectors, cross-regional conversations, Nordic models, self-regard, urban theory 1. I should also hasten to add, with humility, that despite my usual insistence on polyglot engagement with the regions where I typically do research, I come to this Nordic project with the significant handicap of being limited to the research literature available in English, which presents its own substantial circumscriptions (see Kong & Qian, 2017; Müller, forthcoming).

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Ghetto–Society–Problem: A Discourse Analysis of Nationalist Othering

Cited by 36 publications

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Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden

Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden

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