Jypp, Dompa och Jackson Pollock - Berättelser om plats, förortiska och överklass i ett innerstadsgymnasium

Abstract

Jypp, Dompa and Jackson Pollock: Narratives on place, urban vernaculars, and upper class at a prestigious upper secondary school. Labelling a linguistic style by appointing it to certain groups of speakers and where they live can be a deeply problematic enterprise as both identities, language use and space become fixed and limited. In Sweden the speech style called Rinkeby Swedish (RS) has become an icon of ethnic Otherness, educational failure, and of an aggressive sexist and homophobic masculinity – ascribed to a fixed locality in the outskirts of the big cities. In this paper we have turned our gaze towards a place that have typically not been associated with RS before: a Stockholm elite school. The analysis reveals how a group of students, illustrated by how the participant Wille, perform authenticity and indexically anchor their linguistic practices and epistemics in various linguistic contexts. In a case study, we explore how the participants talk about and use not one but many different linguistic styles. We argue that the participants employ these styles as resources to comment on locality as well as social hierarchies in the school and the society at large.

Precarious Pro-school Positions: Boys and Schooling in a Stigmatized Urban Area

“…Moreover, explaining boys’ underachievement due to ‘laddishness’ or ‘problematic students’ contributes to the individualization of a structural phenomenon (Francis, 1999; Nyström, 2012). To move beyond the risk of an individual methodology and social reduction, an intersectional understanding of how class, gender and place interact is thus essential (see Jonsson, 2014, 2015).…”

“…As Jonsson (2014) notes, the ‘rowdy boy’ category is often taken for granted regarding boys’ underachievement. Furthermore, the ‘rowdy boy’ category often refers to ‘immigrant’ boys from poor areas (Jonsson, 2015). A parallel discussion in the debate on Swedish public school performance about these boys focuses on order and discipline.…”

Klassklättring och matematik-kapital. En fallstudie.

“…Bostadsort och bostadsområde är andra avgörande faktorer: arbetarklassen från landet väljer yrkesförberedande gymnasieprogram i högre grad (Rönnlund m.fl. 2018) och i större städer påverkar vilken stadsdel du bor vilken gymnasiumskola du väljer att gå på (Jonsson & Åhlund 2020). Samtidigt vet vi att en del unga vuxna bryter dessa mönster och gör en så kallad "klassresa" eller "klassklättring" genom att läsa på universitetet (Sohl 2014;Jordahl 2018).…”