‘We can’t just put any belly-dancer into the program’: cultural activism as boundary work in the city of Bratislava

Rapošová, Ivana

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1440543

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“…Boundaries even change as an unintended consequence and, vice versa, probably do not change even when it is the actors' primary aim. This can be observed particularly clearly where artistic practices are intended to weaken or even shift ethnic boundaries but when, at the same time and unintentionally, new boundaries become salient (Rapošová, 2019).…”

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“…Here, too, it becomes apparent that ethnic boundaries are of less importance in the American literary field than in the Netherlands -and particularly in Germany. A number of other highly relevant insights about the role of boundary work in the field of artistic production can be found in Ivana Rapošová's (2019) research on multicultural festivals. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Bratislava, she studied the festival organisers' work to change existing symbolic boundaries between the ethnic majority and those who are considered as "others": She identifies several different strategies for making symbolic boundaries more permeable but also points out that new boundaries can emerge simultaneously and unintentionally.…”

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Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities (Do not) Affect Ethnic Boundaries

Parzer,

Mijić

2023

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Our article discusses whether and how the musical activities of migrants and their descendants contribute to cultural change. Drawing on Andreas Wimmer’s work, we examine both the benefits and limitations of his ‘boundary-making approach.’ In so doing, we define cultural change as a transformation of ethnic boundaries. Based on the assumption that these boundaries arise from social classification, we shed light on the various processes that shape how musicians and their music are located in the symbolic order of internal identification and external categorisation. Following Wimmer, we suggest distinguishing between three fundamental modes of how social activities in the field of music affect boundaries: (1) Boundary changing, which includes boundary blurring and reinforcing; (2) boundary shifting, meaning the contraction and expansion of an ethnic boundary; and (3) boundary crossing, which occurs when an individual shifts sides and crosses a given boundary by changing their position. By adapting Wimmer’s typology, we aspire to provide a toolkit for analysing ethnic boundaries in the musical field and to contribute to the debate on the challenges of researching migrants’ impact on the social and cultural transformation of contemporary societies.

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Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities (Do not) Affect Ethnic Boundaries

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Mijić

2023

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“…Representatives of both groups draw upon similar concepts of law and morality and emphasize their importance for democracy but their positioning of migrants vis‐á‐vis these boundaries is strikingly different. Exploring civically engaged festivals, Rapošová (2019) studies the attempts of a non‐governmental organization in Slovakia to contest the well‐sedimented boundary of ethnic belonging by enhancing the visibility of migrants living in the country. She finds that although the festival organizers succeed in helping select migrants cross boundaries drawn around ethnic categories, at the same time, they enact a new type of symbolic boundary that divides the migrants according to their cultural competences.…”

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Shifting categories, changing attitudes: A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants

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Considerable research exists that examines attitudes toward migrants. Most studies are quantitative, relying on surveys or survey experiments, but a growing body of literature explores such attitudes from a qualitative perspective. At the same time, the study of symbolic boundaries and how people use cultural repertoires of meanings to draw distinctions between "us" and "them" is increasing. This review looks at research, both quantitative and qualitative, which has put these two streams of work into conversation with one another. We organize this work along three dimensions: (1) the micro-level of individuals and their life-worlds; (2) the meso-level of negotiation among the moral communities of civil society; and (3) the macro-level of institutions and policy. We also highlight those studies that cut across levels. By doing so, we help bridge the quantitative/qualitative divide. Studying attitudes toward migrants through the concept of symbolic boundaries allows us to apply a more sensitive and meaning-centered approach toward attitude formation, contestation and change and to explore the linkages to available cultural repertoires.

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“…Hoci kultúrne festivaly môžu stimulovať politickú participáciu minorít, posilňovať lokálne identity a ponúknuť minoritným komunitám pocit kultúrneho uznania, nesú v sebe aj riziko esencializácie a reifikovania kultúrnych rozdielov (Rapošová, 2018). Podobne Kende, Hadarics a Lášticová (2017) argumentujú, že zdôrazňovanie inherentnej odlišnosti rómskej kultúry môže byť formou vylúčenia Rómov z národnej členskej skupiny.…”

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“…Keďže ľudia sa aktívne podieľajú na konštruovaní svojho sveta, medziskupinové hranice nie sú statické, ale môžu sa redefinovať v závislosti od kontextu (napr. Gaertner, Dovidio, 2000;Nicholson, 2019;Rapošová, 2018). Preto je pri navrhovaní intervencií dôležité citlivo pracovať s už existujúcimi symbolickými hranicami aj s novými kategóriami, ktoré sa môžu vytvárať počas intervencie.…”

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Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Antigypsyism in Slovakia: A Social Psychology Perspective

Hargašová

Lášticová

Poslon

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Slovenský Národopis / Slovak Ethnology

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Despite numerous efforts of Roma inclusion from various State and non-governmental organisations, segregation and socioeconomic marginalisation of the Roma is still widespread in Slovakia. In this paper, we show what social-psychological factors intervene into the process of intergroup relations change and how they can influence the effectiveness of interventions to reduce antigypsyism. We contend that establishing intergroup harmony between majority and minority may, by creating false assumptions about the absence of structural inequalities, weaken the potential for social change and minority collective action. Based on the theoretical analysis as well as the content analysis of anti-discrimination interventions carried out in the year 2018 and the thematic analysis of interviews with selected stakeholders (NGO representatives, intervention participants, sponsors) we identified four challenges that need to be tackled if the interventions are to succeed in reducing antigypsyism. These are: 1) essentializing vs. empowerment of minorities; 2) tension between the colourblind and multiculturalism approaches; 3) problem of intergroup boundaries and their consequences for generalization of positive intergroup attitudes to the whole outgroup; and 4) societal norms defining the nature of intergroup relations. We discuss how these challenges ought to be addressed in succesful anti-discrimination interventions.

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‘We can’t just put any belly-dancer into the program’: cultural activism as boundary work in the city of Bratislava

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities (Do not) Affect Ethnic Boundaries

Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities (Do not) Affect Ethnic Boundaries

Shifting categories, changing attitudes: A boundary work approach in the study of attitudes toward migrants

Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Antigypsyism in Slovakia: A Social Psychology Perspective

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