Aleksandra Ålund
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 126703 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aleksandra Ålund |
| PRENOMES | Aleksandra |
| SOBRENOME | Ålund |
| ASSINATURA | ÅLUND A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5046-8638 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 188 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Neo-Apartheid Sweden
The paper discusses empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives on structurally and spatially ingrained racial capitalism, dispossession, and precarisation in what is identified as 'neo-apartheid' Sweden. Theoretically, the argument rests on a critical re-engagement of the notions of 'racial capitalism' and 'neo-apartheid' in contemporary critical research, inspired, historically, by rich research on racial capitalism in South Africa under ap…
Metrópolis del neoapartheid
Sweden, at the dawn of the third millennium still hailed as an «exceptional» welfare state professing a utopia of inclusionary multiculturalism, social justice, and an open democracy, has in its third decade come to embody an ill international repute of a society falling prey to the hegemony of an extreme right racist political hegemony. A profligate commodification of the welfare system during the past three decades, a take-over of public housin…
Un contramovimiento del precariado
This chapter discusses trends in global migration on the background of processes of commodification and recommodification and the rise of a neoliberal «regulatory state». It explores perspectives for a contemporary countermovement of, for, or with a global «migrant precariat». Through a review of current research advances relating to the ideopolitical processes leading up to the confirmation of the Global Compact for Migration, and the subsequent…
Reinventing the People's House
The paper focuses on an anti-austerity and anti-racist urban movement, emerging from the multiethnic precariat in Sweden's most disadvantaged metropolitan areas. It has catalysed the reinvention of a common space with roots in the labour movement of the late 19th century, The People' House, a meme for contemporary community centres, loaded with hopes of contesting racial stigma and structurally conditioned precarity of citizenship and labour. Scr…
Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration
This article discusses dilemmas of global civic activism from a neo-Gramscian perspective as both subordinated and a potential challenge to hegemonic neoliberal order. With the investigational focus on the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA) event, the space for civic activism relating to the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and its associated Civil Society Days and Common Spac…
Re-imagineering the Common in Precarious Times
The paper explores movements for social transformation in precarious times of austerity, dispossessed commons and narrow nationalism; movements counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand, and a neoconservative xenophobic populism on the other. Applying ‘rainbow coalition’ as generic concept it points at contours of a globally extended countermovement for social transformation, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven by reimag…
"Race" and the upsurge of antagonistic popular movements in Sweden
Across a crisis-stricken Europe battles rage for post-neoliberal hegemony, with"race" and "austerity" as central signifiers. One of the places where thefrontlines are most pregnant is Sweden; long perceived as a role model for itswelfare state, cultural equity and social equality. Sweden is, however, facingsocial conflicts following in the tracks of a deep transformation in terms ofwelfare cuts, racialization and growing social polarization, targ…
Reimagineering the Nation
This chapter explores the capacity of two Swedish trade union initiatives, SAC Syndicalists and LO-TCO centre, to extend solidarity to undocumented migrant workers The author asks what solidarity linkages have been established since the shift of millennia and what obstacles encountered in forging solidarity between workers with strong versus weak legal status He illuminates the emergence of a transformative form of solidarity, which may open for …
Politics of Belonging
Intersectionality is commonly used as an analytical tool to bring to light how various social divisions merge to produce a cohesive set of subordination practices, but not as often how the concept can be used in the study of agency. Discussing politics of belonging through cases of urban justice movement in Sweden, the article focuses on intersectionality as a perspective interlinking different dimensions of power with agency; thus the aim is to …
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Reading the Stockholm riots - a moment for social justice
This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, …
Framing the mobilization of migrants in Sweden
The paper examines agency for social inclusion among Swedish Associations Founded on Ethnic Ground (AFEGs). It focuses on the access of AFEGs to ‘public voice’ (Solomos 2003) and the opportunity structures for cooperation between AFEGs, public institutions, and other organized interests in the area of social integration in Sweden. Focusing on discursive opportunities, availability of supporters, and public legitimization, we can conclude from thr…
Asymmetric Partnership
The study examines civil society agency for social inclusion among Associations Founded on Ethnic Grounds (AFEGs), focusing on their engagement for combating discrimination and enhancing migrant incorporation into the Swedish labour market. The overall rationale of the study investigates the complex institutional conditionality of AFEGs for developing their agency as social movement and civil society actors. The main aim of this study has been to…
I skuggan av kulturella stereotypier
In the shadow of ethno-cultural stereotypes: gender, equity and ethnic relations in SwedenScientific debates about cultural differences between ”Swedes” and migrants/ethnic minorities in Sweden have fuelled stereotypical categorizations and a socio-cultural demarcation between ”us” and ”them”. The authors argue that this development has underpinned constructions of foreignness. In the light of a critical review of the current debate on honour rel…
The end of Swedish exceptionalism? Citizenship, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion
Sweden, where some 20 per cent of the population is either foreign born or second generation, has long been known internationally as the model of a tolerant, egalitarian, multicultural welfare state, which extended substantial citizenship, welfare and labour rights to all within its borders, including immigrants. However, under the twin pressures of neoliberalism and the EU's commitment to 'managed migration', this Swedish exceptionalism has been…
Villkorat partnerskap
Artikeln belyser samverkan mellan sammanslutningar bildade på etnisk grund och folkbildningens studieförbund i Sverige. Engagemang för social inkludering har fått en ökad betydelse för ”invandrarföreningar”. Samtidigt är dessa föreningar inte sällan utsatta för stigmatisering och försatta i en underordnad position. Med utgångspunkt i fältarbete i det mångetniska Stockholm pekar författarna på hur ”invandrarföreningar” har blivit till institutiona…
Unequal Partnership
The authors discuss cooperation between immigrant associations and public institutions for adult education in Sweden. They emphasize, on the one hand, the growing importance for social inclusion of activism among immigrant associations, and, on the other hand, their stigmatization and subordinate position. Based on empirical case studies from metropolitan Stockholm, the authors argue that these associations have become more or less institutionali…
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Other Migrants in the Wake of Globalization
This article offers a reflection on migration in the era of globalisation, and on its expression in contexts of tourism and self-employment. Ethnic entrepreneurship is increasing in Sweden. The motive forces behind this kind of self-employment are discussed in relation to unemployment and discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Other aspects of entrepreneurship to be discussed are related to the “importation” of Thais as “tourists” to Sweden…
Ethnicity, multiculturalism and the problem of culture
This article discusses the complex meaning of ethnicity and identity in the multicultural society of today with reference to Swedish society. Sweden, a pronouncedly multiethnic society, is today undergoing division along ethnic lines. Social inequalities tend to be understood in terms of cultural difference. This development seems to be characteristic of most European countries. Culture is usually connected with ethnicity and race and understood …
Nina och Tina - föreställinger och erfarenheter bland två unga flickor i Stockholms multietniska värld
Based on her book titled "Multikultiungdom" (Multi Cultural Youth) the author examines processes of integration, ethnic and gender identity formation among young paople of immigrant background in Sweden. Those processes, the author maintains, tend often to be reduced to stereotypical images of cultural differences. Immigrant youth may share similar social conditions characterised by cultural marginalisation and social exclusion. However, their in…
Book, bread and monument. Continuity and change through ethnic memory and beyond
The paper examines the meaning of ethnic memory as it finds expression in the life stories and identity formation of three young Swedish women of immigrant background. Their identity is formed within afield of tension between what is and what has been. Using the examples of diffèrent metaphors attached to the symbolic space of tradition, they seek to link time and space and thus fragments of migrants’ splintered life. In relating the past to the …
Bok, bröd och minnessten - kontinuitet och förändring genom och bortom det etniska minnet
Young people from multi-ethnic communities live in close and constant contact with multi-cultural aspects of everyday life. Diverse eultural elements clash, intersect and mingle och new identities are created. Behind the individual life stories of three young women retold in this artiele there is a common pattern. To a great extent young people with an immigrant background seem to strive towards a recreating and identifying a place of origin and …
Negotiating Identities
This book is about the new possibilities that emerge at the conjunction of the cultural trajectories of the present. Through different journeys in the European, and particularly the Scandinavian and the British present, the authors of this collection of essays discuss the interrelations of culture, race, gender, ethnicity and identity. They elucidate how identies are negotiated and cultures processed. The passages of culture addressed here open f…
Lilla Aktuellts förkrympta världsbild
The treatment of immigrants, crime and violence in the massmedia seems generally to exclude many significant aspects of the crime-related social context, most palpably concerning the conditions under which immigrant youth spend their adolescence. The reality and causal relations which are made manifest in the media concerning crime and youngsters with immigrant backgrounds are based upon presuppositions and simplified assumptions about cultural c…
Alterity in Modernity
Departing from the notion of 'the stranger' in classical sociological literature (Alfred Schutz and Georg Simmel), the paper discusses the significance of two paradigmatic approaches, one of which has discursively branched off into modernity. In a world where the search for roots has become widespread - from the new social movements to the building of new nation-state, from identity politics to national identities - the multiple expression of exc…
The end of Swedish exceptionalism? Citizenship, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion
Sweden, where some 20 per cent of the population is either foreign born or second generation, has long been known internationally as the model of a tolerant, egalitarian, multicultural welfare state, which extended substantial citizenship, welfare and labour rights to all within its borders, including immigrants. However, under the twin pressures of neoliberalism and the EU's commitment to 'managed migration', this Swedish exceptionalism has been…
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Reading the Stockholm riots - a moment for social justice
This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, …
"Race" and the upsurge of antagonistic popular movements in Sweden
Across a crisis-stricken Europe battles rage for post-neoliberal hegemony, with"race" and "austerity" as central signifiers. One of the places where thefrontlines are most pregnant is Sweden; long perceived as a role model for itswelfare state, cultural equity and social equality. Sweden is, however, facingsocial conflicts following in the tracks of a deep transformation in terms ofwelfare cuts, racialization and growing social polarization, targ…
Alterity in Modernity
Departing from the notion of 'the stranger' in classical sociological literature (Alfred Schutz and Georg Simmel), the paper discusses the significance of two paradigmatic approaches, one of which has discursively branched off into modernity. In a world where the search for roots has become widespread - from the new social movements to the building of new nation-state, from identity politics to national identities - the multiple expression of exc…
Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration
This article discusses dilemmas of global civic activism from a neo-Gramscian perspective as both subordinated and a potential challenge to hegemonic neoliberal order. With the investigational focus on the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA) event, the space for civic activism relating to the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and its associated Civil Society Days and Common Spac…
Ethnicity, multiculturalism and the problem of culture
This article discusses the complex meaning of ethnicity and identity in the multicultural society of today with reference to Swedish society. Sweden, a pronouncedly multiethnic society, is today undergoing division along ethnic lines. Social inequalities tend to be understood in terms of cultural difference. This development seems to be characteristic of most European countries. Culture is usually connected with ethnicity and race and understood …
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Other Migrants in the Wake of Globalization
This article offers a reflection on migration in the era of globalisation, and on its expression in contexts of tourism and self-employment. Ethnic entrepreneurship is increasing in Sweden. The motive forces behind this kind of self-employment are discussed in relation to unemployment and discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Other aspects of entrepreneurship to be discussed are related to the “importation” of Thais as “tourists” to Sweden…
Will They Still Be Dancing? Integration and Ethnic Transformation among Yugoslav Immigrants in Scandinavia
Indulged with sociological self-centeredness we have reduced vampires to mechanisms of social cohesion. Hence,we have questioned a culture, seeing vampires as what they are, the dead ones haunting
Reinventing the People's House
The paper focuses on an anti-austerity and anti-racist urban movement, emerging from the multiethnic precariat in Sweden's most disadvantaged metropolitan areas. It has catalysed the reinvention of a common space with roots in the labour movement of the late 19th century, The People' House, a meme for contemporary community centres, loaded with hopes of contesting racial stigma and structurally conditioned precarity of citizenship and labour. Scr…
Re-imagineering the Common in Precarious Times
The paper explores movements for social transformation in precarious times of austerity, dispossessed commons and narrow nationalism; movements counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand, and a neoconservative xenophobic populism on the other. Applying ‘rainbow coalition’ as generic concept it points at contours of a globally extended countermovement for social transformation, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven by reimag…
Politics of Belonging
Intersectionality is commonly used as an analytical tool to bring to light how various social divisions merge to produce a cohesive set of subordination practices, but not as often how the concept can be used in the study of agency. Discussing politics of belonging through cases of urban justice movement in Sweden, the article focuses on intersectionality as a perspective interlinking different dimensions of power with agency; thus the aim is to …
Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Neo-Apartheid Sweden
The paper discusses empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives on structurally and spatially ingrained racial capitalism, dispossession, and precarisation in what is identified as 'neo-apartheid' Sweden. Theoretically, the argument rests on a critical re-engagement of the notions of 'racial capitalism' and 'neo-apartheid' in contemporary critical research, inspired, historically, by rich research on racial capitalism in South Africa under ap…
I skuggan av kulturella stereotypier
In the shadow of ethno-cultural stereotypes: gender, equity and ethnic relations in SwedenScientific debates about cultural differences between ”Swedes” and migrants/ethnic minorities in Sweden have fuelled stereotypical categorizations and a socio-cultural demarcation between ”us” and ”them”. The authors argue that this development has underpinned constructions of foreignness. In the light of a critical review of the current debate on honour rel…
Unequal Partnership
The authors discuss cooperation between immigrant associations and public institutions for adult education in Sweden. They emphasize, on the one hand, the growing importance for social inclusion of activism among immigrant associations, and, on the other hand, their stigmatization and subordinate position. Based on empirical case studies from metropolitan Stockholm, the authors argue that these associations have become more or less institutionali…
Book, bread and monument. Continuity and change through ethnic memory and beyond
The paper examines the meaning of ethnic memory as it finds expression in the life stories and identity formation of three young Swedish women of immigrant background. Their identity is formed within afield of tension between what is and what has been. Using the examples of diffèrent metaphors attached to the symbolic space of tradition, they seek to link time and space and thus fragments of migrants’ splintered life. In relating the past to the …
Ungdom, multietnisk kultur och nya gemenskaper
Det moderna medvetandets kris målas ofta i mörka färger, både iforskningen och i massmedia. Men Aleksandra Ålund menar att man hos ungdomar också kan se konstruktiva svar på krisen i form av identitetsarbete och kultur byggande som uttrycker transkulturell sammansmältning. Detta möjliggör nya kulturella uttryck och politiska alternativ
Will They Still Be Dancing? Integration and Ethnic Transformation among Yugoslav Immigrants in Scandinavia
Indulged with sociological self-centeredness we have reduced vampires to mechanisms of social cohesion. Hence,we have questioned a culture, seeing vampires as what they are, the dead ones haunting
Paradoxes of multiculturalism
Ungdom, multietnisk kultur och nya gemenskaper
Det moderna medvetandets kris målas ofta i mörka färger, både iforskningen och i massmedia. Men Aleksandra Ålund menar att man hos ungdomar också kan se konstruktiva svar på krisen i form av identitetsarbete och kultur byggande som uttrycker transkulturell sammansmältning. Detta möjliggör nya kulturella uttryck och politiska alternativ
Kulturpluralismens paradoxer
Mångkulturalism är i dag en integrerad del i europeiskt politiskt liv. På somliga ställen har ett erkännande av kulturarv och bejakande av vidmakthållna etniska grupperingar utformats till en officiell och legitimerad politisk ideologi. På andra ställen spelar kulturpluralism - ideologiskt och politiskt - en oppositionell roll genom sitt hävdande av invandrares och etniska minoriteters grundläggande rätt till kulturell autonomi. Horace Kallen’s (…
Paradoxes of Multiculturalism
Sweden is reputed to have the most avant-garde welfare and immigration policies in Europe. But behind this image lies a more complex reality. Recent changes are turning an explicit commitment to multiculturalism into a kind of cultural repression that conceals the structure of power underlying racial, ethnic, gender and class inequalities. Drawing fruitfully on comparisons with Britain and other European countries, Alexandra Ålund and Carl-Ulrik …
Negotiating Identities
This book is about the new possibilities that emerge at the conjunction of the cultural trajectories of the present. Through different journeys in the European, and particularly the Scandinavian and the British present, the authors of this collection of essays discuss the interrelations of culture, race, gender, ethnicity and identity. They elucidate how identies are negotiated and cultures processed. The passages of culture addressed here open f…
Lilla Aktuellts förkrympta världsbild
The treatment of immigrants, crime and violence in the massmedia seems generally to exclude many significant aspects of the crime-related social context, most palpably concerning the conditions under which immigrant youth spend their adolescence. The reality and causal relations which are made manifest in the media concerning crime and youngsters with immigrant backgrounds are based upon presuppositions and simplified assumptions about cultural c…
Alterity in Modernity
Departing from the notion of 'the stranger' in classical sociological literature (Alfred Schutz and Georg Simmel), the paper discusses the significance of two paradigmatic approaches, one of which has discursively branched off into modernity. In a world where the search for roots has become widespread - from the new social movements to the building of new nation-state, from identity politics to national identities - the multiple expression of exc…
Bok, bröd och minnessten - kontinuitet och förändring genom och bortom det etniska minnet
Young people from multi-ethnic communities live in close and constant contact with multi-cultural aspects of everyday life. Diverse eultural elements clash, intersect and mingle och new identities are created. Behind the individual life stories of three young women retold in this artiele there is a common pattern. To a great extent young people with an immigrant background seem to strive towards a recreating and identifying a place of origin and …
Book, bread and monument. Continuity and change through ethnic memory and beyond
The paper examines the meaning of ethnic memory as it finds expression in the life stories and identity formation of three young Swedish women of immigrant background. Their identity is formed within afield of tension between what is and what has been. Using the examples of diffèrent metaphors attached to the symbolic space of tradition, they seek to link time and space and thus fragments of migrants’ splintered life. In relating the past to the …
Nina och Tina - föreställinger och erfarenheter bland två unga flickor i Stockholms multietniska värld
Based on her book titled "Multikultiungdom" (Multi Cultural Youth) the author examines processes of integration, ethnic and gender identity formation among young paople of immigrant background in Sweden. Those processes, the author maintains, tend often to be reduced to stereotypical images of cultural differences. Immigrant youth may share similar social conditions characterised by cultural marginalisation and social exclusion. However, their in…
Ethnicity, multiculturalism and the problem of culture
This article discusses the complex meaning of ethnicity and identity in the multicultural society of today with reference to Swedish society. Sweden, a pronouncedly multiethnic society, is today undergoing division along ethnic lines. Social inequalities tend to be understood in terms of cultural difference. This development seems to be characteristic of most European countries. Culture is usually connected with ethnicity and race and understood …
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Other Migrants in the Wake of Globalization
This article offers a reflection on migration in the era of globalisation, and on its expression in contexts of tourism and self-employment. Ethnic entrepreneurship is increasing in Sweden. The motive forces behind this kind of self-employment are discussed in relation to unemployment and discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Other aspects of entrepreneurship to be discussed are related to the “importation” of Thais as “tourists” to Sweden…
Unequal Partnership
The authors discuss cooperation between immigrant associations and public institutions for adult education in Sweden. They emphasize, on the one hand, the growing importance for social inclusion of activism among immigrant associations, and, on the other hand, their stigmatization and subordinate position. Based on empirical case studies from metropolitan Stockholm, the authors argue that these associations have become more or less institutionali…
Villkorat partnerskap
Artikeln belyser samverkan mellan sammanslutningar bildade på etnisk grund och folkbildningens studieförbund i Sverige. Engagemang för social inkludering har fått en ökad betydelse för ”invandrarföreningar”. Samtidigt är dessa föreningar inte sällan utsatta för stigmatisering och försatta i en underordnad position. Med utgångspunkt i fältarbete i det mångetniska Stockholm pekar författarna på hur ”invandrarföreningar” har blivit till institutiona…
Asymmetric Partnership
The study examines civil society agency for social inclusion among Associations Founded on Ethnic Grounds (AFEGs), focusing on their engagement for combating discrimination and enhancing migrant incorporation into the Swedish labour market. The overall rationale of the study investigates the complex institutional conditionality of AFEGs for developing their agency as social movement and civil society actors. The main aim of this study has been to…
I skuggan av kulturella stereotypier
In the shadow of ethno-cultural stereotypes: gender, equity and ethnic relations in SwedenScientific debates about cultural differences between ”Swedes” and migrants/ethnic minorities in Sweden have fuelled stereotypical categorizations and a socio-cultural demarcation between ”us” and ”them”. The authors argue that this development has underpinned constructions of foreignness. In the light of a critical review of the current debate on honour rel…
The end of Swedish exceptionalism? Citizenship, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion
Sweden, where some 20 per cent of the population is either foreign born or second generation, has long been known internationally as the model of a tolerant, egalitarian, multicultural welfare state, which extended substantial citizenship, welfare and labour rights to all within its borders, including immigrants. However, under the twin pressures of neoliberalism and the EU's commitment to 'managed migration', this Swedish exceptionalism has been…
Framing the mobilization of migrants in Sweden
The paper examines agency for social inclusion among Swedish Associations Founded on Ethnic Ground (AFEGs). It focuses on the access of AFEGs to ‘public voice’ (Solomos 2003) and the opportunity structures for cooperation between AFEGs, public institutions, and other organized interests in the area of social integration in Sweden. Focusing on discursive opportunities, availability of supporters, and public legitimization, we can conclude from thr…
Politics of Belonging
Intersectionality is commonly used as an analytical tool to bring to light how various social divisions merge to produce a cohesive set of subordination practices, but not as often how the concept can be used in the study of agency. Discussing politics of belonging through cases of urban justice movement in Sweden, the article focuses on intersectionality as a perspective interlinking different dimensions of power with agency; thus the aim is to …
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Reading the Stockholm riots - a moment for social justice
This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, …
Reimagineering the Nation
This chapter explores the capacity of two Swedish trade union initiatives, SAC Syndicalists and LO-TCO centre, to extend solidarity to undocumented migrant workers The author asks what solidarity linkages have been established since the shift of millennia and what obstacles encountered in forging solidarity between workers with strong versus weak legal status He illuminates the emergence of a transformative form of solidarity, which may open for …
Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration
This article discusses dilemmas of global civic activism from a neo-Gramscian perspective as both subordinated and a potential challenge to hegemonic neoliberal order. With the investigational focus on the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA) event, the space for civic activism relating to the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and its associated Civil Society Days and Common Spac…
Re-imagineering the Common in Precarious Times
The paper explores movements for social transformation in precarious times of austerity, dispossessed commons and narrow nationalism; movements counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand, and a neoconservative xenophobic populism on the other. Applying ‘rainbow coalition’ as generic concept it points at contours of a globally extended countermovement for social transformation, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven by reimag…
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