3 The Public Sphere in the Nordic Model

Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon; Rogstad, Jon

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“…For example, the Norwegian welfare state subsidises voluntary organisations as sites for social integration and expansion of the civil sphere. This subsidy comes with pro-civil supervision, but respects the ‘arm’s length principle’ of non-intervention (Engelstad and Larsen, 2019). As a locus of the civil, the welfare state entrenches its universalistic conceptions of solidarity in associational life and, in turn, relies on returning inputs to civil rights and pro-civil ideals and mediation of tensions between liberalism and collectivism (Sciortino and Stack, 2019; Tognato, 2019).…”

Section: Committed In Principle: the Nordic Civil Sphere And Norwegia...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports

Broch

2022

Cultural Sociology

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In many western nations, sport is an institutional component of civil society that may be considered from quite different outlooks. From the critical theorists’ viewpoint, sport reproduces social hierarchies through competition and then colonises our democratic life worlds. Scholars of civil society argue that sport actors manoeuvre civic relations and fend off anti-civil pressures to allow integration, belonging and collective decision-making. This article positions sport actors and audiences at the interstice between hierarchies and solidarity, amid competition and friendship. Using Civil Sphere Theory, I present a cultural sociology of performance that highlights how sport actors interpret the democratic character (or lack thereof) of their own and others’ sport actions. Drawing on eight months of participant field observations in Norwegian youth sport, I recreate an ethnographic tale of how coaches, players and spectators activate the civil sphere’s symbolic and affective codes for this purpose. This dramatic sequence of events, played out over the course of the season, shows how sport itself can be shaped by actors who bring the civil sphere to bear and make sport a facilitating input to the discourse of the Nordic civil sphere. This process, I conclude, is contingent on performances of the civil sphere that make sport a stage on which to display performative feelings for others. When sport actors challenge the divisive, hierarchal character of organised competition and carry out a civil repair of sport, they expand the limits of civil inclusion and momentarily create a sporting civil society.

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Section: Committed In Principle: the Nordic Civil Sphere And Norwegia...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports

Broch

2022

Cultural Sociology

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“…The main focus in The Media Welfare State (Syvertsen et al, 2014) and follow-up studies is put on structural traits connected to media policy and the media market. In a literature review on the uses of the concept Enli and Syvertsen (2020) conclude thus that most research deals with if and how the media welfare state manifests itself–be it in the Nordic gaming industry (Jørgensen et al, 2017), cultural journalism (Nørgaard Kristensen and Riegert, 2017) or the broader public sphere (Engelstad et al, 2017). Additionally, a critical strand of research has surfaced questioning the validity of the notion of the media welfare state against “actually existing” media policy (Ala-Fossi, 2020; Jakobsson et al, 2021).…”

Section: The Media Welfare State: Moving “From Above” To “From Below”mentioning

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The media welfare state: A citizen perspective

Lindell

Jakobsson

Stiernstedt

2021

European Journal of Communication

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During the last decades the Nordic media model has been challenged by neoliberal policy and welfare retrenchment. This study asks about the extent to which the values, functions and institutions of the “media welfare state” are supported by the adult Swedish citizenry, despite political mobilization against it. Drawing on a national survey ( n = 2003) this study shows that the media welfare state is generally well-supported by the population. Using exploratory statistical analysis, we identify a media welfare state of mind. While widespread in the population, this attitudinal constellation is more common in older segments of the population, in the working-class, and by those who frequently use and trust public service media. The main conclusion is that support for the media welfare state primarily can be explained by political attitudes, where left-leaning and GAL-oriented individuals are more positive than people holding right-wing and TAN-attitudes.

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“…Nevertheless, based on the arguments we have reviewed as well as our own projects, we will, in conclusion, uphold the argument that there are fruitful grounds for research in the interplay between media and welfare state studies. In the long run, changes in media structures cannot be properly understood without an adjacent analysis of how welfare states mentalities and arrangements evolve (see also Engelstad et al, 2017;Moe et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Media Welfare State -What Is It Used For?mentioning

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The Media Welfare State: Why such a concept, what is it used for, does it have a future?

Enli

Syvertsen

2020

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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AbstractIn 2014, Syvertsen, Enli, Mjøs, and Moe authored The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in a Digital Era to explore the specificities of Nordic media and the analogy between welfare state and media structures. In this short article, we point to how selected works challenge or extend the notions of a media welfare state beyond the original analysis. We begin by placing the work in a tradition of comparative and typology-generating scholarship and point to parallel works emerging at the same time. We then highlight others’ contributions in order to identify tendencies in Nordic media and research. In conclusion, we use examples from current research to argue that changes in the media system may be studied from both the angle of changing media policies and that of changing welfare states.

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3 The Public Sphere in the Nordic Model

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Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports

Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports

The media welfare state: A citizen perspective

The Media Welfare State: Why such a concept, what is it used for, does it have a future?

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