A Community of Differences

Vestel, Viggo

doi:10.7577/nova/rapporter/2004/15

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“…The examples of cultural hybridity were from the young Norwegian-Pakistani women who grew up in areas with few immigrants. The limited amount of examples of cultural hybridity can be explained, as earlier studies have, by the tendency of young Norwegian-Pakistani women to spend more time at home, with less exposure to the majority culture than their male siblings (Lien, 2001;Østberg, 2003;Prieur, 2004;Sandberg, 2008;Vestel, 2003). Norwegian-Pakistani boys are highly visible in society and contribute to urban youth culture in various ways.…”

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confidence: 99%

Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport

Walseth

Strandbu

2014

European Physical Education Review

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Studies from several countries show that girls with an immigrant background participate in organized sports to a lesser extent than other young people. Barriers related to culture and religion serve in many of these studies as explanations. In this article we suggest that the notions of culture and religion in this field of studies could be elaborated and we distinguish between three different approaches: (a) culture and religiosity as restricting factors; (b) culture and religiosity as embodied dispositions for action; and lastly (c) culture and religiosity as the basis for reflexive praxis. Analyses of qualitative interviews with young Norwegian-Pakistani women show the relevance of the three perspectives. The study’s most important contribution is to illustrate how culture and religiosity have multiple meanings. The three perspectives presented in this paper might be used as analytical tools in future research on minority women and sports.

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Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport

Walseth

Strandbu

2014

European Physical Education Review

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“…My informants in the present research, as well as in an earlier 1990s study of ethnic minority youth and urban multiculture (Andersson, 2005), exemplify this by, for instance, pointing at African refugees trying to pass as Americans in the streets of Oslo. Partly, the explanation for the relatively high status of black Americans in Norway relates to the popularity of hip hop culture and rap music among both majority and ethnic minority youth (Bakken, 1998;Vestel, 2004). The scope of this article has not allowed for a thorough discussion of everyday culture and hybridity; how my informants negotiate their non-whiteness in different social contexts.…”

Section: Double Consciousness In a Global Sports Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relevance of the Black Atlantic in Contemporary Sport

Andersson

2007

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Processes of homogenization and differentiation have characterized international sports organizations and competitions for more than a century. So have imaginaries of race as these are linked to sportive stereotypes in various sports. In this article, I discuss how racial imaginaries in two Norwegian sports, basketball and track and field, are informed by the real and imaginary links to the same sports in the USA. Theoretically, the article is informed by Paul Gilroy's theory of the Black Atlantic. I ask whether Gilroy's theory illuminates present-day processes in Norwegian basketball and track and field, and how the Norwegian case may relate to broader, global processes in sport. The empirical analysis is based on a wide material from Norway, including observational data and interviews with non-white top athletes, coaches, managers, sport journalists and representatives of ethnic minority organizations.

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“…Internationalised popular music provides an arena where background, heritage and tradition become less relevant. The crucial aspect of community is the connection to music styles that are popular among young people and the musical practices developed within the group (Vestel, 2003). My own work on multi-ethnic hip-hop groups seems to confirm Vestel's arguments (Knudsen, 2011).…”

Section: Questioning Differencementioning

confidence: 60%

“…The widespread idea that social groups and communities are necessarily based on similarity, such as a common history and common practices and traditions, has increasingly been contested and nuanced. Viggo Vestel (2003) did research among 'multicultural youngsters' with highly different backgrounds. In his research entitled A Community of Difference, he shows how community is constructed through musical practice in this particular youth culture.…”

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Arts for Children, Cultural Diversity and the Production of Difference

Knudsen

2021

A & R

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This article investigates policies of cultural diversity and difference in the promotion of arts to school children. Based on historical examples from concert promotion for children in Norway the article examines how cultural difference has been produced and mobilized strategically in efforts aimed at strengthening diversity. It is argued that, on the one hand, constructions of difference play an important part in the development of cultural identity and visibility, while on the other hand, a focus on difference can be a basis for cultural categorizations, and potentially, for the formation of unfortunate stereotypes. The article is informed by debates and discussions on arts for children, with reference to theorizations of difference from anthropology and education studies. Questions raised concern how difference best can be addressed in the shaping of an inclusive, anti-oppressive education.

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A Community of Differences

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport

Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport

The Relevance of the Black Atlantic in Contemporary Sport

Arts for Children, Cultural Diversity and the Production of Difference

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