• Conviviality at the Crossroads : The poetics and politics of everyday...
  Eds: Hemer, Oscar; Povrzanovic Frykman, Maja; Ristilammi, Per-Markku Malmö University. (Re)thinking Democracy (REDEM)  : Palgrave Macmillan (2020)	Book

  

  

  English abstract:

  With the 2015 refugee migration and its aftermath as a main reference and focal point, this anthology uses Conviviality as a lens to examine the current challenges to democracy. Conviviality and the inter-related concepts Cosmopolitanism and Creolisation are assumed to provide tools for analysis as well as forms for “cross-cutting communication”. Originally introduced by Ivan Illich (1973), conviviality was re-launched and re-defined by Paul Gilroy (2004) against a backdrop of social, racial and religious tensions in post-imperial Britain, denoting an ability to be at ease in the presence of diversity without restaging communitarian conceptions of ethnic and racial difference, and has subsequently been refined to provide “an analytical tool to ask and explore in what ways, and under what conditions, people constructively create modes of togetherness” (Nowicka & Vertovec 2014: 2). In Gilroy’s understanding conviviality was a substitute for cosmopolitanism, which in his view had been hijacked as a pretext for Western “supposedly benign imperialism” in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war on terror (Gilroy 2004: 66). But rather than replacing one concept with the other, this anthology seeks to explore the interconnections – commonalities and differences – between cosmopolitanism and conviviality. Creolisation is the other supplementary concept, by constituting a valid alternative to conventional interpretations of cross-cultural contact and allowing agency and influence to hitherto marginal and subordinate cultures and peoples (Cohen and Toninato 2010).

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• Pro-and antimigrant mobilizations in polarized Sweden

  Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders Eds: Rea, Andrea; Martiniello, Martin; Mazzola, Alessandro; Meuleman, Bart Malmö University. Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)   Book chapter in The refugee reception crisis in anti-immigrant times : Polarization of the public opinion, local mobilizations and reception practices in Europe; : ULB Press Serie: European Studies; (2019)

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  English abstract:

  This chapter describes current changes in migration flows and politics in Sweden, before presenting and discussing the reactions to these changes in civil society – the mobilization of both pro- and anti-migration sentiments – which reflect the polarized sentiments towards immigration in Swedish society.First, this report conveys information about migration flows to Sweden before, during and after the refugee reception crisis of 2015. In 2016 in particular, Sweden had a major intake of asylum seekers, which prompted new legislative measures to manage this. Second, we emphasize transformations in the party-political landscape before, during and after the refugee reception crisis of 2015. In this period there was also a rhetorical shift in mainstream politics, heralding an emphasis on security in order to protect the Swedish model. The mainstream-right bloc was also split in two. Third, we study the actions and reactions in response to these changes in civil society. The everyday experiences of problems with integration stand in contrast with international norms of solidarity. We conclude that the crisis enabled a window of opportunity for the mobilization of both pro- and anti-migration sentiments in civil society.

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• Political Parties in the Russian Regions
  Hutcheson, Derek Stanford Malmö University. (Re)thinking Democracy (REDEM); Malmö University. Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR)  : Routledge (2018)	Book

  

  

  English abstract:

  Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy. Moscow based parties have had only very limited territorial penetration, and fragmentation has been one of its most significant features. Based on extensive fieldwork in three Russian regions, this book examines the development of the country's party system and the role played by parties in regional politics. Using a comparative approach, it scrutinises the internal structures and activities of the parties, looks at their decision-making processes, their everyday party life, the activities of party members, and the role of regional party organisations in federal and local election campaigns.

• New Initiatives in Diachronic Linguistics : Atlases of Language and C...
  Vamling, Karina Eds: Arabuli, Avtandil; Asatiani, Rusudan; Baratašvili, Zurab; Ivanišvili, Marine; Ležava, Ivane; Soselia, Eter; Ǯikia, Marika Malmö University. Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR)   Book chapter in Festschrift for Academician Thomas Gamkrelidze – Akademikosi Tamaz Gamqrelidze 90 : Tbilisi University Press (2019)	Book chapter

  

  

  English abstract:

  This paper deals with two recent initiatives within diachronic linguistics, where earlier seminal work by Academician Prof. Tamaz Gamkrelidze and his colleagues (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1984, Gamkrelidze, Ivanov and Winter 1995) have been of fundamental importance: the database project Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL) and the Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures (Carling, 2019). The scope of the DiACL database and the Mouton Atlas is languages and cultures in Eurasia, with a focus on the Indo-European languages and cultures. DiACL covers data from 500 languages (in Eurasia, South America, Austronesia) and the Mouton Atlas deals with almost 200 languages (all in Eurasia). Both the DiACL database and the Mouton Atlas have been developed at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University with Dr. Gerd Carling as principal investigator and project leader. The DiACL database and the Atlas include a substantial amount of material from the languages of the Caucasus. Apart from Kartvelian, Nakho-Dagestanian and Northwest Caucasian data, Turkic (Azerbaijani, Balkar-Karachai), Armenian and Iranian (Ossetic, Tat, Talysh) materials have been included. The empirical data in this part of the DiACL database and the Atlas rely primarily on a close cooperation with specialists at academic centres in the Caucasus, in particular with professors Merab Chukhua, Teimuraz Gvantseladze, Madzhid Khallilov and Acherdan Abregov (all contributors cannot be mentioned here, but are credited in the publications). Work on the Caucasian data has been coordinated by myself and Revaz Tchantouria at the Section for Caucasus Studies at Malmö University (Sweden) together with visiting researchers Elnur Aliyev, Maka Tetradze and Tamuna Lomadze during the years 2013-2018. The current work is a study spanning grammatical, lexical and cultural data, and “follows in the footsteps of a much older tradition: historical-comparative handbooks on the aspects and consequences of language reconstruction” (2019, 1), referring to (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1984) and a few other publications. However, a marked difference in approaches between such earlier studies and the current work is the reliance on quantitative methods and computerized statistical analyses of DiACL and the Mouton Atlas. For instance, the grammatical and typological information is analyzed in terms of absence versus presence of distinct grammatical features. GIS-technique (Geographic Information Systems) is widely used throughout the database and the atlas to represent and visualize spatio-geographic patterning of grammatical and typological as well as lexical data. Approaching the question of Eurasian prehistory, Carling (2019, 180) supports the position that “[t]he unrelatedness of Eurasian isolates such as Basque, Caucasian families, Etruscan, Sumerian, or Hattian, provide a strong argument in favor of a high diversity predating the large, migrating families, i.e. Indo-European, Uralic and Turkic.” She notes that previous (substrate) linguistic material potentially could occur in the data and that “[w]e are also attracted by the theory of ancient convergence areas (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1984), where lexemes and concepts may have been distributed, borrowed, and migrated over language boundaries in prehistory.” (Carling 2019, 180). Literature Carling, Gerd (ed.). 2019. The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. DiACL. Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics. 2013-2019. https://diacl.ht.lu.se/ Gamkrelidze, Tamaz V. and Vjačeslav V., Ivanov. 1984. Indoevropejskij jazyk i indoevropejcy: rekonstrukcija i istoriko-tipologičeskij analiz prajazyka i protokultury. Tbilisi: Izd. Tbilisskogo Univ. Gamkrelidze, Tamaz, Vjačeslav Ivanov and Werner Winter. 1995. Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: a reconstruction and historical analysis of a proto-language and proto-culture. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and monographs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• The Seduction of an Event : Hospitality in the Regional Innovation Sy...
  Andersson Cederholm, Erika; Hall, Patrik Eds: Eldh, Christer; Nilsson, Fredrik   Book chapter in Fika, Hygge and Hospitality : The Cultural Complexity of Service Organisation in the Öresund Region : Makadam förlag Serie: Centre for Oresund Region Studies;39 (2019)	Book chapter

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