The Nordic Civil Sphere (eBook)

Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University Anna Lund is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University Andrea Voyer is an associate senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Civil Spheres, Pro-Civil States, and their Contradictions
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer

Part I. Social Democracy and Civil Sphere

1 The Civil Sphere and the Welfare State
Henrik Enroth and Malin Henriksson

2 Nordic Civil Spheres and Pro-Civil States
Fredrik Engelstad and Håkon Larsen

3 Complicated Translations
Liv Egholm

Part II. The Struggle for Recognition: Performing Civility

4 You Can't Liberate the Free: Gender, Work and Swedish Hijabis
Henrik Nilsson and Åsa Trulsson

5 Arts Difference and Incorporation: Swedish Hip-hop as a Site for Civil Repair
Carly Elizabeth Schall

6 Sámi Sport in the Nordic Civil Sphere: Assimilation, Multiculturalism and Multiple Axes of Membership
Eivind Å. Skille and Trygve B. Broch

Part III. Civil and Uncivil Immigrant Identities
7 'They're immigrants who are kind of Swedish': Universalism, Primordialism, and Modes of Incorporation in the Swedish Civil Sphere
Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer

8 Immigrant Incorporation in Education: High School Students' Negotiation of Belonging
Stefan Lund

Part IV. Nativism and Extremism in the Pro-Civil State

9 Global terrorism and the Civil Sphere in Norway: Renegotiating Civil Codes
Marte Slagsvold Winsvold and Kari Steen-Johnsen

10 The True Finns/Finns Party: A Right-wing Populist Party and the Backlash against Multiculturalism in a Consensus-oriented Civil Sphere
Peter Kivisto and Pasi Saukkonen

Commentary: The Civil State in the Nordic Region, and Beyond
Carlo Tognato

Conclusion: Developing Civil Sphere Theory the Nordic Way
Giuseppe Sciortino and Trevor Stack

"The Nordic Civil Sphere deserves to be widely read, not only by students and by scholars who are interested in the particularities of the Nordic civil spheres, but by anyone interested in how the civil spheres of the Global North shape democracy, welfare, values, and processes of inclusion and exclusion."
Acta Sociologica