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Shout out! Podcasts as sources of non-degree further education, counter-publics and entertainment This article is woven into the multi-disciplined research field concerned with questions on young people’s living conditions and cultural expression in stigmatized residential areas in Sweden’s metropolitan areas. In recent years, a movement demanding social justice has emerged in these areas. In this article, we examine the content of four podcasts that may be considered central to this social movement. The study has three specific purposes that relate to the contributions of this article. First, we examine how the podcasts, like the social movement in general, can be seen as an expression of how marginalized young people deal with their position as subordinated citizens and the racism that is part of their everyday living conditions. Second, our analysis shows how podcasts serve as meeting places for young people in the marginalized suburbs, as well as providing arenas for resistance in the form of counter-publics. Third, the study contributes to knowledge of the potential role of podcasts in contemporary non-degree further education. This is achieved through an analysis of the learning processes shown in the podcasts. Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv

The globally reported riots in the poor high-rise suburbs of Sweden’s metropolitan districts in 2013 were stark manifestations of the increased social and economic inequality of the past 30 years. Large groups of young adults acted out their unarticulated claims for social justice. In the light of the riots, it is relevant to ask whether any trace of resistance or protest can be found in the compulsory school where the young people from these neighbourhoods spend their days. The ethnography sampled for the article comes from two public schools in two poor, multi-ethnic, high-rise neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Gothenburg. The article argues that the theoretical and methodological concepts and perspectives developed by Willis still is of crucial importance to any investigation aimed at understanding the presence or absence of resistance in contemporary Swedish schools.

Since hip-hop first appeared in New York over 35 years ago, it has been associated with social activism and education. Accordingly, it is not surprising that academic institutions in universities and K-12 schools are interested in hip-hop. In this article, we will highlight the ‘hip-hop academisation’ and map out a new direction in a dialog between hip-hop and the academic world. By investigating the relation between hip-hop and pedagogy through interviews with prominent members of the hip-hop community in New York City as well as an analysis of ‘universal’, collective, and aesthetic learning processes in a local, Swedish youth-based hip-hop collective, we intend to open up a theoretical discourse on hip-hop and emancipatory pedagogy. Our empirical data are collected through ethnographical methods.

Changes in metropolitan districts of Sweden during the last 30 years have created a situation that in many respects resembles those in big cities of continental Europe. Increasing social and economic disparities have generated a tense social climate that threatens social cohesion. The globally reported riots in the poor high-rise suburbs of Stockholm in 2013 were stark manifestations of the tensions. This chapter examines the social background of the tensions that fostered the riots and a new form of suburban mobilization that has emerged in parallel to police confrontations. It focuses on the prioritization of acquiring knowledge and learning in the political agenda developed by organizations that young adults have established recently in these suburban areas, particularly one called The Panthers for the Restoration of the Suburb. Two key questions are addressed. How should the knowledge-seeking and learning processes related to the informal and formal activities of the Panthers be understood? What can compulsory schools run by the municipality learn from the joyful and purposeful learning in the everyday praxis of an organization like the Panthers?

Med utgångspunkt i psykoanalys och lingvistisk symbolteori diskuterar Ove Sernhede hur det egna skapandet griper in i adolescensutvecklingen. Han undersöker faktorer som kan tänkas ligga bakom att det just är musiken som hamnat i centrum för ungdomskulturen?

In May 2013, an urban uprising shook Sweden and took the whole world by surprise, as reports from international news agencies and news channels such as CNN, BBC World, Al-Jazeera and Sky News reported live from poor suburbs in Stockholm, putting in question the image of Sweden as a calm and prosperous society. Following local mobilization demanding the public investigation of a police killing, the uprisings started on the evening of 19 May in the suburb of Husby, with 12,000 inhabitants, in northern Stockholm, where approximately 100 cars were burnt on the first night. The uprising went on for five more nights, spreading to other poor Stockholm suburbs. The magnitude of attention these events received in the media throughout the week of turmoil contributed to their spread to eight smaller cities around Sweden.

Based on ethnographic research on the encounter between local culture and schools in multicultural suburban areas, this article explores possibilities suggested by autonomous learning activities in a hip-hop collective that may have a potential to break urban segregation patterns. The collective’s artistic production raises questions that have not been answered in schools, such as how the increasing class divisions between different parts of the urban landscape should be understood and dealt with. Different types of learning are identified connected to the self, others, and careers. Implications for schooling are briefly discussed.

This article deals with processes of marginalization and patterns of segregation in contemporary Sweden that have transformed the former welfare state. During the 1990s we saw the growth of new forms of poverty in the multi-ethnic suburbs of the metropolitan districts of Sweden. The schools in these suburbs are still wrestling with many problems. If these schools wish to reclaim credibility, one way might be to understand and to learn from the topics and processes embedded in hip-hop, the culture of the young in these areas. Hip-hop has grown and engaged many young people in the multi-cultural neighbourhoods of metropolitan Sweden during the last two decades. The article focuses on how informal learning processes embedded in the cultural praxis of youth empower them to express themselves. In the article these learning processes are contrasted with the formal learning carried on in contemporary suburban schools. The hip-hop culture from these suburbs carries with it a social and political criticism and could in one sense be compared to the cultural aspirations of the labour movement in the early part of last century.

In this article, using data from ethnographic research, we try to present some glimpses of the way education is described as an experience and possibility ‘from below’, by pupils who grow up and study in schools in the most segregated and territorially stigmatized suburbs on the outskirts of our major cities. What we feel they describe is an experience of schooling for surviving the social and economic consequences of curtailed citizenship in a post‐industrial society rather than one of schooling that offers possibilities of integration and full citizenship or social transformation. Our findings have significant policy implications in this respect. Sweden has historically pursued projects aimed at educational inclusion but has recently taken a significant turn toward neo‐liberalism and educational consumerism, since which time various disadvantaged groups have become increasingly concentrated compared with others in under‐achieving schools in an economically threatened public sector. The article discusses...

The segregated city and the school as a multicultural meeting ground – upper secondary pupils and their narratives on urban space and the significance of place. The freedom to choose which school you want to attend in the Swedish school system can be understoodas an opportunity to overcome the urban segregation. At the same timestudies show that the freedom of choice increases the segregation according to the pupils’ performance and their social and ethnic background. In this context we find Berydsgymnaiset in the suburb of Beryd southeast of Storstaden interesting, since pupils coming from the whole city attend this school. We conducted deep interviews with ten pupils at this school to hear their reflections on the segregated urban space and their view on the school as a meeting place. The study shows clearly that the divided and hierarchically structured urban space is a distinctive part of their conceptualizing of the world. Another result is that this school only to a very small extent functions as a place for overcoming segregation; even though its open for pupils from all over town, the most prominent feature of the situation within the school is how the urban segregation and the distance between it’s different spaces is reflected in a way that also affects the relationships between the pupils.

The initial words from Tederico may sound a bit categorical, but it is no exaggeration to say that the school system has great difficulties in many immigrant-dominated areas in the metropolitan cities of Sweden. If, for example, we take a closer look at the 2,500 persons from the Goteborg region who are registered each autumn at Goteborg University, we find that only 65–70 of these are from Angered, an area with more than 40,000 inhabitants. There has been a public debate about the under-representation of immigrants in higher education. Goteborg University has launched diverse projects to attract the youth in Angered, but with little success. The problem is alarming, and to solve it we must go deeper beneath public debate. Segregation, marginalization, and the growth of new forms of poverty in many Swedish cities have created a demarcation line between Us and Them – the immigrant-dominated areas are at the heart of what we might consider as an urbanization of injustice.