ONSDAG 10 maj KL. 17:00–20:00
Evenemang av Erik Hansson
Bagpipers Inn Stockholm
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Kom och fira utgivningen av Erik Hanssons bok ’The Begging Question: Sweden’s Social Responses to the Roma Destitute’ (University of Nebraska Press)!
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Vi ses i den anrika skotska inrättningeb Bagpipers Inns (1992) källarlokal, där man bortsett från att inmundiga dryck och tilltugg kan köpa boken till förmånligt pris, spela biljard, och delta i festligheterna. Mycket möjligt fortsätter festligheter därefter en våning upp eller annorstädes.
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Come and celebrate the launch of Erik Hansson’s book ’The Begging Question: Sweden’s Social Responses to the Roma Destitute’ (University of Nebraska Press)!
We meet in the basement of the historic Scottish establishment Bagpipers Inn (1992), where, apart from gulping down drinks and snacks, you can buy the book at a favorable price, play billiards, and participate in the festivities. Quite possibly, festivities then continue on the groundfloor or elsewhere.
ABOUT THE BOOK
“Politically urgent, theoretically exciting, and beautifully written, The Begging Question combines razor-sharp materialist and psychoanalytic analysis to offer a radical rethinking of begging and of how to escape the limited political and ethical imaginaries that surround it.”—Felicity Callard, professor of human geography at the University of Glasgow
“Artfully exposes the unconscious underpinnings of social democracy in Sweden, showing how it is laced with proclivities to scapegoat the Other. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary forms of racism and poverty.”—Ilan Kapoor, professor of critical development studies at York University, Toronto
“Erik Hansson innovatively combines theories of psychoanalysis, class dynamics, and racism to explain anxieties in encountering begging and contradictory political responses to the arrival of Roma from the European Union.”—Michael Jones, professor emeritus of geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
“A rich and thought-provoking examination of the emergence of racialized poverty and begging in one of Europe’s historically most egalitarian social democracies. Drawing creatively on Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Erik Hansson opens a vital space to reflect—politically and psychically—on what inequality, nationalism, and the politics of redistribution mean in Sweden today.”—Jesse Proudfoot, assistant professor of sociology at Durham University
Begging, thought to be an inherently un-Swedish phenomenon, became a national fixture in the 2010s as homeless Romanian and Bulgarian Roma EU citizens arrived in Sweden seeking economic opportunity. People without shelter were forced to use public spaces as their private space, disturbing aesthetic and normative orders, creating anxiety among Swedish subjects and resulting in hate crimes and everyday racism.
Parallel with Europe’s refugee crisis in the 2010s, the “begging question” peaked. The presence of the media’s so-called EU migrants caused a crisis in Swedish society along political, juridical, moral, and social lines due to the contradiction embodied in the Swedish authorities’ denial of social support to them while simultaneously seeking to maintain the nation’s image as promoting welfare, equality, and antiracism.
In The Begging Question Erik Hansson argues that the material configurations of capitalism and class society are not only racialized but also unconsciously invested with collective anxieties and desires. By focusing on Swedish society’s response to the begging question, Hansson provides insight into the dialectics of racism. He shrewdly deploys Marxian economics and Lacanian psychoanalysis to explain how it became possible to do what once was thought impossible: criminalize begging and make fascism politically mainstream, in Sweden. What Hansson reveals is not just an insight into one of the most captivating countries on earth but also a timely glimpse into what it means to be human.
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Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote this book during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496225030/
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