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Security and insecurity in fragile urban fabrics
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Eriksen, Thomas Hylland |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City |
| Abstract | Security is a central concern in contemporary cities in Western Europe often related to ethnic diversity, with majorities often arguing that their security is threatened by immigration. This chapter takes its point of departure in long-term ethnographic engagement with an ethnically complex suburb of Oslo, Norway, raising basic questions in urban anthropology through meticulous description and analysis of local concerns with security and belonging. This part of outer eastern Oslo is strongly stigmatised in the media and by politicians as being unruly, ridden with social problems, such as unemployment and crime, and increasingly a hotbed of Muslim fundamentalism. It is also new (built in the 1970s) and demographically unstable. Creating a sense of belonging and security in this kind of urban environment is hard work, engaged in by local government, civil society associations and others. Contrasting this suburb with a small town on the southern coast, of roughly the same size (about 10,000 inhabitants), the chapter demonstrates two kinds of urban life involving different network types, sources of belonging and concerns with security and insecurity. Some of the questions raised concern fears and risks, network types and ethnic complexity, conditions and forms of belonging and social integration.This chapter describes departure in long-term ethnographic engagement with an ethnically complex suburb of Oslo, Norway, raising basic questions in urban anthropology through meticulous description. It demonstrates two kinds of urban life involving different network types, sources of belonging and concerns security and insecurity. The chapter discusses insights from ethnographic research in a city with a low level of conflict and moderate degrees of inequality, and addresses fundamental questions in urban anthropology — namely, conditions for belonging, security and cohesion in complex settings where both centripetal and centrifugal forces are at play. It suggests that there is a growing uneasiness and sense of insecurity in the face of the fast cultural and demographic changes taking place in Norway. The chapter describes some of the empirical findings of the research, and shows both the precarity and the resilience of this neighbourhood in outer eastern Oslo. |
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| Ending Page | 181 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 167 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315647098-12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-10-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City Cultural Studies Diversity Chapter Describes Takes Basic Questions Security and Insecurity Meticulous Description Raising Basic Ethnographic Engagement Complex Suburb |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
