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Der Beitrag reflektiert die Mechanismen, die reflexive Subjektivität sowohl als Eigenpositionierung als auch als Fremdzuschreibung noch einmal in einem Prozess biographischer Evaluation miteinander verbinden. Dieser Prozess wird bei jugendlichen Migrantinnen der 2. Generation näher untersucht. Die Autorin diskutiert das Zusammenspiel zwischen ethnischer Erinnerung und Identitätsarbeit unter multikulturellen Bedingungen. Dies geschieht in drei Stufen: In der ersten Stufe erfolgt die Wiederbegegnung mit dem "katastrophalen Akt" der örtlichen Veränderung, d.h. dem plötzlichen Bruch mit einer zur Gewohnheit gewordenen Lebenssituation. Danach findet eine Art Dekonstruktion statt, die mit Konflikten und angespannten Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen verbunden ist. Während dieses Stadiums untersucht das Individuum, wie die Metaphern, Bilder und kulturellen Bestandteile, die in der ethnischen Erinnerung aufgehoben werden, sich in Bezug auf das richtige Leben verhalten - im Hier und Jetzt. Die dritte Stufe umschließt so etwas wie eine Aussöhnung: Kontinuität und Wandel nebeneinander, entstanden durch eine Rekonstruktion. Am Beispiel von drei junge Frauen bzw. Mitgliedern ethnischer Minderheiten (Assyrerin, Armenierin, Ex-Jugoslawin/Serbin) wird gezeigt, wie die Prozesse der "Minorisierung" und Marginalisierung zu zahlreichen Spannungen und Konflikten führen und wie die jungen Frauen die Aufgabe lösen, die einzelnen Fragmente eines aufgesplitterten Lebens miteinander zu versöhnen. (ICA2)

The article explores movements for social transformation in precarious times of austerity, dispossessed commons, and narrow nationalism. The authors contribute to social theory by linking questions by critics of "post-politics" to precarity studies on changing conditions of citizenship, labour and livelihoods. They discuss an ambiguous constitution of precariat movements in the borderlands between "civil" and "uncivil" society and "invited" and "invented" spaces for civic agency, and posit that contending movements of today are drawing intellectual energy from past movements for democracy, recognition and the common. The paper discusses the issue of an urban justice movement in Sweden emerging from the precariat in this formerly exceptionalist welfare state's most disadvantaged urban areas. With its vision of reconstructing commons with roots in the working class movement, it has put forward claims for an egalitarian and non-racial democracy while confronting politically grounded frames of institutional conditionality. Doi:10.28991/HIJ-2020-01-02-02 Full Text: PDF

Sweden, where some 20 per cent of the population is either foreign born or second generation, has long been known internationally as the model of a tolerant, egalitarian, multicultural welfare state, which extended substantial citizenship, welfare and labour rights to all within its borders, including immigrants. However, under the twin pressures of neoliberalism and the EU's commitment to 'managed migration', this Swedish exceptionalism has been, and continues to be, substantially eroded. The shortcomings of the earlier multicultural settlement of the 1960s and 1970s, a growing extremist populism, the growth of an unprotected, semi-clandestine sector of the labour market, combined with high levels of youth unemployment and urban segregation, have led to unprecedented rioting and violence in Swedish cities. The voices of minority ethnic youth, many of them Muslim, should be heeded as rejecting the exclusivism of current political trends.

The paper focuses on an anti-austerity and anti-racist urban movement, emerging from the multiethnic precariat in Sweden's most disadvantaged metropolitan areas. It has catalysed the reinvention of a common space with roots in the labour movement of the late 19th century,The People' House, a meme for contemporary community centres, loaded with hopes of contesting racial stigma and structurally conditioned precarity of citizenship and labour. Scrutinising a specific case, the authors address the ambiguous emplacement of a People's House in a Stockholm wrought by financialisation, polarising processes of segregation, the commodification of welfare institutions and interventions by competing NGO coalitions in a post-political age.

This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, contemporary Sweden reveals the emergence of an autonomous, non-violent and organisationally embedded movement for social justice among young people contesting urban degradation and reclaiming the nation in terms of an inclusive citizenship, social welfare and democracy. The article asks whether the Stockholm uprising could possibly be read as a sobering moment of self-examination in Swedish politics that could open space up for new political voices.