11:15-12.15 Thursday 8 May 2014
COMPAS Board Room, Oxford
Speaker: Marianne Holm Pedersen, Danish Folklore Archives, The Royal Library, Copenhagen
In Denmark, voluntary associations play a large role in civil society and in many Danes’ self-understanding of what particularly constitutes Danish society. Voluntary associations are considered important sites for socialization and democratic enculturation, and ‘at gå til noget’ (‘going to something’) is attributed great cultural value. In relation to the inclusion of ethnic minorities in Danish society, many policies target young people and attempt to incorporate them in local associational life. Yet, while there is a strong focus on ethnic minority youth, little knowledge exists about how their parents view the children’s associational incorporation in local society, or about how intergenerational dynamics shape leisure practices and relations to different places among both ethnic minority and majority families.
Based on a small, ongoing pilot project among youth and their parents in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Copenhagen, this presentation will explore different generational perspectives on youth’s leisure activities. The talk will look at how different places become positioned as legitimate or not legitimate in relation to age, gender, ethnicity, social class and civil society involvement, and what this is assumed to reveal about family relations and local inclusion.
3:30pm, 24 May 2018
17 - 18 May 2018
1 February 2018
22 - 23 September 2016
28-29 September 2015
5 March 2014
25 November 2013
10 June 2013
9 April 2013
23 October 2012
16:30 - 18:30, Thursday 1 December 2011
16:00 - 18:00, Wednesday 9 November 2011
17:00 - 18:00, 10 March 2011
COMPAS, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, 58 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS
T. +44 (0)1865 274 711
E. info@compas.ox.ac.uk
Privacy | Terms & Conditions | Copyrights | Accessibility
©2023 University of Oxford
Managed by REDBOT