Postmigration: Mod et nyt kritisk perspektiv på migration og kultur
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Postmigration : Mod et nyt kritisk perspektiv på migration og kultur. / Petersen, Anne Ring; Schramm, Moritz.
In: K & K, Vol. 44, No. 122, 2016, p. 181-200.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Postmigration
T2 - Mod et nyt kritisk perspektiv på migration og kultur
AU - Petersen, Anne Ring
AU - Schramm, Moritz
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The classical canon of ‘critical theory’ – the early Frankfurt School, Marxist and post-Marxist theories – has led to a tradition of understanding cultural critique solely as a subversive critique directed against Western confidence in progress, normative concepts of the subject and identity formation, the culture industry etc. In studies of migration and culture, this notion of critique has manifested itself as a preference for the so-called ‘spaces in-between’ and a general rejection of all identity and subject constructions. Our own work in this field has made it increasingly clear to us that critical cultural theory and analysis can also be severely hampered by the subversive approach. Today, critical practice must thus entail taking the next step: to develop and discuss alternatives that can open new perspectives. In this spirit, the article accounts for the idea of a postmigrant perspective that aims at overcoming the dichotomy between ‘majority’ and ‘minorities’, and which makes it possible to take a fresh, but still critical, approach to the transformative impact of migration on society. After unpacking the idea of the ‘postmigrant’, the article proceeds to reflect on how a critical cultural analysis that applies a postmigrant perspective can contribute to developing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of recognition and structural discrimination, thereby revitalising two classical themes in critical theory: suppression and recognition.
AB - The classical canon of ‘critical theory’ – the early Frankfurt School, Marxist and post-Marxist theories – has led to a tradition of understanding cultural critique solely as a subversive critique directed against Western confidence in progress, normative concepts of the subject and identity formation, the culture industry etc. In studies of migration and culture, this notion of critique has manifested itself as a preference for the so-called ‘spaces in-between’ and a general rejection of all identity and subject constructions. Our own work in this field has made it increasingly clear to us that critical cultural theory and analysis can also be severely hampered by the subversive approach. Today, critical practice must thus entail taking the next step: to develop and discuss alternatives that can open new perspectives. In this spirit, the article accounts for the idea of a postmigrant perspective that aims at overcoming the dichotomy between ‘majority’ and ‘minorities’, and which makes it possible to take a fresh, but still critical, approach to the transformative impact of migration on society. After unpacking the idea of the ‘postmigrant’, the article proceeds to reflect on how a critical cultural analysis that applies a postmigrant perspective can contribute to developing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of recognition and structural discrimination, thereby revitalising two classical themes in critical theory: suppression and recognition.
KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet
KW - postmigration
KW - migration
KW - kultur
KW - anerkendelse
KW - deltagelse
KW - strukturel diskrimination
KW - racialisering
KW - race
KW - postmigration
KW - migration
KW - culture
KW - recognition
KW - participation
KW - structural discrimination
KW - racialisation
KW - race
UR - http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/kok/issue/view/3548
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 44
SP - 181
EP - 200
JO - K & K
JF - K & K
SN - 0905-6998
IS - 122
ER -
ID: 172020420