Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities
Abstract This paper scrutinizes how the Meänkieli-speaking minority in The Torne Valley, northern Sweden, use humor in the process of narrativizing their shifting spatial identities, as well as in maintaining and contesting prevailing power relations. A great deal of the research focusing on the soc...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe202001283654 2023-07-30T04:04:49+02:00 Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities Ridanpää, J. (Juha) 2017 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202001283654 eng eng Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Humor Marginalization Meänkieli Minority languages Narrative Regional identity info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2017 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:56:23Z Abstract This paper scrutinizes how the Meänkieli-speaking minority in The Torne Valley, northern Sweden, use humor in the process of narrativizing their shifting spatial identities, as well as in maintaining and contesting prevailing power relations. A great deal of the research focusing on the social and political nature of humor, and its geographical dimensions, has concerned the humor directed at ethnic and national minorities, with minority groups typically being approached as targets of laughter. However, less interest has been paid to how minorities use and experience humor in their everyday lives and environments. Humor is approached here as an integral part of how people make sense of culture and society in a creative manner and cope with and challenge subordinating power-relations and social inequality. In terms of methodology, laughing together operates as a (research) approach through which spatial identities of linguistic minorities can be renegotiated. The study is based on group discussions held with local culture workers and activists between September 2015 and February 2016 in Swedish Torne Valley. The paper produces new theoretical and empirical knowledge concerning how humor is used in a creative manner to make sense of, produce and contest socio-spatial relations. Article in Journal/Newspaper meänkieli Northern Sweden Jultika - University of Oulu repository |
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Abstract This paper scrutinizes how the Meänkieli-speaking minority in The Torne Valley, northern Sweden, use humor in the process of narrativizing their shifting spatial identities, as well as in maintaining and contesting prevailing power relations. A great deal of the research focusing on the social and political nature of humor, and its geographical dimensions, has concerned the humor directed at ethnic and national minorities, with minority groups typically being approached as targets of laughter. However, less interest has been paid to how minorities use and experience humor in their everyday lives and environments. Humor is approached here as an integral part of how people make sense of culture and society in a creative manner and cope with and challenge subordinating power-relations and social inequality. In terms of methodology, laughing together operates as a (research) approach through which spatial identities of linguistic minorities can be renegotiated. The study is based on group discussions held with local culture workers and activists between September 2015 and February 2016 in Swedish Torne Valley. The paper produces new theoretical and empirical knowledge concerning how humor is used in a creative manner to make sense of, produce and contest socio-spatial relations. |
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Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities |
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Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities |
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Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities |
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Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities |
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Narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in Meänkieli-speaking minorities |
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narrativizing (and laughing) spatial identities together in meänkieli-speaking minorities |
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meänkieli Northern Sweden |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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