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Det er tydeligt, at globale diskurser om sund og succesfuld aldring (se bl.a. Lamb 2014 og 2017) har fundet vej ind i den lokale drejebog for, hvad der udgør det optimale livsforløb (Oxlund 2018). Med fokus på fysisk aktivitet og individuel optimering har ideerne om sund aldring været med til at løfte barren for, hvad den enkelte forventes at investere i for både at føje år til livet og liv til å
In this article I shed light on the phenomenon of Chinese young people’s conversion to Christianity and argue that it is often closely tied to a utopian longing for what is missing in their lives (Bloch 1907). Through a person-centered account of two young people, I explore their quests to escape the temporal predicament of endless striving 'fuzao' and search for a better life based autotelic valu
As a fluid age cohort and a social category between childhood and adulthood – and hence with tenuous links to the status quo – youth are variously described as ‘at risk’, as victims of precarious and unpredictable circumstances, or as agents of social change who embody the future. From this future-oriented generational perspective, youth are often mobilised to individually and collectively imagine
In Danish political discourse, social housing areas – also labelled migrant ‘ghettos’ – are currently strongly problematized, sometimes referred to as ‘holes in the national map of Denmark’ and described as fostering ‘parallel’ societies where gang cultures thrive and people live lives profoundly disengaged from the larger national community (cf. Johansen and Jensen 2017; Jensen 2016). Everyday li
This Frontiers paper develops a synthesis on deliberating smart knowledge politics for urban transformations, based on a 3-year collaborative research project conducting case studies in cities in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain (de Hoop et al. 2017). Over the past decade, smart urban initiatives have been presented as a panacea for complex urban challenges (Kummitha and Reddy 20
Transforming Chinese Patriarchy, edited by Gonçalo D. Santos and Stevan Harrell, is athought-provoking collection of meditations upon changes in the gendered landscape ofcontemporary Chinese society. The book focuses on“gender systems”primarily as anelement of“family systems”, and it deals with“patriarchal configurations”as seen througha lens that is both gendered and inter-generational. It cont
Education is seen as a protective factor for refugee children (Gunton, 2007; Block et al., 2014). Evidences from countries with an extensive experience on refugee education show that the ability of schools to provide immediate and appropriate support is pivotal in order to favour a smooth accommodation process and ensure settlement, safety, and security for children (Bash, 2006; Porche et al. 2011
As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary Chin
In this chapter i start for this idea of an inner void thar can be filled out by faith in God. I explore what is at stake for young well-educated urbanites, such as Tingting who convert to Christianity and become part of uinregistred house-churches tha operate in the shadow of state control.
This paper advances scholarship on deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions. To understand how deliberate destabilisation plays out in practice, the politics of such processes must be confronted. To this end, we bridge research on the political economy of sustainability transitions with recent theorisations of the deliberate destabilisation of unsustainable socio-technical regimes
This paper discusses the encounter between refugee families and day-care institutions in Denmark. By taking a dual perspective that explores both the experiences of refugee children and parents on one hand, and the point of view of pedagogues on the other, our research seeks to generate new knowledge about an important challenge facing day-care institutions across Europe. Drawing on empirical mate
The modified fighting hypothesis (MFH) proposes that most humans are right-handed because it conveyed an advantage during intraspecific fights with sharp weapons, due to the leftward location of the heart and aorta. An examination of the literature on sharp force injury showed that the thoracic region is penetrated more than any other region, and the left thorax is penetrated approximately 2.4 tim
Flygtningebørn og deres familiers modtagelse i danske daginstitutioner er forbundet med en række dilemmaer for det pædagogiske personale, såvel som for børnenes forældre. Et igangværende etnografisk feltarbejde belyser, hvordan disse dilemmaer, relateret til bl.a. tillid og mistillid, medfølelse og offergørelse, struktur og fleksibilitet, inklusion og eksklusion, udspiller sig i praksis og får betFlygtningebørn og deres familiers modtagelse i danske daginstitutioner er forbundet med en række dilemmaer for det pædagogiske personale, såvel som for børnenes forældre. Et igangværende etnografisk feltarbejde belyser, hvordan disse dilemmaer, relateret til bl.a. tillid og mistillid, medfølelse og offergørelse, struktur og fleksibilitet, inklusion og eksklusion, udspiller sig i praksis og får bet
The Circular Economy (CE) concept is widely promoted as a pathway to sustainability, yet its practical realization can appear to be challenging and unclear due to divergent definitions, interpretations and understanding about the implications and goals of a realized CE. Addressing this gap, this study develops the Circular Economy Loop Strategies (CELS) Framework, a synthesizing foundational model
Nytilkomne familier bliver mødt med mange krav fra den danske velfærdsstat. Et af kravene er, at de skal sende deres 0-6 årige børn i dagtilbud, så forældrene kan gå på sprogskole eller komme i praktik. Artiklen belyser nogle af de dilemmaer, der opstår i forældresamarbejdet i mødet mellem pædagoger og nytilkomne familier. Disse dilemmaer udspringer af den myndighedsrolle som pædagogerne har, samt
This article is based on fieldwork in a Chinese Protestant house-church in Beijing—more specifically, it focuses on a form of group therapy, which took place in the vicinity of the church. It combines two phenomena usually studied separately, namely the popularity of Chinese underground churches and China's so-called “psycho-boom.” Drawing on attachment theory, I focus on the psychic conflicts tha
This paper studies the performativity of smart mobility expectations in envisioning urban futures. Smart mobility, or ICT-enabled transport services, are increasingly considered a necessary ingredient for sustainability transitions in cities. Expectations of smart mobility’s contribution to such a transition are constituted by a strong belief in the transformative potential of data collection and
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among what Lian Si (2009) has called China’s ‘ant tribe’, referring to the millions of unemployed Chinese college graduates who live in the outskirts of Beijing and to some extent share the predicament of China’s migrant workers. Education has been the main route to social mobility for centuries in China, but today college graduates are o
China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid? Fragile Elite explores the contradictions of being an elite student through ethnographic research conducted at two top universities in China. It uncovers the intimate psychological strains students suffer under the pressure imposed on
