{"product_id":"the-nordic-civil-sphere-hardback-9781509538836","title":"The Nordic Civil Sphere (Hardback) 9781509538836","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Nordic Civil Sphere\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey C. Alexander (Edited by), Alexander (Author), Anna Lund (Edited by), Andrea Voyer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509538836, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 14.7 x 3 cm, 0.612 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Nordic Civil Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be widely read, not only by students and by scholars who are interested in the particularities of the Nordic civil spheres, but by anyone interested in how the civil spheres of the Global North shape democracy, welfare, values, and processes of inclusion and exclusion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eActa Sociologica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state.  Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity – the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity.  The utopian ideals of democratic solidarity shape every modern society, even if they are often compromised by the messy realities of social life.\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e This volume uses the theory of the civil sphere to shed new light on Nordic societies, while at the same time drawing on the distinctive experiences of the Nordic nations to reflect on and advance the theory of the civil sphere.  Nordic societies have long been admired for creating a distinctive form of social democracy, but this admirable achievement has not been well conceptualized theoretically.  Most attempts to explain Nordic social democracy focus on material and organizational factors.  This volume, by contrast, emphasizes the cultural foundations and characteristics of social democracy, demonstrating how civil sensibilities are necessary for the creation of an egalitarian and democratic state.  Nordic civil spheres, however, are not only pro-civil but also white in color, European in ethnicity, secular in character and gender-equal in a subtly restrictive manner.  Such primordialization of state civility is vividly on display in the sometime tense relationships that develop among natives and “foreigners” in Nordic countries, relationships that expose the primordial undersides of the social democratic codes and civil values that constitute the Nordic civil sphere. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A major contribution to the theory of the civil sphere and to our understanding of the cultural and normative underpinnings of social and political life, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Civil Spheres, Pro-Civil States, and their Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e Jeffrey C. Alexander, Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part I. Social Democracy and Civil Sphere\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 The Civil Sphere and the Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e Henrik Enroth and Malin Henriksson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2 Nordic Civil Spheres and Pro-Civil States\u003cbr\u003e Fredrik Engelstad and Håkon Larsen\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3 Complicated Translations\u003cbr\u003e Liv Egholm\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  Part II. The Struggle for Recognition: Performing Civility\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4 You Can’t Liberate the Free: Gender, Work and Swedish Hijabis\u003cbr\u003e Henrik Nilsson and Åsa Trulsson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5 Arts Difference and Incorporation: Swedish Hip-hop as a Site for Civil Repair\u003cbr\u003e Carly Elizabeth Schall\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6 Sámi Sport in the Nordic Civil Sphere: Assimilation, Multiculturalism and Multiple Axes of Membership\u003cbr\u003e Eivind Å. Skille and Trygve B. Broch\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part III. Civil and Uncivil Immigrant Identities\u003cbr\u003e 7 ‘They’re immigrants who are kind of Swedish’: Universalism, Primordialism, and Modes of Incorporation in the Swedish Civil Sphere\u003cbr\u003e Anna Lund and Andrea Voyer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8 Immigrant Incorporation in Education: High School Students’ Negotiation of Belonging\u003cbr\u003e Stefan Lund\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Nativism and Extremism in the Pro-Civil State\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9 Global terrorism and the Civil Sphere in Norway: Renegotiating Civil Codes\u003cbr\u003e Marte Slagsvold Winsvold and Kari Steen-Johnsen\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10 The True Finns\/Finns Party: A Right-wing Populist Party and the Backlash against Multiculturalism in a Consensus-oriented Civil Sphere\u003cbr\u003e Peter Kivisto and Pasi Saukkonen\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Commentary: The Civil State in the Nordic Region, and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e Carlo Tognato\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Developing Civil Sphere Theory the Nordic Way\u003cbr\u003e Giuseppe Sciortino and Trevor Stack\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441801982232,"sku":"9781509538836","price":46.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509538836.jpg?v=1785026113","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-nordic-civil-sphere-hardback-9781509538836","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}