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Strategies of descent, tactics of inclusion : kinship and the negotiation of race, nation and belonging along the margins of working-class Oslo

Gambert, Christopher
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Abstract
The location chosen for this study, the neighborhood of Grenda, has since Norway s

industrial revolution been home to Oslo s working class population. Historically

marginalized, these voices are today located in a site of great social and economic

change, resulting from the dual processes of gentrification and immigration, in the face of

economic globalization and increased privatization.

The following paper explores the ways in which these people shape a meaningful

existence along the margins of one of the world s wealthiest nations.

While building on Gullestad s observation that Norwegians view sameness as a

reflection of equality and thus avoid contexts which highlight difference, the following paper

argues that it is precisely the need to affirm one s individual difference in order to build one s

reputation that communities of equals are sought out.

In locating Norway within the scope of post colonial subjectivity I utilize the framework

developed by Wilson in his discussion of marginalized identities, particularly the concepts of

reputation and respectability, in order to shed light on the specifics of Norwegian negotiations of

identity. Ultimately I will show how race and nation have become extensions of the way in

which subjects talk kinship to borrow from Bouquet, ultimately mobilizing these discourses as

a means of re-membering the Norwegian site.

Through a sense of marginalization brought on by a disjuncture between my informants

experience of self in light of dominant, respectable middle-class values, the negotiation of

kinship can be seen as a tactic employed by individuals a vehicle of affirming what Rosaldo

refers to as cultural citizenship, by re-membering the framework of Norway as nation, and thus

themselves within in it.
 
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