Peter Hervik

Denne bog handler om de mange måder, hvorpå kultur påvirker mødet mellem sundhedsprofessionelle og mennesker med sundhedsudfordringer. I en travl klinisk hverdag konfronteres sundhedsprofessionelle med et utal af problemstillinger, hvoraf nogle er direkte afledt af kulturelle forskelligheder. Det kan være iblandt det sundhedsfaglige personale, i mødet med patienter og pårørende eller i form af politiske beslutninger, der former en bestemt kulturel omgangsform. Ved at forstå kultur som et dynamisk fænomen, der opstår i samspillet mellem mennesker, eksemplificerer bogen gennem teori og praksisnære cases, hvordan man som sundhedsprofessionel kan omgås sin egen og andres kultur mere reflekteret. Formålet med bogen er at styrke sundhedsprofessionelles evne til at træffe fagligt velbegrundede og menneskeligt indsigtsfulde beslutninger i kraft af et øget kendskab til sit eget og andres kulturelle ståsted. Når man som sundhedsprofessionel bliver bevidst om kulturens relevans for ens arbejdsområde, opøver man samtidig kompetencer inden for klinisk beslutningstagning og klinisk lederskab, som sætter mennesket og ikke dets kulturelle baggrund i centrum.

“Når folk kan lide mig, siger de, at det er på trods af min farve. Når de ikke kan lide mig, pointerer de, at det ikke er på grund af min farve,” skrev Frantz Fanon. Strategisk uvidenhed og manglen på interesse i faglig viden dominerer den offentlige samtale om landets etniske og religiøse minoriteter. ?‘Sådan er det bare’ giver et reflekteret bud på, hvad der sker med Danmarks forhold til minoriteter i disse år. Den handler om racialisering og dens intime forhold til banal og ideologisk nationalisme, der forenes i en underliggende fraktal logik kaldet “nationen-i-fare". Bogen viser, hvordan logikken bliver det primære afsæt til underordning af andre.? Det er saglige holdninger baseret på reel viden, der lægges for dagen, men det er samtidig en bidende samfundsrevselse, som kan være en øjenåbner på alle sider af det politiske spektrum.

English abstract The “Muhammad crisis,” the “Muhammad Cartoon Crisis,” or “The Jyllands-Posten Crisis” are three different headings used for the global, violent reactions that broke out in early 2006. The cartoon crisis was triggered by the publication of 12 cartoons in the largest Danish daily newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005 and the Danish governments refusal to meet with 11 concerned ambassadors. However, Jyllands-Posten’s record on covering Islam; the ever growing restrictive identity politics and migration policies and the popular association of Islam with terrorism made it predictable that something drastic would eventually happen, although neither the form of the counter-reaction or the stubborn anti-Islamic forces were unknown. This collection of chapters seeks to fill out some of the most glaring holes in the media coverage and academic treatment of the Muhammad cartoon story. It will do so by situating the conflict more firmly in its proper socio-historical context by drawing on the author’s basic research on the Danish news media’s coverage of ethnic and religious minorities since the mid 1990s. The author uses thick contextualization to analyze this very current theme in IMER studies, which has consequences for most immigrants of non-Western countries to the Nordic countries.

This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyse the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups and in drawings. Based on the analysis of this material the reader gets insights into personal experiences, believes and opinions of a diverse group of women in terms of age, economic class, education, geography, culture, religion, ethnicity, marital status, and political orientation. The detail-rich empirical material presented in the book visualize that the 2011 revolution works as an utter frame on a macro-level, while different issues are more pressing on a micro-level.

Fortællinger spiller en afgørende rolle i alle sociale omgangsformer, ikke blot som en måde at formidle information på, men også som en måde at påvirke andre og forme virkeligheden, så den ser ud på en bestemt måde. I en lang række sammenhænge opleves det, at narrativer bruges strategisk til at fremme bestemte dagsordner. I en mere hverdagslig forstand kan fortællinger spille en vigtig rolle som det kit, der binder sociale relationer sammen og skaber en sammenhængende identitet for individer. Derfor er narrativ analyse en vigtig discipin i samfundsvidenskab og humaniora. Denne bog gennemgår den narrative analyses mange facetter. Den giver en indføring i, hvad narrativ analyse indebærer, og supplerer med en række eksempler på, hvordan analyserne laves i praksis. Bogen er skrevet som lærebog til studerende på universiteter og professionshøjskoler og som håndbog til forskere, der selv arbejder med narrative studier.

The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005-2006 in Denmark caught the world by surprise as the growing hostilities toward Muslims had not been widely noticed. Through the methodologies of media anthropology, cultural studies, and communication studies, this book brings together more than thirteen years of research on three significant historical media events in order to show the drastic changes and emerging fissures in Danish society and to expose the politicization of Danish news journalism, which has consequences for the political representation and everyday lives of ethnic minorities in Denmark.

Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," " text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information.

Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on reflexivity that goes beyond the subjective position of the author and helps demystify the coexisting subjectivities characteristic of ethnographic fieldwork. It provides a basis for overcoming the exclusive focus on "author," " text," and "discourse" in contemporary postmodernist ethnography, while still conveying important ethnographic information.