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Jonsson, S. (2023). Aesthetic Forms of the Political: Populist Ornaments, Cultures of Rejection, Democratic Assemblies. In: Alexander Stagnell, David Payne, Gustav Strandberg (Ed.), Populism and The People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics (pp. 160-175). London: Bloomsbury Academic
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Aesthetic Forms of the Political: Populist Ornaments, Cultures of Rejection, Democratic Assemblies
2023 (English)In: Populism and The People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics / [ed] Alexander Stagnell, David Payne, Gustav Strandberg, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, p. 160-175Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Can collective democratic protest and rightwing authoritarianism and populism be distinguished as interdependent movements of political emergence, i.e. movements emerging outside democratic institutions and portending profound reorganizations of political order, but not yet fully recognizable as political entities as they own weak political representation? This essay argues that contemporary social sciences are often unable to comprehend or register political emergence, whereas, by contrast, contemporary art, art activism, literature and film – from the postcolonial novel and arts biennales to banlieue rap music and street actions for refugees – have in recent years produced profound insights into the nature of collective mobilizations and protests of all kinds. We thus observe that there exist parallel paths for intellectual inquiry into the same urgent issues of collective protest and populism. But we also observe a lack of methodological rapport and dialogue. Against this background, I argue that we stand to gain from an effort to study collective democratic protest and populist authoritarianism as converging issues with far-reaching implications for democratic society, and that we undertake such research by conjoining social scientific research and aesthetic analysis. To substantiate this claim, the essay turns to two cases of political emergence from the 1930s, in which we find mirrored our current condition, as well as the contrast between populist aesthetics and democratic aesthetics. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
Keywords
Democracy, Protest, political aesthetics, populism, migration
National Category
History of Ideas International Migration and Ethnic Relations Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-191729 (URN)9781350183629 (ISBN)9781350185302 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2021-1929
Available from: 2023-02-11 Created: 2023-02-11 Last updated: 2023-03-02Bibliographically approved
Jonsson, S. (2023). Europas förenta stater. Parabol, 1(1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Europas förenta stater
2023 (Swedish)In: Parabol, ISSN 2004-7355, Vol. 1, no 1Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Det är ett nytt EU som träder fram. En kommissionär har ansvar för att skydda den “europeiska livsstilen”. EU:s utrikesrepresentant talar om resten av världen som en “djungel” som vi måste skyddas från. Samtidigt liknar EU mer och mer en lydstat till USA. Stefan Jonsson undersöker vad som pågår vid Europas gränser.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: , 2023
Keywords
Europeiska unionen, geopolitik, gränser, migration, kulturell identitet, Europa
National Category
History Globalisation Studies Cultural Studies International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198067 (URN)
Available from: 2023-09-24 Created: 2023-09-24 Last updated: 2023-10-26Bibliographically approved
Jonsson, S. (2023). How to be a border, and how to cross it: What literature and art know about democracy. In: Helge Lunde (Ed.), [Plenary speech. Published online at: www.icorn.org]: . Paper presented at The 2023 ICORN Network Meeting. Brussels. 22-24 March 2023.. Stavanger
Open this publication in new window or tab >>How to be a border, and how to cross it: What literature and art know about democracy
2023 (English)In: [Plenary speech. Published online at: www.icorn.org] / [ed] Helge Lunde, Stavanger, 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Rarely tolerating political and geographical borders, literature and the arts pushes against borders and boundaries and discloses a secret about democracy. During the ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels in March 2023, Stefan Jonsson, professor at Linköping University, spoke about how the aesthetic imagination is a force indispensable to democratic societies and how borders can be crossed through it. Read his speech here.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stavanger: , 2023
Keywords
Borders and boundaries, Asylum, Democracy, Arts and Literature, Exile, Aesthetics
National Category
Languages and Literature Other Humanities not elsewhere specified International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193920 (URN)
Conference
The 2023 ICORN Network Meeting. Brussels. 22-24 March 2023.
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-01964
Note

Plenary speech. ICORN Network Meeting. Théâtre National de la Wallonie–Brussels. 24 March 2023.

Available from: 2023-05-19 Created: 2023-05-19 Last updated: 2023-05-24Bibliographically approved
Bolt Rasmussen, M. & Jonsson, S. (2023). Protestens billeder: Forord. K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, 51(134-135), 3-14
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Protestens billeder: Forord
2023 (Danish)In: K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, ISSN 0905-6998, E-ISSN 2246-2589, Vol. 51, no 134-135, p. 3-14Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Prefatory article that introduces the themes, topics and articles of this special issue on the images of protest.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Århus: K & K. Kultur og Klasse, 2023
Keywords
Social Protest in art. Aesthetics and politics. Social movements. Revolution. Crowd theory
National Category
Cultural Studies History of Ideas Visual Arts Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193921 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-01964Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2017-0532
Available from: 2023-05-19 Created: 2023-05-19 Last updated: 2023-05-26Bibliographically approved
Jonsson, S. (2023). Som en skapelseakt: Politiskt framträdande i några konstverk från den ukrainska revolutionen 2013–2014. K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, 51(134-135), 311-340
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Som en skapelseakt: Politiskt framträdande i några konstverk från den ukrainska revolutionen 2013–2014
2023 (Swedish)In: K & K: kultur og klasse : kritik og kulturanalyse, ISSN 0905-6998, E-ISSN 2246-2589, Vol. 51, no 134-135, p. 311-340Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This essay analyzes how artworks express the Ukrainian revolution 2013–2014 as an experience of democracy. Three questions are foregrounded. How do aesthetic expressions capture and accumulate social energy? How do they help convert such energy into political action? How do they preserve it, for future use? These questions concern the ways in which aesthetic works express what I call political emergence: people who have no say in political institutions come together as a collective that changes the political order. Analyzing selected examples from the Maidan uprising, the essay demonstrates a contradiction between how democratic protests generate aesthetic forms with a strong universal and utopian thrust and how these democratic utopias are subsequently contained by cultural representations and political traditions, in Ukraine’s case a particular form of militant and self-sacrificing nationalism, which, however, cannot do without projections of utopian solidarity.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2023
Keywords
sociala rörelser i konsten, politiskt framträdande, kollektiv protest, politisk estetik, ukrainska revolutionen, Majdan
National Category
Other Humanities International Migration and Ethnic Relations Art History History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193922 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2017-0532Swedish Research Council, 2017-01964
Available from: 2023-05-19 Created: 2023-05-19 Last updated: 2023-05-26Bibliographically approved
Jonsson, S. (2023). The Aesthetics of Protest on Kyiv's Maidan: Reflections on Political Emergence and the Twenty-First-Century Crowd. Social research, 90(2), 373-406
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Aesthetics of Protest on Kyiv's Maidan: Reflections on Political Emergence and the Twenty-First-Century Crowd
2023 (English)In: Social research, ISSN 0037-783X, E-ISSN 1944-768X, Vol. 90, no 2, p. 373-406Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Aesthetics of Protest on Kyiv’s Maidan: Reflections on Political Emergence and the Twenty-First Century Crowd Abstract This essay argues that aesthetic works offer an understanding of the performativity of democratic protests and crowd action. To substantiate the argument, it analyzes a handful of artworks from the Ukrainian Revolution 2013–2014: posters by Strayk-Plakat, films by Babylon 13, Matviy Vaisberg's The Wall, and the aesthetic symbolism of the so-called Heavenly Hundred. More generally, the article demonstrates how aesthetic works express what may be termed political emergence: people who have no say in political institutions come together as a collective that changes the political order. Aesthetics works enable an understanding of political emergence that is mostly unavailable to the social sciences, history, and journalism. For these reasons, the article contends, analysis of crowd action and twenty-first collective protest in particular would gain from theoretical and methodological efforts to conjoin social research and aesthetic analysis.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: , 2023
Keywords
social movements in art, political emergence, crowd theory, political aesthetics, Ukrainian Revolution, Maidan
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified International Migration and Ethnic Relations Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198068 (URN)10.1353/sor.2023.a901781 (DOI)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P2017-0532Swedish Research Council, 2017-01964
Available from: 2023-09-24 Created: 2023-09-24 Last updated: 2023-10-26Bibliographically approved
Bojanić, S., Jonsson, S., Neergaard, A. & Sauer, B. (2022). Challenging cultures of rejection. Patterns of Prejudice, 56(4-5), 315-335
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Challenging cultures of rejection
2022 (English)In: Patterns of Prejudice, ISSN 0031-322X, E-ISSN 1461-7331, Vol. 56, no 4-5, p. 315-335Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, Bojanic, Jonsson, Neergaard and Sauer present a synthetic overview of the five country cases included in the special issue that analyse the emergence of cultures of rejection since 2015. In general, they discuss the conceptual framework of ‘Cultures of Rejection’, elaborated throughout the issue as a more encompassing approach that is sensitive to the values, norms and affects that underlie different or similar patterns of exclusion and rejection in different contexts. These cultures are located in the everyday lives of people. The article, therefore, first identifies contexts, objects of rejection­—often migrants and racialized Others, but also ‘the political’ or state institutions—narratives and components of cultures of rejection that we label reflexivity, affect, nostalgia and moralistic judgement. The contrasting reading of the five cases shows that people struggle for agency under precarious and insecure conditions, and fight against imagined enemies. As Bojanić, Jonsson, Neergaard and Sauer conclude, cultures of rejection mirror ongoing processes of neoliberal dispossession, authoritarization and depolitization that culminate in a wish for agency and resovereignization. Second, and based on this overview, trends in cultures of rejection are detected against different national contexts as well as against common trends of social and economic transformations and crises, such as, for instance, the COVID-19 pandemic. This results, finally, in a discussion of ways of challenging the cultures of rejection towards more democratic and solidaristic societies. One starting point might be the ‘re-embedding’ of the economy in society, that is, a more equal distribution of resources and future perspectives.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2022
Keywords
affect, democratization, moralistic judgement, nostalgia, reflexivity, rejection, socio-economic dispossession, solidarity, transformation
National Category
International Migration and Ethnic Relations Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-199954 (URN)10.1080/0031322x.2023.2226947 (DOI)2-s2.0-85178247701 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-01-26
Jonsson, S. (2022). Den otyglade skönheten: 5 saker konsten vet om demokratin. Stockholm: Norstedts
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den otyglade skönheten: 5 saker konsten vet om demokratin
2022 (Swedish)Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

Konsten är nödvändig för demokratin och dess överlevnad. Konst är kunskapsinstrument i egen rätt och förstår samhället på sätt som journalistik eller forskning inte kommer åt.Från opera till graffiti erbjuder estetisk gestaltning oss fantasi och komplexitet, den ger oss möjlighet att föreställa oss andra människors liv och alternativa samhällen, och den erbjuder vägar för handling och motstånd – det är den enkelriktande maktens motsats.Med exempel ur litteratur, film, teater och konst från mellankrigstidens Wien, krigets Sovjet och sjuttiotalets Kalifornien till vår tid med högläsning för barn i Norrköping, flyktingkriser vid Medelhavet och demonstrationer i Kyjiv visar Stefan Jonsson hur konstverket pekar ut frihetens vägar.Den otyglade skönheten är en brandfackla för konstens betydelse för människan, samhället och demokratin i en tid då den behövs som allra mest.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Norstedts, 2022. p. 208
Keywords
Konst och samhälle, Demokrati
National Category
Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-187660 (URN)9789113121819 (ISBN)9789113122052 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-08-18 Created: 2022-08-18 Last updated: 2022-08-18Bibliographically approved
Jonsson, S. (2022). Den otyglade skönheten: 5 saker konsten vet om demokratin (1ed.). Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den otyglade skönheten: 5 saker konsten vet om demokratin
2022 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Konsten är nödvändig för demokratin och dess överlevnad. Konst är kunskapsinstrument i egen rätt och förstår samhället på sätt som journalistik eller forskning inte kommer åt.Från opera till graffiti erbjuder estetisk gestaltning oss fantasi och komplexitet, den ger oss möjlighet att föreställa oss andra människors liv och alternativa samhällen, och den erbjuder vägar för handling och motstånd – det är den enkelriktande maktens motsats.Med exempel ur litteratur, film, teater och konst från mellankrigstidens Wien, krigets Sovjet och sjuttiotalets Kalifornien till vår tid med högläsning för barn i Norrköping, flyktingkriser vid Medelhavet och demonstrationer i Kyjiv visar Stefan Jonsson hur konstverket pekar ut frihetens vägar.Den otyglade skönheten är en brandfackla för konstens betydelse för människan, samhället och demokratin i en tid då den behövs som allra mest.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 2022. p. 208 Edition: 1
Keywords
Aesthetics and politics. Theories of Democracy. Cultural politics and policy. Art and society. Artistic practices.
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Cultural Studies International Migration and Ethnic Relations Pedagogical Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193923 (URN)9789113121819 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-01964
Available from: 2023-05-19 Created: 2023-05-19 Last updated: 2023-05-26Bibliographically approved
Hansen, P. & Jonsson, S. (2022). Eurafrique: Aux origines coloniales de l'Union Européenne (1ed.). Paris: La Découverte
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Eurafrique: Aux origines coloniales de l'Union Européenne
2022 (French)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [fr]

Alors que l’Europe, jadis triomphante, se trouve ravagée, appauvrie et divisée au sortir de la Première Guerre mondiale, un concept prometteur se diffuse dans les milieux dirigeants et intellectuels du Vieux Continent : l’Eurafrique !Faire du continent africain le ferment de l’unité européenne : tel est le projet de Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, chantre du mouvement paneuropéen, et de nombre de ses contemporains dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Le salut de l’Europe, affirment-ils, repose sur sa capacité à exploiter en commun les richesses des colonies africaines. Rivalisant avec la puissance montante des continents américain et asiatique, l’Eurafrique deviendra ainsi le pôle dominant de la géopolitique mondiale.Le projet eurafricain, un temps caressé par les régimes fascistes, renaît de ses cendres après 1945 et inspire les « fondateurs » de l’Europe : Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Paul Henri Spaak, Konrad Adenauer. La France, principale puissance coloniale d’Europe continentale, joue alors un rôle essentiel. Malmené en Indochine puis en Algérie, Paris s’accroche à ses possessions africaines et fait de leur inclusion dans le marché commun européen une condition sine qua nonà sa participation à la construction européenne.C’est ce dossier qu’ouvrent Peo Hansen et Stefan Jonsson. Proposant une analyse inédite des négociations qui aboutiront à la signature du traité de Rome en 1957, ils dévoilent un pan méconnu de l’histoire de l’Union européenne : ses origines coloniales.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Paris: La Découverte, 2022. p. 363 Edition: 1
Keywords
History of European integration, EEC/EU, Rome Treaty negotiations, Africa, colonialism, decolonisation, geopolitics, postcoloniality, global history
National Category
History International Migration and Ethnic Relations Globalisation Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-185314 (URN)9782348055560 (ISBN)9782348055652 (ISBN)
Note

Revised edition translated into French of Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colinialism.

Translation by Claire Habart

Preface by Étienne Balibar

Available from: 2022-05-23 Created: 2022-05-23 Last updated: 2022-08-23Bibliographically approved
Projects
Narratives of Europe: Perspectives from its North-East Periphery [A004-2011_OSS]; Södertörn University
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-2007-3736

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