This article provides the Danish official policy on 'ghettoes' with a literary prehistory and in ... more This article provides the Danish official policy on 'ghettoes' with a literary prehistory and in doing so makes the argument that the present-day conception of 'ghettoes' as by definition linked to nonwestern immigrants is only the latest in a long line of figurations. Danish fiction and poetry from the 1960s to the present day on the design, building and habitation of modernist mass housing projects tell a three-chapter story of recession. High hopes and an ambition to remedy class barriers in the sixties give way to despair and a reconfiguration of class society during the seventies. Built for both the working class and the middle class, the estates gradually, not least in the public imagination, become the epitome of a precarious existence on the margins of society. When immigrants arrive because of globalisation, the Danish welfare state moves them into an existing social architecture, figuratively as well as non-figuratively speaking. In this contemporary context the article charts site-specific conceptions of class and gender before suggesting -by way of Bruno Latour and Manuel DeLanda -new answers to the question: 'What is a ghetto?'
1 Fremtidens for tidligt fødte børn eller »Go stil, fed pik og karisma«. Den mandhaftige mand i J... more 1 Fremtidens for tidligt fødte børn eller »Go stil, fed pik og karisma«. Den mandhaftige mand i Jokerens Storby stodder. ... Eller sagt på en anden måde: måske er teksterne ikke en beskrivelse af tingenes tilstand, som litteraten skal dømme falsk eller sand, syg eller sund, men ...
This article provides the Danish official policy on 'ghettoes' with a literary prehistory and in ... more This article provides the Danish official policy on 'ghettoes' with a literary prehistory and in doing so makes the argument that the present-day conception of 'ghettoes' as by definition linked to nonwestern immigrants is only the latest in a long line of figurations. Danish fiction and poetry from the 1960s to the present day on the design, building and habitation of modernist mass housing projects tell a three-chapter story of recession. High hopes and an ambition to remedy class barriers in the sixties give way to despair and a reconfiguration of class society during the seventies. Built for both the working class and the middle class, the estates gradually, not least in the public imagination, become the epitome of a precarious existence on the margins of society. When immigrants arrive because of globalisation, the Danish welfare state moves them into an existing social architecture, figuratively as well as non-figuratively speaking. In this contemporary context the article charts site-specific conceptions of class and gender before suggesting -by way of Bruno Latour and Manuel DeLanda -new answers to the question: 'What is a ghetto?'
1 Fremtidens for tidligt fødte børn eller »Go stil, fed pik og karisma«. Den mandhaftige mand i J... more 1 Fremtidens for tidligt fødte børn eller »Go stil, fed pik og karisma«. Den mandhaftige mand i Jokerens Storby stodder. ... Eller sagt på en anden måde: måske er teksterne ikke en beskrivelse af tingenes tilstand, som litteraten skal dømme falsk eller sand, syg eller sund, men ...
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