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Yngve G. Lithman
     
Position: Senior Researcher, Director Emeritus (IMER Bergen)
Professor of Sociology (UiB)
Office: IMER Bergen/Dept.of Sociology, UiB
Phone: (+46) 730 56 9828
E-mail: Yngve.Lithman@sos.uib.no

Work Profile

After having held several senior positions at universities in Europe and North America, Lithman was in 1996 appointed Director of the Research Unit on International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Bergen, Norway, IMER N/B. He has also been appointed professor of sociology at the same university. In the spring term of 2000, he was made a Killam Fellow, nominated by the University of Calgary, Canada. The same year, he was appointed International Associate at the Centre for Community and Urban Studies, Goldsmiths College, London. Lithman has lectured widely internationally, and some of his international engagement is also expressed in his position within the Metropolis network, where he is a member of the international steering committee. He was scientifically responsible for its annual international conference in Oslo in 2002. He has done field work in Sweden, Canada, and Peru, as well as various shorter field trips in European, Asian and African countries. Lithman has also had a variety of international and national consulting tasks. He is also engaged in a variety of international scholarly associations and other network activities.

Research Interests

Lithman’s research includes a variety of concerns related to international migration and ethnic relations, Aboriginal and First Nations (Indians) issues, development theory, natural resource issues, popular culture and culture theory, incl. sports

Current research project

  • Diversity, Togetherness, and a Society in Change
  • Migrants, Minorities, Belonging and Citizenship: Glocalization and Participation Dilemmas
  • Diversity and Citizenship: The European Union, Minorities and Migrants

Forthcoming publications include an edited volume on youth in an era of globalization as well as a single-author work with the working title ‘Myths about Migration’, a critical reflection on some themes in migration and globalization research and policy-making.

Selected publications

This list of publications only includes research-oriented work, not newspaper articles, etc.

Books

(2006) What Happens When the Society is Diverse. Exploring Multidimensional Identities. Anthology in print at The Edwin Mellen Press, New York. Editor with Hakan G. Sicakkan. For more information please visit the publisher's website.

(2005) Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Diversity. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. Editor with Hakan G. Sicakkan. For book reviews, follow the publisher’s website

(2005) Youth, Otherness, and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Gothenburg: Daidalos. Editor with Mette Andersson & Ove Sernhede. For more information please visit the publisher's website.

(2003) Diversity and Citizenship: The European Union, Citizens, Minorities, and Migrants. Bergen: Bric. Editor with Hakan G. Sicakkan.

(1992) People and Land in Northern Manitoba. Winnipeg, Mb: Anthropological Papers from the University of Manitoba, nbr 32. (editor w. others)

(1988) The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe. London: Mansell's. Editor with Tomas Gerholm. Paperback edition 1990 and later years.

(1987) Nybyggarna i Sverige: Invandring och Andrageneration. (Settlers in Sweden: Immigration and Second Generation.) Stockholm: Carlssons förlag. (Editor and author of three chapters.)

(1983) The Practice of Underdevelopment and the Theory of Development: The Canadian Indian Case. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology nr. 11.

(1978) The Community Apart: A Case Study of a Canadian Indian Reserve Community. Stockholm: Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology nr. 6. (Slightly revised also issued in 1984 by the University of Manitoba Press, second printing 1985, second edition l987.)

Articles & Reports

(2008) Citizenship and Multiculturalism in Norway. Canadian Diversity 2008 ;Volum 6.(4).

(2006) McJihad: Globalization, Radical Transnationalism, and Terrorism of the Diaspora. In Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve Lithman (eds.) What Happens When the Society is Diverse? Exploring Multidimensional Identities. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

(2006) Diversity and Multidimensional Identities. In Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve G. Lithman (eds.) What Happens When the Society is Diverse? Exploring Multidimensional Identitites. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Co-writer with Hakan G. Sicakkan.

(2005) The Cultural Constructions of Nationalisms. Nation, Person, Time and Territory in First Nation - White Realtionships in Canada. In Sicakkan, Hakan G. & Yngve G. Lithman (eds.) Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Diversity. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

(2005) The Social, the Cultural, the Aesthetic: Modes of Belonging among Migrant Youth. In Mette Andersson, Yngve Lithman & Ove Sernhede (eds.) Youth, Otherness, and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Gothenburg: Daidalos.

(2004) Europe, Wars, and Visions of the Future. Social Analysis 2004:2.

(2004) Anthropologists on Home Turf: How Green is the Grass? Anthropologica 2004:2.

(2004) When Researchers Disagree: Epistemology, Multiculturalism, Universities and the State. Ethnicities 4(2):155-184.

(2003) Epistemology and Multiculturalism. I: Austrian Sociological Association. Proceedings from the 2003 congress "Integrating Europe". Vienna: ÖSV.

(2003) Globalization and Terrorism in and of the Diaspora. Sydney & Canberra: Australian National University Europe Study Centre Technical Paper No 71, 2003; 22pp. (In the series: The Challenges of Immigration and Integration in the European Union and Australia.)

(2003) Radical Transnationalism and Terrorism of the Diaspora. I: Cesari, J., ed., European Muslims and the Secular State in a Comparative Perspective. Paris: G.S.R.L. (CNRS & Ecole des Haut. Etudes); s. 180-205.

(2001) Reflections on the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Children’s Elite Sport in Sweden. In: Dyck, N., ed., Games, Sports and Cultures. Oxford: Berg.

(2001) w. Trond Petersen & Björg Aase Sörensen, Mellom faktiske og forestilte forskjeller - synlige minoriteter på arbeidsmarkedet. Norsk Tidskrift for migrasjonsforskning. 2001:1.

(2000) Invandrarungdom och det omgivande samhället (Immigrant Youth and the Surrounding Society). In: Utenfra, men hjemme: invandrarungdom i storbyn. Oslo: Norges Forskningsråd.

(2000) Review of Beiser, M. Strangers at the Gate. Journal of International Migration and Integration, JIMI I:1,144-145.

(2000) Mötet: Perspektiv på relationen mellan invandrare och sjukvård och socialtjænst. (The Meeting. Perspectives on the Relation between Immigrants and Health Care and Social Service Systems.) IMER/Bergen Occasional Paper 18. II.38.

(1999) Spatial Concentration and Mobility," in From Metropolis to Cosmopolis, Hjaernö, J. (Ed), Esbjerg: South Jutland Press.

(1999) Review of MacClancy, J. Sport, Identity, Ethnicity. Ethnos 1999:3-4.

(1999) et al., Evaluering av Dansk Center for Migration og Etniske Studier (DAMES). København: Dansk forskningsråd.

(1999) Review of Jarvenpaa, R. Northern Passage. Ethnos 199:3-4.

(1998) Spatial Segregation in the Plural City. In: Abu-Laban, B. & Derwing, T. (eds) Responding to Diversity in the Metropolis: Building an Inclusive Research Agenda. Edmonton: PCERII.

(1997) Vi nya svenskar. EXPO 3:2.

(1997) Equality and Exclusion: Global, National and Local Research Challenges. In Knudsen, J.C. ed., Equality and Exclusion. Köpenhamn: Nordiska Ministerrådet, TEMA NORD.

(1997) Managing Diversity: Issues of Equity and Access. In: Lombardi, M., Metropolis. Aquaderni I.S.MU 6/1997, Milan: Fondazione Cariplo.

(1996) Fyra processer styr segregationen. Byggforskning 1996:4.

(1996) Segregation och livsstil. Bofast 1996:10.

(1996) Notions of Nation and the Politics of Meaning: Discourses about Sweden and the Others. In: Aase. T.H., ed. Metodologiske Tillnaermingen til studiet av fordommer og discriminering. Oslo: Norges Forskningsråd.

(1996) L’avenir au présent: le développement comme routine. In Fino, D. (Ed.) Impasse et promesses: L’ambiguité de la coopération au développement. Paris: PUF, Collection Enjeux.

(1996) The Feathers of a Bird and the Frosts of Winter: Portability of Treaty Rights in an Era of Restraint and Offloading. A Research Report for the Royal Commission for Aboriginal Peoples. Ottawa.

(1995) Ideologizing about Indian Attitudes to Wild Life: The Provincial - First Nation Interplay. Presentation at the CASCA Symposium on Indian Conservation of game: Ideological Bias or Cultural and Historical Variation, Vancouver, May 58, 1994.

(1994) The Provincial Financial Involvement in First Nations: A Report for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Winnipeg: Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

(1994) Vårt Behov av Muslimer. (Our Need of Muslims) In: Invandring, Forskning, Politik: En Vänbok till Tomas Hammar. Stockholms Universitet: CEIFO

(1993) The Issue of Health in the Urban Indian Population. In: Allard Y, Lithman, Y, McKay M.,O'Neill, J. eds.., Winnipeg Case Study of Health and Social Services. Ottawa: Canadian Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

(1992) Cultural Creativity and the Second Generation. In: Palmgren, C., Lövgren, K, Bohlin, G., Ethnicity in Youth Culture. Stockholm: Stockholm University, Media and Cultural Theory Unit.

(1989) Elitare, Motionärer, HålliFormare: Reflektioner kring hur människor kommer att Förhålla sig till sport och idrott. (Reflections about how people will relate to sports.) In: Andersson, J. ed. Turbulens i Rörelsen: Sju Perspektiv på Idrottens Framtid. Ödeshög: Sveriges Riksidrottsförbund och SISU.

(1988) Kämpande kroppar, moraliska kroppar: retorik och social kontroll i den tidiga gymnastiken. (Fighting bodies, moral bodies: rhetorics and social control in 19th century gymnastics.) In: Svensk Idrottshistorisk Årsbok 1988. Stockholm: SVIF.

(1988) Barnidrott som del av samhället: Konkurrens, gemenskap, individualism. (Children's Sports as a part of society: Competitiveness, communitas and individualism.) In: Familj, Barn, Idrott. Halmstad: Riksidrottsförbundet och högskolan i Halmstad,
Idrottsgruppen.

(1987) (with Tomas Hammar) The Integration of Migrants: Experiences, Concepts andPolicies. In: The Future of Migration. Paris: OECD. (Also available in French: L'avenir des migrations.)

(1987) The Immigrants in Sweden: A Case of Variation. In: Two Ways of Integrating Immigrants: Sweden, Israel. Stockholm: The Ministry of Labour.

(1987) Finns det nån Malinowski på Trobriandgatan? Som håller på med gymnastik? (Is there a Malinowski on Trobriand street? Who is into gymnastics?) Föredrag vid etnologiska institutionen, Stockholm, 2 september 1987.

(1987) Ethnicity: Idiom and Organization. Stockholm, Stockholms universitet: CEIFO Report 6.

(1986) Analyzing Variation: A Perspective on the Swedish Postwar Immigration. Ethnos 1986:3-4.

(1985) For Better or Worse: Contemporary Social, Cultural and Economic Changes in Europe and their Significanse for Cultural and Educational Policies. Strasbourg: Council of Europe document DECS/EGT (85) 13.

(1985) Immigrants and Minorities in the Welfare State: A Panorama of the Issues. Paper read At the International Sociological Association world conference in New Dehli.

(1984) Pure Anthropology as Applied: Teaching Anthropology on an Indian Reserve. In: P. Hovens (ed.): North American Indian Studies 2, European Contributions Society and Art. Göttingen: Edition Herodot.

(1984) When Tomorrow is Today: Development as the Idiom of Routine. Ethnos 49:34.

(1984) Inpassning eller avpassning: om flyktingar och arbetsmarknad. (Made to fit or make to fit thoughts about refugees and the labour market.) In: Att ta emot flyktingar. En antologi om flyktingar och flyktingmottagning. Norrköping: Statens invandrarverk.

(1983) How to Pitch a Tent in Suburbia? Anthropologists' Problems on Home Turf. Paper presented at the Seminar on Qualitative Methods, Madrid University, June 1983.

(1982) On Culture and Identity. EIFOPIL document nr. 7. Stockholm: Ministry of Labour.

(1981) Andragenerationen och ett multikulturellt Sverige. (The Second Generation and a Multicultural Sweden.) In: Hamberg, E. & Hammar, T.: Invandringen och Framtiden. Stockholm: Liber.

(1981) Några forskningsfrågor om andragenerationen. (Some research questions about the Second generation.) EIFOPIL dokument nr. 5. Stockholm: Ministry of Labour.

(1979) The Native Fact in Yukon. Whitehorse: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

(1979) Feeling Good and Getting Smashed: On the Symbolism of Alcohol and Drunkenness among Canadian Indians. Ethnos 1979:12. Also, slightly revised, published in Freilich, M.: The Pleasures of Anthropology, New York: Mentor Books, 7b. 1983, and in Risken att bli alkoholist, Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 1982.

(1977) Perspektiv på familjepedagogik. (Perspectives on the family pedagogy program.) Stockholm: The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare.

(1976) Tankar om problemidentifikation och metoder. (Thoughts about problem identification and methods.) Antropologi i Nackaprojektet 1/76. Stockholm:SUSU.

(1976) Ideal och Praxis: En utvärdering av den familjepedagogiska verksamheten för utomnordiska zigenare. (Ideals and Practices: An Evaluation of the Family Pedagogue Program for NonNordic Gypsies.) Stockholm: The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare.

(1975) Det egalitära behandlingsteamet. (The Egalitarian Psychiatric Team.) Antropologi i Nackaprojektet 1/75. Stockholm:SUSU.

(1973) The Capitalization of a Traditional Pursuit: The Case of Wild Rice in Manitoba. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, Center for Settlement Studies, Ser. 5, Nr. 6. (Also issued as ERIC/CRESS module, Nr ED 154 980.)

(1966) Andragenerationens kulturella kreativitet. Fataburen 1966.

n.d. Globalizing Essentialism: The Properties of Literacy and the Understanding of Literacy Programs. (Ready for submission - originally a contribution to a Sweden-based international book project which collapsed).

n.d. To Sharpen a Skate: The Creation of Absolutes in Egalitarian Ideology. (First delivered at the Australian New Zealand Anthropological Conference.)

n.d. European integration – towards a common European identity? (ready for submission – first presented at the Norsk handelshögskola conference Global Economic Perspectives Conference 2004). Ready for submission.

Lectures:

Draft version of a lecture presented at the Norface Seminar on Religion, Public Culture, and the New Immigration at Aarhus University, April 24-25, 2008. Download text and powerpoint presentation

 

 

 

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