Mette Andersson
Professor
Department of Sociology
Title: Professor
Phone: +47 55 58 91 74
E-mail: Mette.Andersson@sos.uib.no
Visiting address: Rosenbergsgaten39
Room number: 300
Cultural and political sociology: migration, ethnicity/race/racism, identity, social movements, sport, religion, transnationalism
Phd in Sociology from the University of Bergen, 2000
Visiting scholar at Centre for Urban and Community studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London (spring 2000) and Department of Sociology, Yale University (autumn 2004)
Publications in English/Spanish:
Vassenden, A. & Andersson, M. 2011. “Whiteness, non-whiteness and ‘faith information control’: religion among young people in Grønland, Oslo”, Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 34(4): 574-593.
Andersson, M. 2011. "Global integration in the Nation: The Emergence of Non-White Athletes and Anti-Racist Initiatives in Norwegian Elite Sport". Pp. 150-166 in Sport and Challenges to Racism, edited by Jonathon Long and Karl Spracklen. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillian.
Vassenden, A. and Andersson, M. 2010. "When an image becomes sacred: photo-elicitation with images of holy books". Visual Studies Vol. 25(2): 149-161.
Andersson, M. 2010. “The social imaginary of first generation Europeans”. Social Identities vol. 16(1): 3-21.
Andersson, M. (2009) "De todos blancos a la mayoría blanca. Migraciones deportivas e integración en el fútbol noruego". Pp. 93-106 in Tamon Llopis-Goig (ed.): Fútbol postnacional. Transformaciones sociales y culturales del 'deporte global' en Europa y América Latina. Barcelona: Editorial Anthropos.
Andersson, M. 2009. ”Religion in inner-city Oslo”, s. 5-8 in Street Signs spring 2009, Centre for Urban and Community research, Goldsmiths College. [http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/pdf/streetsigns_spr09.pdf ]
Andersson, M. 2007. “The relevance of the Black Atlantic in contemporary sport. Racial imaginaries in Norway”. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 42(1): 63-79.
Andersson, M. 2007. “Corporate multiculturalism bounces across the Atlantic. The introduction of semi-professional basketball in Norway”. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, Vol. 2, No. 1-2: 2-15.
Andersson, M. 2006. “Colonialisation of Norwegian Space: Identity Politics in the Streets of Oslo in the 1990s”. Norsk tidsskrift for migrasjonsforskning, nr. 1/2006: 6-24.
Andersson, M. 2006. “Ethnic Entrepreneurs: identity politics among ethnic Pakistani students in Norway”. P. 25-32 in What happens When a Society is Diverse? Exploring Multidimensional Identities, edited by Y.G. Lithman og H. Sicakkan. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
Lithman, Y.G. og Andersson, M. 2005. ”Introduction”. P. 9-26 in Youth, Otherness and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life, edited by M. Andersson, Y.G. Lithman and O. Sernhede. Göteborg: Daidalos.
Andersson, M. 2005. ”Individualized and Collectivized Bases for Migrant Youth Identity Work”. P. 27-52 in Youth, Otherness and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life, edited by M. Andersson, Y.G. Lithman and O. Sernhede. Göteborg: Daidalos.
Andersson, M. 2005. Urban Multi-Culture in Norway: Identity Formation among Immigrant Youth. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
Andersson, M., Lithman, Y.G. and Sernhede, O. (eds). 2005. Youth, Otherness and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Göteborg: Daidalos.
Andersson, M. 2003. “Immigrant youth and the dynamics of marginalization”. Young, vol.11, no. 1: 74-89.
Andersson, M. 2001.”Ethnic Entrepreneurs – Identity Work as Negotiations of Gender, Ethnicity and Generation”. P.158-182 i Forestillinger om “den andre”. Images of Otherness, edited by L.A. Ytrehus. Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget.
Andersson, M. 2002. “Identity Work in Sports. Ethnic Minority Youth, Norwegian Macro-debates and the Role Model Aspect”. Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 3, no. 1: 83-107.
Andersson, M. 2002. “The situated politics of Recognition: Ethnic minority youth and identity work”. Critical Urban Studies: Occasional Papers, Centre for Urban and Community research, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Andersson, M. 1999. “All five fingers are not the same”. Identity work among ethnic minority youth in an urban Norwegian context. Phd-thesis submitted to the University of Bergen, Department of Sociology
Research projects / networks:
2008-2011. Ungdom och social exklusion: identitet, lärande och territoriell stigmatisering [youth and social exclusion]. Nordic network of researchers working on ethnic minority youth. Based in Centre for cultural studies, University of Gothenburg, financed by NORDFORSK.
2008-2010. European Network on the Investigation of Religious Pluralism. European network of religion researchers based in Ruhr-Universität Bochum, financed by NORFACE.
2007-2010. Project leader of Transnasjonale nettverk, nasjonale demokratier. Politisk mobilisering og engasjement blant unge med innvandrerbakgrunn. [Transnational networks, national democracies. Political mobilisation and engagement among youth of immigrant background]. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
2007-2010. Project participant in Architecture of Contemporary Religious transmission, financed by the NORFACE- program Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe? Professor Roger Hewitt, CUCR, Goldsmiths College, University of London is project leader.
2002-2004. Post.doc. project on elite sport and globalization, financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
2000-2001. Project participant in project on second generation immigrants in Norway, financed by the Norwegian research Council and led by Professor Yngve Lithman (UoB & IMER /Bergen).