Hotet mot det svenska samhällskontraktet - Hur tiggeri i Stockholm aktiverar det personliga
moraliska ansvaret
Engelsk titel: The threat against the Swedish social contract - How panhandling in Stockholm activates the
personal moral responsibility
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Författare:
Hansson, Erik
Email: erik.hansson@kultgeog.uu.se.
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 5
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15083262
Sammanfattning
When citizens of Stockholm were interviewed concerning their experiences
of panhandling, the matter turned out to be inseparable from conceptions of
Sweden as the place in the world were begging does not belong. An overarching
narrative alleged that the presence of begging EU citizens was threatening
the Swedish "social contrac" between the welfare state and the
individual Swede, which up until now had guaranteed the perception of an
ethical order where Swedish citizens were righteously relieved from personal
moral responsibility for vulnerable strangers and where structural poverty
could not materialize in the embodied Swedish life world. The encounter with
the begging EU citizen becomes a confrontation with the moral foundations
of the Swedish identity.