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Mette
Andersson
Professor
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Rosenbergsgaten39
Bergen
Room: 
300
Postal Address: 
Postboks 7802
5015 Bergen
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+47 55 58 91 74
+47 920 61 878
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Cultural and political sociology: migration, ethnicity/race/racism, identity, social movements, sport, religion, transnationalism, public space

Books
  • Vestel, Viggo Jan; Andersson, Mette; Jacobsen, Christine M.; Rogstad, Jon Christian. 2012. Kritiske hendelser - Nye stemmer. Politisk engasjement og transnasjonal orientering i det nye Norge. Universitetsforlaget. 271 pages. ISBN: 978-82-15-01823-2.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2008. Flerfarget idrett. Nasjonalitet, migrasjon og minoritet. Fagbokforlaget. 215 pages. ISBN: 978-82-450-0271-3.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Urban Multi-Culture in Norway: Identity Formation Among Immigrant Youth. Edwin Mellen Press. 508 pages. ISBN: 0-7734-5986-3.
  • Andersson, Mette; Lithman, Yngve; Sernhede, Ove. 2005. Youth, Otherness and the Plural City. Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Daidalos. 368 pages. ISBN: 9171732349.
Journal articles
  • Andersson, Mette. 2012. The debate about multicultural Norway before and after 22 July 2011. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 19: 418-427. doi: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.684442
  • Jacobsen, Christine M.; Andersson, Mette. 2012. 'Gaza in Oslo': Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth. Ethnicities. 12: 821-843. doi: 10.1177/1468796812451097
  • Andersson, Mette. 2011. The Ethnicity Reader. Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration. Acta Sociologica. 54: 195-198. doi: 10.1177/0001699311403112
  • Andersson, Mette. 2011. Review Essay. Montserrat Guibernau and John Rex (eds), The Ethnicity Reader, Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010 (2nd edn), 348 pp. Steve Fenton, Ethnicity. Cambrdige: Polity Press (2nd edn), 248 pp. Acta Sociologica. 54: 195-198.
  • Vassenden, Anders; Andersson, Mette. 2011. Whiteness, non-whiteness and 'faith information control': religion among young people in Grønland, Oslo. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 34: 574-593. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2010.511239
  • Andersson, Mette. 2010. The social imaginary of first generation Europeans. Social Identities. 16: 3-21. doi: 10.1080/13504630903465845
  • Vassenden, Anders; Andersson, Mette. 2010. When an Image becomes Sacred. Photo elicitation using images of holy books. Visual Studies. 25: 149-161. doi: 10.1080/1472586X.2010.502672
  • Andersson, Mette. 2009. Identity before identity politics. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 32: 1292-1293.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2008. Idrett og Mangfold. Dagbladet. 36-36. Published 2008-03-25.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2007. The relevance of the Black Atlantic in contemporary sport. Racial imaginaries in Norway. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 42: 63-79. doi: 10.1177/1012690207081829
  • Andersson, Mette. 2007. Corporate multiculturalism bounces across the Atlantic. The introduction of semi-professional basketball in Norway. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. 2: 2-15.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2007. Med flagget på brystet. Samtiden. 4. 42-55.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2006. Colonialisation of Norwegian space identity politics in the streets of Oslo in the 1990s. Norsk tidsskrift for migrasjonsforskning. 7: 6-25.
  • Gressgård, Randi; Andersson, Mette; Fuglerud, Øivind; Jacobsen, Christine M.; Rogstad, Jon. 2006. Forskning og feighet. Dagbladet. Published 2006-03-28.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Lønnsom arbeidsinnvandring. Klassekampen. 20-20. Published 2005-09-27.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Uten tilhørighet. Klassekampen. 9-9. Published 2005-11-22.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Sport og integrasjon. Klassekampen. 9-9. Published 2005-04-12.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Minoritetsmobilisering. Klassekampen. 9-9. Published 2005-07-19.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Ærlig tenkning? Klassekampen. 9-9. Published 2005-06-07.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2004. Identitetsarbeid og identitetspolitikk. Sosiologi i dag. 34: 55-82.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2004. Onkel Tom-komplekset. Klassekampen. 1 pages. Published 2004-11-30.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2004. Multikulturelle representanter mellom nasjonal og global toppidrett. Idrottsforum.org. 18 pages. Published 2004-10-12.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2004. Den totale rasismen. Klassekampen. 1 pages. Published 2004-10-19.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2004. Mangfoldig om identitet. Anmeldelse av Thomas Hylland Eriksen "Røtter og føtter. Identitet i en omskiftelig tid.". Klassekampen. 1 pages. Published 2004-05-24.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2003. Immigrant youth and the dynamics of marginalization. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 11: 74-89.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2002. Identity work in sports. Ethnic minority youth, Norwegian macro-debates and the role model aspect. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 3: 83-106.
  • Holmdahl, R.; Jansson, L.; Andersson, Mette; Jonsson, R. 1992. Genetic, hormonal and behavioural influence on spontaneously developing arthritis in normal mice. Clinical and Experimental Immunology. 88: 467-472.
Reports and theses
  • Andersson, Mette. 2000. The situated politics of recognition: Ethnic minority youth & identity work. Critical Urban Studies: Occasional Papers, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, London. 19 pages.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2000. "All five fingers are not the same" : identity work among ethnic minority youth in an urban Norwegian context. 356 pages.
  • Andersson, Mette. 1996. Understanding the Other Epistemologies and their consequences. Doktorgradsarbeid. Sosiologisk inst., UiB.
  • Andersson, Mette; Lithman, Yngve. 1996. Innvandrerungdom, nettverk og etnisk identitet. En studie av tokulturellhet. IMER Norway/Bergen publications. 1. SEFOS.
  • Andersson, Mette. 1995. Ethnic Identity in Second Generation Immigrants. (Paper til Dr.Polit.kurs). [Mangler utgivernavn].
  • Andersson, Mette. 1994. Det er ingen som kjenner meg : unge enslige flyktninger i eksil. (Knyttet til "IMER-Programmet UiB, internasjonal migrasjon og etniske relasjoner".). SEFOS Notat. 108. UiB. 159 pages.
Book sections
  • Andersson, Mette. 2011. Global integration in the nation: The emergence of non-white athletes and antiracist initiatives in Norwegian elite sport. Chapter 10, pages 150-166. In:
    • Long, Jonathan; Spracklen, Karl. 2011. Sport and challenges to racism. Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pages. ISBN: 978-0-230-57818-0.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2009. De todos blancos a la mayoría blanca. Migraciones deportivas e integración en el fútbol noruego. sección 7, pages 93-106. In:
    • Llopis Goig, Ramón. 2009. Fútbol postnacional. Transformaciones sociales y culturales del "deporte globaol" en Europa y América Latina. 205 pages. ISBN: 978-84-7658-937-3.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2007. Migrasjon som utfordring. Kritikk av metodologisk nasjonalisme. Kapittel 3, pages 53-79. In:
    • Fuglerud, Øivind; Hylland Eriksen, Thomas. 2007. Grenser for kultur? Perspektiver fra norsk minoritetsforskning. Pax Forlag. 335 pages. ISBN: 978-82-530-3055-5.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2006. Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Identity Politics among Pakistani Students in Norway. 3, pages 25-51. In:
    • Sicakkan, Hakan G.; Lithman, Yngve. 2006. What happens when a society is diverse? Exploring multidimensional identities. Edwin Mellen Press. 252 pages. ISBN: 0-7734-5877-8.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Individualized and Collectivized Bases for Migrant Youth Identity Work. Del 1, pages 27-52. In:
    • Andersson, Mette; Lithman, Yngve; Sernhede, Ove. 2005. Youth, Otherness and the Plural City. Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Daidalos. 368 pages. ISBN: 9171732349.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2005. Bad guys og good guys. Om rasismebegrepet i den norske innvandringsdebatten. kapittel 14, pages 164-176. In:
    • NRK, P2. 2005. P2-akademiet. Bind XXXII. 192 pages. ISBN: 82-7596-156-4.
  • Lithman, Yngve; Andersson, Mette. 2005. Introduction. Introduksjon, pages 9-26. In:
    • Andersson, Mette; Lithman, Yngve; Sernhede, Ove. 2005. Youth, Otherness and the Plural City. Modes of Belonging and Social Life. Daidalos. 368 pages. ISBN: 9171732349.
  • Andersson, Mette. 2001. Ethnic Entrepreneurs - Identity work as negotiations of Gender, Ethnicity and Generation. *, pages 158-182. In:
    • Ytrehus, Line Alice Ågotnes. 2001. Forestillinger om "den andre!. Images of Otherness. Høyskoleforlaget. ISBN: 82-7634-342-2.
  • Andersson, Mette. 1999. "Etniske entreprenører" - utdanning som mål, symbol og motstand. 339-354. In:
    • Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth; Broch-Due, Anne Kathrine; Nilsen, Ann. 1999. Ansvar og protest. Kjønn, klasse og utdanning i senmoderniteten. ISBN: 82-578-0142-9.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Publications in English/other foreign languages:

Jacobsen, C.M. and Andersson, M. 2012. "'Gaza in Oslo' : Social Imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth", Ethnicities vol. 12(6): 821-843.

Andersson, M. 2012. "The debate about multicultural Norway before and after 22 July 2011", Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power vol. 19(4): 418-427.

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. 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. 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. 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

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)

Scientific leader of Bergen Summer Research School 2012 on Transnational Migration and Global Development.

 

Current projects

Research projects / networks:

2013-. Migration research in the public sphere. Pilot project on Norwegian migration researchers' experiences with dissemination.

2013-2015. Sociological Theory and Practice Revisited. Participant in Norwegian research council financed project on the development of sociological theory and practice.

2012-. The Norwegian Citizen Panel. Co-coordinator of opinion questions in the research group on diversity and welfare. The citizen panel is directed by an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Uni Rokkan Centre in Bergen.

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).