{"id":402,"date":"2012-03-01T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=402"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:40:21","slug":"denmark-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2012\/03\/01\/denmark-from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark from the Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ulrik in front of his workplace.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ulrik, you\u2019re an ethnographer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right. I got my degree in 2006, after nine years of studies. I\u2019m currently the leader of The Ethnographic Collections at Moesg\u00e5rd Museum<\/a> in the \u00c5rhus area.<\/p>\n

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Did you make any fieldwork?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was in Egypt, in Alexandria, where I made a project about some Greek, Italian and Armenian families. They are the remaining few of some large groups from the time before the Second World War.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a particular interest in minorities?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t say that. My fieldwork is about these people who are somehow living in the past. They have a dream of a past glory. I\u2019m interested in the question: How does one recollect things? That was the theme of my speciale<\/strong> (master\u2019s dissertation), which dealt with Palestinian refugees in Denmark\u2026<\/p>\n

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So after Egypt you made a second fieldwork here in Denmark, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was a kind of miniature fieldwork. While I was writing my dissertation, I interviewed local people with Palestinian roots. The interviews focused on their \u201dcollective memory\u201d of a Palestine where they\u2019ve never been.<\/p>\n

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How do the Danish Palestinians deal with their past?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t feel at ease with the times you\u2019re living in, you\u2019ll be more inclined to cling yourself to something past, even if it\u2019s a thought construction. For the persons whose grandparents were born in Palestine, it is a political question. They talk about wanting to have their country back. But that doesn\u2019t mean they want to drop the reins here<\/em>. It\u2019s more about the right to be able<\/em> to go back. They want others to recognize that their people have suffered injury \u2013 that they themselves are suffering. They might be unemployed. In many ways, they feel left out of the Danish society. Perhaps that\u2019s why so many young third generation Danish Palestinians feel uncomfortable and are in conflict with the authorities.<\/p>\n

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How can we make them feel better?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is evident that in order to function well, you have to be part of a community, on equal terms with other people. In Denmark the talk has been about integrating people \u2013 but in practice there has been a demand that people with a different religious or cultural background should be assimilated. I think the gap between the words said and the things actually done, has made us \u201dlose\u201d a whole lot of people.<\/p>\n

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Are the Danes living in the past?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026read on tomorrow<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Ulrik, you\u2019re an ethnographer? Yes, that\u2019s right. I got my degree in 2006, after nine years of studies. I\u2019m currently the leader of The Ethnographic Collections at Moesg\u00e5rd Museum in the \u00c5rhus area.   Did you make any fieldwork? I was in Egypt, in Alexandria, where I made a project about some Greek, Italian and…<\/p>\n

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