Collaboration in Hybrid Spaces: The Case of Nordic Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism

Abstract

In this article, we analyze policy regulating the multiagency organizational approaches used in Nordic countries to prevent violent extremism. From an institutional logic perspective and a conceptualization of multiagency work as conducted in hybrid spaces, we analyze and develop a new theoretical framework to explain how central policies inhabit distinctive logics that compete, mix, and co-exist in these spaces, and how they inscribe specific power relations embedded in dominant discourses.

Keywords

• institutional logics
• multiagency approaches
• nordic countries
• policy
• violent extremism