ABSTRACT
In November 1999 there was a serious clash between police and youngsters in Nørrebro, an old working class neighbourhood in central Copenhagen. What began as rioting developed into a serious incident of social unrest and violence between citizens and authorities. Some of the youngsters involved were ethnic minorities. This chapter analyses the dynamics of othering and of social marginalisation among these youngsters and especially how these feelings were articulated around the November 1999 incident. It focuses on the relationship between media uses and identity struggles in the lives of ethnic minority youth in Copenhagen. Nørrebro is a neighbourhood with a tradition of social organisation, including the labour movements of the 19th century, which were born here. The process of producing locality occurs by articulating and forming relations between 'the sense of social immediacy, the technologies of interactivity, and the relativity of contexts'. Television, together with video, is instrumental in the process of using media to negotiate identities.
