August 2011
Article available online:
"Sprogbrug - Kulturel mangfoldighed, interkultur, flerkultur, multikultur, etnisk, 2G’er, indvandrer, integration, nydansker.."
Den massive dækning i medierne om problemer med indvandring og integration bidrager til at ord, som tidligere blev opfattet som neutrale, nedslides og med tiden tillægges nye betydninger
From the magazine "Cultures" - co-written with journalist Mik Aidt (in Danish)
Available here: Sprogbrug - Cultures No.1
August 2011
New publication: "The Annoying Difference: The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World"
The Annoying Difference brings together research on three significant historical media events carried out over a period of thirteen years, in order to show the drastic changes and emerging fissures in Danish society and to expose the politicizing of Danish news journalism, which has consequences for the political representation and everyday lives of ethnic minorities in Denmark. In the eyes of the media, the general public, and mainstream perceptions these minorities were annoyingly different, as they refused to reduce their visible and aural differences.
The first event is the symbiotic 1997 campaign of the newly formed Danish People’s Party and the tabloid Ekstra Bladet, which in turn cannot be understood without reference to the banal nationalism of two Maastricht referenda in 1992 and 1993; the European Soccer Championship in Sweden in 1992; and debates regarding the arrival of Bosnian refugees in 1994 and 1995.
The second event is the Mona Sheikh case—a story about how young Muslims born in Denmark with Pakistani roots were forced to leave Danish politics in the summer of 2001 due to a Danish news media that, through its moralistic, panic-stricken coverage, “demonized” Islam and the young Muslims. Jyllands-Posten, Berlingske Tidende, and Denmark’s Radio played a crucial role in Denmark’s shift from a neonationalism that marginalized those who were ethnically different (particularly Somali refugees) to one that affected Muslims in Denmark and abroad. Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who was later to draw the bomb-in-the-turban cartoon for Jyllands-Posten, was active in this period as well, and so were key Danish political players and journalists. The attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on 11 September came immediately after the Mona Sheikh story. Then, in Denmark’s November 2001 national election, the Liberals and Conservatives formed a strong coalition government based on the radical right-wing populist Danish People’s Party.
The third event is the furor surrounding the Muhammad cartoons published in September 2005; violent reactions to those cartoons reached around the world and peaked in February 2006.
Available at Berghahn Books and Amazon.com
July 2011
Peter Hervik is now on Facebook.
Updates, news and research commentary will be available on Facebook and on the official website www.peterhervik.dk
June 2011
New publication: Feeding the Beast. Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and Denmark."
Hellström, Anders and Peter Hervik
(Link to PDF vbn.aau.dk/files/53272264/comid_wp_1.pdf)
May 2007
Comments on "Den håndfaste muslim fra Vollsmose" portrait of Asmaa Abdol-Hmid by Claus Blok Thomsen.
Endnu en journalist i selvsving over dødsstraf.
"Journalister og dødsstraf" (Danish)
April 2007
"Reading the Mohammed Cartoons Controversy" is a new book size working paper based on international analysis involving media researchers in 14 different countries. The Danish contribution "Denmark; A political struggle in Danish journalism" was written by Clarissa Berg and myself
www.projektverlag.de/Shopeur/ Click "Neuerscheinungen" and scroll a little.
April 2007
En udviddet dansk version er netop udkommet som et AMID working paper med titlen “Muhammed krisen. En politisk kamp i dansk journalistik.” www.amid.dk
February 2006
The main story of "The Muslims of the Media"
- the Mona Sheikh story - is analyzed in this English Version
Muslims of the Media
“English Summary of Muslims of the Media” – An anthropological investigation of the media´s coverage of religions in Denmark
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October 2011
The Annoying Difference is now a featured title at Berghahnbooks.com
September 2011
Article on Europe's far-right politics from the international newspaper "The Christian Science Monitor" - in correlation with the newly published The Annoying Difference.
Read the full article Here
August 2011
Article available online: "Sprogbrug - Kulturel mangfoldighed, interkultur, flerkultur, multikultur, etnisk, 2G’er, indvandrer, integration, nydansker.."
From the magazine "Cultures" - co-written with journalist Mik Aidt (in Danish)
Sprogbrug - Cultures No.1
August 2011
New publication: "The Annoying Difference: The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World"
“[A] very important contribution to various debates on current Danish identity politics and more generally, on the developments of contemporary right-wing politics prevailing in Europe and the West.”
- Gunvor Jónsson, International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford
Available at Berghahn Books and Amazon.com
July 2011
Peter Hervik is now on Facebook
June 2011
New publication: Feeding the Beast. Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and Denmark."
Hellström, Anders and Peter Hervik
(Link to PDF Publication: Feeding the Beast)
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