Category Archives: Decolonization

Samora

By SindreJuly 1, 2015Antisemitism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Extremism, Far right, Genocide, Germany, Hate speech, History, Holocaust/Shoah, Human rights, Islamophobia, Jews, Muslims, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Racism, South Africa

My own and Cora A. Døving’s primer on racism – Hva er rasisme? [What is racism?] Universitetsforlaget, 2015 – has been reviewed by Mohamed Abdi for the Norwegian journal Samora. The review can be read in full in Norwegian here: http://mohamed86a.tumblr.com/post/122836319840/hva-b-r-antirasisme-i-var-tid-vaere

Re-envisioning the history of human rights: Reading Samuel Moyn

By SindreMay 10, 2015Antisemitism, Decolonization, France, Genocide, Germany, History, Holocaust/Shoah, Human rights, Humanitarianism, Islam, Liberal internationalism, Muslims, Nazism, Norway, Political liberalism, UNDHR 1948, World War IIJeremy Waldron, Jürgen Habermas, Lynn Hunt, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Rosen, Samuel Moyn, Tony Judt

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always […]