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Africa Is A Country

By SindreSeptember 4, 2018Colonialism, Counter speech, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Decolonization, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Postcolonialism, Public anthropology, Racism, Slavery

My new essay for Africa Is A Country on ‘decolonization debates’ in Norway.

Samora Magazine

By SindreAugust 24, 2018'Race', Civil rights, Colonialism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Paul Gilroy, Postcolonialism, Racism, Slavery, The Black Atlantic, W. E. B. Du Bois

My essay on Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic twenty-five years on for the Norwegian anti-racist magazine Samora 2/2018 is now online.

American Ethnologist (AE)

By SindreAugust 23, 2018Colonialism, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural racism, Danish West Indies, Gisli Palsson, Hans Jonathan, History, Iceland, Nationalism, Racism

My review of University of Iceland Prof Gisli Palsson’s fine and fascinating ‘The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan’ (University of Chicago Press, 2016) is out now from American Ethnologist (AE).

Le Monde

By SindreAugust 17, 2018Anders Breivik And The Rise Of Islamophobia, Cultural racism, Extremism, Far right, Fascism, Muslims, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Public sphere, Racism, Terrorism

Interviewed for Le Monde for this article on the state of far-right hate in Norway seven years after Breivik.

World Policy Journal

By SindreJune 28, 2018Counterterrorism, Cultural racism, Eurabia genre, Extremism, Far right, Fascism, Human rights, Muslims, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-racism, Norway, Progress Party, Racism, Radicalization, Secularism

Happy to announce the publication of a commissioned essay on Norway’s July 22 2011 right-wing extremist terrorist attacks and the lessons which Norway has failed to learn in the aftermath, courtesy of the Duke University Press/World Policy Institute’s World Policy Journal (WPJ).

Morgenbladet

By SindreJune 15, 2018Antisemitism, Colonialism, History, Nationalism, Nazism, Norway, Racism, Xenophobia

On sanitizing and mythologizing Norwegian history.

New Palgrave title

By SindreApril 24, 2018Cultural racism, Eurabia genre, European Islam, Freedom of expression, Hate speech, Islam, Liberalism, Muslims, Nationalism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Populism, Progress Party, Public sphere, Racism, Right-wing extremism, Secularism, State feminism, Xenophobia

I have a chapter on ‘The New Nationalism And Its Relationship To Islam’ in this new edited volume by Profs John Erik Fossum, Birte Siim and Riva Kastoryano out now with Palgrave Macmillan.

Africa Is A Country

By SindreApril 13, 2018'Race', Cultural racism, Decolonization, Paul Gilroy, Postcolonialism, Racism, The Black Atlantic, Visual cultures of racism, W. E. B. Du Bois

My New essay about Paul Gilroy and his seminal The Black Atlantic: Modernity And Double Consciousness twenty-five years on for Africa Is A Country.

Verdens Gang (VG)

By SindreApril 5, 2018'Race', Civil rights, Cultural racism, Hate speech, Human rights, Neo-racism, Norway, Racism

Interviewed by the largest Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) on racism in Norway, the abiding Norwegian myth that racism is ‘there’ and never ‘here’, and the dire need for a new government action plan against racism.

Return to South Africa

By SindreSeptember 25, 2016Anthropology, Apartheid, Cape Muslims, Cape Town, Cultural Anthropology, Forced removals, Group Areas Act, Neo-liberalism, Racism, Salafism, South AfricaCape Muslims, Cape Town, South Africa

You’ll see how it is – it’s still that kind of city – here where one thing leads, shades into another; where footpath becomes road, road a roadstead, where the stone of the mountain turns to street-stone, and you’d almost believe the one were the other, and that where it all leads, the sole place […]

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