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Africa Is A Country

By SindreDecember 5, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Anthropology, Apartheid, Cameroon, Colonialism, Cultural racism, Decolonization, Far right, Frantz Fanon, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Political liberalism, Populism, Postcolonialism, Public sphere, Racism, South Africa, The Black Atlantic, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, Xenophobia

My essay on Prof Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon and Mbembe’s ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (Duke UP, 2017) for Africa Is A Country.

Morgenbladet

By SindreDecember 5, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Apartheid, Nationalism, Nazism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Populism, Postcolonialism, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, The Black Atlantic, Tolerance, USA, W. E. B. Du Bois, Xenophobia

My op-ed for Morgenbladet, published in connection with Prof Achille Mbembe’s first ever visit to Norway and the Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen on Dec 1 2018.

Antirasistisk.no

By SindreOctober 26, 2018'Race', Achille Mbembe, Africa, Cameroon, Cultural racism, Decolonization, History, Neo-liberalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Paul Gilroy, Public sphere, Racism, Slavery, South Africa, Xenophobia

A short essay of mine on the life and work of one of the world’s leading postcolonial intellectuals, Prof Achille Mbembe (b. 1957 – in Cameroon) of Wits and Harvard University, ahead of his first ever visit to Norway (Universitetets Aula, Bergen, Dec 1 and House of Literature, Oslo, Dec 2 2018.)

Minotenk.no

By SindreOctober 19, 2018Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, Nationalism, Neo-racism, Norway, Populism, Progress Party, Racism, Religious Freedom, Right-wing extremism

Proud to have been part of a civil-society commission tasked with developing a report on the disturbingly high levels of anti-Muslim attitudes in Norway for the think-thank Minotenk.

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.

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