Africa Is A Country
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.
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Paul Gilroy
I am pleased to be hosting Prof Paul Gilroy (King’s College London) for a conversation about ‘race’ and racism at the House of Literature in Oslo (Wergeland Hall) on April 17 at 19-21 PM. Open to all and free of charge. Introduction by Dr Tony Sandset. Details here.
The Christie Conference at the University of Bergen
I am honoured to have been invited as one of the panelists for a panel on ‘tolerance’ at the annual Christie Conference at my alma mater, the University of Bergen, on April 25 this year. Program here.
Verdens Gang (VG)
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.
Antirasistisk.no
An op-ed in Norwegian about the life and work of Prof Paul Gilroy (King’s College London) who visits Norway (Oslo and Bergen) for a series of events between April 17 and 20 this year.
American Anthropologist
An exceptionally fine review of my 2014 monograph Anders Breivik And The Rise Of Islamophobia (Zed Books, University of Chicago Press) by Prof Emer Yngve Lithman in the American Anthropological Association (AAA)’s flagship journal American Anthropologist here: “Anders Breivik and The Rise of Islamophobia is an important book. Its theoretical and analytical approaches elegantly combine with […]
KIFO Report
In KIFO’s Report Series, my commissioned report for the Lae Commission appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture (KUD) in 2017, on Scandinavian experiences with liberalising ‘blue laws’ restricting retail and supermarket opening hours on Sundays.
Anthropology News Roundup 2017
Very pleased to feature on this list with the 2nd most read opinion column in 2017.
Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada
In an edited volume by John Erik Fossum, Riva Kastoryani and Birte Siim entitled Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), due out soon, I have a chapter on ‘The New Nationalism and Its Relationship To Islam: The Case of Norway.’