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The Annoying Difference. The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World.
Peter Hervik
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Description for The Annoying Difference. The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World.
Hardback. The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005/06 caught the world by surprise as Denmark decided to ridicule, mug, and insult Muslims because they were Muslims. Through the methodologies of media anthropology, cultural studies, and communication studies, this book brings together more than thirteen years of research on three significant historical media.. Num Pages: 326 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFSL; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005−2006 in Denmark caught the world by surprise as the growing hostilities toward Muslims had not been widely noticed. Through the methodologies of media anthropology, cultural studies, and communication studies, this book brings together more than thirteen years of research on three significant historical media events in order to show the drastic changes and emerging fissures in Danish society and to expose the politicization of Danish news journalism, which has consequences for the political representation and everyday lives of ethnic minorities in Denmark.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857451002
SKU
V9780857451002
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Ref
99-15
About Peter Hervik
Peter Hervik holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen; an MPhil in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER); and is a Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. He has done research and written extensively on the Danish media coverage of ethnic and Islamic minority issues as well as on the ... Read more
Reviews for The Annoying Difference. The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World.
” [The author] provides an excellent and courageous account of why Denmark of all places would become a Scandinavian node for the mainstream naturalization and legitimation of populist right-wing discourses on ‘non-Western’ immigrants in general, and Muslim immigrants in particular…It is crucial reading for anyone interested in how the populist right-wing not only in Scandinavia, but throughout Western Europe, have ... Read more