Racial Europeanization

Goldberg, David Theo

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“…We are in an era of what the sociologist David Theo Goldberg has described as 'raceless racism' (Goldberg 2006), and more than any other minority population in Norway, Muslims have proved eminently useful targets for the far-right in avoiding accusations of racism by enabling racist discourses centred upon Muslims' alleged or real 'culture', 'religion' and 'lifestyle'. A by now well-rehearsed argument even in liberal elite circles in Norway is that Muslims cannot under any circumstances be subject to racism, since Muslims do not constitute a 'race'.…”

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The racism that dares not speak its name: Rethinking neo-nationalism and neo-racism in Norway

Bangstad

2015

Intersections

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Intersections. EEJSP 1(1): 49-65. DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v1i1.26 http://intersections.tk.mta.hu AbstractIn contemporary Norway, the mere referral to the term racism has for all practical purposes become a taboo in the public sphere. This is both the result of a strategic far-right distancing from classical forms of racism and a conscious effort by numerous Norwegian academics and public intellectuals to restrict its meaning and reference in the course of recent decades.

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The racism that dares not speak its name: Rethinking neo-nationalism and neo-racism in Norway

Bangstad

2015

Intersections

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“…Flere både nationale og internationale studier har beskaeftiget sig specifikt med sammenhaengen mellem den medieformidlede virkelighed af den etniske situation og den brede offentligheds holdninger til etniske minoriteter (Yilmaz 1997;Hervik 1999;Hussain 1997Hussain , 2000Van Dijk 2000;Law 2002;Goldberg 2006). Faelles for de danske studier er en konsensus om, at mediedaekningen af etniske minoriteter overvejende er negativ, men når det kommer til, hvorvidt medierne har effekt på holdningsdannelse, findes der ligesom i de internationale studier variationer.…”

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Stereotyper og fjendebilleder: En undersøgelse af udvalgte, danske mediers fremstilling af muslimer og islam

Jacobsen¹,

Weibel²,

Jensen³

2017

TIFO

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This article discusses the Danish media setting and framing of Muslims and Islam exploring the role of the Danish media in the construction of the public discourse on Muslims in Denmark. The article is based on the main findings of a two-month monitoring of four Danish newspapers between mid-October and mid-December 2011. In the study we find, that a relatively large share of the items concerning Muslims and Islam are negatively framed and restricted to certain topics such as religious extremism, sharia and terror, and that the reporting is rather one-sided and exclusive of minority voices hereby contributing to a stereotypical and distorted presentation of Muslims and Islam. Therefore we argue, that the Danish media discourse contributes to the construction of a negative public discourse on Muslims and Islam, and at the same time serve to legitimize and normalize subtle racist and discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims.Danske mediers søgelys har inden for det seneste årti i stigende grad vaeret rettet mod muslimer og islam. Den Europaeiske Kommission mod Racisme og Intolerance (ECRI) har ved flere lejligheder fremhaevet de danske mediers negative fremstilling af etniske minoriteter (ECRI 1999(ECRI , 2001(ECRI , 2006, og i flere internationale studier rangerer de danske medier, som de mest kritiske over for muslimer (Word Economic Forum 2008).Imidlertid har flere af de eksisterende undersøgelser en del år på bagen, hvorfor naervaerende artikel har til formål at undersøge, hvordan muslimer og islam er fremstillet i nutidens danske mediebillede, for herefter at diskutere hvilken betydning denne fremstilling kan have for den offentlige debat omhandlende muslimer og islam i Danmark?

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“…Yet the Skipper Mix debate also reflects a shift in the 'racial regionalization' (Goldberg 2006) of the narrative of Nordic racial exceptionalism. The positioning of Sweden as the antithesis to Denmark that runs through the debate supports Myong's recent argument concerning the ongoing recalibration of the Danish narrative of racial exceptionalism in ways that break with the idea of a Nordic common ground .…”

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“…One way to answer this is to read the Skipper Mix case in relation to the available conceptual repertoires for understanding racism in a Danish context. The media commentators' frequent invocation of the difference between racism 'proper' and the allegedly irrational 'accusations' of racism must be understood in the context of how a narrative of racial exceptionalism has shaped the meaning of the term in a Danish and Nordic context (Goldberg 2006;Loftsdóttir & Jensen 2012). According to this narrative of racial exceptionalism, racism is a term reserved to describe acts of discrimination based on a belief in the biological difference and inferiority of people of other 'races' -an ideological framework associated with historical episodes such as plantation slavery in the United States, the apartheid regime in South Africa and the eugenic project of the Nazis.…”

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Retro Racism: <i>Colonial Ignorance and Racialized Affective Consumption in Danish Public Culture</i>

Danbolt

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Racial representations on commodities in Danish supermarkets have been the subject of heated public debates about race and racism in recent years. Through an analysis of a 2014 media debate about the so-called 'racist liquorice', the article suggests that the fight for the right to consume racialized products sheds light on how 'epistemologies of ignorance' of race and colonialism operate in Denmark. Focusing on how questions of history, memory and nationhood feature in the media texts, the article introduces the concepts of retro racism and racialized affective consumption to capture the affective and historical dynamics at play in debates on racism in Denmark. While the former term points to how racism becomes positioned as something always already retrograde in a Danish context, the latter relates to how a rhetoric of pleasure and enjoyment gets mobilized in the sustaining of a whitewashed image of Danish national community.

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Racial Europeanization

Cited by 558 publications

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The racism that dares not speak its name: Rethinking neo-nationalism and neo-racism in Norway

The racism that dares not speak its name: Rethinking neo-nationalism and neo-racism in Norway

Stereotyper og fjendebilleder: En undersøgelse af udvalgte, danske mediers fremstilling af muslimer og islam

Retro Racism: <i>Colonial Ignorance and Racialized Affective Consumption in Danish Public Culture</i>

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