Annoying Difference

Peter Hervik holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen; an MPhil in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER); and is an Associate 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 social construction of Yucatec Mayan identity in Mexico.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface List of Acronyms Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Emergence of Neonationalism and Neoracism in the Post-1989-World Chapter 3. Newspaper Campaign Unlike Any Other Chapter 4. The End of Tolerance? Chapter 5. The Danish Cultural World of Unbridgeable Differences Chapter 6. The Mona Sheikh Story 2001 Chapter 7. Mediated Muslims: Jyllands-Posten's Coverage of Islam 2001 Chapter 8. The Response from Muslim Readers and Viewers Chapter 9. The Original Spin: Freedom of Speech as Danish News Management Chapter 10. A Political Struggle in the Field of Journalism Chapter 11. The Narrative of IncompatibilityA" and The Politics of Negative Dialouges in the Danish Cartoon Affair Chapter 12. We Have To Explain Why We ExistA" Chapter 13. Conclusion Appendix: Permissions References Index

- a very important contribution to various debates on current Danish identity politics and more generally, on the developments of contemporary right-wing politics prevailing in Europe and the West.A" * Gunvor Jonsson, International Migration Institute (IMI), University of Oxford The book offers an insightful background to the increased resistance towards ethnic minorities and the growing Islamophobia in Denmark. This development escalated with the Muhammad Cartoon Crisis that broke out in 2005 and later reverberated in different parts of the world.A" * Anders Hellstrom, Malmo University