Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries

Peter Hervik is Associate Professor of Migration Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. Hervik has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Yucatec Maya of Mexico, researched the emergence of neo-racism and populism in Denmark, and studied women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt.

• 1. Introduction: Racialization in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction.- 2. Racial Turns and Returns: Discrediting Danish Research on Racism in Public Media Debates.- 3. Racialized Rape and the Politics of Fear: Intersectional Reading of the Kempele Rape Case.- 4. Identity Constructions of Muslims in Western News Media.- 5. White Fear: The Fantasy of a White Fearing Public as Catalyst for the Racialization of Terror in Television News.- 6. Justification and Rationalization of Attitudes Toward Interracial Relationships in Color-blind Sweden.- 7. The Proliferation of ‘Entitlement Racism’: A Study of Denials and Trivialization of Racism and Discrimination in Danish Public Discourse.- 8. Racialization in Humanitarianism: Conditionality of Suitable Victims in Asylum Seekers’ Protests.- 9. Do Antiracist Efforts and Diversity Programs Make a Difference? Assessing the Case of Norway.- 10. Communicating Anti-Racism: Social Movements, Non-profit Organizations and their Mediated Claims-Making in Finland and Sweden.- 11. (Re)Framing Racialization: Djurs Sommerland as a Battleground of (Anti)Racism.- 12. Resisting/Resistant Islamophobia: Norway and the Securitization of Muslims in the Post 22/7 2011 Era.- 13. Conclusions.

“The book can be recommended to everyone who is studying and who is engaged with issues of racism in the Nordic countries and whether inside or outside the academia as the chapters taken together offer the reader a relatively comprehensive overview of how race operates in different ways in contemporary Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.” (Tobias Hübinette, Nordic Journal of Migration Research NJMR, Vol. 9 (2), 2019)