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Book SynopsisThe 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...
Trade Review ” [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 come to be so prominent during the last twenty years.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
"Readers...will find in this book much that is informative and new and will be heartened that the attributes of the bright, tenacious and unstoppable [Danish] TV detective Sarah Lund can also be found within the Danish academy." · Race & Class
“[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.” · Gunvor Jónsson, 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.” · Anders Hellström, Malmö University
Table of Contents 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 “Incompatibility” and The Politics of Negative Dialogues in the Danish Cartoon Affair
Chapter 12. “We Have To Explain Why We Exist”
Chapter 13. Conclusion
Appendix: Permissions
References
Index
