“We don’t know who we are until we know whom we hate.” -from Carl Schmitt 1996, paraphrased in Hervik 2011 If you want to understand the global rise of authoritarianism, start elsewhere. If you think social media is the cause of the rise of authoritarianism, again, start elsewhere. Where does this rise come from, with …
Nordic egalitarianism has historically been built on ideas of sameness, but in the post-1989 world, politicians and the news media have taken a new turn. In the 1990s, Somali refugees were singled out as being so different that integration was impossible (Hervik 1999). A decade later, the Muhammad Cartoon Affair of 2005/6 revealed that a …
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