The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World
The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005−2006 in Denmark caught the world by surprise as the growing hostilities toward Muslims had not been widely noticed. 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 events in order to show the drastic changes and emerging fissures in Danish society and to expose the politicization of Danish news journalism, which has consequences for the political representation and everyday lives of ethnic minorities in Denmark.
Muhammad. Cartoon. Crisis. T in the Danish news media through- out the
summer of 2001. The story ended abruptly with the terrorist attacks on New York's
World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, which absorbed all attention from the
domestic scene. The results of the parliamentary election two months later, on 20
November 2001, echoed the dichotomization of native Danes vs. foreigners,
particularly non-Westerners and Muslims, ...