Bangstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 18064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bangstad |
| FAMILY NAME | Bangstad |
| SIGNATURE | BANGSTAD |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5537-1218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Aporias of Decolonial Anti-imperialism
Following the 2015 #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa and amidst calls to «decolonize academia», decolonial theory has become increasingly read and cited in many academic disciplines. But as I seek to demonstrate in this essay, decolonial theory as elaborated by the leading exponent of it, Walter D. Mignolo, is beset with internal contradictions and inconsistencies relating to its view of non-Western imperialism and settler colonialism, whi…
Akademisk frihet i en autoritær verden og Ihra-definisjonen av antisemittisme
I en tid preget av store og globale endringer er høyreradikale bevegelser, støttet av politiske makthavere og teknologigiganter i USA, Russland og Israel, på sterk fremmarsj i en rekke europeiske land. Som antatte bastioner for liberal og demokratisk tenkning har universiteter og høyskoler lenge vært erklærte «fiender» av disse bevegelsene. Det bør derfor ikke overraske noen at disse bevegelsenes langvarige kamp for kulturelt og intellektuelt heg…
Decolonization: Towards a Middle Ground
Decolonization has been something of a buzzword in numerous academic disciplines as well as in activism in recent years. In its original conception, it refers to the formal end to colonial rule and to political sovereignty, but the concept cannot be reduced to this. There is a crucial distinction to be made between (a) decolonization and (b) the decolonial/decoloniality. The case I will use here is the 2015-16 #RhodesMustFall movement in South Af…
Det dekoloniale problem
Henvisningene til «avkolonisering» i akademia har nærmest eksplodert i mange disipliner de siste årene. Den norske akademiske debatten om «avkolonisering av akademia», som utspant seg i en del sentrale norske medier i perioden 2018–2020, avfødte mye støy, men lite opplysning. Sett i ettertidens klare lyse tydet debatten på at aktørene i liten grad hadde satt seg inn i det teoretiske rammeverket. Dekolonial teori er en konkret manifestering av «av…
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the Ihra Definition of Antisemitism
Qur’an burning in Norway: Stop the Islamisation of Norway (Sian) and far-right capture of free speech in a Scandinavian context
Fringe political actors' Qur'an desecrations in Scandinavia have over the past few years resulted in international media attention, diplomatic crises, calls for boycotts and pressures from Muslim states and organisations to criminalize such acts. This article explores the historical genealogies of Qur'an desecration – a transnational phenomenon – that emerged in the wake of the post-9/11 'Global War on Terror'. In Norway, public Qur'an burnings h…
Approval and Dissent, on Secularism: The Basics
My article offers commentary about Jacques Berlinerblau's new book Secularism: The Basics
Race and racism
Racism is premised on the idea that humanity could and should be divided into distinct biological groups or ‘races’, and that different races stand in a ranked and hierarchical relation to one another. Racism understands human races to be separate and clear-cut clusters of people, based on biological criteria that are fixed and relevant for their behavior. While humans do vary biologically, their variation does not fall into such clusters that co…
Anthropologies of the far‐right and the anthropology of critique
A compass for our dark times
Chosing the late Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and Achille Mbembe among his intellectual ancestors, Sivamohan Valluvan has with "The Clamour of Nationalism: Race And Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain" written one of the most lucid and informative analyses available to date of the multiple and intertwined ideological strands that make up contemporary "nationalist populism" in Britain and elsewhere. Valluvan accords primacy to "race" in the making …
A diagnosis of contemporary forms of racism, race and nationalism: A conversation with Professor Paul Gilroy
Described as one of the most intellectually formidable cultural and social theorists of our time, Paul Gilroy has reshaped debates on racism, nationalism and multiculturalism. In April 2018, Prof. Paul Gilroy returned to Norway for the first time in over a decade for a series of public and academic events in Oslo and Bergen. Gilroy appeared at events held at the Houses of Literature in Oslo and Bergen, and the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, whi…
Is Racism an Environmental Threat
The Polity Press book series Debating Race has featured a number of important scholars of race and racism analyzing various aspects of race and racism past and present in a short and concise form
Viktig vitenskapsteoretisk bidrag
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The politics of affect
This article is based on the transcript of a roundtable on the rise of the far-right and right-wing populism held at the AAA Annual Meeting in 2017. The contributors explore this rise in the context of the role of affect in politics, rising socio-economic inequalities, racism and neoliberalism, and with reference to their own ethnographic research on these phenomena in Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the UK and Hungary
The rhetoric of Islamophobia: An analysis of the means of persuasion in Hege Storhaug's writings on Islam and Muslims
Few actors have had a greater impact on the "framing of Muslims" as a social and political "problem" in Norway since 2001 than Hege Storhaug of the government- and corporate billionaire funded civil society organization Human Rights Service (HRS). Using the methodological tools of the "rhetorical branch" of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and applying the Aristotelian concepts of ethos, logos and pathos, we analyze the bestselling popular titl…
Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology: An Introduction
In his introduction to this volume, Associate Researcher Sindre Bangstad at KIFO (Institute For Church, ReligionReligion and Worldview Research) takes the widespread contemporary notion of a rise and decline of public anthropologyPublic anthropology as his starting point. The chapter introduces the concept of public anthropology, as well as the alternative term of public anthropology. Bangstad contends that we not only have to scrutinize the term…
Viggo Vestel: I gråsonen. Ungdom og politiskekstremisme i det nye Norge
Doing Fieldwork among People We Don't (Necessarily) Like
"Anthropologists of the Second "Gilded Age
Learning from Stuart Hall
Public Anthropology in an Attention Economy
The Strange Public Afterlife of Anthropological Theory
Can There Be an Anthropology of Hate Speech
"Returning to the Anthropology of Secularism and the "Secular
Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology: Academic Freedom in an Age of Populism
Saba Mahmood and Anthropological Feminism After Virtue
This article explores the work of the influential poststructuralist and postcolonial anthropologist Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley, USA). Mahmood's work in anthropology adopts an Asadian and Butlerian approach, particularly in the seminal Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. In this work, Mahmood critically interpellates the categories of 'Western' secular feminism through an exploration of the lives of pious Muslim women o…
Contesting secularism/s: Secularism and Islam in the work of Talal Asad
This essay deals with the influential anthropological work of Prof. Talal Asad on Islam, secularism and the secular. I argue that the binary `Western-non-Western' which is constitutive for Asad, the relative absence of ethnography in Asad's work, and the state-centred nature of Asad's approach to secularism and the secular has contributed to an anthropological impasse whereby the complex engagement of Muslims living in secular and liberal `Wester…
Eurabia Comes to Norway
Andres Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 22/7/11 terrorist attacks in Norway, was profoundly inspired by what has become known as the Eurabia genre. Behring Breivik's 1516-page cut-and-paste tract, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, makes extensive reference to Eurabia authors, and most prominently to the blog essays of the Norwegian extreme right-wing blogger “Fjordman,” also known as Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen. A popular transna…
Global Flows, Local Appropriations: Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims
Africanising Islam Black African Conversion to Islam in Cape Town'Path in the sand Whose feet are these that lead to the shade Criss-crossed in all directions?' -Mazisi Kunene, Feet of Men.'Infection leaves a mark, a stain, a print, linking us back to an act so private, so intimate, so sacrosanct, so emotionally and spiritually unguarded -the moment of sexual coupling -that its external manifestation in an illness, its exposure to the world, is d…
When Muslims marry non‐Muslims: Marriage as incorporation in a cape Muslim community
This article, based on anthropological fieldwork in a township community in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2000, analyses genealogical data on the frequency of inter‐religious marriages in a coloured Cape Muslim community, and presents two Muslim marital narratives in order to illustrate what the limits of tolerance for atypical marital situations with regard to normative Islamic precepts may be in this specific Muslim community. I argue that the hi…
The politics of affect
This article is based on the transcript of a roundtable on the rise of the far-right and right-wing populism held at the AAA Annual Meeting in 2017. The contributors explore this rise in the context of the role of affect in politics, rising socio-economic inequalities, racism and neoliberalism, and with reference to their own ethnographic research on these phenomena in Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the UK and Hungary
Fighting Words: What's Wrong with Freedom of Expression
In recent years, Norway has regularly been criticised by international anti-discrimination and anti-racism monitoring bodies for failing to curtail hate speech of a racist and/or discriminatory nature. The so-called ‘racism paragraph’ of the Norwegian General Penal Code, introduced in 1970, made such speech liable to criminal prosecution. Furthermore, the formal legal penalties for such speech, as well as the range of application of the legislati…
Doing Fieldwork among People We Don't (Necessarily) Like
Hydra's Heads: Pagad and Responses to the Pagad Phenomenon in a Cape Muslim Community
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), a Cape Town-based movement that arose out of the context of some of the most violent and crime-ridden Coloured townships in Cape Town in the 1990s, has attracted a lot of interest in the media and from academics. A central issue in the debate on PAGAD has been what role Islamist discourses have played in the generation of support for the movement and, more specifically, whether one can regard such dis…
The weight of words: The freedom of expression debate in Norway
A confluence of interests and forces among Norwegian political, media and legal elites since the Rushdie affair and the 'Mohammed cartoon crisis' have created conditions in which minority protections against racist and discriminatory speech as guaranteed by Norwegian law, and Norwegian obligations under international law, have been rendered all but ineffective - in the name of stronger protections for freedom of expression. In the event, Islamoph…
The rhetoric of Islamophobia: An analysis of the means of persuasion in Hege Storhaug's writings on Islam and Muslims
Few actors have had a greater impact on the "framing of Muslims" as a social and political "problem" in Norway since 2001 than Hege Storhaug of the government- and corporate billionaire funded civil society organization Human Rights Service (HRS). Using the methodological tools of the "rhetorical branch" of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and applying the Aristotelian concepts of ethos, logos and pathos, we analyze the bestselling popular titl…
Anthropologists Are Talking: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Anthropologists Are Talking’ About Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in the New Europe
The terms anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are common in the media, but what do they actually refer to? Has traditional anti-Semitism run its historical course while Islamophobia threatens to become the defining condition of the new unified Europe? Both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are phenomena of exclusion of minorities, but does that make them comparable? And if yes, in what ways can such an attempt at comparison escape the pitfall of analogiz…
Anthropological publics, public anthropology
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on "anthropological publics, public anthropology," organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists' experiences of doing "public anthropology," asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider…
Terror in Norway
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the Ihra Definition of Antisemitism
Islamophobia: What’s in a Name
The term Islamophobia is not of recent vintage. However, while its origins date back to the 1910s, its current usage is relatively new, and dates back to the 1990s. It is also a heavily contested term, not only in far-right circles in the West, but also among liberal elites, and even within academia itself. In its current usage, it has a genealogy dating to the emergence of scholarly literature on ‘cultural’ and/or ‘neo-racism’ in the 1980s and 1…
The morality police are coming! Muslims in Norway's media discourses (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
In early 2010, a series of reports appeared in the influential liberal‐conservative Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten drawing attention to what appeared to reporters to be a self‐appointed, de facto Muslim ‘morality police’ attempting to use harassment to exert social control over non‐hijab‐wearing women of immigrant background and gay men in the district of Grønland in the inner city of Oslo. What came to be known in Norway as the ‘morality‐police…
Ambiguous Accommodation: Cape Muslims and Post-Apartheid Politics
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Daʿwa is Our Identity’—Salafism and IslamNet’s Rationales for Action in a Norwegian Context
This article examines the emergence of Salafism in Norway, a relatively new phenomenon in the country that manifests itself mainly through two Muslim organisations, namely IslamNet and the Prophet’s Ummah. Recent research has emphasised that the activism of IslamNet may be characterised as being haraki , or “politically” orientated—a categorisation emerging out of the frequently cited so-called tripartite typology of transnational Salafism. While…
Heart of darkness reinvented? A tale of ex‐soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article presents the contemporary case of two Norwegian ex‐soldiers sentenced to death for murder, espionage and mercenary activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It analyses the wider context of the historical roots of Norwegian engagement in the Congo (now DRC) as well as the mass‐mediated discourses centring around the tropes of a Conradian ‘Heart of darkness’. Further, using the insights of Johannes Fabian's seminal work on e…
The Changed Circumstances for the Performance of Religious Authority in a Cape Muslim Community
In the Muslim communities of Cape Town, South Africa, religious authority is based on processes of designation in local communities. Increased access to higher religious education, and increased exposure to the diversity of local and global Islamic discourses as a result of general societal democratisation and processes of globalisation, leads to increased contestation over religious authority in Cape Muslim communities. As the rights to Muslim d…
Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology: Academic Freedom in an Age of Populism
Anthropologists are Talking: About Islam, Muslims and Law in Contemporary Europe
In contemporary Europe, Islam and Muslims are rightly or wrongly often perceived as the ‘other’. Among the central foci of concern in many Western European countries with a significant presence of Muslims, the law has featured prominently in recent years. What can anthropology tell us about the multiple ways in which European Muslims engage with liberal and secular laws and the state? Perhaps no other contemporary scholar in anthropology has writ…
Failing to Protect Minorities Against Racist and/or Discriminatory Speech? – The Case of Norway and § 135(a) of The Norwegian General Penal Code
Bokspalte
Pagad frykter ikke noen. Pagad og responser på Pagad-fenomenet i Merkaar
When Muslims marry non‐Muslims: Marriage as incorporation in a cape Muslim community
This article, based on anthropological fieldwork in a township community in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2000, analyses genealogical data on the frequency of inter‐religious marriages in a coloured Cape Muslim community, and presents two Muslim marital narratives in order to illustrate what the limits of tolerance for atypical marital situations with regard to normative Islamic precepts may be in this specific Muslim community. I argue that the hi…
The Changed Circumstances for the Performance of Religious Authority in a Cape Muslim Community
In the Muslim communities of Cape Town, South Africa, religious authority is based on processes of designation in local communities. Increased access to higher religious education, and increased exposure to the diversity of local and global Islamic discourses as a result of general societal democratisation and processes of globalisation, leads to increased contestation over religious authority in Cape Muslim communities. As the rights to Muslim d…
Hydra's Heads: Pagad and Responses to the Pagad Phenomenon in a Cape Muslim Community
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), a Cape Town-based movement that arose out of the context of some of the most violent and crime-ridden Coloured townships in Cape Town in the 1990s, has attracted a lot of interest in the media and from academics. A central issue in the debate on PAGAD has been what role Islamist discourses have played in the generation of support for the movement and, more specifically, whether one can regard such dis…
Global Flows, Local Appropriations: Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims
Africanising Islam Black African Conversion to Islam in Cape Town'Path in the sand Whose feet are these that lead to the shade Criss-crossed in all directions?' -Mazisi Kunene, Feet of Men.'Infection leaves a mark, a stain, a print, linking us back to an act so private, so intimate, so sacrosanct, so emotionally and spiritually unguarded -the moment of sexual coupling -that its external manifestation in an illness, its exposure to the world, is d…
Islamske ekteskap i en sekulær kontekst: Noen sørafrikanske eksempler
Fotnoter til antropologien om islam
Contesting secularism/s: Secularism and Islam in the work of Talal Asad
This essay deals with the influential anthropological work of Prof. Talal Asad on Islam, secularism and the secular. I argue that the binary `Western-non-Western' which is constitutive for Asad, the relative absence of ethnography in Asad's work, and the state-centred nature of Asad's approach to secularism and the secular has contributed to an anthropological impasse whereby the complex engagement of Muslims living in secular and liberal `Wester…
Heart of darkness reinvented? A tale of ex‐soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article presents the contemporary case of two Norwegian ex‐soldiers sentenced to death for murder, espionage and mercenary activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It analyses the wider context of the historical roots of Norwegian engagement in the Congo (now DRC) as well as the mass‐mediated discourses centring around the tropes of a Conradian ‘Heart of darkness’. Further, using the insights of Johannes Fabian's seminal work on e…
Anthropologists Are Talking’ About Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in the New Europe
The terms anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are common in the media, but what do they actually refer to? Has traditional anti-Semitism run its historical course while Islamophobia threatens to become the defining condition of the new unified Europe? Both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are phenomena of exclusion of minorities, but does that make them comparable? And if yes, in what ways can such an attempt at comparison escape the pitfall of analogiz…
Ambiguous Accommodation: Cape Muslims and Post-Apartheid Politics
Please help us populate SUNScholar with the post print version of this article. It can be e-mailed to: [email protected]
Mashood A. Baderin: Islam and Human Rights: Selected Essays of Abdullahi An-Naim
The morality police are coming! Muslims in Norway's media discourses (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
In early 2010, a series of reports appeared in the influential liberal‐conservative Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten drawing attention to what appeared to reporters to be a self‐appointed, de facto Muslim ‘morality police’ attempting to use harassment to exert social control over non‐hijab‐wearing women of immigrant background and gay men in the district of Grønland in the inner city of Oslo. What came to be known in Norway as the ‘morality‐police…
Bjørn Olav Utvik: Islamismen
Saba Mahmood and Anthropological Feminism After Virtue
This article explores the work of the influential poststructuralist and postcolonial anthropologist Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley, USA). Mahmood's work in anthropology adopts an Asadian and Butlerian approach, particularly in the seminal Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. In this work, Mahmood critically interpellates the categories of 'Western' secular feminism through an exploration of the lives of pious Muslim women o…
Book and Film Reviews
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Jeremy Waldron: The Harm in Hate Speech
Terror in Norway
The annoying difference: The emergence of Danish neonationalism, neoracism, and populism in the post-1989 world by Hervik, Peter
Anthropologists Are Talking: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Inclusion and exclusion in the mediated public sphere: The case of Norway and its Muslims
Norway has in recent years been rated as one of the most democratic societies in the world. But how open and democratic are Norway's mediated public spheres when it comes to minority individuals? This article is based on in‐depth interviews with a number of individuals of Muslim background in Norway who in recent years have been active in debates in the mediated public spheres. I argue that the existence of a hierarchy of preference among Norwegi…
Failing to Protect Minorities Against Racist and/or Discriminatory Speech? – The Case of Norway and § 135(a) of The Norwegian General Penal Code
Eurabia Comes to Norway
Andres Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 22/7/11 terrorist attacks in Norway, was profoundly inspired by what has become known as the Eurabia genre. Behring Breivik's 1516-page cut-and-paste tract, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, makes extensive reference to Eurabia authors, and most prominently to the blog essays of the Norwegian extreme right-wing blogger “Fjordman,” also known as Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen. A popular transna…
Jacobsen, Christine M: Islamic traditions and Muslim youth in Norway
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