P Hervik
Biographic Data
| ID | 37683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Hervik |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hervik |
| SIGNATURE | HERVIK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5543-7715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Annoying Difference: 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 p…
Critical Understanding of Racialisation in the Era of Global Populism
Neo-nationalism and far right studies
This chapter utilizes three perspectives anthropology can offer to the study of neo-nationalism and far right studies in the era of global populism, the explosion of neo-nationalism, and the hostile, racialized reactions to migrants and refugees. The first perspective is the critical scrutiny of key concepts such as “far right”, “Neo-nationalism”, and the nature of the “right–left” division, which illustrate the necessity to continuously challeng…
Denmark’s blond vision and the fractal logics of a nation in danger
Recent research has introduced the notion of fractal logic as a way of rethinking racialization and ideas and practices of nationhood. We have claimed elsewhere that racial reasoning instantiates a specific fractal logic called the nation in danger, which can be found in circulating images, soundbites, visual signs, metaphors, and narratives created in political communication, news media, and everyday conversations. In these studies, human reason…
Afterword
This afterword offers reflections on some major points of this section concerning the generative power linking moral outrage to political violence. The authors have successfully taken up a topic of immense relevance and urgency in contemporary society. Their efforts are a first important step to address this from an empirical, analytical, and theoretical framework. In the afterword, I seek to add further perspectives to some of the findings, incl…
Out-trumping economic consequences in populist voting
Ten Years after the Danish Muhammad Cartoon News Stories: Terror and Radicalization as Predictable Media Events
In the tenth year after Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons, the Muhammad Cartoons, this media event—and the hegemonic understanding behind it—continues to be a discursive reference point for new controversies around national borders and racial boundaries. Then, since late 2010, radicalization as a “pre-terrorist” phase has become the lens through which the category “Muslims” has been represented in much media coverage. In this…
Xenophobia and Nativism
Race, ”race”, racialisering, racisme og nyracisme
Studiet af racisme og racialisering i Danmark er komplekst og behæftet med stærke moralske og politiske interesser og følelser. Ofte omtales racisme og race uden reference til den foreliggende litteratur og betydningsfulde historiske erfaringer og uden inddragelse af de oplevelser, som især synlige minoriteter og danske statsborgere med ikke-vestlig oprindelse har med racistisk tænkning. I denne artikel fører jeg centrale aspekter ved racisme ind…
Feeding the Beast: Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and in Denmark
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on re…
Danish Media Coverage of 22/7
When the two terrorist attacks in Norway took place and the identity of terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik (ABB) was revealed, attention turned to his network relations and shared ideas with Danish radical right wing communities, including the Danish People’s Party. In this article, we focus on ABB’s Danish connections through an analysis of the first 100 days of Danish media coverage. We scrutinised 188 articles in the largest daily newspapers to…
Erostratus Unbound: Norway's 22/7 converging frames of war
The purpose of this introductory article is to set the stage for the theme issue on the 22 July 2011 terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya by mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik. The article opens up with the historical and literary figure Erostratus to discuss the differences and similarities between this lone wolf character and the acts of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. It then situates Breivik firmly within an ideological landscape where commu…
Ending tolerance as a solution to incompatibility: The Danish ‘crisis of multiculturalism’
Successful integration must include the long-term enactment of ‘the will to feel Danish’. As Jews in Denmark have done in the course of many generations, so immigrant Muslims must immerse themselves to the extent that feeling Danish is naturalized. Such is the perspective proposed in a recent focus group discussion in Denmark on the integration of Muslims into Danish society. This idea of incompatibility between native Danes and Muslim ‘newcomers…
Rassismus
The Annoying Difference: 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 p…
Shared reasoning in the field: Reflexivity beyond the author
The predictable responses to the Danish cartoons
Posten published the now famous 12 cartoons of the Holy Prophet Muhammed. For the Danish mass media such obvious provocation on the part of Jyllands-Posten (JP) was not really newsworthy. After all JP had published confrontational anti-Islamic pieces many times before. Only when Muslim communities began to react to the offending cartoons and native Danish groups of authors, doctors, dentists, ministers, and others reacted to the tone of the media…
Scholarly Surrealism: The Persistence of Mayanness
We imagine Mayanness as an enduring 'pure' substrate below surfaces of diversity that is constructed and maintained through surrealistic scholarship. Equipped with community studies, theories and methods, scholars surrealistically construct ideas of Mayanness, as do the millions of self-identified Mayan individuals from Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and beyond. We use Salvador Dalí's masterpiece, The Persistence of Memory, as a playful device for exp…
Anthropological perspectives on the new racism in Europe
In this volume, five European anthropologists engage themselves and their discipline in the issues of race, racialization, and racism. With few important exceptions, European social anthropologists
The Danish cultural world of unbridgeable differences
This article looks at the contestation of foreign presence in Denmark from the perspective of popular consciousness. I infer the cultural world of Danish host and non-Danish guests from a pool of 55 in-depth interviews about multicultural issues. In this culturally figured world the guests are constructed as widely different cultural bearers who refuse to downplay their cultural markers, therefore upsetting the guests. According to this reasoning…
Shared reasoning in the field
This chapter aims to present a reflexive perspective, which could reconstruct and perhaps innovate the debate on how perceive and understand social practice. It seeks to substantiate is that reflexivity can be seen as a prominent means of transforming social experience in the field to anthropological knowledge. &s;Reflexive&s; anthropologists have disclaimed the use of arrival scenes in ethnographic writing. In their view, the narration of first …
Bokomtaler
Lighedens diskrimination: Den danske farveblindhed i det flerkulturelle samfund
Analyzing the Emergence of New Racism in Europe
The Danish cultural world of unbridgeable differences
This article looks at the contestation of foreign presence in Denmark from the perspective of popular consciousness. I infer the cultural world of Danish host and non-Danish guests from a pool of 55 in-depth interviews about multicultural issues. In this culturally figured world the guests are constructed as widely different cultural bearers who refuse to downplay their cultural markers, therefore upsetting the guests. According to this reasoning…
Anthropological perspectives on the new racism in Europe
In this volume, five European anthropologists engage themselves and their discipline in the issues of race, racialization, and racism. With few important exceptions, European social anthropologists
Ending tolerance as a solution to incompatibility: The Danish ‘crisis of multiculturalism’
Successful integration must include the long-term enactment of ‘the will to feel Danish’. As Jews in Denmark have done in the course of many generations, so immigrant Muslims must immerse themselves to the extent that feeling Danish is naturalized. Such is the perspective proposed in a recent focus group discussion in Denmark on the integration of Muslims into Danish society. This idea of incompatibility between native Danes and Muslim ‘newcomers…
The Decline of Community in Zinacantan: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-1987
Feeding the Beast: Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and in Denmark
The predictable responses to the Danish cartoons
Posten published the now famous 12 cartoons of the Holy Prophet Muhammed. For the Danish mass media such obvious provocation on the part of Jyllands-Posten (JP) was not really newsworthy. After all JP had published confrontational anti-Islamic pieces many times before. Only when Muslim communities began to react to the offending cartoons and native Danish groups of authors, doctors, dentists, ministers, and others reacted to the tone of the media…
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Scholarly Surrealism: The Persistence of Mayanness
We imagine Mayanness as an enduring 'pure' substrate below surfaces of diversity that is constructed and maintained through surrealistic scholarship. Equipped with community studies, theories and methods, scholars surrealistically construct ideas of Mayanness, as do the millions of self-identified Mayan individuals from Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and beyond. We use Salvador Dalí's masterpiece, The Persistence of Memory, as a playful device for exp…
Mayan culture: Beyond boundaries
The social categories "Maya" and "mestizo" have been applied to denote the Yucatec Mayan people in Mexico. This article examines the cluster of perceived attributes (schemata) evoked by the terms and how they relate to each other. It shows that there is an incongruency between them along the lines of local and academic categorization, which is an implication of the different social spaces in which they arise. In spite of the incongruency and the …
Ten Years after the Danish Muhammad Cartoon News Stories: Terror and Radicalization as Predictable Media Events
In the tenth year after Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons, the Muhammad Cartoons, this media event—and the hegemonic understanding behind it—continues to be a discursive reference point for new controversies around national borders and racial boundaries. Then, since late 2010, radicalization as a “pre-terrorist” phase has become the lens through which the category “Muslims” has been represented in much media coverage. In this…
Narrations of Shifting Maya Identities
Three anthropological ways of narrating the historical formation of Maya identity have recently been outlined in an article by Kay Warren on intergenerational struggles of Mayan families in Guatemala. According to the anti‐racism scheme, Maya identity forms as a reaction to ethnic opposition. The cultural continuity approach treats identity formation as persistence that occurs in spite of ethnic oppression. The third, ‘ mestizaje ’ school of thou…
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences
Erostratus Unbound: Norway's 22/7 converging frames of war
The purpose of this introductory article is to set the stage for the theme issue on the 22 July 2011 terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya by mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik. The article opens up with the historical and literary figure Erostratus to discuss the differences and similarities between this lone wolf character and the acts of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. It then situates Breivik firmly within an ideological landscape where commu…
Critical Understanding of Racialisation in the Era of Global Populism
Out-trumping economic consequences in populist voting
Mayan culture: Beyond boundaries
The social categories "Maya" and "mestizo" have been applied to denote the Yucatec Mayan people in Mexico. This article examines the cluster of perceived attributes (schemata) evoked by the terms and how they relate to each other. It shows that there is an incongruency between them along the lines of local and academic categorization, which is an implication of the different social spaces in which they arise. In spite of the incongruency and the …
The Decline of Community in Zinacantan: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-1987
Don Iz Har Ondt I Maven: Delt social erfaring og sameksisterende refleksiviteter
Peter Hervik: Don Iz' Stomach Aches. Shared Social Experience and Co- Existing Reflexivities This article delimits a locus of study centered on the notion of shared social experience which draws on the author's fieldwork among the Mayas of Yucatan in Mexico. Shared social experience concems the conscious identity of the ethnographer, the nature of relationships with local informants, and his or her willingness to be enganged in the lived experinc…
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
The Mysterious Maya of National Geographic
The Mysterious Maya of National Geographic
National Geographic magazine uses mystery as a narrative device to enhance the exotic character, hence the desirability of cultural "others" to its customers. Such popular constructions of "The Maya" shared a great deal with scholarship on Yucatan that emphasized cultural continuity as part of a project of building authority and authenticity through the attempt to determine historical origins. Such scholarship reified daily practices and remained…
Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'eqchi' Experiences
Lighedens diskrimination: Den danske farveblindhed i det flerkulturelle samfund
Analyzing the Emergence of New Racism in Europe
Narrations of Shifting Maya Identities
Three anthropological ways of narrating the historical formation of Maya identity have recently been outlined in an article by Kay Warren on intergenerational struggles of Mayan families in Guatemala. According to the anti‐racism scheme, Maya identity forms as a reaction to ethnic opposition. The cultural continuity approach treats identity formation as persistence that occurs in spite of ethnic oppression. The third, ‘ mestizaje ’ school of thou…
Bokomtaler
Shared reasoning in the field
This chapter aims to present a reflexive perspective, which could reconstruct and perhaps innovate the debate on how perceive and understand social practice. It seeks to substantiate is that reflexivity can be seen as a prominent means of transforming social experience in the field to anthropological knowledge. &s;Reflexive&s; anthropologists have disclaimed the use of arrival scenes in ethnographic writing. In their view, the narration of first …
Anthropological perspectives on the new racism in Europe
In this volume, five European anthropologists engage themselves and their discipline in the issues of race, racialization, and racism. With few important exceptions, European social anthropologists
The Danish cultural world of unbridgeable differences
This article looks at the contestation of foreign presence in Denmark from the perspective of popular consciousness. I infer the cultural world of Danish host and non-Danish guests from a pool of 55 in-depth interviews about multicultural issues. In this culturally figured world the guests are constructed as widely different cultural bearers who refuse to downplay their cultural markers, therefore upsetting the guests. According to this reasoning…
The predictable responses to the Danish cartoons
Posten published the now famous 12 cartoons of the Holy Prophet Muhammed. For the Danish mass media such obvious provocation on the part of Jyllands-Posten (JP) was not really newsworthy. After all JP had published confrontational anti-Islamic pieces many times before. Only when Muslim communities began to react to the offending cartoons and native Danish groups of authors, doctors, dentists, ministers, and others reacted to the tone of the media…
Scholarly Surrealism: The Persistence of Mayanness
We imagine Mayanness as an enduring 'pure' substrate below surfaces of diversity that is constructed and maintained through surrealistic scholarship. Equipped with community studies, theories and methods, scholars surrealistically construct ideas of Mayanness, as do the millions of self-identified Mayan individuals from Guatemala, Mexico, Belize and beyond. We use Salvador Dalí's masterpiece, The Persistence of Memory, as a playful device for exp…
Shared reasoning in the field: Reflexivity beyond the author
Rassismus
The Annoying Difference: 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 p…
Ending tolerance as a solution to incompatibility: The Danish ‘crisis of multiculturalism’
Successful integration must include the long-term enactment of ‘the will to feel Danish’. As Jews in Denmark have done in the course of many generations, so immigrant Muslims must immerse themselves to the extent that feeling Danish is naturalized. Such is the perspective proposed in a recent focus group discussion in Denmark on the integration of Muslims into Danish society. This idea of incompatibility between native Danes and Muslim ‘newcomers…
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries explores the Maya of Yucatan, the Maya of academic institutions and the Maya of the tourist industry. It examines the interplay between the local and the external, academic categories of the Maya, and seeks to transcend the paradoxical and incongruent relationship between the social spaces that breathe life into the categories. The notion of "shared social experience" is introduced to embody a focus on re…
Danish Media Coverage of 22/7
When the two terrorist attacks in Norway took place and the identity of terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik (ABB) was revealed, attention turned to his network relations and shared ideas with Danish radical right wing communities, including the Danish People’s Party. In this article, we focus on ABB’s Danish connections through an analysis of the first 100 days of Danish media coverage. We scrutinised 188 articles in the largest daily newspapers to…
Erostratus Unbound: Norway's 22/7 converging frames of war
The purpose of this introductory article is to set the stage for the theme issue on the 22 July 2011 terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya by mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik. The article opens up with the historical and literary figure Erostratus to discuss the differences and similarities between this lone wolf character and the acts of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. It then situates Breivik firmly within an ideological landscape where commu…
Feeding the Beast: Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and in Denmark
Xenophobia and Nativism
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Danish (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)