The Muhammad cartoons conflict and transnational activism

Bibliographic Data

ID6256440
AuthorsThomas Olesen (0000-0002-2742-5100, University of Aarhus, Denmark,, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume9
Issue3
Pages409-426
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796809337432
OpenAlexW1976906412
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited26

There are many ways to approach the case of the Muhammad cartoons conflict. This article proposes looking at the conflict as an instance of transnational activism. The conflict started out as a Danish issue — prompted by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and its publication in September 2005 of a series of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — but in a matter of months the controversy escalated into a full-blown transnational phenomenon. The aim of the article is not to develop new theory or provide detailed empirical support for the arguments, but rather to indicate a new research agenda on transnational activism. The author hopes that scholars of religion, culture and politics, that is, the core readership of Ethnicities , might find inspiration in such an exercise. The article identifies and addresses four challenges posed by the conflict to the study of transnational activism

Audience measurement · Danish · Epistemology · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Media studies · Newspaper · Phenomenon · Political activism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Religion and Society Interactions

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