Sindre Bangstad is a social anthropologist and Researcher II at KIFO (Institute For Church, Religion and Worldview Research) in Oslo, Norway, and a columnist for Anthropology News. He has published widely on Muslims and Islamophobia, hate speech, racism and right-wing extremism. His publications include Anders Breivik And The Rise Of Islamophobia (Zed Books, 2014), The Politics of Mediated Presence (Scandinavian Academic Press, 2015), and Anthropology Of Our Times: An Edited Volume in Public Anthropology (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2017).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scandinavian Nazis on the march againThe past four years in Norway give the lie to Norwegian political analysts proclaiming that a populist right-wing...
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Published in: HomeThe lessons from Norway’s terror attack that the world failed to heedWe ignore the terrorist threat from right-wing extremism at our peril. But the main threat to democracy in our time...
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Published in: HomeNorway - one year after: an open woundPopulist right-wing politicians expressing extreme views on immigration, Islam and Muslims, have in general been...
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Published in: HomeNorway: terror and Islamophobia in the mirrorAs Norway ends its first month of mourning, media soundbites tell us that there is a desire to draw a line and move...