The research seeks to shed light on how prejudice against and hate for Jews and Muslims is expressed in society – both in the public domain, on social media and as the minorities’ own experiences. Key questions are: how extensive these prejudice systems are, how they change and the impacts they have.
Islamophobia and antisemitism are topics for both historical and contemporary research, often with the goal of drawing lines between its expression in the past and in the present day. Some of the studies are comparative, meaning that they seek to identify patterns in the two phenomena: What similarities and differences do we find in the hostile depictions? What can the long history of antisemitism teach us about constructs of prejudice? Other studies delve deeper into each specific phenomenon and examine how it has developed, as well as where and how it is expressed.
Questions concerning the extent of such attitudes are also a key aspect of the research. Here the Norwegian Holocaust Center’s latest opinion poll Holdninger til jøder og muslimer i Norge 2022 [Attitudes to Jews and Muslims in Norway 2022] is a crucial source of information. The latest poll was published in 2022 and will constitute the primary source for further studies in the coming year: What lies behind the figures? How can we explain the findings in the quantitative survey?
Publications
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Døving, Cora Alexa: Jewish in a multicultural society: from a particular to a universal minority consciousness in Jewish Culture and History, vol 24, issue 3, 2023
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Moe, Vibeke (Ed.) Holdninger til jøder og muslimer i Norge 2022 Befokningsundersøkelse, minoritetsstudie og ungdomsundersøkelse [[Attitudes to Jews and Muslims in Norway 2022. Poll of the General Population, Minorities Survey and Youth Survey], Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, 2022
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Moe, Vibeke & Døving, Cora Alexa (Eds.)(2022): Diskrimineringserfaringer blant muslimer I Norge [Experiences of discrimination among Muslims in Norway], report commissioned by the Directorate for Integration and Diversity (IMDi) and published by the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies.
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Døving, Cora Alexa & Emberland, Terje (2022): Bringing the Enemy Closer to Home: “Conspiracy Talk” and the Norwegian Far Right, Patterns of Prejudice, 55, 2021, issue 4
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Døving, Cora Alexa: “Muslims are…” Contextualizing Survey Answers in Hoffmann & Moe (Eds.): The Shifting Boundaries of Prejudice: Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Norway, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2020
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Døving, Cora Alexa: A Growing Consensus? A History of Public Debates on Islamophobia in Norway in Hoffmann & Moe (Eds.): The Shifting Boundaries of Prejudice: Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Norway, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2020
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Døving, Cora Alexa: Jews in the News – Representations of Judaism and the Jewish Minority in the Norwegian Contemporary Press, Journal of Media and Religion, 2016, VOL 15, Issue 1. Routledge: Tylor & Francis Group, 2016
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Døving, Cora Alexa: “The way they treat their daughters and wives” – Racialization of Muslims in Norway, Islamophobia Studies Journal, Fall 2015, Volume 3, issue1 pp. 62–77, Published by University of California, Berkeley, 2015
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Døving, Cora Alexa: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: A Comparison of Imposed Group Identities, Dansk Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, no. 2, 2010.