The research encompasses various types of studies, ranging from discursive analyses of attitudes expressed in Norwegian public life, to more traditional fieldwork among local minority groups. The extent to which the term “minority” relates to religious affiliation or status as a national minority, or is a self-selected or externally imposed identity, will vary in the various research projects embarked upon.
Minority studies comprise two overarching thematic complexes. One is the study of the conditions for belonging in Norway. The emphasis here will be on analyses of social structures as well as cultural changes, values and norms. The second thematic complex covers studies of explicit exclusion mechanisms, such as prejudice, discrimination and racism.
The link between group membership and stigmatisation is currently most obvious in the phenomena of Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism and Romaphobia. Minority studies at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies analyse which ideas are dominant in these phenomena, how they are formed, changed and communicated, and – not least – what impact they have on lived lives.
Researchers on minorities, racism and conspiracy theories:
Cora Alexa Døving
Vibeke Moe
Terje Emberland
Katherine Kondor
Mona Abdel-Fadil
Sara Blikstad Nyegaard
Projects
- From the Radical to the Norm: The Construction of Normalcy Through Aesthetics in Far-Right Culture
- Schools efforts to combat racism
- Negotiating Jewish Identity - Jewish Life in 21st Century Norway
- Everyday racism in Norway
- Islamophobia and antisemitism
- New Religious Anxieties. Conspiracy theories and prejudices against religious minorities
- Discrimination against Muslims. Social participation and belonging
- Conspiracy theories within right-wing extremism
- Religious minorities in the media
- After terror. On eulogies and speeches in the wake of 22 July 2011
- Religious leaders – power and impotence
- Minority Protection and Mass Atrocity Prevention
- National Memory and Minority Narratives
- New religious Anxieties: A Study of Prejudice and Racism in Right Wing Extremism
- Jewishness. An interview - based study of Jews in Norway
- Life-phase rites and rituals as a religious policy challenge
- “Insisting on diversity”. An analysis of the Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway (STL) as a political player over 20 years