Hvem får skylden når det går galt? Når offentlig sektor blir stadig mer kompleks kan det bli vanskeligere å stille politikere til ansvar for feil. Kan det påvirke hvordan viktige samfunnsfunksjoner organiseres?
The Covid-19 crisis is exploited by Viktor Orbán to consolidate power and undermine democracy. The increasingly authoritarian Prime Minister has used the pandemic to further authoritarian ends. Democratic backsliding in Hungary has for long been a cause of concern for the European Union.
- Jeg tror det vil være mange ledere rundt om i verden som nå risikerer å trå feil, sier Tore Wig. Statsviteren har forska på årsakene til regimesammenbrudd.
I det rykende ferske dobbeltnummeret av Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, synliggjør Nordisk laboratorium siste års fokus på nordiske hjem.
Activists wearing Yellow Safety Vests started taking the streets in France since October 2018. Many commentators linked their grievances to radical right and “anti-establishment” politics. Why is it not so simple?
- Det kan hende vi finner ut at systemer som virker naturlige, egentlig bare er unødvendige konstruksjoner, sier Karen O’Brien. Professoren i samfunnsgeografi har forska på hva som skal til for at vi forandrer oss.
C-REX-forsker avliver myten om at islamistiske terrorister ofrer seg for gruppen sin som en altruistisk handling
Å være en «verdensborger» med interesse for andre kulturer har i større grad blitt en ferdighet som øker ens kulturelle kapital
Ireland’s general election on 8 February saw a proliferation of radical right-wing candidates but did not herald the expected breakthrough of these parties. As Shaun McDaid explains, the little support for the radical right in Ireland is mainly explained by the ability of the political left to more effectively mobilise the electorate on issues other than immigration. While not counting on imminent success, the radical right in Ireland might nevertheless have the stamina to play the long game.
- Når pandemien er forbi, kommer det nok en diskusjon om hvordan vi skal tilnærme oss de internasjonale markedene, og om inntektene våre skal knyttes så tett til bedriften vi jobber i, sier Kalle Moene. Professoren i samfunnsøkonomi har i en årrekke forsket på spenningene mellom den norske likhetsmodellen og internasjonal økonomi.
- Allerede mandag - fire dager før universitetene ble stengt - begynte jeg å forberede digital undervisning. Du kan si at jeg så det komme, sier professor ved Økonomisk institutt Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe.
Multiagency collaboration structures are given a central role in preventing the recruitment of youth to extremism. In this study of Nordic policies developed to counter extremism and prevent crime, we have mapped and compared how multiagency collaboration is to be organized, what practices that are to be utilized and the legal frameworks that guides information sharing practices in collaborative work. The findings entail previously unknown discrepancies, similarities and differences between the Nordic countries that can help to inform a sometimes heated and polarized debate on how extremism is being handled.
- Koronaviruset er et vindu som gjør det mulig å se alternative måter å organisere samfunnet vårt, sier Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Professoren i sosialantropologi har forska på kriser i en overoppheta verden.
- Vi må sikre kvinner i rekrutteringsstillinger optimale muligheter til å utvikle sine talenter og bygge kompetanse, sier professor ved Institutt for psykologi, Kristine Beate Walhovd. Hun er en av flere kvinner på SV- fakultetet, som er opptatt av bedre kjønnsbalanse.
På årets QS-ranking har Universitet i Oslo sju fag blant de 50 beste i verden, og 14 blant de 100 beste. Sosialantropologisk institutt havner høyest, med sin 29. plass på lista for antropologifaget.
What role does religion play in Western European politics nowadays? Is it true that the radical right rediscovered religion for its political communication? C-REX visiting fellow Jakob Schwörer and Xavier Romero-Vidal address these questions in a recently published article in “Religion State and Society”. The text analysis on 36 European parties suggest that nativist parties are focusing on rejecting a religious outgroup, namely Islam, but hardly refer to religious in-groups such as Christians. Since the radical right rarely refers to other religious dimensions than the exclusion of Muslims, there is limited empirical evidence of the so-called “rise of religion” in party politics.
Over this past week, the Indian capital of Delhi has been home to violence between Hindus and Muslims with a rising death toll each day. Eviane Leidig shows not only how this is the most recent manifestation of a legacy of right-wing extremist activity in India, but also that the response of global far right actors suggest a more disturbing connection between the extreme right in India and the West.
Utviklingen av markedet på Cuba fører til mer statlig regulering. Doktoravhandling i sosialantropologi utforsker livet som sjølstendig næringsdrivende på øya.
Conspiracy theories have been crucial in the radicalization process of the perpetrator of the Hanau-attack in Germany. Terje Emberland suggests that they were not only important on a political level but also, and perhaps most importantly, on a personal level – as they can help explain why individuals decide to engage in political violence.
On February 19th, a 43-year-old German man carried out a far-right terror attack in the city of Hanau, in central Germany. He shot nine people at two locations in the city centre, as well as his own mother before committing suicide. He left a lengthy manifesto outlining his anti-migrant and racist worldview. In a month marked by the breaking of the country's long-enduring political ‘cordon-sanitaire’ , coupled with evidence of extensive far-right terrorist mobilisation and its most deadly terror attack since 1980, it is clear that Germany’s institutions are at a critical juncture in the struggle against right-wing extremism.
In the aftermath of the festive month, Dutch PhD candidate Iris Beau Segers looks back on the annually recurring issue of Black Pete in the Netherlands, whose blackfaced appearance has been at the heart of a controversial public debate for almost a decade.
The RTV trend report recently published by C-REX shows that, since the 1990s, severe forms of right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe have decreased, particularly gang-related and unorganized forms of violence. Today, so-called ‘lone actors’ carry out most of the violence, a trend that has been reinforced by the emergence of various online platforms.
– Demens handler om aldring. Og aldringen påvirkes allerede før vi blir født, mener årets vinnere av Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsens Demensforskningspris Anders Fjell og Kristine Walhovd.
Under Januarkonferansen 2020 ble det sett nærmere på hva vi skal skatte av i fremtiden.
What makes people translate their thoughts and feelings into action? With hate crimes against asylum seekers on the rise across Europe, this question has become increasingly relevant today. C-REX affiliate scholar Iris Segers argues that we need to look more closely at protesting communities, and engage with their stories, in order to understand what drives mobilization against asylum seekers across Western Europe.