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Katrine Fangen

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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Harriet Holters hus 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1096 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic Interests

  • Nationalism / racism / anti-immigrant movement / right-wing extremism
  • Migration and immigrants

Background

  • Director of UiO:Democracy from September 2024 until August 15, 2025
  • Professor at ISS since September 15. 2011
  • Associate professor at ISS from January 2011
  • Chair and initiator for the project EUMARGINS (funded by the EU's 7th framework program) 2008 - 2010
  • Postdoctor/researcher at ISS UiO from 2003 - 2008
  • Researcher II at Fafo 1999-2003
  • Research fellow at ISS UiO 1995-1999, Ph.D (dr. polit.) at UiO 2000
  • Researcher at UNGforsk (program for youth research) 1993 - 1995
  • Lecturer at Sogn and Fjordane college 1993
  • MA (magister artium, an extended MA degree) in sociology at UiO 1992
  • BA (cand. mag. an extended BA degree in sociology, with psychology and criminology as side-subjects) in 1989

Awards

Membership / positions held

 

Tags: Sociology, nationalism, Right-wing Extremism

Publications

  • Fangen, Katrine (2026). 3. Demokratisk illiberalisme: fire diskurser. In Jupskås, Anders Ravik (Eds.), Høyreekstremisme i Norge etter 22. juli: Meninger, mennesker, mobilisering og motstand. Scandinavian University Press (SCUP). ISSN 9788294167326. p. 101–126. doi: 10.18261/9788294167333-26-03. Full text in Research Archive
  • Gottzén, Lucas; Fangen, Katrine & Jensen, Sune Qvotrup (2026). Masculinity, masculinist politics, and political extremism. Journal of Gender Studies. ISSN 0958-9236. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2026). The transnationalist nationalists: the joint curriculum of anti-immigration actors in Norway. Journal of Political Ideologies. ISSN 1356-9317. 31(1), p. 249–269. doi: 10.1080/13569317.2024.2358349. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fossberg, Hanna Karin & Fangen, Katrine (2025). Weaponized humor and militarized masculinity: the role of memes in far-right discourse on the Russo-Ukrainian war. Journal of Gender Studies. ISSN 0958-9236. doi: 10.1080/09589236.2025.2545905. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Nissen, Anita (2025). Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. ISSN 1478-2804. doi: 10.1080/14782804.2025.2514845. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2025). The role of gender in violent extremism. In Obaidi, Milan & Kunst, Jonas R. (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781009407915. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Thun, Cecilie (2024). Ambivalens og endring. Unge norsksomaliske kvinner snakker om omskjæring. In Johansen, R. Elise B (Eds.), Kvinnelig omskjæring/kjønnslemlestelse i Norge; Kunnskap og praksis. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215069494. p. 123–152. doi: 10.18261/9788215069487-24-08. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dammen, Kristine Brastad & Fangen, Katrine (2024). ‘We are living in the time of a turning point’: exploring views on global entities in immigration–a comparative study of actors from different political leanings. Globalizations. ISSN 1474-7731. 21(8), p. 1383–1401. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2024.2353992. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Weisskircher, Manes Elias (2024). Reaching out beyond the national border? How far-right actors in Germany and Norway evaluate transnationalism. Nations and Nationalism. ISSN 1354-5078. 30(4), p. 683–699. doi: 10.1111/nana.13021. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2022). Rasisme som renhetsideologi. In Døving, Cora Alexa (Eds.), Rasisme : Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215063065. p. 287–306. Full text in Research Archive
  • Erdal, Marta Bivand & Fangen, Katrine (2021). A state-centred conception of nationhood? Norwegian bureaucrats on the nation. Ethnicities. ISSN 1468-7968. doi: 10.1177/14687968211012567. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Lichtenberg, Lisanne (2021). Gender and family rhetoric on the German far right. Patterns of Prejudice. ISSN 0031-322X. 55(1), p. 71–93. doi: 10.1080/0031322X.2021.1898815. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2020). An observational study of the Norwegian far right: some reflections. In Ashe, Stephen D; Busher, Joel; Macklin, Graham David & Winter, Aaron (Ed.), Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice. Routledge. ISSN 9781138219342. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2020). Gendered images of us and them in anti-Islamic Facebook groups. Politics, Religion & Ideology. ISSN 2156-7689. 21(4), p. 451–468. doi: 10.1080/21567689.2020.1851872. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Nilsen, Maria Reite (2020). Variations within the Norwegian Far Right: From neo-Nazism to anti-Islamism. Journal of Political Ideologies. ISSN 1356-9317. 26(3), p. 278–297. doi: 10.1080/13569317.2020.1796347. Full text in Research Archive
  • Knutsen, Hege Merete; Fangen, Katrine & Zabko, Oksana (2019). Integration and exclusion at work: Latvian and Swedish agency nurses in Norway. Journal of International Migration and Integration. ISSN 1488-3473. doi: 10.1007/s12134-019-00660-5. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zabko, Oksana; Fangen, Katrine & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2019). Latvian migrants’ circular or permanent migration to Norway : economic and social factors. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 9(1), p. 61–79. doi: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0007. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Holter, Carina Riborg (2019). The battle for truth: How online newspaper commenters defend their censored expressions. Poetics. ISSN 0304-422X. p. 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101423. Full text in Research Archive
  • Demiri, Sandra Feride & Fangen, Katrine (2018). The state of the nation: The Norwegian King’s annual addresses – A window on a shifting nationhood. National Identities. ISSN 1460-8944. 21(5), p. 443–462. doi: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1498470. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Vaage, Mari Nielsen (2018). "The Immigration Problem" and Norwegian Right-Wing Politicians. New Political Science. ISSN 0739-3148. 40(3), p. 459–476. doi: 10.1080/07393148.2018.1487145. Full text in Research Archive
  • Høy-Petersen, Nina & Fangen, Katrine (2018). Hate Crime Policy: Global Controversies and the Norwegian Approach. In Øverland, Gwynyth; Andersen, Arnfinn J.; Førde, Kristin Engh; Grødum, Kjetil & Salomonsen, Joseph (Ed.), Violent Extremism in the 21st Century: International Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781527515802. p. 244–270. Full text in Research Archive
  • Buxrud, Bjørnar & Fangen, Katrine (2017). Norwegian national day oratory: constructing and reconstructing a national we. Nations and Nationalism. ISSN 1354-5078. 23(4), p. 770–789. doi: 10.1111/nana.12346. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Kolås, Åshild (2016). The “Syria traveller”: Reintegration or legal sanctioning? Critical Studies on Terrorism. ISSN 1753-9153. 9(3), p. 414–432. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2016.1192260. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2016). A death mask of masculinity: The brotherhood of Norwegian right-wing skinheads. In Ervø, Søren & Johansson, Thomas (Ed.), Among Men: Moulding Masculinities. Routledge. ISSN 9781840148046. doi: 10.1177/110330889800600304. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Fangen, Katrine (2025). The role of gender in violent extremism - a Digital Sawyer with Katrine Fangen. doi: https:/sites.psu.edu/birthingthenation/calendar_event/the-role-of-gender-in-violent-extremism-a-digital-sawyer-with-katrine-fangen/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2025). The Complex Relationship Between Gender and Violent Extremism. doi: https:/www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2025/the-complex-relationship-between-gender-and-violen.html. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2025). Partiet ble startet av en SS-offiserer – nå skal det danne regjering i Østerrike. [Journal]. NRK urix. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2025). How the far right is expanding its international network. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bjørgo, Tore & Fangen, Katrine (2025). Jonas Bals fortsetter å angripe oss for meninger vi ikke har. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2025). The role of gender in violent extremism. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Forskningsetikk i kvalitativ forskning. In Lorås, Lennart & Ness, Ottar (Ed.), Håndbok i kvalitativ forskning: For psykologi, helsefag og sosialfag. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245034868. p. 63–74. Full text in Research Archive
  • Tica, Sabina; Kjos, Hannah Løke; Birkvad, Simon Roland; Ahmed, Uzair; Sunnemark, Erik Ludvig & Hjelle, Karoline Blix [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2024). Skal vi forske bak lukkede dører? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Anti-immigration attitudes in Europe. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dammen, Kristine Brastad & Fangen, Katrine (2024). Antiglobalistiske allianser? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Nissen, Anita (2024). Influencing the General Public? The Self-Perceived Communicative Roles of Norwegian and Danish Far-Right Anti-Immigration Actors. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Antiglobalisme i høyre: Høyrekrefter får mer plass i europeisk politikk. [TV]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Outward-looking nationalism? Transnational influences, contacts and anti-globalist frames among Norwegian anti-immigration actors. Right Now!. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen… des femmes au service de la «dédiabolisation». [Internet]. La Déferlante. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Om repressive reaksjoner på propalestinske ytringer. sosiologen.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Europe’s middle ground slides to the right under extremist influence. [Internet]. The Christian Science Monitor. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Transnational Nationalists – Studying transnational influences of anti-immigration actors. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). We are living in the time of a turning point”: Exploring views on global entities in immigration – A comparative study of anti-globalist actors. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bjørgo, Tore & Fangen, Katrine (2024). Har Jonas Bals lest forskningen vår på nynazisme? Full text in Research Archive
  • Dammen, Kristine Brastad & Fangen, Katrine (2024). Anti-globalist alliances? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2024). Moral Panic and Repression: The Contentious Politics of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). The Psychology of Violent Extremism – Gender Perspectives. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Nissen, Anita (2023). Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of anti-immigration actors in Norway and Denmark. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). The role of gender in violent extremism. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). The role of gender in violent extremism. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). Personvern, samtykkeskjema og deltakende observasjon. [Radio]. Antropodden. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). Det hvite sinnet. [TV]. TV2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). Variation within the Norwegian Far right. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). Workshop on methodological, ethical and technical training for online research on the far right. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). Høyreekstremisme og islamofobi i Europa. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2023). En grundig og tankevekkende bok om det radikale høyre. sosiologen.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2022). Høyreekstremisme ut fra et kjønnsperspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2022). Book review: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. ISSN 1103-3088. 30(3), p. 299–303. doi: 10.1177/11033088211041726. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2022). Kjønn og retorikk på ytre høyrefløy. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fardan, Christopher Rettedal & Fangen, Katrine (2022). En forsvarlig mediedekning av ekstreme gruppers demonstrasjoner. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2022). Fra politiske ungdomsgrupper i Øst-Tyskland til innvandrere og innvandringskritikere i Norge. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Bokanmeldelse av Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Hate in the Homeland. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. 5(3), p. 63–66. doi: 10.18261/issn.2535-2512-2021-03-05. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Kvinner står i front for europeisk høgrepopulisme. [Journal]. Framtida. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). An observational study of the Norwegian far right: some reflections. [Internet]. C-REX / zoom. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). 20 years later - where does Norway stand? [Internet]. Facebook arrangement by African student association. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Gendered images of us and them in anti-Islamic Facebook groups. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Hvorfor ble muslimer den nye fienden i Norge og Europa? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Democracy’s Scars: Adorno’s Lecture on Right-Wing Radicalism. PRIO Blogs. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Why did Muslims become the new enemy in Europe? Right Now!. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Demokratiets arr: Adornos foredrag om høyreradikalisme. sosiologen.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Anti-immigrant Actors – Transnational, Insular Nationalists, or rather Transborder Nationalists? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Kinder, Kirche, Küche: Gender and family rhetoric of the German far right. Right Now!. Full text in Research Archive
  • Erdal, Marta Bivand & Fangen, Katrine (2021). Hvorfor vegrer norske byråkrater seg for å omtale nasjonal identitet? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2021). Høyreekstremisme i Norge: Fra nynazisme til anti-islam. Full text in Research Archive
  • Erdal, Marta Bivand & Fangen, Katrine (2021). Hvorfor vegrer norske byråkrater seg for å omtale nasjonal identitet? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Editorial to special issue on gender and the far right. Politics, Religion & Ideology. ISSN 2156-7689. 21(4), p. 411–415. doi: 10.1080/21567689.2020.1851866. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2020). The paradoxical gender images of the far right. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2020). Ronald Fangens kritikk av den fremvoksende fascisme på 1930-tallet – med et lite sideblikk til dagens høyreekstremisme. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2019). Samfunnsforskningens vilkår. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2018). The New Right and Populism in the Nordic Countries. Full text in Research Archive
  • Huang, Lihong & Fangen, Katrine (2018). Future citizens for a nation state and for the world: students’ perceptions in four Nordic civic and citizenship education systems. Full text in Research Archive
  • Erdal, Marta Bivand & Fangen, Katrine (2017). Bridging the constitutional and the everyday nation: Bureaucrats on conflicts around the meaning of national identity in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zabko, Oksana; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Fangen, Katrine (2017). Inclusion and exclusion at work: experiences of Latvian and Swedish temporary nurses in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2017). Observasjon som metode i helsevitenskapelig forskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Erdal, Marta Bivand (2017). Bridging the constitutional and evaryday nation. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2017). Post Breivik. [Journal]. Dagens Næringsliv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harris, Bethan; Hollingworth, Sumi; James, Malcolm & Fangen, Katrine (2016). Reconstituting Race in Youth Studies. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. ISSN 1103-3088. 24(3), p. 177–184. doi: 10.1177/1103308816641010. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2016). Norwegian national day speeches as arenas of integration. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2016). Katrine Fangen, temaleder ved Senter for ekstremismeforskning. [Journal]. Uniforum. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Kolås, Åshild (2016). The “Syria traveller”: Reintegration or legal sanctioning? Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2016). Norwegian National day speeches as arenas of integration. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine & Nina, Høy-Petersen (2016). Hate Crime Policy: Global Controversies, and the Norwegian Approach. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2016). Forsiktig, men absolutt ikke lettskremt. [Journal]. Uniforum. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fangen, Katrine (2016). Fangens dilemma. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Brekke, Torkel; Fangen, Katrine & Kozaric, Edin (2025). Taking Muslim Experiences with Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seriously - From Islamophobia and Racialization towards Lived Misrecognition, Non-recognition, and Recognition. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet. ISSN 9788283646481. Full text in Research Archive
  • Skjælaaen, Øystein Rudningen; Sørhaug, Tian & Fangen, Katrine (2018). Fuktig frokost. Identitet og fellesskap på puben om morgenen. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Erdal, Marta Bivand; Collyer, Michael; Ezzati, Rojan; Fangen, Katrine; Lacroix, Thomas & Kolås, Åshild [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2017). Negotiating the Nation: Implications of Ethnic and Religious Diversity for National Identity. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). ISSN 9788272888090. Full text in Research Archive

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