The controversy on multiculturalism has changed the political fronts. The Left defends minority cultures while the Right stands guard over national culture. But these are merely two variants of a culturalist ideology, argue Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt. [ more ]
"Index on Censorship" investigates what Bush-Cheney did to civil liberties; "Esprit" welcomes America's first Chicagoan president; "Arena" asks whether there will be a Left after capitalism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) writes Bush's epitaph; "Samtiden" scrutinizes racism in Norway; "Dilema veche" calls for a debate on anti-Semitism in Romania; "Osteuropa" weighs up causes and effects of the Georgian war; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports on parallel realities in Israel; and "Magyar Lettre Internationale" prefers literary canons in the plural.
is a member of the Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM) (research society on refugees and migration) and works at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.
An Introduction in Interviews
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