Jens-Martin Eriksen
(b.1955) Author. Recipient of numerous awards including the Danish Arts Foundation Lifetime Grant, the Adam Oehlenschläger Prize for Literature and the Jeanne and Henri Nathansen Memorial Grant. His many publications include Winter at Dawn; The Crime of Jonatan Svidt; The Author Disappears into His Novel; The Bridge of the Hours; and, together with Frederik Stjernfelt, The Anatomy of Hate and The Scenography of War, about Bosnia and Serbia, and, in 2008, The Politics of Segregation. Multiculturalism – Ideology and Reality.
Eurozine Articles
Culturalism: Culture as political ideology
The multiculturalism debate has changed the political fronts. The Left defends minority cultures while the Right stands guard over national culture. Both are variants of a culturalist ideology, argue Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt. [more]
The memorandum: Roots of Serbian nationalism
An interview with Mihajlo Markovic and Vasilije Krestic
Left- and rightwing intellectuals collaborated on a document that formulated the ideology of Serbian nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s. Two of its authors talk about their involvement. [more]
A mirror of things to come
The anatomy of hatred
An investigation into the origins of nationalism and ethnic hatred in Former Yugoslavia: What unleashed the Balkan wars and what was the role and responsibility of Europe? [more]


















