Echoes of the Danish Cartoon Crisis 10 Years Later: Identity, Injury and Intelligibility from Copenhagen to Paris and Texas

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Elisa Veninga
Keyword(s):  
Cartoon Crisis

Islam and Islamic Studies in Scandinavia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Olsson ◽  
Simon Sorgenfrei
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

Islam in the Scandinavian countries—Denmark, Norway, and Sweden—has a long history. There are evidences of contacts between Scandinavia and the Muslim world at least since the Middle Ages. The presence of Muslims in Scandinavia is however of a later date and more established from the 1950s, when immigrants arrived, mainly due to the needs in the labor markets; they successively established congregations and mosques, as they realized that they were to stay in their new countries. Following this period, Muslim migrants have arrived due to geopolitical factors, such as war, which have increased the number of Muslims and their presence and visibility in public space and public debate, which in turn has affected the media image of Islam and Muslims and influenced research. The research on Islam and Muslims has a long history in Scandinavia as well. With the increase of Muslim inhabitants in Scandinavian countries, scholarly interests have also related more to the present and to the study of their own Muslim populations, as well as case studies related to Islamophobia, media images, Muslims in the school systems and labor market, and specific incidents, such as the cartoon crisis and its aftermath.

Reflections on Public Diplomacy after the Danish Cartoon Crises: From Crisis Management to Normal Public Diplomacy Work

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uffe Andreasen
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

AbstractThe Danish cartoon crisis was resurrected in Spring 2008 when the Mohammed cartoons were reprinted as an expression of solidarity following the revelation that definite death threats had been made to one of the cartoonists. During both crises the Danish government stuck to the principle of transparency and stood its ground, almost to excess, or so some thought. But the government's stance has possibly paid off, at least in the long run. A crisis situation is an inappropriate moment for a country to start a polemical discussion with its 'opposite number'. But as soon as things have quietened down, reconstruction work must take place. To stick one's head in the sand during this second phase is dangerous for a country's reputation. This article argues that the answer to this dilemma is to concentrate your counter-attack on the 'disputable area'. And the best method is to invite a meaningful dialogue.

Drawing the discourses of ontological security: Immigration and identity in the Danish and Swedish cartoon crises

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Agius
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

The controversy of the Danish cartoon crisis in 2006 overshadowed a similar one that took place in Sweden a year later. The crises have broadly been framed as a clash of values but both cases reveal differences worthy of investigation, namely for the complex tensions and convergences between the two states on questions of immigration, Nordic solidarity and national identity. This article aims to explore the intersubjective discourses of identity that were threaded through the debates on the cartoon crises, looking to the overlapping discourses that have constructed ideas of identity in terms of ontological security, or security of the self. It argues that both cartoon crises represent a complex discursive performance of identity that speaks to a broader set of ontological security concerns which intersect at the international, regional and national levels. Even in their differences, Swedish and Danish discourses show the tensions associated with the desire for a stable and consistent idea of self when contrasted with the Muslim ‘other’, explored in the context of discourses of modernity and tolerance, which operate as key sites that work to reiterate, reclaim and reinstate the idea of the progressive state.

Trade Shocks, Firm Hierarchies, and Wage Inequality

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Benjamin U. Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Production Scale ◽  
Trade Shocks ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Pay Differences ◽  
Cartoon Crisis ◽  
Wage Cuts

This paper shows robust effects of trade shocks on within-firm wage inequality through changes in firm hierarchies. It uses two distinct research designs—one considering firm-level shocks to foreign demand and transportation costs, the other analyzing the Muslim boycott of Danish exports after the 2006 “Cartoon Crisis”. Consistent with knowledge-based and incentive-based hierarchy models, trade shocks affect organizational choices through production scale. Adding a hierarchy layer increases inequality throughout the organization, particularly widening the 90-50 wage gap and pay differences between top and bottom layers. Delayering after the boycott leads to wage compression through wage cuts, demotions, and employee turnover.

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