The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005−2006 in Denmark caught the world by surprise as the growing hostilities toward Muslims had not been widely noticed. Through the methodologies of media anthropology, cultural studies, and communication studies, this book brings together more than thirteen years of research on three significant historical media events in order to show the drastic changes and emerging fissures in Danish society and to expose the politicization of Danish news journalism, which has consequences for the political representation and everyday lives of ethnic minorities in Denmark.

The Muhammad cartoon crisis of 2005−2006 in Denmark caught the world by surprise as the growing hostilities toward Muslims had not been widely noticed. Through the methodologies of media anthropology, cultural studies, and communication studies, this book brings together more than thirteen years of research on three significant historical media events in order to show the drastic changes and emerging fissures in Danish society and to expose the politicization of Danish news journalism, which has consequences for the political representation and everyday lives of ethnic minorities in Denmark.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
List of Acronyms

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Emergence of Neonationalism and Neoracism in the Post-1989-World
Chapter 3. Newspaper Campaign Unlike Any Other
Chapter 4. The End of Tolerance?
Chapter 5. The Danish Cultural World of Unbridgeable Differences
Chapter 6. The Mona Sheikh Story 2001
Chapter 7. Mediated Muslims: Jyllands-Posten’s Coverage of Islam 2001
Chapter 8. The Response from Muslim Readers and Viewers
Chapter 9. The Original Spin: Freedom of Speech as Danish News Management
Chapter 10. A Political Struggle in the Field of Journalism
Chapter 11. The Narrative of “Incompatibility” and The Politics of Negative Dialogues in the Danish Cartoon Affair
Chapter 12. “We Have To Explain Why We Exist”
Chapter 13. Conclusion

Appendix: Permissions

References
Index