Researchers in the media

“People’s lives are worthless!” I repeatedly heard Iranians in the villages and the cities make this despairing declaration. Sociologists use the term “precarity” to describe this abandonment, this depriving people of a livable life. “The world has boycotted us,” Darab said. Before the sanctions were imposed on Iran, Darab and other workers would travel to Iran’s Persian Gulf area to work for oil and gas companies. Foreign companies moved out after the sanctions and the jobs dried up.

Tydlig dehumanisering

Mattias Gardell är Professor och Vetenskaplig ledare vid Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism på Uppsala Universitet. Även han tycker att uttalandet är uppseendeväckande och har tidigare varit kritisk till SD. 

Clear dehumanization
Mattias Gardell is Professor and Scientific Leader at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Racism at Uppsala University. He also thinks the statement is startling and has previously been critical of SD.

 

"Should be a compulsory reading for anyone who is in any way engaged in research on terrorism" - review by Lars Sund in the newspaper Ny Tid of "The Lonely Terrorist?".

The lonely terrorist? is a contemporary document that deals with the myth of the insane lonely wolf and politicize the recent epidemic of fires against HVB homes, mosques and asylum housing in a way that paints Swedish authorities in not so flattering colors.

More then 20 years after Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in one of the United States bloodiest terrorattacks, he is still hailed in Nazi environments - both in the United States and in Sweden. And the book "Turner Diaries", which inspired McVeigh, is believed to have inspired even Swedish right-wing extremists for bombattacks.


- "We live in a time when lonely actors has increased its presence. We will have to live with that kind of actors in the foreseeable future, "says Mattias Gardell, the religion historian.

"Rasism is built into our structures"
Is the welfare for everyone? That was the question for the participants at the conference on racism currently under way in Uppsala.

The lonely terrorist is never alone.
Heléne Lööws, Mattias Gardells and Michael Dalhberg-Grundbergs "The Lonely Terrorist?" is one of the most important books of this autumn. Per Wirtén reads about how the police make a difference between terrorists and terrorists.

Surely it's a terrorist act. On the basis of the investigation, everything indicates that it is. That is the opinion of the racism researcher Mattias Gardell which has written the book "The Lonely Terrorist". In the book he write about the school attack in Trollhättan.


"What Anton Lundin Pettersson does is to bring serious fear to a part of the population, so it's a terrorist act. The aim is also to promote or dismiss a certain political development, he says, and emphasizes almost every word in the first sentence.

Tomas Lundström, doktorand vid CEMFOR, om radikalnationalismen och dess korståg för ett kristet monokulturellt Europa.

Den svenska rasismen och de mänskliga rättigheterna

Professor Mattias Gardell berättar om sin bok ”Raskrigaren”.

Ord och Bilds temanummer om svarta erfarenheter, kultur och motstånd i Sverige.

Per-Erik Nilsson medverkar i SVT:s franska valvaka

Per-Erik Nilsson intervjuas av Studio ett om de oroligheter som nu sker i samband med det franska presidentvalet.

Mattias Gardell har kartlagt terroristerna som sprider skräck på egen hand: Taktik från amerikansk vitmaktkultur.

Professor Mattias Gardell (vetenskaplig ledare för CEMFOR) var en av de forskare som kritiserade den illa underbyggd rapport om islamism i Sverige

Tomas Lundström (doktorand vid CEMFOR) om svenska ultranationalister i nära samarbete med amerikansk alt-right-rörelse.

Mekonnen Tesfahuney, professor i kulturgeografi, har blivit invald i det vetenskapliga rådet för Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism vid Uppsala universitet.

För att förstå den växande rasismen krävs samarbete mellan forskare i olika discipliner. Det är tanken bakom nya Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism som inrättades vid årsskiftet.

Mattias Gardell om bloggarna som formade terroristens världsbild

Artikel i Tyska AK, analys & kritik 2016-12-13

Stänger igen – och USA:s mörka historia av rasistiska invandringslagar
 

" Sverige är strukturellt rasistiskt". Det är rubriken på del 6 av 8, i programserien Idévärlden som sänds söndagen den 19 februari kl 20 i SVT2.