Eiríkur Bergmann, prófessor í stjórnmálafræði við Háskólann á Bifröst kynnir nýja bók sína þar sem hann greinir þjóðernishyggju á Norðurlöndunum og ræðir uppgang þjóðernispopúlískra flokka í Skandinavíu.
Fyrirlesturinn er hluti af fyrirlestrarröð Mobilities and Transnational Iceland, alþjóðlegs samstarfsverkefnis sem Félags- og mannvísindadeild Háskóla Íslands er aðili að.
Eva Heiða Önnudóttir, nýdoktor í stjórnmálafræði er fundarstjóri.
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Eiríkur Bergmann, Professor of Political Science at Bifröst University, introduces his latest book that compares nationalism in different Nordic countries and discusses recent surge of populist parties in Scandinavia. The presentation is part of the lecture series organized under the project of excellence “Mobilities and Transnational Iceland”. Eva Heiða Önnudóttir, postdoctoral researcher in Political Science will chair the presentation.
From the book’s Introduction: “Viewed as model societies of the modern world, the Nordics are most often seen as stable states of solid wealth, high education, wide-scale public welfare, gender equality and benign foreign policies for world peace – crowned by their generous development aids. (…) Beneath the surface, however, lie trends and deeply rooted trails of long-lasting nationalistic ideas (…). Right-wing populism was on the rise in the region already in the 1970s with establishment of the Progress Parties in Denmark and Norway. Since then, these sorts of politics – perhaps most vividly illustrated in the increasingly troubled race relations in few of the Copenhagen housing projects – have only seen ever-greater support.”
Eiríkur Bergmann has studied political sciences at the University of Iceland and Copenhagen University. He is Director of the Centre for European Studies at Bifröst University. He has been visiting follow at many academic institutions around the world and currently he is a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana. Icelandic foreign relations for has been for long his main academic focus and he published many books on this topic.