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Uppsala University, 31 October - 1 November 2023

The network Politics and Power of Resilience (POWERS 2023-2024) aims at developing multidisciplinary critical discussions on resilience and its power effects in the Nordic context. The project is funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) and its exploratory workshop program. 

Each year, Uppsala Municipality’s Equality Board awards an honorary mention to individuals or organisations that have significantly contributed to equality in Uppsala. 

2023 Honorary Mention is awarded to CEMFOR – Uppsala University’s Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism. 

CEMFOR is part of an international research network on the Politics of Resilience, which has been awarded funding for from the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) to run an international workshop series on resilience and global governmentality. Participating universityies are University of Lapland (Finland) och University of Copenhagen (Denmark). The workshop series is part of CEMFORs thematic area Biopolitics and Racism. 

The Swedish Research Council has awarded funds to establish a three-year research network on ”Learning, prevention and consequences of antisemitism in the Swedish educational system”. 

The complex, unbounded, decentralized, and deterritorialized nature of the Internet places the problem of responsibility at the center of global and national cybersecurity debates. By showcasing the politics of responsibility in Sweden’s emerging cybersecurity agenda, this project contributes new knowledge on how our democracy is affected by the rapid digitalization of society. 

Mehek Muftee, together with René León Rosales, have recently published "We just want to make art’ – Women with experiences of racial othering reflect on art, activism and representation" in European Journal of Women's Studies.

Following media reports concerning Uppsala University’s Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) and its affiliation with the 2021 European Islamophobia Report (EIR), we would like to make the following statement:

Nostalgia matters. Movies, tv-series and the retro industry feed nostalgic yearnings for bygone times and places. Marketing the past may make people miss what they never had, and hence cannot have lost. 
 

2022 marks a century since the State institute for racial biology opened. The physical legacy of the institute consists of 12000 photos, of which the majority are of Sámi, 

Contemporary France is a prolific arena for post-fascist actors, parties, and movements. Self-proclaimed alternative news outlets and publishing houses serve as forums for information and mobilisation, through various strategies, to resist an alleged onslaught by the enemies of the nation and its people: multiculturalism, feminism, political correctness, political corruption, and civilisational decay. 

By authors/editors: Michał Krzyżanowski, Mattias Ekman, Per-Erik Nilsson, Mattias Gardell, and Christian Christensen.
This Special Issue of Nordicom Review discusses interactive practices of articulating and communicating uncivility in the context of recent wider anti- and post-democratic change.

Welcome to a digital city walk on The history of racism in Uppsala, produced by the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism at Uppsala University.

Building or improving one’s own home is a strong motive for Roma who migrate from one European country to another. Their everyday life is marked by extremely precarious housing conditions, racism and forced nomadism. These findings have emerged in a new study based on interviews and fieldwork in Sweden and Romania.

Using a combination of a political economy approach for the analysis of housing with a postcolonial approach to mobility patterns of the racialised and impoverished Roma in Europe, we reflect on the relationship between racialisation and the precarious living and housing conditions of the Eastern European Roma who move from the poorer to the richer countries of the European Union. 

Diary from Brazil Fascism from the outside and inside (The book is in Swedish).
Under de gångna månadernas globala pandemi har Brasilien blivit en bild av politiskt kaos och ständigt stigande dödstal. Hur kunde det bli så i ett land som för bara tio år sedan ännu andades politiskt hopp och ekonomiska framsteg? Våren 2019, under Bolsonaros första månader som president, är Patricia Lorenzoni i Brasilien.

Following the fires that have burnt the Moria camp in Lesvos to the ground, we want to express our deepest concern with the developments in the Greek Aegean Islands over the past couple of years. We would also like to point out that the fires in Moria should be seen not as an isolated incident but rather as a direct consequence of the EU’s migration and border policies.

"Shame on the church of Sweden’: Radical nationalism and the appropriation of Christianity in contemporary Sweden”, by Per-Erik Nilsson, in Critical Research on Religion (SAGE).

“Burka Songs 2.0: The Discourse on Islamic Terrorism and the Politics of Extremization in Sweden”, in Journal of Religion and Violence, by Per-Erik Nilsson, associate Professor in Sociology of Religion and as director and senior researcher at the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR).

"Racism existed before race biology" - Interview with Professor Mattias Gardell, EXPO.
Vad säger forskningen? Rasism är ett system som sorterar människor och ger dem olika status och möjligheter. Denna maktordning har funnits i drygt 500 år, långt innan idén om biologisk rasism dök upp. Det säger professorn Mattias Gardell.

Mattias Gardell writes about America's dark history, where lynching has been commonplace since the days of slavery. "Lynchings of blacks were a public pleasure" - Aftonbladet Kultur by Professor Mattias Gardell, CEMFOR

"There is racism within the Swedish police too"
Racism within the US police has been a hot topic lately. But according to Jasmine Kelekay, researcher at CEMFOR, racism also exists within the Swedish police. (simultaneous translation into English)