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extremism

Freedom of expression, extremism and the role of the media

Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Nil Mutluer: Transnational Othering – Global Diversities Media, Extremism and Free Expression

DIFFERENCE: An anthology that addresses important topics such as freedom of expression, globalization, extremism, minorities and inequality in the world, but many of the authors want too much.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Inside the "white power" of the United States

Vegard Tenold Aase: Everything you love must burn. Inside the rebirth of white nationalism in the United States

NATIONALISM: In Vegard Tenold Aase's new book, we get to know right-wing extremist groups in the United States, where they deny the Holocaust and believe in a new lease on neo-Nazism.
Henning Næs -

Can the past explain today's furious young men?

Pankaj Mishra. Translated by Agnete Øye: The age of fury. A story of the present

RIGHT EXTREMISM: Novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra is on her way to Oslo. On that occasion, his global book success comes in the Norwegian paperback edition. Welcome to an inspiring, provocative and at times frustrating book.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Faith, hope and extremism

Paul Schrader: First Reformed

CLIMATE / EXTREMISM: Paul Schrader has made a powerful, disturbing and socially relevant portrait of one of God's lonely men, with clear parallels to Taxi Driver.
Aleksander Huser -

Extremist self-portrait

Karen Winther: Exit

: How do you leave societies that expect lifelong fidelity and respond to outlaws with brutal reprisals? In Winit, Karen Winther portrays the often dangerous liberation struggle.
Ellen Lande -

Power and resistance

Irene Langeman: Pavlensky – Man and Might

: Irene Langemann's documentary about Pyotr Pavlensky asks the question: Faced with extreme repression by the state, what can an individual do, other than resort to extreme actions?
Dieter Wieczorek -

The war without a front line

: Who exactly are the jihadists in the Syrian war? 
Francesca Borri -

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