Norwegian man arrested for Oslo bombing and Utøya shootings

One of the first reactions to the terrible incident in Norway I came across was by a Facebook friend and acquitance of my wife’s. Without any shred of evidence, he blamed “the bastard sons of Muhammad” for the attacks,which were supposedly revenge for the Danish cartoons reprinted in Norway in 2006. The man is a [...]

Lluvia y el dulce sabor circular del tiempo

Por Mercedes López, 2011. Ha estado lloviendo a chaparrones en los últimos días. Tras un periodo luminoso y soleado, volvemos a un otoño templado o una primavera fría. A pesar de estar en el mes de Julio, como Irlanda está más cerca del Ártico y Groenlandia, las estaciones son las de otro mundo verde, no [...]

Eskimo Avenue: Pejorative Arctic ethnonyms as the final frontier of racism?

Kenn Nakata Steffensen   At the recent Media for All Conference in London I came across a stall marketing a new division of the subtitling company Broadcast Text International. The rather unfortunate name they have chosen is Eskimo Avenue. It could not have been named Paki Street or Nigger Lane, but it seems that Eskimo [...]