Welcome to Elisabeth Eide's homepage, English version!
Unfortunately,
most of my publications are in Norwegian language, but here are a few
links which may prove useful for English speakers:
New books:
Down there & Up here: Orientalism and Othering in Feature Stories. Hampton Press May 2011
Edited with Kaarina Nikunen: Media in Motion. Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region. Ashgate Jan 2011
Edited with Risto Kunelius & Ville Kumpu: Global climate - local journalisms. A transnational study of how media make sense of climate summits. Projekt Verlag Nov 2010
Written with Terje Skaufjord: Pakistan - midt i verden (Pakistan in the Centre of the world). Pax forlag, August 2010
Edited with Risto Kunelius and Angela Phillips: Transnational Media Events. The Mohammed Cartoons and the Imagined Clash of Civilizations. Nordicom 2008
Edited with Risto Kunelius & others: Reading the Mohammed Cartoons Controversy. An International Analysis of Press Discourses on Free Speech and Political Spin. Projekt verlag 2007
Several articles are available: This page will be further updated in August!
Fiction and related:
An Afghanistan Anthology (2004) Bitter almonds:
18 writers in Kabul
Letter to an
Unknown Friend: Speech at International PEN’s World congress in
Tromsø 2004
Five novels, published in Norwegian (and some other languages, but not English):
The Wheel of Development (1997)
Where Darkhess Plays with Time (1998)
To find you (2005). Click here for sample translation (3 chapters in English)
Climate Crossroads - media, politics and Climate change (sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council
MediaClimate: A network of researchers monitoring the COPs - i.e. the Climate Summits
Media and Minority Actors (supported by Culcom programme at Oslo University)
My doctoral thesis,
defended in November 2002.
(If you need this book, please e-mail (Elisabeth.Eide@jbi.hio.no)
Lectures at the dissertation:
'Being the Other'
or tourist in her reality? Reporters' attempts at cross-identification
(a version later published in Social
Identities 1/2007)
What novels can do,
and journalism can not. On the relationship between fiction and
reportage
Other articles or papers in English:
The Empire and the Egyptians, Nordicom Review 2/2006
Warfare and dual
vision, in: Ottosen/Nohrstedt (eds.): U.S. and the Others. Global Media
Images on “The War on Terror” (2004)
The Long Distance Runner and Discourses on Europe's Others. Ethnic
Minority Representation in Feature Stories
Gender
and media - lecture at a seminar initiated by IAWRT (International
Association of Women in Radio and Television), NRK, Oslo, december 2000
The Twenty Per cent
Limit. On Gender and Norwegian Media, WIN News
Is the African Woman
Allowed to Speak? Paper to IAMCR-conference, Glasgow, 1998
Recommended websites:
www.zmag.org (a website publishing a
variety of critical, radical intellectuals/journalists)
www.fair.org (a website concerned
with media critique)
www.afghan-web.com (a very
informative website – daily updated – on Afghanistan)