September 2026
Books
Hervik, P. (Ed.). (n.d.). Anthropological perspective on the global rise of far right-wing governments, parties, and movements. London, England; New York, NY: Routledge. (commissioned, submitted, accepted).
Udupa, S., & Hervik, P. (Eds.). (2026). Handbook on anthropology and artificial intelligence. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Open access. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035342204
Hervik, P. (2021). Sådan er det bare! Antropologiske perspektiver på oplevelser og reaktioner på racialisering i Danmark. Aarhus, Denmark: Klims Forlag. http://www.peterhervik.dk/?page_id=434
Udupa, S., Gagliardone, I., & Hervik, P. (Eds.). (2021). Digital hate: The global conjuncture of extreme speech. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2979/DigitalHate.0.0.00
Hervik, P. (Ed.). (2019). Racialization, racism and anti-racism in the Nordic countries. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nielsen, M. T., & Hervik, P. (2017). Can behaviour be controlled? Women in post-revolutionary Egypt. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang.
Nielsen, M. T., & Hervik, P. (2015). ألا يمكنك التحكم بتصرفات الناس؟ (“A project with and about women in post-revolutionary Egypt”). Sohag, Egypt: Kenana.
Hervik, P. (2012). The Danish Muhammad cartoon conflict. Malmö, Sweden: Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM). https://muep.mau.se/handle/2043/14094
Hervik, P. (2011). The annoying difference: The emergence of Danish neonationalism, neoracism, and populism in the post-1989 world. New York, NY; Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Hervik, P. (2003). Mayan people within and beyond boundaries: Social categories and lived identity in Yucatán (Rev. ed.). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers; New York, NY; London, England: Routledge. (Original work published 1999)
Hervik, P. (2002). Mediernes muslimer: En antropologisk undersøgelse af mediernes dækning af religioner i Danmark. Copenhagen, Denmark: The Board for Ethnic Equality. http://www.peterhervik.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Mediernes-Muslimer.pdf
Hervik, P. (1999). Den generende forskellighed: Danske svar på den stigende multikulturalisme. Copenhagen, Denmark: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Hastrup, K., & Hervik, P. (Eds.). (1994). Social experience and anthropological knowledge. New York, NY; London, England: Routledge.
Hervik, P. (1992). The position of language and cultures in the Yucatecan landscape (Doctoral dissertation). University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Chapters and Articles
Hervik, P. (n.d.). Beyond the far right? Anthropological perspectives on the cultural production of strategic ignorance. In P. Hervik (Ed.), Anthropological perspective on the global rise of far right-wing governments, parties, and movements. London, England; New York, NY: Routledge.
Hervik, P., & Christensen, T. W. (n.d.). Anthropological perspectives on the global rise of the far right. In P. Hervik (Ed.), Anthropological perspective on the global rise of far right-wing governments, parties, and movements. London, England; New York, NY: Routledge.
Udupa, S., & Hervik, P. (2026). Introduction: Anthropology of artificial intelligence. In S. Udupa & P. Hervik (Eds.), Handbook on anthropology and artificial intelligence (pp. 1–20). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035342204.00008 (doi.org in Bing)
Hervik, P. (2026). Does AI contribute to ignorance and foster indifference, nihilism, and violent identity politics? In S. Udupa & P. Hervik (Eds.), Handbook on anthropology and artificial intelligence (pp. 456–469). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035342204.00046 (doi.org in Bing)
Hervik, P. (in press). Culture studies of emotion and affect: Methodological implications for the study of hate speech, strategic ignorance and moral outrage. In H. Kosonen, J. Turunen, & T. Saresma (Eds.), Affective communities. Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä.
Hervik, P. (2025). Epilogue: Notes on anthropology, AI and nonbeings. In J. Tošić, S. Strasser, & A. Lems (Eds.), Re-turns, entanglements and collaborations: Anthropological experimentations (pp. 311–325). New York, NY: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781836951117-013 (doi.org in Bing)
Hervik, P. (2022). Media anthropology and the crisis of facts. In E. Costa, P. G. Lange, N. Haynes, & J. Sinanan (Eds.), The Routledge companion to media anthropology (pp. 427–440). London, England; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003175605-42 (doi.org in Bing)
Hervik, P. (2022). Critical understanding of racialisation in the era of global populism. Nordic Journal of Social Research, 13(1), 1–9. https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/njsr.13.1.1 (idunn.no in Bing)
Hervik, P. (2021). Racialization, racism and anti-racism in Danish social media platforms. In S. Udupa, I. Gagliardone, & P. Hervik (Eds.), Digital hate: The global conjuncture of extreme speech (pp. 131–145). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Hervik, P. (2021). Det multikulturelle samfund. In H. B. Boelsbjerg & M. M. Hermansen (Eds.), Kultur for sundhedsprofessionelle (pp. 49–70). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gads Forlag.
Nassri, L., & Hervik, P. (2021). Racialisering af forskellighed. In H. B. Boelsbjerg & M. M. Hermansen (Eds.), Kultur for sundhedsprofessionelle (pp. 71–98). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gads Forlag.
Udupa, S., Gagliardone, I., & Hervik, P. (2021). Introduction: Hate cultures in the digital age. In S. Udupa, I. Gagliardone, & P. Hervik (Eds.), Digital hate: The global conjuncture of extreme speech (pp. 1–19). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Hervik, P. (2020). Neo-nationalism and far right studies: Anthropological perspectives. In G. Macklin, S. Ashe, J. Busher, & A. Winter (Eds.), Researching the far right: Theory, method and practice (pp. 92–107). London, England; New York, NY: Routledge.
Hervik, P. (2019). Journalistikkens krise – antropologiens chance? Jordens Folk, special issue, 15–25.
Hervik, P. (2019). Ritualized opposition in Danish practices of extremist language and thought. International Journal of Communication, 13, 3104–3121.
Hervik, P. (2019). Denmark’s blond vision and the fractal logic of the nation in danger. Identities, 26(5), 529–545. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1587905 (doi.org in Bing)
Vertelyte, M., & Hervik, P. (2019). The vices of debating racial epithets in Danish news media discourse. In P. Hervik (Ed.), Racialization, racism and anti-racism in the Nordic countries (pp. 163–181). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hervik, P. (2019). Racialization in the Nordic countries: An introduction. In P. Hervik (Ed.), Racialization, racism and anti-racism in the Nordic countries (pp. 1–37). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hervik, P. (2018). Refiguring the public, political and personal in current Danish exclusionary reasoning. In C. Strauss & J. Friedman (Eds.), Political sentiments and social movements (pp. 91–117). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hervik, P. (2018). Afterword. Conflict and Society, 4, 85–93. https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2018.040107 (doi.org in Bing)
Hervik, P. (2018). Out-trumping economic consequences in populist voting. Economic Anthropology, 5(1), 142–147. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12111
Hervik, P. (2017). Ten years after the Danish Muhammad cartoon news stories. Television and New Media, 19(2), 146–154. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476417707582 (doi.org in Bing)
Hervik, P. (2016). Fortællinger om danske værter og deres genererende gæster. In I. G. Bo, A.-D. Christensen, & T. Thomsen (Eds.), Narrativer – tilgange, metoder og analyser (pp. 275–292). Copenhagen, Denmark: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Hervik, P. (2015). The perils of public anthropology? In S. Abram & S. Pink (Eds.), Media, engagement and anthropological practice (pp. 44–67). New York, NY; Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Hervik, P. (2015). Race, “race”, racialisering, racism og nyracisme. Dansk Sociologi, 26(1), 29–50.
Hervik, P. (2015). Xenophobia and nativism. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2nd ed., Vol. 25, pp. 796–801). Oxford, England: Elsevier.
Feischmidt, M., & Hervik, P. (2015). Mainstreaming the extreme. Intersections, 1, 3–17.
Hervik, P. (2015). What is in the Scandinavian nexus of Islamophobia? Intersections, 1, 66–82.
Jørgensen, S. K., & Hervik, P. (2015). Kritik og sikkerhed. Nordicom-Information, 37(3–4), 1–4.
Hervik, P., & Khongmuaeng, S. (2014). The knowledge dynamics of Danish tourists. In P. Porananond & V. T. King (Eds.), Rethinking Asian tourism (pp. 197–216). Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hervik, P. (2014). Cultural war of values. In J. Tripathy & S. Padmanabhan (Eds.), Becoming minority (pp. 154–173). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.
Hellström, A., & Hervik, P. (2014). Feeding the beast. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 15, 449–467.
Hervik, P., & Meret, S. (2013). Erostratus unbound. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 3(4), 179–186.
Hervik, P., & Boisen, S. (2013). Danish media coverage of 22/7. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 3(4), 197–204.
Hervik, P. (2013). Racism, neo-racism. In ENAR (Ed.), Recycling hatred (pp. 43–52). Brussels, Belgium: ENAR.
Hervik, P. (2012). Ending tolerance as a solution to incompatibility. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(2), 211–225.
Hellström, A., & Hervik, P. (2011). Feeding the beast. CoMID Working Paper Series, 1.
Hervik, P., & Gingrich, A. (2011). Rassismus. In F. Kreff, E.-M. Knoll, & A. Gingrich (Eds.), Lexicon der Globalisierung (pp. 335–338). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag.
Hervik, P. (2010). Government’s handling of the Muhammad cartoon conflict. In J. R. Lewis, I. Nakamitsu, & R. Stade (Eds.), [Japanese title] (pp. 125–152). Tokyo, Japan: Minerva Shobo.
Hervik, P., Eide, E., & Kunelius, R. (2008). A long and messy event. In E. Eide, R. Kunelius, & A. Phillips (Eds.), Transnational media events (pp. 29–38). Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom.
Boe, C. S., & Hervik, P. (2008). Integration through insult. In E. Eide, R. Kunelius, & A. Phillips (Eds.), Transnational media events (pp. 213–234). Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom.
Hervik, P. (2008). The original spin and its side effects. In E. Eide, R. Kunelius, & A. Phillips (Eds.), Transnational media events (pp. 59–80). Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom.
Hervik, P., & Berg, C. (2007). Denmark: A political struggle in Danish journalism. In R. Kunelius et al. (Eds.), Reading the Mohammed cartoons controversy (pp. 25–39). Bochum/Freiberg, Germany: Projekt Verlag.
Hervik, P., & Berg, C. (2007). Muhammad krisen. AMID Working Paper Series. Aalborg University.
Hervik, P. (2006). Limits of tolerance and limited tolerance. In R. Pinxten & E. Preckler (Eds.), Racism in metropolitan areas (pp. 35–53). New York, NY; Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Hervik, P. (2006). The emergence of neo-nationalism in Denmark. In A. Gingrich & M. Banks (Eds.), Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond (pp. 136–161). New York, NY; Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Hervik, P., & Kahn, H. E. (2006). Scholarly surrealism. Critique of Anthropology, 26(2), 209–232.
Hervik, P. (2006). The predictable responses to the Danish cartoons. Global Media and Communication, 2, 225–230.
Hervik, P. (2004). The new racism in Europe. Ethnos, 69(2), 149–155.
Hervik, P. (2004). The Danish cultural world of unbridgeable differences. Ethnos, 69(2), 247–267.
Hervik, P. (2003). Etnicitet og mediernes skildring. In T. Tufte (Ed.), Medierne, minoriteterne og det multikulturelle samfund (pp. 23–37). Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom.
Hervik, P. (2003). Teaching anthropology in Norway and Denmark. In D. Dracklé et al. (Eds.), Educational histories of European social anthropology (pp. 36–54). New York, NY; Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Hervik, P. (2003). På jagt efter danskheden. Grus, 68, 24–46.
Hervik, P. (2003). Det danske fjendebillede. In M. Sheikh et al. (Eds.), Islam i bevægelse (pp. 182–200). Copenhagen, Denmark: Akademisk Forlag.
Hervik, P. (2002). Dansk nationalisme og den generende forskellighed. Religion, 3, 38–43.
Hervik, P., & Jørgensen, R. E. (2002). Danske benægtelser af racisme. Sosiologi i dag, 32(4), 83–102.
Hervik, P. (2001). Narrations of shifting Maya identities. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 20(3), 342–359.
Hervik, P. (2001). Lighedens diskrimination. Mennesker og Rettigheder, 2, 41–53.
Fadel Holm, U., Hervik, P., & Vestergaard, G. (1999). De ’besværlige’ somaliere. In P. Hervik (Ed.), [Book title] (pp. 133–170).
Hervik, P. (1999). Forskellighedens logik. In P. Hervik (Ed.), [Book title] (pp. 15–50).
Hervik, P. (1999). Ny-racisme – politisk og folkelig. In P. Hervik (Ed.), [Book title] (pp. 108–132).
Hervik, P. (1998). The mysterious Maya of National Geographic. Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 4(1), 166–197.
Hervik, P. (1995). Las categorías sociales de Yucatán. Boletín de la Escuela de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad de Yucatán, 20(119), 5–43.
Hervik, P. (1994). Shared reasoning in the field. In K. Hastrup & P. Hervik (Eds.), Social experience and anthropological knowledge (pp. 78–100). New York, NY; London, England: Routledge.
Hervik, P. (1994). Social categories in Yucatán. Working Paper Series, 14. Duke–UNC Latin American Studies Program.
Hastrup, K., & Hervik, P. (1994). Introduction. In K. Hastrup & P. Hervik (Eds.), Social experience and anthropological knowledge (pp. 1–12). New York, NY; London, England: Routledge.
Hervik, P. (1992). Maya culture – beyond boundaries. Ethnos, 57(3–4), 183–199.
Hervik, P. (1997). Personal space. Folk, 39, 45–55.
Hervik, P. (1995). Don Iz har ondt i maven. Tidsskriftet Antropologi, 31, 65–80.
Hervik, P. (1995). Participant observation in popular religion. Folk, 37, 25–49.
Hervik, P. (1992). Før og nu, os og dem. In T. Tybjerg & H. Nielsen (Eds.), Møde mellem to verdener (pp. 121–137). Chaos, 2.
Bruun, L., & Hervik, P. (1991). Børn må ikke græde. Jordens Folk, 3, 16–19.
Hervik, P. (1991). Truende mission? Tidsskriftet Antropologi, 23, 113–122.
Hervik, P. (1992). Learning to be ‘Indian’. Folk, 34, 63–80.
Other Publications (Commentaries, reviews, encyclopedia entries)
Hervik, P. (2022). Hvis nyhedsmedierne er problemet, hvad er så løsningen? SOS Racisme, Tidsskriftet, 127, 28–31.
Hervik, P. (2022). Review essay of Rasisme. Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene (C. A. Døving, Ed.). Norsk Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, 6, xx–yy. https://doi.org/10.18261/nost.7.1.7
Hervik, P. (2020). Når oplevelser benægtes. Sameksistens.dk. SOS Racisme.
Hervik, P. (n.d.). Danish cartoon crisis/controversy. In Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t343/e0198?_hi=8&_pos=1#match
Hervik, P. (2017). The cartoon crisis in the Nordic countries. In T. Hjelm, H. Forsås-Scott, & M. Hilson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of contemporary Nordic culture. London, England: Hurst & Co.
Aidt, M., & Hervik, P. (2009). Sprogbrug: Kulturel mangfoldighed, interkultur, flerkultur, multikultur, etnisk, 2G’er, indvandrer, integration, nydansker. Cultures, 1, 21–23. Retrieved from http://www.kunstoginterkultur.dk/assets/files/Artikler/Cultures-nr-1_Sprogbrug-artikel.pdf
Hervik, P., & Rytter, M. (2004). Med ægteskab i fokus. In Ægtefællesammenføring i Danmark (Udredning nr. 1, chap. 6, pp. 131–160). Copenhagen, Denmark: The Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Hervik, P., & Rytter, M. (2003). General implications and explanations from an anthropological perspective. In The Danish Institute for Human Rights’ contribution to the European Racism and Xenophobia Information Network Report Raxen 4 (pp. 40–50). Copenhagen, Denmark: The Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Hervik, P. (2020). Global rise of authoritarianism. Shuddhashar, Issue 15. Retrieved from https://shuddhashar.com/global-rise-of-authoritarianism-peter-hervik/#respond
Hervik, P. (2019). Anti-equality as sacred value? Reflections on Nordic racialization. Shuddhashar, Issue 12, 1–6. Retrieved from https://shuddhashar.com/anti-equality-as-sacred-value-reflections-on-nordic-racialization-peter-hervik
Hervik, P. (2009). Dialogical opposition in the Danish government’s handling of the Muhammad cartoon conflict. (Published in Japanese.)
Hervik, P. (2024). Forsker: Hvad mener vi egentlig, når vi taler om racisme? Kristeligt Dagblad, 23 January, 5 pp.
Hervik, P., & Christensen, T. W. (2024). Forskere: Frederik Vads racistiske menneskesyn bliver du aldrig dansk, hvis du er muslim. Altinget, 19 June, 39.
Christensen, T. W., & Hervik, P. (2025). Offentligt ansatte mistænkeliggøres på tvivlsomt datagrundlag. Politiken, Op-ed, 11 April.
Hervik, P. (2023). Cora Alexa Døving (red.): Rasisme. Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene. Norsk Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, 7(1), 77–79. https://doi.org/10.18261/nost.7.1.7
Hervik, P., & Meret, S. (2016). Pork meatballs: Denmark’s latest bulwark against migrants. Open Democracy, 28 January. Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/susi-meret-peter-hervik/pork-meatballs-denmark-s-latest-bulwark-against-migrants#
Hervik, P. (2015). Karikatur-krisen radikaliserede danskerne. Information, 30 September.
Hervik, P. (2015). The tyranny of silence: How one cartoon ignited a global debate on the future of free speech (Review of Flemming Rose). Race & Class, 57, 105–109.