Academic interests
Dr Christopher R. Fardan is a political sociologist and researcher at The University of Oslo.
His doctoral thesis focuses on how and why exclusionary forms of nationalism sustain in contemporary Norwegian society. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork - including participant observation and in-depth interviews - Fardan puts emphasis on the importance of understanding mobilisation and recruitment into extreme organisations, identity formation among nationalist actors, internal, emotive group-level dynamics and the link between beliefs and action.
Fardan has worked as a researcher on an EU-funded research project, DRIVE, which explores the role of social exclusion in the light of polarisation, radicalisation, extremism and violence - in relation to the far-right and Islamism - in Northwest Europe.
Today, he is employed as a research fellow at Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo.
Background
2022-: Research Fellow at the University of Oslo (UiO)
2018-2023: Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at The University of Manchester (UoM)
2017-2018: Master of Science (MSc) in Political Sociology at London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
2014-2017: Bachelor of Social Science (BSocSc) in Sociology at the University of Manchester (UoM)
Prizes and awards
2022 Sociology Prize for Public Engagement
2019 School of Social Sciences Fieldwork Bursary
2018 President’s Doctoral Scholar (PDS) Award
2018 PhD Studentship (School of Social Sciences)
2017 Sociology Ethnography Dissertation Prize
Publications
Research
Fardan, C. R., Nissen, A. and Segers, I. B. (forthcoming) '"No Racists in Our Streets!" – Local Responses to Far-Right Anti-Islam Mobilization in Norway and Denmark'
Fardan, C. R. (2022) Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism. PhD thesis, Faculty of Humanities. Manchester: The University of Manchester. [Online] Available at: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/extreme-nationalism-in-contemporary-norway-ideologies-mobilisatio
Fardan, C. R. and Thorleifsson C. (2020) ‘What is nationalism?’, in Jupskås, A. R. and Leidig, E. (eds.) Knowing what’s (far) right: A compendium. Oslo: C-REX, University of Oslo. [Online] Available at: https://www.sv.uio.no/crex/english/groups/compendium/what-is-nationalism.html
Media
Fardan, C. R. (2024) 'Muslimers erfaringer med rasisme og diskriminering bør være et varsku', 12 March [Online] Available at: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/y6kjO2/muslimers-erfaringer-med-rasisme-og-diskriminering-boer-vaere-et-varsku
Fardan, C. R. and Ahmed, U. (2023) 'Rasisme er ikke mangfoldets pris, men prisen vi betaler for skjeve maktforhold', 8 December [Online] Available at: https://www.utrop.no/plenum/ytringer/351001/
Fardan, C. R. (2023) '"Jeg vil hele jødefaenskapen til livs": Israel-Hamas-krigen splitter høyreekstremister', Filter Nyheter, 14 November [Online] Available at: https://filternyheter.no/analyse-israel-hamas-krigen-splitter-hoyreekstremister/
Fardan, C. R. (2023) 'Hva gjør Norgesdemokratene på Blindern?', Universitas, 31 August [Online] Available at: https://www.universitas.no/hva-gjor-norgesdemokratene-pa-blindern/369145
Fardan, C. R. (2023) 'Mange vet ikke hvordan dagens høyreekstremisme i Norge ser ut', Aftenposten, 9 July [Online] Available at: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/jl71Kz/mange-vet-ikke-hvordan-dagens-hoeyreekstremisme-i-norge-ser-ut
Fardan, C. R. (2023) 'Krav om assimilering er en fallitterklæring', Vårt Land, 10 July [Online] Available at: https://www.vl.no/meninger/verdidebatt/2023/07/10/krav-om-assimilering-er-en-fallitterklaering/
Ahmed, U. and Fardan, C. R. (2022) 'Sjokket som gjentar seg', Aftenposten, 10
November [Online] Available at: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/XbMnLb/sjokket-som-gjentar-seg
Fardan, C. R. and Fangen, K. (2022) 'En forsvarlig mediedekning av ekstreme
gruppers demonstrasjoner', Medier 24, 6 November [Online] Available at:
https://m24.no/christopher-r-fardan-debatt-katrine-fangen/en-forsvarligmediedekning-
av-ekstreme-gruppers-demonstrasjoner/548958
Fardan, C. R. (2021) '"Fair play" er en illusjon', Aftenbladet, 24 August [Online]
Available at: https://www.aftenbladet.no/meninger/debatt/i/rE8wwl/fair-play-er-enillusjon
Fardan, C. R. (2021) 'Hvordan bør vi forstå ekstremisme?', Aftenposten, 11 July
[Online] Available at: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/M3xAAK/hvordan-boer-vi-forstaaekstremisme