Lisa Bjurwald

Lisa Bjurwald (approx. 2014)

Lisa Bjurwald (born December 24, 1978 ) is a Swedish journalist , columnist and author of investigative non-fiction books on right-wing extremism and right-wing populism in Sweden and other European countries.

Live and act

Lisa Bjurwald has been working as a freelance journalist since the mid-1990s. She began with regular columns for the Swedish daily Expressen , lived in London and Los Angeles, among others, and from 2000 wrote about fashion trends for the Swedish Fashion Council .

She studied political science in Stockholm and completed her bachelor's degree with a focus on crisis management and international cooperation at the Swedish National Defense College in cooperation with Uppsala University . As a political journalist, she wrote editorials for the daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet . From 2006 to 2011 she was part of the editorial team of the anti-racist magazine Expo, published by Stieg Larsson . She is a columnist for Norway's international news magazine Ny Tid and the weekly Swedish news magazine Fokus . For her report on the Swiss minaret dispute ( Allas ögon på Switzerland , in Expo , No. 4/2009), she was awarded the European Parliament's Journalism Prize in 2010, which is awarded to journalists who have tackled important European topics in their work.

Together with the journalist Maria Blomquist, she published the investigative book God dag Kampsyster! (German: Hello, combat sister! ) about women in the extreme right and the neo-Nazi movement in Sweden. Subsequently she received from July to September 2009 a Milena Jesenská scholarship for journalists (Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists ) as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. In 2011, she presented a comprehensive study on the rise of right-wing extremism in Europe, which she had written before the Anders Breivik attacks in Norway in July 2011. It shows that right-wing extremism, which is expressed in racism , anti-Semitism and the oppression of the Roma , is not a marginal phenomenon in European countries and that right-wing extremists are very effective in recruiting supporters, especially young ones, by using social media . In the second part of the book, she devotes her analysis of the situation in various countries, including Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Hungary and Scandinavia, and explains how powerful right-wing parties have become in Europe. In 2012 the book came out in German translation under the title Europa Schande. Right-wing extremism on the rise . In her book Skrivbordskrigarna ( Keyboard Warriors ), published in 2013 , she deals with radicalization on the Internet and the online activities of the extreme right.

From 2011 to 2012 Lisa Bjurwald was appointed as an expert in the Commission for Combating Xenophobia set up by the Swedish government .

Prices

• 2009: Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists , Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna
• 2010: European Parliament Prize for Journalism in the Swedish Press category
• 2013: Book Prize of the Order of the Teaspoon Foundation, founded in 2006 by Amos Oz in cooperation with the Swedish publishing house Wahlström & Widstrand , for Skrivbordskrigarna ( Keyboard Warriors )

Publications

• God Dag Kampsyster! Kvinnorna i extremhögern (with Maria Blomquist), Atlas, Stockholm 2009, ISBN 978-91-7389-347-3
• The Extreme and Far Right in Europe , Fores Policy Paper, Stockholm 2010 (32 pages, pdf )
• Europe's skam. Rasister på frammarsch , Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 2011, ISBN 978-91-27-12979-5

• Europe's shame. Right-wing extremism on the advance , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-007127-9

• Skrivbordskrigarna. Hur extrema krafter utnyttjar internet , Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 2013, ISBN 978-91-27-13355-6
• Lots of blind spots. The media public of Norway from a Scandinavian perspective , in: Michael Haller (Ed.): Right-wing terrorism in the media. The murderer Breivik in Norway and the terrorist cell NSU in Germany - how the journalists dealt with it and what they can learn from each other , Lit Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-007127-9 , p. 53f. (available on Google Books )

Web links

• Personal website
• Unwanted by all , report by Lisa Bjurwald on racist violence against Roma in Eastern and Central Europe, IWM Post 102, 2009, p. 14 (English)
• Interview with Lisa Bjurwald in MiGAZIN, October 26, 2010 (German)
• Author Lisa Bjurwald: Breivik is primarily an enemy of Islam. Radio Sweden, July 26, 2011

See also

• The new Nazis (four-part television documentary, including contributions by Lisa Bjurwald)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to Lisa Bjurwald, Ecrivé Media
2. ↑ Lisa Bjurwald granskar det systematiska hatet på nätet , Sveriges Radion, P4 Stockholm, March 4, 2013
3. ↑ journalismfund.eu, Lisa Bjurwald ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Lisa Bjurwald: Allas ögon på Schweiz (German: All eyes on Switzerland), Expo 4/2009, online July 22, 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b c} The Conference of European University Chaplains 2013, Keynote speakers, Lisa Bjurwald ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ IWM Post 101, April-August 2009, Fellows and Guests, p. 18
7. ↑ Review by Zeljka Cernok in: Swedish Book Review
8. ↑ Book Prize 2013, http://www.teskedsorden.se/ ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Reviews in the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet, January 22, 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Svenska Dagbladet, January 23, 2013 (Swedish)