Edda Manga (born 1969)[1] is a Swedish historian of ideas, speaker and debator.
Early life and education
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Manga was born in Bogota, Colombia.[2] She moved to Sweden when she was 17 years old.[3]
Career
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On 14 June 2004, she was a summer host on Sveriges Radio P1 during Sommar i P1 o.[4] In 2004, Manga won the Clio award[1] for her doctorate thesis Gudomliga uppenbarelser och demoniska samlag ("Divine revelations and demonic intercourses").[5] In 2011 she together with her husband was a speaker at the summer camp of the Communist Party in Sweden, though she is not a member.[6]
Since January 2016 she has worked as a researcher at Mångkulturellt centrum (tr: Multicultural center).[7][8] As of 2017, Manga was active in public debates and a defender of Muslim women in Sweden to wear the hijab.[9] She has been criticised for trivialising the issue of women as victims of violent honor cultures in Sweden.[10]
Personal life
editManga is married to historian Mattias Gardell.[11] They were aboard MV Mavi Marmara as part of the flotilla which tried to break the Israeli embargo of the Gaza strip, before Israeli armed forces attacked the flotilla on the morning of 31 May 2010.[12] Manga was deported from Israel and landed in Sweden on 3 June along with her husband and other Swedish left-wing activists.[13] She denied allegations of IHH being a militant Islamist organisation, saying "They are not turkish islamists. They are a muslim organisation working with humanitarian aid in 143 countries." She further called the Israeli action irrational.[13]
Works
edit- Att mäta rasism (with Mattias Gardell, Alireza Behtoui, René León Rosales and Alexander Ekelund) (2020) [14]
- Utvägar - feministiska allianser för en solidarisk framtid (editor) (2015) [15]
- Slöjor, Authors Elin Berge, Edda Manga, Atlas, 2006, ISBN 978-91-7389-205-6
- Gudomliga uppenbarelser och demoniska samlag Glänta produktion, 2003, ISBN 978-91-628-5276-4
- Santas visiones y pecados extraordinarios Cecilia Rodríguez, Editor Edda Manga, Göteborgs universitet, 2002, ISBN 978-91-631-2459-4
References
edit- ^ a b Manga, Edda (2004-09-14). "Edda Manga: Tillväxtens ideologi gör oss fattiga" (in Swedish). Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ^ Women in Peace website, Edda Manga
- ^ El Colombiano website, Edda arrived in Sweden and narrated the horror on the way to Gaza, article dated June 3, 2010
- ^ "Sommarvärdar 2004". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ^ Bäckstedt, Eva (2004-09-14). "Historisk onani ledde till Cliopris" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ^ admin (2011-08-04). "Kommunisternas sommarläger". www.kommunisterna.org (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ "Edda Manga - Mångkulturellt Centrum". Mångkulturellt Centrum (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ SVT News website, Botkyrka terminates agreement with Multicultural Centre, article dated June 14, 2024
- ^ "Samma gamla slitna pamflett om slöjan". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ "Förnekarna av hedersvåld". Göteborgs-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ Uppsala University website, Literature on the brain, article dated October 2, 2023
- ^ Högström, Erik (2010-05-31). "Gardell ombord på bordat fartyg" (in Swedish). Expressen. Archived from the original on 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ a b "Alla svenskar från Gazakonvojen hemma igen". Ekot. 2010-06-03. Sveriges Radio. P1.
- ^ GoodReads website, Att mäta rasism
- ^ GoodReads website, Edda Manga
External links
edit- eddamanga - Personal weblog
Media related to Edda Manga (historian) at Wikimedia Commons
