About
Viggo Vestel is a researcher at NOVA, Section for Youth Research, and has his Ph.D. from the University of Oslo. He has for several years worked on a series of projects around multicultural youth milieus and growing up in block area suburbs in Oslo. His interests are wide, from cultural theory, semiotics, and creativity - both in everyday life,and more specifically within music and aesthetical genres - to subcultures, social class, emerging political consciousness, and political extremism.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Political mobilization Youth Youth culture Minority youth Extremism Youth clubs
Research groups
Research projects
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DARE – Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality
The project investigates how young people aged between 12 and 30 respond to messages and agents of radicalisation.
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Qualify Unification in Europe for Shifting Trust. A Comparative Research on Muslims Responses to the Politics of Threat in France, UK, Spain, and Norway (QUEST)
What does it mean to ‘be Muslim’ in a polarized Europe?
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Young People and Political Extremism
NOVA has initiated a research project about political attitudes and engagement among Norwegian youth. Trust and mistrust in societal and political institutions among ordinary and radical youth is central to the study.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Vestel, Viggo Jan
;
Smette, Ingrid
(2024).
Seven critical events regarding Islam and Muslims in Norway - Three points of tension.
La Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM).
https://doi.org/10.15366/reim2024.36.003
Vestel, Viggo Jan (2018). Youth, extremism and the liminoid. Right-wing antiislamist versus radical Islam in Norway. Øverland, Gwynyth; Andersen, Arnfinn J.; Førde, Kristin Engh; Grødum, Kjetil; Salomonsen, Joseph (Ed.). Violent Extremism in the 21st Century: International Perspectives . p. 15-44. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Jacobsen, Christine M.;
Vestel, Viggo Jan
(2018).
'Look into my eyes': music, religion, and the politics of Muslim youth in Norway.
Journal of Muslims in Europe.
Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341344
Pedersen, Willy
;
Vestel, Viggo Jan
;
Bakken, Anders
(2017).
At risk for radicalization and jihadism? A population-based study of Norwegian adolescents.
Cooperation and Conflict.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836717716721
Vestel, Viggo Jan (2016). I gråsonen. Ungdom og politisk ekstremisme i det nye Norge. ISBN: 978.82.15.02576.6. 252 p. Universitetsforlaget.
Øia, Tormod; Vestel, Viggo Jan (2014). Generasjonskløfta som forsvant : et ungdomsbilde i endring. 35 p. Tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning.
Vestel, Viggo Jan
(2014).
De som er kasta ut av det normale : om selvskading og selvterapi i et emo/alternativt miljø i "Torsdal", Norge.
35 p.
Tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning.
http://hdl.handle.net/10642/2587
Gudmundsson, Gestur; Beach, Dennis; Vestel, Viggo Jan (2013). Youth and marginalization. Young people from immigrant families in Scandinavia. ISBN: 1872767680. 179 p. Tufnell Press.
Vestel, Viggo Jan ; Andersson, Mette; Jacobsen, Christine M.; Rogstad, Jon Christian (2012). Kritiske hendelser - Nye stemmer. Politisk engasjement og transnasjonal orientering i det nye Norge. ISBN: 978-82-15-01823-2. 271 p. Universitetsforlaget.
Vestel, Viggo Jan (2012). Pionerer i det nye Norge. Alghasi, Sharam; Eide, Elisabeth; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Ed.). Den globale drabantbyen. Groruddalen og det nye Norge. p. 35-57. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.