Portie Burgerschap 2: Respect!
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Met deze week: Respect. Wat is respect, wat zijn de grenzen en wie bepaalt dit alles?
Monthly Archive: January 2010
Clifford Geertz in Morocco
A special issue of the Journal of North African Studies on Clifford Geertz in Morocco.
Tourism, leisure and violence in Israel
Tourism, education, leisure and violence; it is not an obvious relationship but if you are into it you can try to join an Al Qaeda trainingscamp. I would not recommend that though, I would advice you to go to Israel and join anti-terrorism, fighting courses and so on. These are booming and well equipped according to newspaper Telegraaf.
Closing the week 1 – Featuring Contested Islamization
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week featuring debates about islamization.
Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization
Political leaders, social movements and opinion leaders use visual rhetoric for the public representation and manipulation of their ideological messages by means of culturally recognizable symbols but (and this is the interesting part of chart wars) also by more abstract images conveying the message of chaos or order. What people need to know about the political power of visualizing data in 5 minutes.
Wekelijks portie burgerschap – Week 1: Maak eens een praatje met een ander
Geschreven wetten en regels zijn hard nodig in een maatschappij als de onze. En dus schrijven we de ongeschreven regels ook op. Een wekelijkse portie moralisme komt op u af via Closer.
Closing the week 53 – Featuring the Detroit terror
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)
Wilders on Trial (WoT) – part zero: outlining the case
Dutch politician Geert Wilders will be on trial for incitement to hatred and discrimination. This will be the first of a series of entries. Now: why and what is the case about?