Rapporten Radicalisering, Salafisme en Jihadisme
Er zijn recent diverse rapporten gepubliceerd over radicalisering, salafisme en jihadisme. Een kort overzicht.
Monthly Archive: March 2010
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 10 – Vrouwen gaan voor
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Deze week De Vrouw.
Closing the week 9 – Dutch local elections II
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 the Dutch (municipal) elections.
Oorlogsmisdaden in Afghanistan?
Het standrechterlijk executeren van gevangen genomen kinderen is een oorlogsmisdaad en te zien als een voorbeeld van staatsterrorisme. Waarom is er dan zo weinig ophef over en waar is de kritische onderzoeksjournalistiek?
New Book – A world of insecurity: Anthropological perspectives on human security
A world of insecurity: Anthropological perspectives on human security, a collection of essays edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ellen Bal and Oscar Salemink. The book defines Human Security as a multidimensional and dynamic conceptual lens which allows us to link these various dimensions – superficially classified as physical and existential security – with one another in order to achieve a richer, more complex and more compelling analysis. If cultural and religious dimensions are left out of the equation, then a Human Security analysis is bound to be incomplete, theoretically barren, and politically irrelevant.
Fitna in the Netherlands – Elections and the myth of tolerance
Wilders is showing his movie Fitna (chaos, strive) today in the House of Lords in the UK (see HERE for a critique) signalling his belief that Islam is a danger to a stable tolerant country. The real fitna however is already apparent in the Netherlands. The local elections to do not present the breakthrough of an intolerant ideology; that already happened. It is not a breakthrough for xenophobia and islamophobia, but xenophobia and islamophobia that has become acceptable and moreover a reason to vote. Not a breakthrough washing away political opposition but a deadlock situation making the country difficult to rule for left and right. Not a breakthrough but a result that puts the myth of tolerance into perspective.
Seksisme in de politiek
We zijn een land waarin vrouwenemancipatie hoog in het vaandel staat. Vrouwen zijn hier gelijkwaardig aan mannen. Daar kunnen anderen een voorbeeld aan nemen. Toch?
Anthropology of user-generated connections and mobilization
I have been thinking about online mobilization by social movements for quite some time now. It is clear by now that social movements (environmental, women, labor, religious, and so on) try to recruit and mobilize their constituency online by building and disseminating collective action frames and while participation in social movements back in the old days seem to have been limited to activists, today a broader group maybe involved in online mobilization. In order to understand the major impact of this, merely looking at content is not enough, the content must be related to larger frames ‘out there’ and user-generated connections; together they can explain user-generated mobilization.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 9 – Een stemadvies
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Met deze week een stemadvies en het verkiezingsritueel.