It took us six years, but I’m very pleased to announce that, at last, our book: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany – ‘Islands in a sea of disbelief’ (Palgrave 2020) has been published. The book, written with my wonderful colleagues Carmen Becker and Ineke Roex, is a revised and updated version […]Continue Reading →
My colleague Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plancke Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Among his work is Islamism and Democracy in India (Princeton University Press, 2009) and recently he published Religion As Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University […]Continue Reading →
From New Books Network: No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. But in a radical departure from conventional efforts to explain and solve the “problem” of jihad, The Universal […]Continue Reading →
UPDATES ONDERAAN: MELDING BIJ DE POLITIE EN STATEMENT BAUDET Afgelopen vrijdag tweette de leider van Forum voor Democratie, Thierry Baudet, het volgende: Kritische media als we hebben, die gingen gelijk op speurtocht. En wat is de conclusie? Het verhaal van Baudet is hoogst twijfelachtig. Factchecking: de klok horen luiden, maar geen idee waar de klepel […]Continue Reading →
On Wednesday evening 13 November 2019 prof. dr. Esra Özyurek (London School of Economics and Political Science) will deliver a lecture: ‘Rethinking empathy: Emotions triggered by the Holocaust among the Muslim-minority in Germany’. Professor Esra Özyürek is Professor in European Anthropology and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies. Esra Özyurek published in 2015 the book Being [&Continue Reading →
Na een afspraak elders in Den Haag (dank voor de koffie en de soep!) loop ik vrijdagmiddag 9 augustus naar de Hofplaats, nabij het Binnenhof in Den Haag. Daar is voor de organisatoren en sprekers van het protest ‘Hand in hand tegen het niqabverbod’ de start van de mars naar Koekamp waar de protestbijeenkomst plaatsvindt. […]Continue Reading →
De makers van de Baaaz podcast gingen in gesprek met Annelies Moors, antropoloog en hoogleraar hedendaagse moslimsamenlevingen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en Ibtissam Abaaziz, medeoprichter Meld Islamofobie over het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding.Continue Reading →
As I was cycling through the beautiful Bommelerwaard and resting near the water (yes, there is a reason I’m cycling here and not in the Tour de France), the thought occurred that it was actually to warm to do anything. So when I came home I listened to a podcast (no 1 below) in the […]Continue Reading →
Datum: 12 juni 2019 19.00 – 22.00 uur, Amsterdam Aanmelden is verplicht, zie onderaan. Nederland en België hebben een belangrijke rol gespeeld in de ontwikkeling van het begrip radicalisering. Geïntroduceerd rond 2001 door de AIVD voor gewelddadige en niet-gewelddadige vormen van politieke islam, is de term ingeburgerd geraakt in binnen- en buitenland en in beleidskringen […]Continue Reading →
Together with Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University), Annelies Moors (University of Amsterdam) and Peter Pels (Leiden University) I wrote a short article on ethics and integrity against the background of current debates about (anthropological) research and data management. As anthropologists we are increasingly confronted with attempts – be it by employers, the media, or policy makers […]Continue Reading →
