Category: Turning Point Pim Fortuyn Series
This year it is 20 years ago Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was murdered. In this series I explore why has become such an icon and what his role is in the racialisation of Muslims in Netherlands.
After having established a broad framework to analyse Fortuyn’s ideas, in the upcoming posts I will elaborate a little more on the three main pillars of his thoughts pertaining to Muslims and Islam and...
Fortuyn, ordinary people and not-racism Before we continue, it is good to take a closer look at how ideas about ‘race’ relate to Islam and culture, in this third part of the Turning Point...
After establishing the importance of Fortuyn in the Dutch political landscape in the first post of this series, I will now introduce the concept of racialization in this post and the next. Before I...
In a series of posts based upon my Dutch essay of five years ago, I look at how Fortuyn reproduced the idea of Muslims as the ultimate Other and how his ideas were both a break with and a continuation from earlier periods. I do this on the basis of an analysis of his book (Against) The Islamization of our culture, my previous research in Gouda and my current research into interventions by Muslims in the public domain.