Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 32 – Ramadan Mabrouk
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Deze week, Ramadan Mabrouk, voor iedereen.
Author: martijn
Muslims and Anime Art
Anime is an old drawing style from Japan coming from the word ‘animation’ and manga is the comics and cartoons where this style is used. In this entry I explore Muslim anime and manga. While anime is in itself already a mix of different styles and genres it gets re-appropriated by people who give meaning to it throughout the world and by making new drawings and comics themselves with both global and local influences. It is in fact a continuing story of production, reproduction and re-appropriation by mixing styles and personal experiences under the label of anime.
Sexual Nationalisms – Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe
An increasing number of scholars in the humanities and social sciences have begun to investigate the important shifts taking place in discourses of sexual freedom and gender equality across the continent. These shifts open up new arenas for ethnographic and other empirical research. What role do sex and gender play in various European nationalisms? In which cultural terms are sexual and gender boundaries articulated? What different trajectories can be discerned, and how can differences between countries be explained? What are the effects of these transformations at the level of the formation of community and subjectivity? How do these discursive shifts become tangible in everyday life? And how can sexual politics avoid the trap of exclusionary instrumentalization without renouncing its emancipatory promise? These and more questions will be addressed at the conference Sexual Nationalisms – Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe. More information here.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 32 – Nederlandse slachtoffers
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Deze week slachtoffers van de Nederlanders.
Radicalization Series IV – Salafism as a Utopian Movement
There are many different approaches for research on Salafism and they all make clear that, although Salafism has some distinguishing features, the movement is quite diverse with many doctrinary contradictions and clashes and different politico-theological tendencies. It is therefore difficult to define Salafism in a clear, consistent way. Most definitions of Salafism focus on ideological differences or view them in a security perspective. Although helpful it does not take into account identity, gender or the idea that security and radicalization are themselves cultural constructions with specific local, national and transnational dimensions. They also take up the official doctrines, methods and identities of spokespersons and religious authorities but ignore the perspectives, ideas and practices of participants in the movements. In this entry I explore the Salafi movement in a more anthropological way focusing on the processes of meaning-making within the perspective of utopian movements.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 31 – Vrijheidsnarcisten
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Met deze week vrijheidsnarcisten die van hun rotzooi een zelfmarketingsinstrument maken.
Closer Holiday Service – Contemporary Islam: Muslims and Media
The July 2010 issue of Contemporary Islam (editors Daniel Varisco and Gabriel Marranci) is out now. The former issue, April 2010, is available for free. It is a special issue Muslims and Media: Perceptions, Participation and Change with Cemil Aydin and Juliane Hammer as guest editors. Here you can find the content below with the link for downloading the articles of this interesting issue.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 30 – Festivals en politieke polonaises
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Met deze week het zomercarnaval, festivals en politieke polonaises.
Dutch Ground Zero Mosque
UPDATED: 27-08-2010
This can be a very short entry. There isn’t going to be a Dutch mosque at Ground Zero. Or another mosque for that matter. In fact, it is not even about a mosque. So done, next topic. But there is more to it, of course.
Closing the Week 29 – Featuring Khaled Said
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 Khaled Said.