An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Pinto stelt hier een ideaalbeeld van de Nederlandse samenleving tegenover alle mogelijk negatieve stereotyperingen van de allochtoon. Het is wensdenken wat Pinto hier doet. Ja, het is heel erg met die allochtonen. En ‘wij’ zijn dus echt superieur ten opzichte van die pre-moderne horden. Niet de slechte integratie van allochtone jongeren is het probleem; figuren als Pinto zijn onderdeel van het probleem.
Both sports and religion have socializing institutions and sports is often used as a means to socialize, educate and discipline people. Although Islam is often connected with seriousness and discipline and sports with playfulness and joy, the two have more in common than we might realize.
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In the case of Brussels and France people quickly pointed out that the perpetrators were salafists as a synonym for radical Muslims and Islam. The dichotomy between liberal Islam and radical Islam therefore emphasizes the need for reform in Islam, but in practice actually prevents that. The unreflected, taken for granted use of the label salafism says more about current society and politics in Europe than about Islam and Muslims and mainly serves the political elite.
Politiek correct taalgebruik is een kwestie van historische, morele en conceptuele helderheid, consistentie en stiptheid als instrument tegen de onzorgvuldigheden en vanzelfsprekendheden die ons taalgebruik in het dagelijks leven kenmerken. Politiek incorrect taalgebruik is voor luie mensen. Een pleidooi voor politiek correct taalgebruik.
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.)
De recente gewelddadige acties tegen een sji’itische moskee in Brussel en de schietpartijen in Frankrijk hebben veel mensen geschokt. In beide gevallen werd al snel in de richting van het ‘salafisme’ gewezen als synoniem voor de radicale islam. Het lijkt alsof geweld door moslims altijd wordt herleid tot islam of salafisme en niet tot psychologische of sociale achtergronden. Wat is salafisme eigenlijk?
What do long hair, rolling tobacco, and kufiyas have to do with being revolutionary? Anthropologist Samuli Schielke about the spread of a revolutionary habitus creating a space for creative expressions of a politically and socially critical attitude. But at the same time it has become a distinctive marker of that attitude, and as such it is by nature exclusive.
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.)
Great, American Ethnologist has a special issue on the Arab Spring! And even better: Free Access!. What they have in common is that the contributions go beyond the easy and very visible dimensions of Egyptian society such as the secular and the religious (that rule much of the media discourse on the Arab spring) and the highly mediatized protests at Tahrir (by for example looking at how people in a particular village or women at home in Cairo experienced the uprising and the collapse of the regime). I’m listing the titles and abstracts here.
