An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Jokes can be funny, or not. What matters is who has the power to define what is funny and what the position of the target of the joke is. It is the transgressive quality of jokes that makes them funny but also very suitable for political uses. Which jokes are made at the responses to these jokes reveal important processes, hierarchies and discourse in society.
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 case of Roshonara Choudry.
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 waning of multiculturalism in Europe.
Although anthropology is by definition ‘public’, the relationship between its practitioners and society, its social relevance and its connections with the wider audience, have always been controversial and complex. This will be the general theme of the meeting on 5 November 2010 at Ravenstein. To be sure, it is a vast and multifaceted topic.
How do Muslims in Europe acquire discursive and practical knowledge of Islam? How are conceptions of Islamic beliefs, values and practices transmitted and how do they change? Who are the authorities on these issues that Muslims listen to? How do new Muslim discourses emerge in response to the European context?
This book addresses the broader question of how Islamic knowledge (defined as what Muslims hold to be correct Islamic beliefs and practices) is being produced and reproduced in West European contexts.
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.)
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology at Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who reflects on his life and work as an anthropologist focusing on religion, modernity, and the complex relationships between Islam and the West.
Eén van de belangrijkste kenmerken van de nasleep van 9/11 is het gegeven dat veel moslims het gevoel hebben zich voortdurend te moeten verantwoorden over zaken waar ze part noch deel aan hebben (zie het programma ZOZ van de VPRO). Hoewel een groot deel van de aanslagplegers van 9/11 voorafgaand aan hun religieuze radicalisering al in politieke zin geradicaliseerd waren en beide vormen van radicalisering zich bij hen vooral in Europa voltrok, staat toch hun religieuze achtergrond centraal in veel discussies. In deze bijdrage waarom er geen causale relatie ligt tussen islam en geweld, maar waarom religie en geweld wel onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden zijn.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Deze week helden en Pakistan.
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.
