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An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn

Category: anthropology

Award for anthropologist Jan Blommaert: Language, Asylum and the National Order 2

[Online] Publications / anthropology / Multiculti Issues

Award for anthropologist Jan Blommaert: Language, Asylum and the National Order

Jan Blommaert has been awarded with the first Barbara Metzger Prize for his article Language, Asylum, and the National Order published in the journal Current Anthropology in August 2009 (vol. 50, no. 4). Jan Blommaert is professor of language, culture and globalization at Tilburg University, the Netherlands and professor in African linguistics and sociolinguistics at Ghent University in Belgium. In his article Blommaert probes the way in which officials try to ascertain the authenticity of those seeking asylum in Western Europe. He shows that officials sometimes rely on assumptions about linguistic competence of asylum seekers that may be inaccurate when applied to citizens of often multi-lingual communities.

Cartoonesque 17: That is (not) funny! 0

anthropology / ISIM/RU Research / Public Islam

Cartoonesque 17: That is (not) funny!

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.

Closing the week 44 – Featuring Roshonara Choudry, Al-Awlaki and Online Radicalisation 0

anthropology / Blogosphere

Closing the week 44 – Featuring Roshonara Choudry, Al-Awlaki and Online Radicalisation

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.

Closing the week 42 – Featuring the dying of the multicultural light 0

anthropology / Multiculti Issues

Closing the week 42 – Featuring the dying of the multicultural light

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.

Introducing Anthropology and Publicity 0

anthropology / Featured / Headline / ISIM/RU Research

Introducing Anthropology and Publicity

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.

New Book – Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe 1

anthropology / Important Publications

New Book – Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe

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.

11 september en islam – 10 punten over religie en geweld 6

anthropology / International Terrorism / Religious and Political Radicalization / Young Muslims

11 september en islam – 10 punten over religie en geweld

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.