An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam are looking for a PhD candidate who will participate in the research project ‘Forces that bind or divide? Muslim interventions in the public realm 1989 – 2016’, directed by Annelies Moors.
Eszter Spat made a documentary, Following the Peacock, about the Yezidis and their ritual of parading the Peacock; a seldom observed ritual by outsiders.
Researcher storyteller, Brené Brown discusses her experience as qualitative researcher in this TED Talk based upon her research on shame and vulnerability.
Afgelopen zondag was er een potje voetbal aan de Hondiusstraat. Volgens de politie een manifestatie. Ik was erbij en bij deze een verslag van binnenuit.
Carmen Becker hat den Einfluss des Internets auf den Glauben junger niederländischer und deutscher Muslime untersucht, die der Salafiyya folgen. Am 9. September 2013 wird sie an der Nimweger Radboud Universität promovieren.
Carmen Becker onderzocht de invloed van internet op het geloof van jonge Nederlandse en Duitse moslims die de Salafiyya volgen. Op 9 september promoveert zij aan de Radboud Universiteit.
So, can controversial media language shape the way we see a story? Can words like “illegal immigrant”, “terrorist” and “Islamist” be weapons in a war of ideas?
Lang leve de antropologie en haar cultureel-relativisme. En op naar meer ontwrichtende, gevaarlijke wetenschap!
My article in the special issue of Contemporary Islam on Moral Ambiguities and Muslim Lives: The moral maze: Dutch Salafis and the construction of a moral community of the faithful.
My comment in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI): Hello world! Challenges for blogging as anthropological outreach. Together with my colleague Henk Driessen I organized the Anthropology and/in Publicity conference in 2010. Henk Driessen, Mathijs Pelkmans and yours truly have written a comment in JRAI.
