Category: anthropology

Moslims & Onderzoek: Van Survey naar Surveillance? 0

Moslims & Onderzoek: Van Survey naar Surveillance?

In november kwam het SCP rapport Moslim in Nederland uit. De reacties onder moslims waren niet zozeer afwijzend als wel argwanend: waarom dit onderzoek. Vanuit de positie van onderzoeker kun je je afvragen in hoeverre al het onderzoek naar moslims in Nederland bijdraagt aan het ‘surveilleren’ van moslims en wat de consequenties zijn van die surveillance voor onderzoek.

Branding Uniqueness, Happiness & the Exotic: Ethnic Rituals Anthropologie 0

Branding Uniqueness, Happiness & the Exotic: Ethnic Rituals Anthropologie

You are not about to read an introduction into the anthropology of ethnic rituals. And no this is also not about the scientific discipline of anthropology as a brand, although it is related to ‘diversity is our business’ or better: ‘fashionable diversity as a business’. This post is about ethnic interior design and ethnic clothing, Rituals body care and Anthropologie clothes, accessories and home-stuff. Moreover, it is about companies using the terms ethnic, ritual and anthropology as a way to sell the exotic in a particular way.

Citizenship Carnival: What is Integration? 1

Citizenship Carnival: What is Integration?

In this blog Nadia Fadil problematizes the concern of researchers with integration – to take it as a point of departure in order to understand the different connotations it invokes and imaginaries it touches upon. For more than simply figuring as a neutral analytical category, the term integration is also a highly contested and controversial concept – one that has been challenged and disputed.

The Jihad Struggle: #MyJihad Campaign 1

The Jihad Struggle: #MyJihad Campaign

MyJihad is an American campaign sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) trying to reclaim the word Jihad from radical (anti-) Muslims. It is response against Pamela Geller’s hate-campaign but also receives criticism from Muslim groups. How would be analyse such a spectacle when going beyond the binary of religion – secular?

Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere 0

Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

On 22 October 2012 Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler and Cornel West met in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss “Rethinking Secularism.” In this symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, they presented their accounts of religion in the public sphere.

Ervaren & Ervaren worden: Boekpresentatie en Seminar Emoties in Veldonderzoek 0

Ervaren & Ervaren worden: Boekpresentatie en Seminar Emoties in Veldonderzoek

Op 13 december organiseren Uitgeverij Eburon en het departement Religiewetenschap en Theologie van de Universiteit Utrecht het symposium ‘Emoties in het veld’, ter gelegenheid van het verschijnen van het boek Ervaren en ervaren worden. Opstellen over langdurig sociaalwetenschappelijk veld­on­der­zoek (Jansma, Hak en De Koning (red.)).