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PhD candidate for the NWO funded research project 'Forces that bind or divide?' 0

PhD candidate for the NWO funded research project 'Forces that bind or divide?'

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.

Marriage as punishment: documentary about women’s rights in Morocco 1

Marriage as punishment: documentary about women’s rights in Morocco

The suicide of the 16-year-old Amina Filali from Larache, who presumably was forced to marry her rapist, gave Nadir Bouhmouch the idea to use her story as the main topic for a documentary about women’s rights in his country of birth: 475 – When Marriage Becomes Punishment.

European Sexual Nationalisms: The Culturalization of Citizenship and the Sexual Politics of Belonging and Exclusion 1

European Sexual Nationalisms: The Culturalization of Citizenship and the Sexual Politics of Belonging and Exclusion

In this contribution Paul Mepschen and Jan-Willem Duyvendak argue that representations of gay emancipation are mobilized to shape narratives in which Muslims are framed as non-modern subjects, which best be understood in relation to the ‘culturalization of citizenship’ and the rise of Islamophobia in Europe.