An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Prof. Nira Yuval Davis at LSE, 25 January 2012. She discusses the ways it is often not just women and men but women and men of particular intersectional social locations which are constructed in particular roles in nationalist discourses.
Woningcorporatie Eigen Haard ging in op woonwensen van moslims. Het Parool noemde dit halalwoningen en haalde zo secularistische gevoeligheden omhoog. Hier een overzicht van multicultureel bouwen in Nederland en van de discussie naar aanleiding van de publicatie in Het Parool.
Het SCP heeft een nieuw rapport uitgebracht: moslim in nederland 2012 geschreven door dr. Mieke Maliepaard en dr. Mérove Gijsberts. Het richt zich op de religieuze beleving van verschillende moslimgroepen in Nederland. De studie wil laten zien wat voor hen de betekenis is van de islam en hoe de religieuze participatie en beleving zich ontwikkelt. Met een kritische reflectie van Joep de Hart en Martijn de Koning.
Met Gastauteurs: Edien Bartels en Oka Storms Het kabinet, in de vorm van staatssecretaris Teeven, ministers Leers en Donner, heeft in de week van 23 april een tweetal wetsontwerpen ingediend gericht op het bestrijden...
The Burqa Debate has been a hot topic in the Netherlands, and because of her own background (having lived both in Qatar and the Netherlands) it, according her,’naturally intrigued’ Dutch student Eline Floor to do an in depth research about it. Watch her visual essay here.
In this lecture Joan Scott addresses the sharp oppositions often made these days between secularism and gender equality, on the one side, and religion (especially Islam) and the oppression of women, on the other.
An interesting report on Al Jazeera, featuring Moroccan-Dutch Muslim in has battle against young men (and some women) and their practices of dragging women into prostitution. Wijbenga recognizes there is a risk of racialising sexual crimes but nevertheless feels it to be his duty to raise awareness about the problem and to involve Islamic organizations in his work.
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 sex issue of Foreign Policy with reactions on Mona Eltahawy.
‘Dochters van Malakeh’ toont hoe vrouwen in het hedendaagse Iran proberen om zeggenschap over hun eigen leven te houden.
When the people in Tahrir called for “Dignity, Freedom, and Social Justice.” they challenged stereotypes of Arabs as apathetic, politically backward and submissive to their authoritarian leaders. For women these stereotypes were even stronger since they were seen as not only having to deal with the authoritarian leaders in the political elite but also at their homes. Now with the revolutions it were in particular the men who were portrayed as the hero’s and there worries that women would become victims of the revolution. Here two films challenge that assumption.
