Geschiedenissen van de islam in Nederland en Vlaanderen
Het heeft even geduurd na ons seminar in Leuven, maar het is er dan toch. Wat begon met het idee van één van mijn voormalige studenten, Vera Crienen, om collega’s bij elkaar te brengen...
Category: Research International
Citizenship in education – Dutch Muslims in Islamic schools
Together with my colleagues Thijl Sunier and Jamal Ahajjaj, I have written a chapter “Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic Schools” in the volume Difference and Sameness in Schools: Perspectives from the European Anthropology...
Tricia Rose with Michael Omi and Howard Winant on “Racial Formation”
Conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant on the 20th Anniversary of their seminal book, “Racial Formation in the U.S.: From the 1960s to the 1990s” (Routledge, 1994). Facilitated by Professor Tricia Rose, Brown...
Special issue JOME: Salafism in Europe – Empirical Approaches
The Journal of Muslims in Europe has published a special issue on Salafism in Europe, edited by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf and Mira Menzfeld, and I had the honour of being one of the writers. Here are all...
Étienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein – Intersecting Optics: A Dialogue on ”Race, Nation, Class“
Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein passed away. Probably best known for his work four-volume World‑Systems Analysis. In the video below you see an interview with Immanuel Wallerstein and Étienne Balibar 30 years after their seminal volume Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities on the dynamics between racism, class and nationalist currents.
Geweld? Het is De Islam!!1 – Een overzicht van de wetenschappelijke benaderingen
Als mannen die moslim zijn en die geweld plegen altijd gedreven worden door ideologie en witte mannen die geen moslim zijn en geweld plegen altijd verward zijn, waarom leidt het eerste dan tot een...
Opmerkingen bij Michael Walzers’ The Paradox of Liberation
Opmerkingen bij Michael Walzers The Paradox of Liberation (Yale UP 2015) Gastauteur: Pooyan Tamimi Arab Michael Walzer is politicoloog en filosoof en professor emeritus aan het prestigieuze Institute for Advanced Studies van Princeton University....
NISIS Autumn School |The religious/secular divide in the Muslim world
From Tuesday 21 until Friday 24 October 2014, NISIS organises its fifth Autumn School. This year’s theme is: “The religious/secular divide in the Muslim world.”
Martyrdom Operations As Meaningful Violence
A contribution by Pieter Nanninga, based upon his PhD Jihadism and Suicide Attacks: al-Qaeda, al-Sahab and the Meanings of Martyrdom.
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.