Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 32 – Nederlandse slachtoffers
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Deze week slachtoffers van de Nederlanders.
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Radicalization Series IV – Salafism as a Utopian Movement
There are many different approaches for research on Salafism and they all make clear that, although Salafism has some distinguishing features, the movement is quite diverse with many doctrinary contradictions and clashes and different politico-theological tendencies. It is therefore difficult to define Salafism in a clear, consistent way. Most definitions of Salafism focus on ideological differences or view them in a security perspective. Although helpful it does not take into account identity, gender or the idea that security and radicalization are themselves cultural constructions with specific local, national and transnational dimensions. They also take up the official doctrines, methods and identities of spokespersons and religious authorities but ignore the perspectives, ideas and practices of participants in the movements. In this entry I explore the Salafi movement in a more anthropological way focusing on the processes of meaning-making within the perspective of utopian movements.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 31 – Vrijheidsnarcisten
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Met deze week vrijheidsnarcisten die van hun rotzooi een zelfmarketingsinstrument maken.
Closer Holiday Service – Contemporary Islam: Muslims and Media
The July 2010 issue of Contemporary Islam (editors Daniel Varisco and Gabriel Marranci) is out now. The former issue, April 2010, is available for free. It is a special issue Muslims and Media: Perceptions, Participation and Change with Cemil Aydin and Juliane Hammer as guest editors. Here you can find the content below with the link for downloading the articles of this interesting issue.
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 30 – Festivals en politieke polonaises
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Met deze week het zomercarnaval, festivals en politieke polonaises.
Dutch Ground Zero Mosque
UPDATED: 27-08-2010
This can be a very short entry. There isn’t going to be a Dutch mosque at Ground Zero. Or another mosque for that matter. In fact, it is not even about a mosque. So done, next topic. But there is more to it, of course.
Closing the Week 29 – Featuring Khaled Said
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 Khaled Said.
Closer Holiday Service – Most cited AAA Anthropology Articles Available
It’s almost holiday here and what is better than to read a good article from an anthropological journal (except swimming, riding and/or walking in the mountains or doing nothing at all)? Anyway, because the AAA journals do so well, they decided to give people free access to the most cited articles of their different journals, for one one month. Here’s the overview with the links you need.
Autumn School AISSR – Secular sounds, Islamic sounds: Politics of listening in secular-liberal nation-states
This Amsterdam University Autumn School wants to think through the conundrums posed not only by the visible but also by the sonic presence of Muslims in the West. It aims at understanding the issues at stake of the sensing, and more particular listening body, in connection to secular-liberal governance by post-Christian nation-states. We want to tackle several questions: What does the emerging and quickly evolving Islamic soundscape and their interlinked listening practices in the West tell us about new (ethical) Muslim subjectivities? How does this relate to the ways in which sonic experiences affect the body? What kind of transformation occurs when these new practices leave the protected space of the counter-public sphere? How can these Islamic sound practices be submitted to governmental regimes? To what extent are sound policies implemented in order to securize the Western (European) secular (post-Christian) hegemonic project? The three days summer school, followed by a one-day workshop, will take place from 27-30 October
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 29 – Loop naar de Waal
Een wekelijks portie burgerschap. Deze week de Nijmeegse Vierdaagse.