An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Naar aanleiding van het debat over het zogenaamde ‘Marokkanenprobleem’ dat is aangevraagd door de PVV roepen zo’n 90 Marokkaans-Nederlandse organisaties de overige partijen op om niet mee te werken aan deze ‘PVV-verkiezingsbijeenkomst’.
The French region of Alsace-Moselle, near the German border, has its own specific legislation concerning religions. For historical reasons, local authorities are allowed to finance religious groups, unlike in the rest of the country.
On the site of Al Jazeera an amazing and interesting exchange on the process of re-westernisation, de-westernisation and decoloniality in politics, economy, religions, aesthetics, knowledge and subjectivity and the role of thinkers and how the can respond to events in a productive manner. With Santiago Zabala, Hamid Dabashi and Walter D. Mignolo.
Norah Karrouche en het verhaal achter etiketjes als allochtoon en migrant. Historici lijken geobsedeerd door de inhoud van herinneringen maar kijken zelden naar de vorm die ze aannemen. Voor de auteurs ervan zijn de rollen beperkt: ze zijn of de slachtoffers, of de helden van hun eigen levensverhalen.
Mijn lezing tijdens het afscheidssymposium van Edien Bartels, over antropologie, bloggen en de publieke rol van wetenschappers.
Recently in the US a commercial about retirement was shown, featuring a Muslim man without any reference to his religion. One the one hand seen as a representation of a normal Muslim while on the other hand seen as a unique event. What does this mean for how we understand normality?
In deel twee van welkom in Eurabia, kritiek op de Eurabia samenzweringstheorie van Bat Ye’or en het gevaar ervan. Deze theorie heeft niet alleen aanhang onder rabiate anti-islam activisten, maar in afgezwakte vorm ook onder meer mainstream activisten, publicisten en politici.
A very brief report on my research trip to the UK and my meetings with Dutch Muslims there. Thanks to all of the people I had the opportunity to meet and hope to see you and others in June.
Dutch sociologists R. Eising, G. Kraaykamp, P. Scheepers and P. Thijs, have now published a data guide: Religion in Dutch Society – Documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in 2011-2012. This Data Guide provides the documentation of the research design, the sampling method, and the variables of the national Dutch survey Religion in Dutch Society 2011-2012. Freely available now.
The Dutch debates on integration of Moroccan-Dutch youth have reached a new landmark moment: within a few weeks Dutch parliament will discuss the so-called ‘Moroccans Problem’.
