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Surveillance: Veiligheid, Risico en Nederlanders in Syrië 1

Surveillance: Veiligheid, Risico en Nederlanders in Syrië

Het ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie maakt bekend dat het dreigingsniveau in Nederland verhoogd is van ‘voorstelbaar’ naar ‘substantieel’ hetgeen betekent dat er een reële, maar niet meteen acute, dreiging zou zijn. Wat betekent dat, hoe bang moeten we zijn en hoe past dit in het overheidsoptreden?

Closing the Week 10 – Women's Day, Prayer, Reverberations, Nones, News, Dutch 0

Closing the Week 10 – Women's Day, Prayer, Reverberations, Nones, News, Dutch

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.) (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week special attention to the new academic blog on prayer: Reverberations!

Closing the week 8 – Anthro, Islam, Evangelicals, The West, Dutch and Other Affairs 0

Closing the week 8 – Anthro, Islam, Evangelicals, The West, Dutch and Other Affairs

Back from toobusyland: 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.) (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)

European and non-European Philosophers as public intellectuals 1

European and non-European Philosophers as public intellectuals

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.