Alana Lentin‘s The New Racial Regime interrogates contemporary modes of weaponising race to uphold white supremacy, from the the “war on woke” and its countermovement to the backlash…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….
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Last week, Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party (PVV) won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the Dutch national elections. The political figure is known internationally for his…
In Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts how Ismaili women, displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s,…
A PhD dissertation defence, in some countries called a viva, is usually a ceremonial event only attracting a few other academics from the same field, and perhaps the…
A good video primer of the far right and mainstream ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theories by DW NEWS with experts from the field
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
My colleague Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plancke Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Among his…
Afgelopen vrijdag tweette de leider van Forum voor Democratie, Thierry Baudet, het volgende: Kritische media als we hebben, die gingen gelijk op speurtocht. En wat is de conclusie?…
Na een afspraak elders in Den Haag (dank voor de koffie en de soep!) loop ik vrijdagmiddag 9 augustus naar de Hofplaats, nabij het Binnenhof in Den Haag.…
Op 1 augustus 2019 is het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding (ook wel boerkaverbod genoemd) ingegaan. Hoe heeft het verbod ooit tot stand kunnen komen en en wat zijn…
As I was cycling through the beautiful Bommelerwaard and resting near the water (yes, there is a reason I’m cycling here and not in the Tour de France),…
Review of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News—from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. By Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong. Foreword…
Naming can dignify, disparage or even deny one’s social standing. Days after the horrific attack on the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke about…
Allāhu akbar, the Arabic phrase meaning “God is the greatest,” has gained connotations in US public discourse that differ vastly from its meaning among Muslims. Understanding this process…
In several relatively recent papers (2017, 2015a, 2015b) I’ve made the point that for tens of millions of Egyptians, the uprisings of 2011 weren’t something they physically experienced…
By: Darren Byler In early March 2018 the influential Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut gave a series of readings in Seattle. Unlike in years past when Uyghur celebrities had…
Nog geen week geleden kwam een Nederlandse politieke partij met een statement dat aangaf waar zij voor staat: ‘een open, tolerant, democratisch Nederland waar individuele eigenschappen bepalend zijn,…
The Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies and the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands cordially invite you to…
The AQA exists as a dedicated home for queer anthropology within the larger discipline. Nonetheless, in these pages, on the AN website, and in their own work, AQA…
Is there a genuine debate taking place about Islamophobia? When and why did the “concern” about Islamophobia reach the highest levels of government in North America and western…
We often regard 9/11 as the pivotal moment in which people’s views about Islam and Muslims changed. Notwithstanding the fact that it was indeed a huge moment, the…
Op maandag 10 april jl. vond aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam een bijeenkomst plaats over de normalisering van islamofobie. De bijeenkomst was georganiseerd door het Collectief tegen Islamofobie…