New publication: Interview with Gloria Wekker

White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies Volume 5 Issue 1 (2018) Nella van den Brandt, Lieke Schrijvers, Amal Miri, and Nawal Mustafa. You can find the journal here . A pre-print version of the article is available on my Academia page. I had…… Continue reading New publication: Interview with Gloria Wekker

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities

Since July 2017, I took over the role of editor-in-chief of  Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities. We have just published our latest issue 2:2 ‘Imaginaries of the Future’, edited by Hannah Ackermans, Christopher Berrisford and Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen. Junctions is an online, open access and peer reviewed graduate journal based at Utrecht University run…… Continue reading Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities

Women converting to Islam in the Netherlands: ‘van Hagelslag naar Halal’

[This blog was previously published on the website of ‘Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights’, a research focus area (and community) at Utrecht University, NL on Oct. 17 2016] In public debates in contemporary Western Europe, religious traditions are often met with suspicion when it concerns the freedom of women. Monotheistic traditions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are in…… Continue reading Women converting to Islam in the Netherlands: ‘van Hagelslag naar Halal’