Helen Hintjens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 74084 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Hintjens |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Hintjens |
| FIRMA | HINTJENS H |
| AFILIACIONES | Netherlands Institute for Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7639-8380 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 304 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Politics of Art, Death and Refuge
Politics of Art, Death and Refuge
Expressive violence and the slow genocide of the Banyamulenge of South Kivu
Recent warfare in Eastern DRC, especially since 2015, is marked by violence inspired by ‘race’ narratives. Identity politics around ‘race’ is used to legitimise ‘expressive’ or reprisal-oriented violence against ‘Hamitic’ or ‘Tutsi’ minorities. The case of the Banyamulenge of South Kivu is examined in this article. Following Autesserre, we show that one-dimensional narratives – in this case of ‘race’ – tend to over-simplify the dynamics of politi…
Migration, Security, and Development
This chapter situates human mobility at the intersection of security and development. Capitalism prompted much of the population of Europe to move out of rural areas into cities, and from there imperialism led to huge forced and voluntary migration towards settler colonies. By tying development funding and humanitarian aid to cooperation of developing states in migration control, 'the West' uses development aid to criminalize whole categories of …
Rwandan music-makers negotiate shared cultural identities after genocide
In the sensitive post-genocide cultural landscape of Rwanda, this research considers the significance of the recent revival of a musical group that was first popular in the pre-genocide Habyarimana era. Orchestre Impala was perhaps the most popular musical group of the late 1970s and 1980s, and its revival represents something of a novelty in Rwanda’s national cultural politics. Perhaps, we suggest, this may reflect a certain ‘normalization’ of c…
Elementary Forms of Collective Denial
This article discusses three different forms of genocide denial that have—broadly speaking—followed one another in post-genocide Rwanda since 1994. Genocide denial is considered a stage of genocide, and each of these three forms of genocide denial is outlined, drawing on the seminal study on denial of Stanley Cohen. The article suggests that collective denial such as genocide denial should be distinguished analytically from more everyday forms of…
Seeking health below the radar
Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City
In this introductory article, the main theoretical concerns guiding this thematic issue are briefly discussed, alongside an overview of relevant literature on rights and urban citizenship. We draw on the work of Engin on ‘enacted citizenship,’ and combine Hannah Arendt’s ‘right to have rights’ with Henri Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city,’ for inspiration. The hope is that these concepts or theoretical tools help our contributors explore the ‘grey ar…
The EU's Proxy War on Refugees
For decades, European Union (EU) member states have fought an illegal proxy war – a form of state crime – against refugees and migrants, far beyond EU external borders. Fatalities make this proxy war equivalent to international classifications of war. To justify this war, migrants have progressively been reclassified by the EU as “illegal” or criminal. This article situates the proxy war within wider deterrence-based EU migration policies. Exampl…
Music, Violence, and Peace-Building
Music is not innocent. It often embodies many people’s hopes for peace in the aftermath of war, violence, and mass atrocities. And yet, already more than four decades ago, Jacques Attali warned us
Failed Securitisation Moves during the 2015 ‘Migration Crisis’
The EU has tried to distinguish itself as respecting human rights in its migration policies. In 2015, mass drownings at sea of refugees from war‐torn and despotic countries like Syria and Eritrea started to rise with the end of Mare Nostrum, the Italian navy's search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean. One EU response was to declare a war on “criminal gangs” of smugglers and traffickers, reportedly responsible for the surge in refugee deat…
Toward Cities of Safety and Sanctuary
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelen HintjensHelen Hintjens is a Senior Lecturer at the International Institute of Social Studies–Erasmus University, The Hague, researching advocacy for rights of undocumented and those seeking asylum, with a specialization in human rights and conflict and peace studies. E-mail: [email protected] PouriAhmed Pouri is the Director of PRIME (Participating Refugees in Multicultural Europe), a refugee so…
Screening in or out? Surveillance of unwanted humanity across the EU
Routinised surveillance systems are generally regarded as public (and corporate) interference in the privacy of citizens. Yet such comprehensive forms of surveillance intervention can be a counterpart of citizenship rights, and even of the ‘right to have rights’ within EU cities today. This paper is about selective surveillance, here termed screening out, of undocumented people and how it operates inside EU cities today. A 2002 EU Directive on “S…
The UK Caribbean Overseas Territories
This article traces the contours of the complex, often obscure administrative and governance arrangements that have framed relationships between the Caribbean Overseas Territories of the UK in recent years. Relations between the governments of Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Caymans, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos and the UK government in London have not always been smooth. From the 1970s onwards, it was assumed in Whitehall an…
Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean
Nowhere to run
This article, covering the period 2003-2010, is concerned with those Iraqis whose asylum claims in the UK have been rejected in recent years and who have found 'nowhere to run'. A deterrence-based UK immigration regime has undermined many of their basic rights since the start of the war. And despite wide public knowledge about the dangers of return to Iraq, failed Iraqi asylum seekers are being made destitute, detained and even forcibly deported …
Africa
Rhonda Copelon
This short article, which was a tribute to the scholar, feminist and legal advocate Rhonda Copelon, addressed her particular contribution to human rights, formal principles of legality and access to justice, with a particular focus on globalization of human rights norms
Gender, ethnicity and cultural identity
Rights-based Approaches Learning Project by Jude Rand and Gabrielle Watson
Post-genocide identity politics in Rwanda
When the journal Ethnicities was launched in 2001, the first issue included an article by this author, which examined the politics of `race' and identity as central ingredients in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. This current article considers how political identities have been reconstructed since the genocide, especially from above. History, law and politics are examined, as central instruments in government efforts to construct a new Rwandan societ…
Global Unions
The Cinema of Globalization
Unifem, Cedaw and the Human Rights-based Approach
Global governance in an era of human rights is beset by a number of unavoidable paradoxes. One is that as more states are increasingly held accountable for fulfilling legal obligations towards citizens, the same states are also obliged to collude in economic and financial deregulation processes that undermine and challenge both state sovereignty and the state’s ability to\nprotect the vulnerable among their own populations. In this wider context,…
The State of Resistance
Limits of citizenship
Journal Article Limits of citizenship: migrants and postnational membership in Europe Get access Limits of citizenship: migrants and postnational membership in Europe. By Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 1994. 244pp. Index. £29.95; ISBN 0 226 76841 4. Pb.: £11.25; ISBN 0 226 76842 2. Helen M. Hintjens Helen M. Hintjens 1University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Post-genocide identity politics in Rwanda
When the journal Ethnicities was launched in 2001, the first issue included an article by this author, which examined the politics of `race' and identity as central ingredients in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. This current article considers how political identities have been reconstructed since the genocide, especially from above. History, law and politics are examined, as central instruments in government efforts to construct a new Rwandan societ…
Explaining the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
Any adequate account of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda must acknowledge manipulation by external forces, domestic pressures and psychological factors. Even so, the nature of the Rwandan state must be seen as absolutely central. The genocide took place under the aegis of the state, and Rwandans were the main actors involved. Both precolonial legacies and colonial policies contributed to the formation of this state, whose increasingly autocratic and u…
When Identity Becomes a Knife
The term 'identity' tends to have positive connotations. This article presents an example of a lethal form of identity politics, where self-expression was not possible for victims or victimizers. At the time, killings in Rwanda in 1994 were presented by (and to) the international media as the outcome of deep-seated 'ethnic' or 'tribal' hatred, between Tutsi and Hutu Rwandans. However, research on the period, oral testimonies from all sides, video…
Failed Securitisation Moves during the 2015 ‘Migration Crisis’
The EU has tried to distinguish itself as respecting human rights in its migration policies. In 2015, mass drownings at sea of refugees from war‐torn and despotic countries like Syria and Eritrea started to rise with the end of Mare Nostrum, the Italian navy's search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean. One EU response was to declare a war on “criminal gangs” of smugglers and traffickers, reportedly responsible for the surge in refugee deat…
Governance options in Europe's Caribbean dependencies
The remaining Caribbean dependencies of Britain, France and the Netherlands are constitutionally diverse. Yet in none of the territories is there evidence of significant support for independence. Dissatisfaction exists with central control, but this does not produce separatist pressures. On the contrary, there is the general expectation that continued close ties with the metropolitan government can act as a hedge against the unpredictable fortune…
The Emperor's New Clothes
While global problems of poverty, inequality, and social upheaval are on the increase, the language used by development agencies and development experts sounds increasingly radical and idealistic. New socio-political conditions have been borrowed from real contexts in the South, only to be re-imposed on Southern 'partners'. Notions like empowerment, participation, and governance are paradoxically enforced through top-down, external intervention. …
The UK Caribbean Overseas Territories
This article traces the contours of the complex, often obscure administrative and governance arrangements that have framed relationships between the Caribbean Overseas Territories of the UK in recent years. Relations between the governments of Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Caymans, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos and the UK government in London have not always been smooth. From the 1970s onwards, it was assumed in Whitehall an…
Toward Cities of Safety and Sanctuary
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelen HintjensHelen Hintjens is a Senior Lecturer at the International Institute of Social Studies–Erasmus University, The Hague, researching advocacy for rights of undocumented and those seeking asylum, with a specialization in human rights and conflict and peace studies. E-mail: [email protected] PouriAhmed Pouri is the Director of PRIME (Participating Refugees in Multicultural Europe), a refugee so…
Expressive violence and the slow genocide of the Banyamulenge of South Kivu
Recent warfare in Eastern DRC, especially since 2015, is marked by violence inspired by ‘race’ narratives. Identity politics around ‘race’ is used to legitimise ‘expressive’ or reprisal-oriented violence against ‘Hamitic’ or ‘Tutsi’ minorities. The case of the Banyamulenge of South Kivu is examined in this article. Following Autesserre, we show that one-dimensional narratives – in this case of ‘race’ – tend to over-simplify the dynamics of politi…
Seeking health below the radar
Screening in or out? Surveillance of unwanted humanity across the EU
Routinised surveillance systems are generally regarded as public (and corporate) interference in the privacy of citizens. Yet such comprehensive forms of surveillance intervention can be a counterpart of citizenship rights, and even of the ‘right to have rights’ within EU cities today. This paper is about selective surveillance, here termed screening out, of undocumented people and how it operates inside EU cities today. A 2002 EU Directive on “S…
Beyond charity
Like leaves in the wind
In June 2005, the author interviewed five Sudanese men. All but one had been failed by UK asylum procedures. Their stories are related to other examples of similarly desperate asylum seekers throughout the UK and the effects of policies of forced destitution, detention and deportation are described
Western hemisphere immigration and United States foreign policy
Immigration and Citizenship Debates
This article begins with the view that access to citizenship and to citizenship rights has become the principal object of struggle between immigrants and the rest of society in Western Europe.... In examining ten recurring themes of current debates on immigration and citizenship, the author hopes to summarise and critically examine the main arguments. The article also tries to show that arguments against the extension of rights to immigrants gene…
Elementary Forms of Collective Denial
This article discusses three different forms of genocide denial that have—broadly speaking—followed one another in post-genocide Rwanda since 1994. Genocide denial is considered a stage of genocide, and each of these three forms of genocide denial is outlined, drawing on the seminal study on denial of Stanley Cohen. The article suggests that collective denial such as genocide denial should be distinguished analytically from more everyday forms of…
Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City
In this introductory article, the main theoretical concerns guiding this thematic issue are briefly discussed, alongside an overview of relevant literature on rights and urban citizenship. We draw on the work of Engin on ‘enacted citizenship,’ and combine Hannah Arendt’s ‘right to have rights’ with Henri Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city,’ for inspiration. The hope is that these concepts or theoretical tools help our contributors explore the ‘grey ar…
The EU's Proxy War on Refugees
For decades, European Union (EU) member states have fought an illegal proxy war – a form of state crime – against refugees and migrants, far beyond EU external borders. Fatalities make this proxy war equivalent to international classifications of war. To justify this war, migrants have progressively been reclassified by the EU as “illegal” or criminal. This article situates the proxy war within wider deterrence-based EU migration policies. Exampl…
Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean
Nowhere to run
This article, covering the period 2003-2010, is concerned with those Iraqis whose asylum claims in the UK have been rejected in recent years and who have found 'nowhere to run'. A deterrence-based UK immigration regime has undermined many of their basic rights since the start of the war. And despite wide public knowledge about the dangers of return to Iraq, failed Iraqi asylum seekers are being made destitute, detained and even forcibly deported …
Global Social Justice in a Cold Climate
As entire swathes of humanity are left to rot, the global economic system increasingly gears around military spending, fueled by the war on terror, and the promotion of consumption for its own sake. In this context, the emergence of a huge and mostly peaceful global social justice movement is a welcome surprise
What Has God to Do with Sustainable Development? A Sahelian Dialogue
The Sahel region has become fairly well known as an environmentally vulnerable region where human inventiveness and collective organisation have been able to reverse processes of land degradation, brought about by earlier 'maldevelopment'. This paper sets out to explore schisms between local accounts of the spiritual significance of environmental decay, and regeneration involving interventions by external development agencies. It focuses on the c…
Migration
Journal Article Migration: the Asian experience Get access Migration: the Asian experience. Edited by Judith M. Brownand Rosemary Foot. London: Macmillan. 1994. 262pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 333 60100 9. Helen Hintjens Helen Hintjens 1University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Page 672, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624947 Published: 01 July…
The age of migration
Journal Article The age of migration: international population movements in the modern world Get access The age of migration: international population movements in the modern world. By Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller. London: Macmillan. 1993. 306pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 333 53491 3. Pb.: £10.95; ISBN 0 333 53492 1. Helen Hintjens Helen Hintjens 1University College of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Assimilation, Immigration, Citizenship and Decolonisation
ultimately it is a question of how the great wealth created by hundreds of years of Empire should be divided up. The numbers who stake their claim are many. Those whose claims are recognised are few, and that essentially is the function of immigration law (MacDonald, 1983, p 20). Suppose that...the ‘underdeveloped’ and underprivileged population had not conceptualised their discontent in terms of nationalism, but had simply concentrated on a stru…
Immigration and Citizenship Debates
This article begins with the view that access to citizenship and to citizenship rights has become the principal object of struggle between immigrants and the rest of society in Western Europe.... In examining ten recurring themes of current debates on immigration and citizenship, the author hopes to summarise and critically examine the main arguments. The article also tries to show that arguments against the extension of rights to immigrants gene…
Society and politics in the Caribbean
Journal Article Society and politics in the Caribbean Get access Society and politics in the Caribbean. Edited by Colin Clarke. London: Macmillan for St Antony's College, Oxford. 1991. 295pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 0 333 53823 4. Helen M. Hintjens Helen M. Hintjens 1University College of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Pages 793–794, http…
Western hemisphere immigration and United States foreign policy
Beyond charity
The age of migration
Journal Article The age of migration: international population movements in the modern world Get access The age of migration: international population movements in the modern world. By Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller. London: Macmillan. 1993. 306pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 333 53491 3. Pb.: £10.95; ISBN 0 333 53492 1. Helen Hintjens Helen Hintjens 1University College of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Migration
Journal Article Migration: the Asian experience Get access Migration: the Asian experience. Edited by Judith M. Brownand Rosemary Foot. London: Macmillan. 1994. 262pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN 0 333 60100 9. Helen Hintjens Helen Hintjens 1University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Page 672, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624947 Published: 01 July…
Limits of citizenship
Journal Article Limits of citizenship: migrants and postnational membership in Europe Get access Limits of citizenship: migrants and postnational membership in Europe. By Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 1994. 244pp. Index. £29.95; ISBN 0 226 76841 4. Pb.: £11.25; ISBN 0 226 76842 2. Helen M. Hintjens Helen M. Hintjens 1University of Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
What Has God to Do with Sustainable Development? A Sahelian Dialogue
The Sahel region has become fairly well known as an environmentally vulnerable region where human inventiveness and collective organisation have been able to reverse processes of land degradation, brought about by earlier 'maldevelopment'. This paper sets out to explore schisms between local accounts of the spiritual significance of environmental decay, and regeneration involving interventions by external development agencies. It focuses on the c…
What Has God to Do with Sustainable Development? A Sahelian Dialogue
The Sahel region has become fairly well known as an environmentally vulnerable region where human inventiveness and collective organisation have been able to reverse processes of land degradation, brought about by earlier 'maldevelopment'. This paper sets out to explore schisms between local accounts of the spiritual significance of environmental decay, and regeneration involving interventions by external development agencies. It focuses on the c…
Governance options in Europe's Caribbean dependencies
The remaining Caribbean dependencies of Britain, France and the Netherlands are constitutionally diverse. Yet in none of the territories is there evidence of significant support for independence. Dissatisfaction exists with central control, but this does not produce separatist pressures. On the contrary, there is the general expectation that continued close ties with the metropolitan government can act as a hedge against the unpredictable fortune…
Explaining the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
Any adequate account of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda must acknowledge manipulation by external forces, domestic pressures and psychological factors. Even so, the nature of the Rwandan state must be seen as absolutely central. The genocide took place under the aegis of the state, and Rwandans were the main actors involved. Both precolonial legacies and colonial policies contributed to the formation of this state, whose increasingly autocratic and u…
The Emperor's New Clothes
While global problems of poverty, inequality, and social upheaval are on the increase, the language used by development agencies and development experts sounds increasingly radical and idealistic. New socio-political conditions have been borrowed from real contexts in the South, only to be re-imposed on Southern 'partners'. Notions like empowerment, participation, and governance are paradoxically enforced through top-down, external intervention. …
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies
What is Freedom? Competing Notions of Rights & Responsibilities in the French Caribbean
According to Frantz Fanon, decolonisation starts out as ‘a programme of complete disorder’. This idea is interestingly echoed in the Creole expression ‘ce on dezod ka me lod’, which translated means that through chaos comes order. In 1998–1999 Martinique lost 23,000 working days; strikers blockaded the ports of Pointe à Pitre in Guadeloupe and Fort de France in Martinique for several weeks at a time in 1998. Trade unions have built up membership …
When Identity Becomes a Knife
The term 'identity' tends to have positive connotations. This article presents an example of a lethal form of identity politics, where self-expression was not possible for victims or victimizers. At the time, killings in Rwanda in 1994 were presented by (and to) the international media as the outcome of deep-seated 'ethnic' or 'tribal' hatred, between Tutsi and Hutu Rwandans. However, research on the period, oral testimonies from all sides, video…
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies
Conflict and resources in post‐genocide Rwanda and the Great Lakes region
The legacy of the genocide of 1994 has spread from Rwanda to the wider Great Lakes region, and its most damaging effects have been felt in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), former Zaire. Here an economy based on pillage and force of arms has been organized by local elites, and the Rwandan state, ensuring also on behalf of the West that it is not excluded from the scramble to extract rare mineral deposits, obtain forest products and othe…
Global Social Justice in a Cold Climate
As entire swathes of humanity are left to rot, the global economic system increasingly gears around military spending, fueled by the war on terror, and the promotion of consumption for its own sake. In this context, the emergence of a huge and mostly peaceful global social justice movement is a welcome surprise
Appreciating the Movement of the Movements
This review essay surveys the theoretical insights emerging from within the Global Justice and Solidarity Movement, also known as the Anti-Globalisation Movement, or the Movement of the Movements, and also reviews the literature focused on this phenomenon by those closely involved, as well as other observers. The central concern is to understand the nature and significance of the Movement of the Movements as it operates across local, national, an…
Like leaves in the wind
In June 2005, the author interviewed five Sudanese men. All but one had been failed by UK asylum procedures. Their stories are related to other examples of similarly desperate asylum seekers throughout the UK and the effects of policies of forced destitution, detention and deportation are described
Citizenship under siege in the brave new Europe
This commentary piece reflects on the range of contributions to this Special Issue, considering the ways in which the European context fails to offer more inclusionary notions of citizenship in the current era. A long-term decline in state legitimacy in Europe and in the UK cannot be offset by the intensified policing of insecurity that is known as the War on Terror. The Global Social Justice movement is considered as an alternative framework for…
The Porto Alegre Alternative
Inclusive Citizenship
written a great book, a history of human development as he calls it, which offers a fascinating account of global capitalism as it evolved over a period of four centuries.Bagchi provides a perspective on the global ascendancy of capitalism which is fundamentally different from conventional (western) views of global history.First, Bagchi sets himself against the triumphalist Eurocentric views of historians such as Douglas North, Eric Jones and Dav…
Post-genocide identity politics in Rwanda
When the journal Ethnicities was launched in 2001, the first issue included an article by this author, which examined the politics of `race' and identity as central ingredients in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. This current article considers how political identities have been reconstructed since the genocide, especially from above. History, law and politics are examined, as central instruments in government efforts to construct a new Rwandan societ…
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