Maja Hertoghs
Biographic Data
| ID | 172465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Hertoghs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Hertoghs |
| SIGNATURE | HERTOGHS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4480-4460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Antagonistic Collaboration
Scholarship on asylum procedures often examines officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) and legal advocates separately. This article starts from their entanglement and from the antagonistic collaboration through which a decision becomes possible. Advocates cultivate applicants’ trust by positioning themselves against IND suspicion, while IND officers invoke distance and “objectivity” from behind the decision itself. It is …
Recalcitrance and feminist pedagogy
This article discusses an anti-gender mobilisation at the University of Amsterdam that sparked a widespread media and political debate about the perceived threat of ‘wokeness’ to academic freedom. Our analysis draws from a range of experiences, including classroom dynamics, institutional hearings, meetings, and informal discussions among colleagues. We examine the challenges of care and feminist pedagogy considering allegations that gender and se…
Affects of Objectivity
This article explores the pursuit of objectivity in the Dutch asylum procedure, where asymmetrical forms of intimacy and techniques of suspicion are used to gather sensitive information from asylum applicants and evaluate their case files. Firstly, I examine the procedural design and how objectivity is pursued in producing distance, detachment, and the rotation of several Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) officers in and out of appl…
Suspicious compassion
This paper offers a glimpse into the affective work inherent in the practices, objects, and institutional design of the Dutch procedure for seeking and granting asylum. In doing so, I develop the concept of suspicious compassion to make sense of the productive tensions and affects generated in the process of subjecting applicants to a meticulously designed procedural itinerary. Along this itinerary, applicants must 'open up' to different immigrat…
The state's sexual desires
The facticity of sexuality is a key driver of the asylum procedure in “LGBT” cases, where non-heterosexual identities can be grounds for gaining” refugee status.” The procedure becomes a test of sexual veracity by means of a truthful performance. This performance is primarily discursive, but it is also bodily in terms of the way bodily comportment is considered indicative of a “true story.” Underlying this process is a conception of sexuality as …
The state's sexual desires
The facticity of sexuality is a key driver of the asylum procedure in “LGBT” cases, where non-heterosexual identities can be grounds for gaining” refugee status.” The procedure becomes a test of sexual veracity by means of a truthful performance. This performance is primarily discursive, but it is also bodily in terms of the way bodily comportment is considered indicative of a “true story.” Underlying this process is a conception of sexuality as …
Affects of Objectivity
This article explores the pursuit of objectivity in the Dutch asylum procedure, where asymmetrical forms of intimacy and techniques of suspicion are used to gather sensitive information from asylum applicants and evaluate their case files. Firstly, I examine the procedural design and how objectivity is pursued in producing distance, detachment, and the rotation of several Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) officers in and out of appl…
Suspicious compassion
This paper offers a glimpse into the affective work inherent in the practices, objects, and institutional design of the Dutch procedure for seeking and granting asylum. In doing so, I develop the concept of suspicious compassion to make sense of the productive tensions and affects generated in the process of subjecting applicants to a meticulously designed procedural itinerary. Along this itinerary, applicants must 'open up' to different immigrat…
The state's sexual desires
The facticity of sexuality is a key driver of the asylum procedure in “LGBT” cases, where non-heterosexual identities can be grounds for gaining” refugee status.” The procedure becomes a test of sexual veracity by means of a truthful performance. This performance is primarily discursive, but it is also bodily in terms of the way bodily comportment is considered indicative of a “true story.” Underlying this process is a conception of sexuality as …
Suspicious compassion
This paper offers a glimpse into the affective work inherent in the practices, objects, and institutional design of the Dutch procedure for seeking and granting asylum. In doing so, I develop the concept of suspicious compassion to make sense of the productive tensions and affects generated in the process of subjecting applicants to a meticulously designed procedural itinerary. Along this itinerary, applicants must 'open up' to different immigrat…
Recalcitrance and feminist pedagogy
This article discusses an anti-gender mobilisation at the University of Amsterdam that sparked a widespread media and political debate about the perceived threat of ‘wokeness’ to academic freedom. Our analysis draws from a range of experiences, including classroom dynamics, institutional hearings, meetings, and informal discussions among colleagues. We examine the challenges of care and feminist pedagogy considering allegations that gender and se…
Affects of Objectivity
This article explores the pursuit of objectivity in the Dutch asylum procedure, where asymmetrical forms of intimacy and techniques of suspicion are used to gather sensitive information from asylum applicants and evaluate their case files. Firstly, I examine the procedural design and how objectivity is pursued in producing distance, detachment, and the rotation of several Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) officers in and out of appl…
Antagonistic Collaboration
Scholarship on asylum procedures often examines officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) and legal advocates separately. This article starts from their entanglement and from the antagonistic collaboration through which a decision becomes possible. Advocates cultivate applicants’ trust by positioning themselves against IND suspicion, while IND officers invoke distance and “objectivity” from behind the decision itself. It is …
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)