Bracke
Biographic Data
| ID | 24805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bracke |
| FAMILY NAME | Bracke |
| SIGNATURE | BRACKE |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5644-547X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 415 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
De U van omvolking: Een begripsgeschiedenis van de Germaanse tak van de ‘population replacement’ ideologie
U is for omvolking. A Conceptual History of the Germanic Branch of Population ‘Replacement’ Ideology The rise of omvolking as a political concept in the Low Countries raises questions about its history, and notably its genealogical connection to Umvolkung. This article traces the genealogy of Umvolkung, thus connecting contemporary population ‘replacement’ discourse to a larger German intellectual and political history. Through conceptual and arc…
De grote verdwijntruc: De sociale conditie van vrouwen in de marge van de Nederlandse sociologie tussen 1955-1965
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Gender in Trouble, Gender in Transformation
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The Dusty Auditorium
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Knowledges from the classroom: Teaching to cultivate academic freedom
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Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere
This article traces the intellectual trajectory of the anthropologist and Africanist Peter Geschiere, which is deeply informed by a commitment to meticulous and long-term ethnographic fieldwork that prioritizes local ways of being and subjectivities. The article highlights some of the significant contributions Geschiere made to the fields of Anthropology and African Studies, including his insights into the politics and perils of belonging which h…
Saba Mahmood en de nieuwe sociologische canon: Secularisme, politieke ethiek en macht
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Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe
Thinking Europe’s “Muslim Question: On Trojan Horses and the Problematization of Muslims
Understanding the ways in which Muslims are turned into “a problem” requires an analytic incorporating the insights gained through the concepts of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism into a larger frame. The “Muslim Question” can provide such a frame by attending to the systematic character of this form of racism, explored here through biopolitics. This article develops a conceptualization of Europe’s “Muslim Question” along three lines. First, t…
Capturing Hearts and Minds: Understanding the complex social lives of public debates
How to make sense of cultural difference in mental health care: Analyzing biographies of diasporic Muslim women with mental health problems
‘It’s the birth rates’: Sex, gender, and race in Europe’s ‘Muslim Question’
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
They love death as we love life: The "Muslim Question" and the biopolitics of replacement
This article approaches the analytic of the "Muslim Question" through the prism of the discursive and conspiratorial use of demographics as an alleged threat to Europe. It argues that concerns about "Muslim demographics" within Europe have been entertained, mobilized, and deployed to not only construct Muslims as problems and dangers to the present and future of Europe, but also as calls to revive eugenic policies within the frame of biopower. Th…
Revisiting Goffman: Frames of mental health in the interactions of mental healthcare professionals with diasporic Muslims
Diasporic Muslims, Mental Health, and Subjectivity: Perspectives and Experiences of Mental Health Care Professionals in Ghent
The mental health of Muslims with a migration background in Belgium seems to be particularly at risk. Inspired by the work of Nikolas Rose on the question of subjectivity, our sociological research analyses processes of subjectification that occur within existing mental health services, and the subsequent “proper” subject of mental health that is created along the way. We focus on how mental health care professionals approach and construct diaspo…
On knowing how it feels
‘Because I’m Worth It’: Religion and Women’s Changing Lives in the West
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that the things that drive women away from religious identification may be different from those that secularization theorists have traditionally posited. In contrast, if we look at the story for women in the United States what we see that women were always the majority of participants, and become increasing involved in rel…
Racism, Migration, and Mental Health. Theoretical Reflections from Belgium
The Sin of Turning Away from Reality: An Interview with Father Krzysztof Charamsa
He has published widely on theological issues, including in
Unpacking the Sin of Gender
In a meeting with Polish bishops preceding the World Youth Day in July 2016, Pope Francis deplored the prevalence of what he calls 'ideological colonization' in the contemporary world. Addressing a question by a Polish bishop about the situation of refugees, the Roman Pontiff declared
Is the subaltern resilient? Notes on agency and neoliberal subjects
This essay engages the question of where Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of subalternity is to be located today, and it does so by first establishing a brief genealogy of thinking the outside of modern, capitalist economic and cultural modes of production. This genealogy reaches back to the classic Marxist figure of the lumpenproletariat, moves through its postcolonial reappropriation by Fanon as well as Gramsci’s original articulation of the suba…
The Unbearable Lightness of 'Gender and Diversity
Transformations of the Secular and the ‘Muslim Question’. Revisiting the Historical Coincidence of Depillarisation and the Institutionalisation of Islam in The Netherlands
This article revisits the ‘historical coincidence’ of the process of ‘depillarisation’ and the institutionalisation of Islam in the Netherlands. It critically considers the established Dutch narrative of pillarisation, i.e. the organisation of the social body along confessional or sectarian lines, and the way in which this historical formation of Dutch secularism is mobilised within contemporary discussions about multiculturalism. This article fu…
Quelle citoyenneté pour les femmes ? État des lieux et perspectives (1987-2012)
Cet article évoque le parcours du réseau francophone et pluridisciplinaire ‘État et rapports sociaux de sexe’. Né à la fin des années 1980, ce dernier a contribué à faire progresser la réflexion sur la dimension sexuée de la citoyenneté. Trois concepts furent au cœur de ses travaux — l’État, les politiques sociales et la citoyenneté. Sont évoquées ici les principales approches théoriques qui, sur ces thèmes, ont marqué le champ des sciences humai…
Le féminisme du positionnement. Héritages et perspectives contemporaines
Le féminisme a engendré de vifs débats sur les liens intimes entre lutte politique et production du savoir, ainsi que sur le problème de dés/incarnation de la vérité et de la méthode scientifiques. Cet article aborde plus précisément la pensée du positionnement féministe et la stratégie consistant à récupérer les voix de femmes historiquement réduites au silence. Nous mettons au jour la façon dont cette stratégie a été mise en œuvre et ses liens …
From 'saving women' to 'saving gays: Rescue narratives and their dis/continuities
This article traces not only some of the borrowings but also the differences between feminist and gay politics in the context of the post-1989 'multicultural debate' and the hegemony of civilizational politics. This investigation is empirically grounded in one national context, that is, the Dutch case, which is exemplary when it comes to bringing politics of gender and sexuality to bear on national and cultural identity politics. The article reca…
Conjugating the Modern/ Religious, Conceptualizing Female Religious Agency: Contours of a `Post-secular' Conjuncture
This article is concerned with thinking transformations of the secular, and does so in relation to two theoretical terrains, while empirically grounded in ethnographies of Christian and Islamic pious women in the Netherlands. A first theoretical terrain under consideration is that of how the relation between modernity and religion is elaborated, notably in secularization theories, and how these established frameworks are challenged by a different…
They love death as we love life: The "Muslim Question" and the biopolitics of replacement
This article approaches the analytic of the "Muslim Question" through the prism of the discursive and conspiratorial use of demographics as an alleged threat to Europe. It argues that concerns about "Muslim demographics" within Europe have been entertained, mobilized, and deployed to not only construct Muslims as problems and dangers to the present and future of Europe, but also as calls to revive eugenic policies within the frame of biopower. Th…
Is the subaltern resilient? Notes on agency and neoliberal subjects
This essay engages the question of where Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of subalternity is to be located today, and it does so by first establishing a brief genealogy of thinking the outside of modern, capitalist economic and cultural modes of production. This genealogy reaches back to the classic Marxist figure of the lumpenproletariat, moves through its postcolonial reappropriation by Fanon as well as Gramsci’s original articulation of the suba…
Subjects of Debate: Secular and Sexual Exceptionalism, and Muslim Women in the Netherlands
This article attends to the transformation of national identity that occurs in the context of 'the multicultural debate' in the Netherlands, and unfolds on the terrain of Dutch (secular and sexual) exceptionalism. First, it explores the connections between two topics that are prominent in the 'multicultural debates' all over Europe and undergird the civilizational discourse of a post-Cold War geopolitical era: discussions about secularism on the …
Unpacking the Sin of Gender
In a meeting with Polish bishops preceding the World Youth Day in July 2016, Pope Francis deplored the prevalence of what he calls 'ideological colonization' in the contemporary world. Addressing a question by a Polish bishop about the situation of refugees, the Roman Pontiff declared
Is the Headscarf Oppressive or Emancipatory?’ Field Notes from the Multicultural Debate
This essay examines the discursive contours of the multicultural debate in Europe, and the ways in which it is cast in gendered terms. It does so by investigating one particular albeit highly contentious issue, notably the headscarf controversy. In recent years, this sartorial practice has turned into an important object of debate and controversy in various Western European countries, often structured around the question ‘is the headscarf oppress…
Thinking Europe’s “Muslim Question: On Trojan Horses and the Problematization of Muslims
Understanding the ways in which Muslims are turned into “a problem” requires an analytic incorporating the insights gained through the concepts of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism into a larger frame. The “Muslim Question” can provide such a frame by attending to the systematic character of this form of racism, explored here through biopolitics. This article develops a conceptualization of Europe’s “Muslim Question” along three lines. First, t…
Is the Headscarf Oppressive or Emancipatory?” Field Notes on the Gendrification of the ‘Multicultural Debate’
This essay examines the discursive contours of the multicultural debate in Europe, and the ways in which it is cast in gendered terms. It does so by investigating one particular albeit highly contentious issue, notably the headscarf controversy. In recent years, this sartorial practice has turned into an important object of debate and controversy in various Western European countries, often structured around the question ‘is the headscarf oppress…
Author(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women's Involvement in Religious `Fundamentalist' Movements
This article discusses ways in which feminist scholars draw upon agency in relation to the complex subject matter of women's engagement in so-called `fundamentalist' movements. While postcolonial critiques generally reject the term `fundamentalism', and in particular the way it is linked to Islam, feminist perspectives have a vested interest in looking at contemporary developments in different religions from the perspective of women's lives. Agai…
Transformations of the Secular and the ‘Muslim Question’. Revisiting the Historical Coincidence of Depillarisation and the Institutionalisation of Islam in The Netherlands
This article revisits the ‘historical coincidence’ of the process of ‘depillarisation’ and the institutionalisation of Islam in the Netherlands. It critically considers the established Dutch narrative of pillarisation, i.e. the organisation of the social body along confessional or sectarian lines, and the way in which this historical formation of Dutch secularism is mobilised within contemporary discussions about multiculturalism. This article fu…
Le féminisme du positionnement. Héritages et perspectives contemporaines
Le féminisme a engendré de vifs débats sur les liens intimes entre lutte politique et production du savoir, ainsi que sur le problème de dés/incarnation de la vérité et de la méthode scientifiques. Cet article aborde plus précisément la pensée du positionnement féministe et la stratégie consistant à récupérer les voix de femmes historiquement réduites au silence. Nous mettons au jour la façon dont cette stratégie a été mise en œuvre et ses liens …
Queer Anti-Racist Activism and Strategies of Critique: A Roundtable Discussion
The Unbearable Lightness of 'Gender and Diversity
On knowing how it feels
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe
Revisiting Goffman: Frames of mental health in the interactions of mental healthcare professionals with diasporic Muslims
Diasporic Muslims, Mental Health, and Subjectivity: Perspectives and Experiences of Mental Health Care Professionals in Ghent
The mental health of Muslims with a migration background in Belgium seems to be particularly at risk. Inspired by the work of Nikolas Rose on the question of subjectivity, our sociological research analyses processes of subjectification that occur within existing mental health services, and the subsequent “proper” subject of mental health that is created along the way. We focus on how mental health care professionals approach and construct diaspo…
The Sin of Turning Away from Reality: An Interview with Father Krzysztof Charamsa
He has published widely on theological issues, including in
Venir à la connaissance, venir à la politique: Réflexion sur des pratiques féministes du réseau NextGenderation
En partant du débat qui opposait "la positivité de la politique" à la "négativité de la théorie" ainsi qu’il s’est développé sur la liste NextGENDERation -un réseau européen d’ étudiants et de chercheurs en études féministes- nous recherchons les voies par lesquelles la division entre "penser" et "faire" est le mécanisme clé par lequel se singularise la production de connaissance tout au long des lignes de races et de genres ; comme l’ont relevé …
Author(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women's Involvement in Religious `Fundamentalist' Movements
This article discusses ways in which feminist scholars draw upon agency in relation to the complex subject matter of women's engagement in so-called `fundamentalist' movements. While postcolonial critiques generally reject the term `fundamentalism', and in particular the way it is linked to Islam, feminist perspectives have a vested interest in looking at contemporary developments in different religions from the perspective of women's lives. Agai…
Venir à la connaissance, venir à la politique: Réflexion sur des pratiques féministes du réseau NextGenderation
En partant du débat qui opposait "la positivité de la politique" à la "négativité de la théorie" ainsi qu’il s’est développé sur la liste NextGENDERation -un réseau européen d’ étudiants et de chercheurs en études féministes- nous recherchons les voies par lesquelles la division entre "penser" et "faire" est le mécanisme clé par lequel se singularise la production de connaissance tout au long des lignes de races et de genres ; comme l’ont relevé …
Refusing to be ‘the Women's Question’ …Embodied Practices of a Feminist Intervention at the European Social Forum 2003
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Conjugating the Modern/ Religious, Conceptualizing Female Religious Agency: Contours of a `Post-secular' Conjuncture
This article is concerned with thinking transformations of the secular, and does so in relation to two theoretical terrains, while empirically grounded in ethnographies of Christian and Islamic pious women in the Netherlands. A first theoretical terrain under consideration is that of how the relation between modernity and religion is elaborated, notably in secularization theories, and how these established frameworks are challenged by a different…
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
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Is the Headscarf Oppressive or Emancipatory?” Field Notes on the Gendrification of the ‘Multicultural Debate’
This essay examines the discursive contours of the multicultural debate in Europe, and the ways in which it is cast in gendered terms. It does so by investigating one particular albeit highly contentious issue, notably the headscarf controversy. In recent years, this sartorial practice has turned into an important object of debate and controversy in various Western European countries, often structured around the question ‘is the headscarf oppress…
Queer Anti-Racist Activism and Strategies of Critique: A Roundtable Discussion
Subjects of Debate: Secular and Sexual Exceptionalism, and Muslim Women in the Netherlands
This article attends to the transformation of national identity that occurs in the context of 'the multicultural debate' in the Netherlands, and unfolds on the terrain of Dutch (secular and sexual) exceptionalism. First, it explores the connections between two topics that are prominent in the 'multicultural debates' all over Europe and undergird the civilizational discourse of a post-Cold War geopolitical era: discussions about secularism on the …
Is the Headscarf Oppressive or Emancipatory?’ Field Notes from the Multicultural Debate
This essay examines the discursive contours of the multicultural debate in Europe, and the ways in which it is cast in gendered terms. It does so by investigating one particular albeit highly contentious issue, notably the headscarf controversy. In recent years, this sartorial practice has turned into an important object of debate and controversy in various Western European countries, often structured around the question ‘is the headscarf oppress…
From 'saving women' to 'saving gays: Rescue narratives and their dis/continuities
This article traces not only some of the borrowings but also the differences between feminist and gay politics in the context of the post-1989 'multicultural debate' and the hegemony of civilizational politics. This investigation is empirically grounded in one national context, that is, the Dutch case, which is exemplary when it comes to bringing politics of gender and sexuality to bear on national and cultural identity politics. The article reca…
Transformations of the Secular and the ‘Muslim Question’. Revisiting the Historical Coincidence of Depillarisation and the Institutionalisation of Islam in The Netherlands
This article revisits the ‘historical coincidence’ of the process of ‘depillarisation’ and the institutionalisation of Islam in the Netherlands. It critically considers the established Dutch narrative of pillarisation, i.e. the organisation of the social body along confessional or sectarian lines, and the way in which this historical formation of Dutch secularism is mobilised within contemporary discussions about multiculturalism. This article fu…
Quelle citoyenneté pour les femmes ? État des lieux et perspectives (1987-2012)
Cet article évoque le parcours du réseau francophone et pluridisciplinaire ‘État et rapports sociaux de sexe’. Né à la fin des années 1980, ce dernier a contribué à faire progresser la réflexion sur la dimension sexuée de la citoyenneté. Trois concepts furent au cœur de ses travaux — l’État, les politiques sociales et la citoyenneté. Sont évoquées ici les principales approches théoriques qui, sur ces thèmes, ont marqué le champ des sciences humai…
Le féminisme du positionnement. Héritages et perspectives contemporaines
Le féminisme a engendré de vifs débats sur les liens intimes entre lutte politique et production du savoir, ainsi que sur le problème de dés/incarnation de la vérité et de la méthode scientifiques. Cet article aborde plus précisément la pensée du positionnement féministe et la stratégie consistant à récupérer les voix de femmes historiquement réduites au silence. Nous mettons au jour la façon dont cette stratégie a été mise en œuvre et ses liens …
The Unbearable Lightness of 'Gender and Diversity
‘Because I’m Worth It’: Religion and Women’s Changing Lives in the West
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that the things that drive women away from religious identification may be different from those that secularization theorists have traditionally posited. In contrast, if we look at the story for women in the United States what we see that women were always the majority of participants, and become increasing involved in rel…
Racism, Migration, and Mental Health. Theoretical Reflections from Belgium
The Sin of Turning Away from Reality: An Interview with Father Krzysztof Charamsa
He has published widely on theological issues, including in
Unpacking the Sin of Gender
In a meeting with Polish bishops preceding the World Youth Day in July 2016, Pope Francis deplored the prevalence of what he calls 'ideological colonization' in the contemporary world. Addressing a question by a Polish bishop about the situation of refugees, the Roman Pontiff declared
Is the subaltern resilient? Notes on agency and neoliberal subjects
This essay engages the question of where Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of subalternity is to be located today, and it does so by first establishing a brief genealogy of thinking the outside of modern, capitalist economic and cultural modes of production. This genealogy reaches back to the classic Marxist figure of the lumpenproletariat, moves through its postcolonial reappropriation by Fanon as well as Gramsci’s original articulation of the suba…
Diasporic Muslims, Mental Health, and Subjectivity: Perspectives and Experiences of Mental Health Care Professionals in Ghent
The mental health of Muslims with a migration background in Belgium seems to be particularly at risk. Inspired by the work of Nikolas Rose on the question of subjectivity, our sociological research analyses processes of subjectification that occur within existing mental health services, and the subsequent “proper” subject of mental health that is created along the way. We focus on how mental health care professionals approach and construct diaspo…
On knowing how it feels
Revisiting Goffman: Frames of mental health in the interactions of mental healthcare professionals with diasporic Muslims
‘It’s the birth rates’: Sex, gender, and race in Europe’s ‘Muslim Question’
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
They love death as we love life: The "Muslim Question" and the biopolitics of replacement
This article approaches the analytic of the "Muslim Question" through the prism of the discursive and conspiratorial use of demographics as an alleged threat to Europe. It argues that concerns about "Muslim demographics" within Europe have been entertained, mobilized, and deployed to not only construct Muslims as problems and dangers to the present and future of Europe, but also as calls to revive eugenic policies within the frame of biopower. Th…
Capturing Hearts and Minds: Understanding the complex social lives of public debates
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (20 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Social science (11 works)