Mayke Kaag
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mayke Kaag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mayke |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaag |
| SIGNATURE | KAAG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7240-0757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction to Travelling Islam
At the core of this special issue, Travelling Islam: The Circulation of Ideas in Africa, lies the editors’ fascination with the circulation of ideas by means of African languages, texts and people in and from Islamic Africa. It draws inspiration from a previous work on “Travelling Texts Beyond the West,” co-edited by Clarissa Vierke and Annachiara Raia. Further input has been provided by a workshop organised in 2020 with the generous support of l…
De Jong, Ferdinand
Fraught with Friction
Informal workers are a heterogeneous group distinguished by diverse activities and interests, but they have in common that they operate largely outside state regulations. In this article, we analyse the ways in which informal workers in Ghana are organising (themselves) in response to proposed relocations of their workspace. Borrowing from Tsing, we distinguish three layers of friction that can lead to (structural) change, collective action, and …
Faithful Journeys
This contribution aims to approach the theme of a traveling Islam by starting from moving people and considering how their religious “luggage”—in terms of beliefs, ideas, and practices—travels with them and what this means for the circulation of religious ideas in Africa and beyond. The paper focuses particularly on Senegalese migrants of the Murid Sufi order residing in Italy and the Netherlands; it investigates how their religious luggage is im…
On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique
A new era of global interventionism in African cities is emerging, the implications of which for existing claims to urban space are poorly understood. This is particularly true for the claims of farmers. Despite being a ubiquitous feature of many African cities, urban agriculture broadly exists in a conceptual limbo between rurality and urbanity, largely invisible to urban governance and substantive scholarship. Based on the case of Beira, Mozamb…
Destination Africa
This work challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence. Flows of people, goods, and investments towards Africa have increased and diversified over recent decades. In light of these changes, the contributions analyse new actors in such diverse fields as education, trade, infrastructure, and tourism. They show the historicity of many cu…
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the 'Age of Terror' and Beyond
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the 'Age of Terror' and Beyond is the first book to be published on the charities of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf, covering their work both domestic and international. From a diversity of viewpoints, the book addresses: The historical roots of Islamic philanthropy in religious traditions and geopolitical movements; The interactions of the Gulf charities with 'Western' relief and development institut…
Transnational Elite Formation
This paper investigates how diasporic and transnational communities evolve by analysing how networks of power are established and enhanced, both locally and transnationally. As part of a process of diversification in the Senegalese community in Italy, for example, a new elite of educated young men is emerging. This process of elite formation proves to be both local and transnational in multiple ways. It is argued that focusing on processes of eli…
African Engagements
With the end of the Cold War, the world seemed to move from a bipolar to a unipolar system, with the neoliberal West globally imposing its laws. However, it has been acknowledged that other actors, such as China, India and Brazil, have become increasingly influential, helping to lead to a new multipolarity at the global level. The question of what this emerging multipolarity means for Africa is important. Will Africa become crushed in a mounting …
African engagements
African Engagements
Connecting to the umma through Islamic relief
This paper argues that if the activities of Islamic NGOs from the Arab world in Africa are evaluated merely in terms of their local economic development impact, there is a risk of missing an important point. While it is true that the scope of these interventions and the amount of money involved are generally much less than the western aid industry channels to Africa, they can also generally be considered rather 'traditional' from a western point …
Nouvelles visibilités de la religion dans l’arène du développement
Introduction En dépit d’une vision couramment répandue qui relègue le religieux au rang des forces rétrogrades, en Afrique les idées et les acteurs religieux ont toujours constitué des vecteurs du changement social et ont été importants pour les initiatives de développement. L’engagement des missions catholiques ou des élites islamiques dans le domaine de l’éducation à l’époque coloniale en témoigne (Cooper 2006 ; Brenner 2001). Toutefois, à part…
The New Visibility of Religion in the Development Arena
Introduction Contrary to the widespread tendency to relegate religion to the rank of reactionary forces, religious actors and ideas have always been vectors of social change and important in development initiatives in Africa – one only has to think of Catholic missions’ or Islamic elites’ engagement with education in colonial times (Cooper 2006; Brenner 2001). However, such engagements got increasingly unnoticed when modernization theories of dev…
Mouride Transnational Livelihoods at the Margins of a European Society
In this paper, the Residence Prealpino, a building declared uninhabitable but which houses some 300 Senegalese migrants in an otherwise well-to-do neighbourhood in the town of Brescia, Italy, is taken as a case of how migrants’ lives are influenced both by the local context in which they make a living and by the transnational linkages they maintain with their homelands. Studies of integration normally focus on how migrants adapt to the situation …
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel. Barbara M. Cooper
Reviewed by: Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel Mayke Kaag Cooper, Barbara M. 2006. Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Research on African Pentecostalism is thriving, adding to the corpus of literature on Christian European missions in Africa; however, evangelical fundamentalism itself, which has been exported from the United States for the last hundred years, remains an imp…
Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad
increased spread of Western consumption ideals through mass communication, and a growing sense of the global context in which one is living, these organizations aim to influence people's material and moral well-being. By combining mate rial aid with proselytization, they embed their work in ideas about transnational solidarity and the importance of enlarg ing the umma, the global community of the faithful. By dis seminating a Salafi form of Islam…
Aid, Umma, and Politics
Transnational Islamic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been active in many parts of Africa since the 1980s, and, particularly since the 1990s, have expanded their activities and outreach across the continent. As transnational organizations, they act across national borders; and as Islamic organizations, they represent one of the significant power blocs in today's world. In addition, they are of local importance in that they try to enhanc…
Exploring the context of service provision in Senegal
IntroductionIn this paper, I will not be directly concerned with the everyday practices of public and collective services and those who make use of them. Instead, I aim to take a broader view on the social, political and cultural context in which services take shape and the role of decentralisation therein. In this regard, I will focus on some dynamics that are important for the functioning of public and collective services in Senegal today: dyna…
Mouride Transnational Livelihoods at the Margins of a European Society
In this paper, the Residence Prealpino, a building declared uninhabitable but which houses some 300 Senegalese migrants in an otherwise well-to-do neighbourhood in the town of Brescia, Italy, is taken as a case of how migrants’ lives are influenced both by the local context in which they make a living and by the transnational linkages they maintain with their homelands. Studies of integration normally focus on how migrants adapt to the situation …
On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique
A new era of global interventionism in African cities is emerging, the implications of which for existing claims to urban space are poorly understood. This is particularly true for the claims of farmers. Despite being a ubiquitous feature of many African cities, urban agriculture broadly exists in a conceptual limbo between rurality and urbanity, largely invisible to urban governance and substantive scholarship. Based on the case of Beira, Mozamb…
Connecting to the umma through Islamic relief
This paper argues that if the activities of Islamic NGOs from the Arab world in Africa are evaluated merely in terms of their local economic development impact, there is a risk of missing an important point. While it is true that the scope of these interventions and the amount of money involved are generally much less than the western aid industry channels to Africa, they can also generally be considered rather 'traditional' from a western point …
The New Visibility of Religion in the Development Arena
Introduction Contrary to the widespread tendency to relegate religion to the rank of reactionary forces, religious actors and ideas have always been vectors of social change and important in development initiatives in Africa – one only has to think of Catholic missions’ or Islamic elites’ engagement with education in colonial times (Cooper 2006; Brenner 2001). However, such engagements got increasingly unnoticed when modernization theories of dev…
Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad
increased spread of Western consumption ideals through mass communication, and a growing sense of the global context in which one is living, these organizations aim to influence people's material and moral well-being. By combining mate rial aid with proselytization, they embed their work in ideas about transnational solidarity and the importance of enlarg ing the umma, the global community of the faithful. By dis seminating a Salafi form of Islam…
Nouvelles visibilités de la religion dans l’arène du développement
Introduction En dépit d’une vision couramment répandue qui relègue le religieux au rang des forces rétrogrades, en Afrique les idées et les acteurs religieux ont toujours constitué des vecteurs du changement social et ont été importants pour les initiatives de développement. L’engagement des missions catholiques ou des élites islamiques dans le domaine de l’éducation à l’époque coloniale en témoigne (Cooper 2006 ; Brenner 2001). Toutefois, à part…
Transnational Elite Formation
This paper investigates how diasporic and transnational communities evolve by analysing how networks of power are established and enhanced, both locally and transnationally. As part of a process of diversification in the Senegalese community in Italy, for example, a new elite of educated young men is emerging. This process of elite formation proves to be both local and transnational in multiple ways. It is argued that focusing on processes of eli…
Exploring the context of service provision in Senegal
IntroductionIn this paper, I will not be directly concerned with the everyday practices of public and collective services and those who make use of them. Instead, I aim to take a broader view on the social, political and cultural context in which services take shape and the role of decentralisation therein. In this regard, I will focus on some dynamics that are important for the functioning of public and collective services in Senegal today: dyna…
Fraught with Friction
Informal workers are a heterogeneous group distinguished by diverse activities and interests, but they have in common that they operate largely outside state regulations. In this article, we analyse the ways in which informal workers in Ghana are organising (themselves) in response to proposed relocations of their workspace. Borrowing from Tsing, we distinguish three layers of friction that can lead to (structural) change, collective action, and …
Destination Africa
This work challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence. Flows of people, goods, and investments towards Africa have increased and diversified over recent decades. In light of these changes, the contributions analyse new actors in such diverse fields as education, trade, infrastructure, and tourism. They show the historicity of many cu…
Exploring the context of service provision in Senegal
IntroductionIn this paper, I will not be directly concerned with the everyday practices of public and collective services and those who make use of them. Instead, I aim to take a broader view on the social, political and cultural context in which services take shape and the role of decentralisation therein. In this regard, I will focus on some dynamics that are important for the functioning of public and collective services in Senegal today: dyna…
Aid, Umma, and Politics
Transnational Islamic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been active in many parts of Africa since the 1980s, and, particularly since the 1990s, have expanded their activities and outreach across the continent. As transnational organizations, they act across national borders; and as Islamic organizations, they represent one of the significant power blocs in today's world. In addition, they are of local importance in that they try to enhanc…
Mouride Transnational Livelihoods at the Margins of a European Society
In this paper, the Residence Prealpino, a building declared uninhabitable but which houses some 300 Senegalese migrants in an otherwise well-to-do neighbourhood in the town of Brescia, Italy, is taken as a case of how migrants’ lives are influenced both by the local context in which they make a living and by the transnational linkages they maintain with their homelands. Studies of integration normally focus on how migrants adapt to the situation …
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel. Barbara M. Cooper
Reviewed by: Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel Mayke Kaag Cooper, Barbara M. 2006. Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Research on African Pentecostalism is thriving, adding to the corpus of literature on Christian European missions in Africa; however, evangelical fundamentalism itself, which has been exported from the United States for the last hundred years, remains an imp…
Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad
increased spread of Western consumption ideals through mass communication, and a growing sense of the global context in which one is living, these organizations aim to influence people's material and moral well-being. By combining mate rial aid with proselytization, they embed their work in ideas about transnational solidarity and the importance of enlarg ing the umma, the global community of the faithful. By dis seminating a Salafi form of Islam…
African Engagements
With the end of the Cold War, the world seemed to move from a bipolar to a unipolar system, with the neoliberal West globally imposing its laws. However, it has been acknowledged that other actors, such as China, India and Brazil, have become increasingly influential, helping to lead to a new multipolarity at the global level. The question of what this emerging multipolarity means for Africa is important. Will Africa become crushed in a mounting …
African engagements
African Engagements
Connecting to the umma through Islamic relief
This paper argues that if the activities of Islamic NGOs from the Arab world in Africa are evaluated merely in terms of their local economic development impact, there is a risk of missing an important point. While it is true that the scope of these interventions and the amount of money involved are generally much less than the western aid industry channels to Africa, they can also generally be considered rather 'traditional' from a western point …
Nouvelles visibilités de la religion dans l’arène du développement
Introduction En dépit d’une vision couramment répandue qui relègue le religieux au rang des forces rétrogrades, en Afrique les idées et les acteurs religieux ont toujours constitué des vecteurs du changement social et ont été importants pour les initiatives de développement. L’engagement des missions catholiques ou des élites islamiques dans le domaine de l’éducation à l’époque coloniale en témoigne (Cooper 2006 ; Brenner 2001). Toutefois, à part…
The New Visibility of Religion in the Development Arena
Introduction Contrary to the widespread tendency to relegate religion to the rank of reactionary forces, religious actors and ideas have always been vectors of social change and important in development initiatives in Africa – one only has to think of Catholic missions’ or Islamic elites’ engagement with education in colonial times (Cooper 2006; Brenner 2001). However, such engagements got increasingly unnoticed when modernization theories of dev…
Transnational Elite Formation
This paper investigates how diasporic and transnational communities evolve by analysing how networks of power are established and enhanced, both locally and transnationally. As part of a process of diversification in the Senegalese community in Italy, for example, a new elite of educated young men is emerging. This process of elite formation proves to be both local and transnational in multiple ways. It is argued that focusing on processes of eli…
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the 'Age of Terror' and Beyond
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the 'Age of Terror' and Beyond is the first book to be published on the charities of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf, covering their work both domestic and international. From a diversity of viewpoints, the book addresses: The historical roots of Islamic philanthropy in religious traditions and geopolitical movements; The interactions of the Gulf charities with 'Western' relief and development institut…
On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique
A new era of global interventionism in African cities is emerging, the implications of which for existing claims to urban space are poorly understood. This is particularly true for the claims of farmers. Despite being a ubiquitous feature of many African cities, urban agriculture broadly exists in a conceptual limbo between rurality and urbanity, largely invisible to urban governance and substantive scholarship. Based on the case of Beira, Mozamb…
Destination Africa
This work challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence. Flows of people, goods, and investments towards Africa have increased and diversified over recent decades. In light of these changes, the contributions analyse new actors in such diverse fields as education, trade, infrastructure, and tourism. They show the historicity of many cu…
Fraught with Friction
Informal workers are a heterogeneous group distinguished by diverse activities and interests, but they have in common that they operate largely outside state regulations. In this article, we analyse the ways in which informal workers in Ghana are organising (themselves) in response to proposed relocations of their workspace. Borrowing from Tsing, we distinguish three layers of friction that can lead to (structural) change, collective action, and …
Faithful Journeys
This contribution aims to approach the theme of a traveling Islam by starting from moving people and considering how their religious “luggage”—in terms of beliefs, ideas, and practices—travels with them and what this means for the circulation of religious ideas in Africa and beyond. The paper focuses particularly on Senegalese migrants of the Murid Sufi order residing in Italy and the Netherlands; it investigates how their religious luggage is im…
Introduction to Travelling Islam
At the core of this special issue, Travelling Islam: The Circulation of Ideas in Africa, lies the editors’ fascination with the circulation of ideas by means of African languages, texts and people in and from Islamic Africa. It draws inspiration from a previous work on “Travelling Texts Beyond the West,” co-edited by Clarissa Vierke and Annachiara Raia. Further input has been provided by a workshop organised in 2020 with the generous support of l…
De Jong, Ferdinand
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