Margaretha A Van Es
Biographic Data
| ID | 638818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaretha A Van Es |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaretha A |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Es |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ES M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4460-4239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe
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Narratives of Religious Transformation
This is a review essay of Nella van den Brandt’s book Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture: Thinking Through Religious Transformation . The review includes a critical reflection on the relationship between class, social mobility, racialisation, and religious transformation
A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue
This chapter stresses the importance of a material approach to the study of peace and conflict, by means of a case study of the Ring of Peace: an interreligious public event that was organized by young Muslims in Oslo, Norway, in response to terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen in 2015. It brings together insights from the fields of material religion and affect studies to explore the relationship between materiality, sensorial experiences, a…
Men, Masculinities, and Religion
Beyond 'radical' versus 'moderate'? New perspectives on the politics of moderation in Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings
Muslims are increasingly conceived through a binary frame of ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’. In this thematic issue, we critically explore how the dichotomy of ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’ is constructed and mobilized in different Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings across the world, and we examine the active role played by Muslims in upholding, appropriating, and/or subverting this binary frame. How do Muslims present themselves, their reli…
Norwegian Muslims denouncing terrorism
In contemporary European societies, Muslims are often viewed through a binary frame of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’. This article aims to deconstruct the dichotomy of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’, and to explore how Muslims uphold, appropriate or subvert this binary frame. It takes up three case studies of public events organized in the city center of Oslo, Norway, by Muslims who wanted to make explicit statements against violence committed in the …
Muslim Women’s Activism and Organizations in the Netherlands and Belgium
This article is a thematic exploration of the organizations that Muslim women have established in the Netherlands and Belgium since the 1970s, and the forms of activism they have engaged in. The article provides insight into the complex dynamic between the lived experience of Muslim women in Dutch and Flemish societies, the shifting forms of their collective identities, and their efforts to bring about social change. We discuss the early organiza…
Muslim Identity Politics
Khadijah Elshayyal, Muslim Identity Politics: Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Pp. xxxiii + 312. ISBN: 978-1-8360-204-8.Muslims and Islam remain among the most hotly debated topics of public debate in Europe. A growing number of scholars have critically addressed what they refer to as the ‘Muslim Question’, i.e.: the constant problematisation of the presence of Muslim minorities.1 Only recently have scholars beg…
Pious Fashion
Roasting a Pig in Front of a Mosque
This article provides an analysis of a public protest by the far-right group Pegida-Netherlands, where the participants attempted to demonstratively eat pork near a mosque in Eindhoven on 26 May 2019. This led to fierce responses: hundreds of young Muslim counter-protesters prevented the Pegida supporters from reaching the mosque, shouting insults at them and throwing stones at the police. Based on field notes from the event and a variety of othe…
Muslim women as ‘ambassadors’ of Islam
This article explores the efforts of Dutch Muslim women who try to break the ‘oppressed Muslim woman’ stereotype by monitoring their own behaviour in everyday interactions with members of the non-Muslim ethnic majority. In representing themselves as modern and emancipated, they try to change the dominant image of Muslim women in Dutch society, and thus also that of Islam. Based on interviews and archival material, I demonstrate that initially thi…
The promise of the social contract
Since the 9/11 attacks, Muslims in Europe have been urged to denounce terrorism. Many Muslims experience a constant pressure to show that they are peaceful and loyal citizens. Based on archival material and semi-structed interviews, this article explores how Dutch Muslims deal with this pressure, and provides an analysis of critical interventions made by Muslims in public debate about violent extremism. What motivates some Muslims to speak up aga…
Muslims Denouncing Violent Extremism
This article explores statements made by Dutch Muslims against violent extremism, and explains these statements in the context of the growing pressure exerted on Muslim minorities in Europe to present themselves as peaceful and loyal citizens. It problematises the often-repeated call on Muslims to denounce terrorism, and reveals that Dutch Muslims have condemned violent extremism more often than is commonly acknowledged. However, essentialist sta…
Norwegian Muslim Women, Diffused Islamic Feminism and the Politics of Belonging
The promise of the social contract
Since the 9/11 attacks, Muslims in Europe have been urged to denounce terrorism. Many Muslims experience a constant pressure to show that they are peaceful and loyal citizens. Based on archival material and semi-structed interviews, this article explores how Dutch Muslims deal with this pressure, and provides an analysis of critical interventions made by Muslims in public debate about violent extremism. What motivates some Muslims to speak up aga…
Muslims Denouncing Violent Extremism
This article explores statements made by Dutch Muslims against violent extremism, and explains these statements in the context of the growing pressure exerted on Muslim minorities in Europe to present themselves as peaceful and loyal citizens. It problematises the often-repeated call on Muslims to denounce terrorism, and reveals that Dutch Muslims have condemned violent extremism more often than is commonly acknowledged. However, essentialist sta…
Roasting a Pig in Front of a Mosque
This article provides an analysis of a public protest by the far-right group Pegida-Netherlands, where the participants attempted to demonstratively eat pork near a mosque in Eindhoven on 26 May 2019. This led to fierce responses: hundreds of young Muslim counter-protesters prevented the Pegida supporters from reaching the mosque, shouting insults at them and throwing stones at the police. Based on field notes from the event and a variety of othe…
Norwegian Muslims denouncing terrorism
In contemporary European societies, Muslims are often viewed through a binary frame of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’. This article aims to deconstruct the dichotomy of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’, and to explore how Muslims uphold, appropriate or subvert this binary frame. It takes up three case studies of public events organized in the city center of Oslo, Norway, by Muslims who wanted to make explicit statements against violence committed in the …
Beyond 'radical' versus 'moderate'? New perspectives on the politics of moderation in Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings
Muslims are increasingly conceived through a binary frame of ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’. In this thematic issue, we critically explore how the dichotomy of ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’ is constructed and mobilized in different Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings across the world, and we examine the active role played by Muslims in upholding, appropriating, and/or subverting this binary frame. How do Muslims present themselves, their reli…
Men, Masculinities, and Religion
Norwegian Muslim Women, Diffused Islamic Feminism and the Politics of Belonging
Muslims Denouncing Violent Extremism
This article explores statements made by Dutch Muslims against violent extremism, and explains these statements in the context of the growing pressure exerted on Muslim minorities in Europe to present themselves as peaceful and loyal citizens. It problematises the often-repeated call on Muslims to denounce terrorism, and reveals that Dutch Muslims have condemned violent extremism more often than is commonly acknowledged. However, essentialist sta…
Muslim women as ‘ambassadors’ of Islam
This article explores the efforts of Dutch Muslim women who try to break the ‘oppressed Muslim woman’ stereotype by monitoring their own behaviour in everyday interactions with members of the non-Muslim ethnic majority. In representing themselves as modern and emancipated, they try to change the dominant image of Muslim women in Dutch society, and thus also that of Islam. Based on interviews and archival material, I demonstrate that initially thi…
The promise of the social contract
Since the 9/11 attacks, Muslims in Europe have been urged to denounce terrorism. Many Muslims experience a constant pressure to show that they are peaceful and loyal citizens. Based on archival material and semi-structed interviews, this article explores how Dutch Muslims deal with this pressure, and provides an analysis of critical interventions made by Muslims in public debate about violent extremism. What motivates some Muslims to speak up aga…
Muslim Women’s Activism and Organizations in the Netherlands and Belgium
This article is a thematic exploration of the organizations that Muslim women have established in the Netherlands and Belgium since the 1970s, and the forms of activism they have engaged in. The article provides insight into the complex dynamic between the lived experience of Muslim women in Dutch and Flemish societies, the shifting forms of their collective identities, and their efforts to bring about social change. We discuss the early organiza…
Muslim Identity Politics
Khadijah Elshayyal, Muslim Identity Politics: Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Pp. xxxiii + 312. ISBN: 978-1-8360-204-8.Muslims and Islam remain among the most hotly debated topics of public debate in Europe. A growing number of scholars have critically addressed what they refer to as the ‘Muslim Question’, i.e.: the constant problematisation of the presence of Muslim minorities.1 Only recently have scholars beg…
Pious Fashion
Roasting a Pig in Front of a Mosque
This article provides an analysis of a public protest by the far-right group Pegida-Netherlands, where the participants attempted to demonstratively eat pork near a mosque in Eindhoven on 26 May 2019. This led to fierce responses: hundreds of young Muslim counter-protesters prevented the Pegida supporters from reaching the mosque, shouting insults at them and throwing stones at the police. Based on field notes from the event and a variety of othe…
Men, Masculinities, and Religion
Beyond 'radical' versus 'moderate'? New perspectives on the politics of moderation in Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings
Muslims are increasingly conceived through a binary frame of ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’. In this thematic issue, we critically explore how the dichotomy of ‘radical’ versus ‘moderate’ is constructed and mobilized in different Muslim majority and Muslim minority settings across the world, and we examine the active role played by Muslims in upholding, appropriating, and/or subverting this binary frame. How do Muslims present themselves, their reli…
Norwegian Muslims denouncing terrorism
In contemporary European societies, Muslims are often viewed through a binary frame of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’. This article aims to deconstruct the dichotomy of ‘moderate’ versus ‘radical’, and to explore how Muslims uphold, appropriate or subvert this binary frame. It takes up three case studies of public events organized in the city center of Oslo, Norway, by Muslims who wanted to make explicit statements against violence committed in the …
A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue
This chapter stresses the importance of a material approach to the study of peace and conflict, by means of a case study of the Ring of Peace: an interreligious public event that was organized by young Muslims in Oslo, Norway, in response to terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen in 2015. It brings together insights from the fields of material religion and affect studies to explore the relationship between materiality, sensorial experiences, a…
Narratives of Religious Transformation
This is a review essay of Nella van den Brandt’s book Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture: Thinking Through Religious Transformation . The review includes a critical reflection on the relationship between class, social mobility, racialisation, and religious transformation
Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe
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Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Islam (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works)