Margriet Van Der Waal
Biographic Data
| ID | 86837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margriet Van Der Waal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Waal |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER WAAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7889-0814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
Introduction: The cultural deliberation of Europe
This special issue started years ago as part of a collective reading group on the public sphere with colleagues at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.A significant portion of our initial time was dedicated to understanding Jurgen Habermas ' (1989 [1962]) foundational contributions, which established the basis for a wideranging and complex field of study.This field spans social and political theory, media and communication studies, socio…
Dirty politics: The stories of soap in South Africa
During the global Covid-19 pandemic, the practice of extensively washing one’s hands with soap and water became ubiquitous worldwide. In this contribution, I look at how cultural references to soap have been productive in producing social identities in South Africa. By utilizing Nira Yuval-Davis’s (2006) distinction between belonging and the politics of belonging, I trace how stories and narratives featuring soap that circulate in the South Afric…
Introduction: Heritage and the making of ‘Europe’
The notion of ‘European heritage’ plays an increasingly important role in the discursive constructions of a collective sense of European belonging. This Special Issue critically reviews some of the contemporary instrumentalizations of European heritage as processes of borderwork by which various political and non-political actors demarcate the boundaries of Europe and European identity. Specifically, the nine contributions shed light on some of t…
Enticed to settle elsewhere: Magic lantern slides and the transnational creation of European colonial citizens
During the early twentieth century, people across Europe were enticed by magic lantern slide shows about a wide range of topics and issues. This contribution examines magic lantern images depicting South Africa and conveyed to Dutch viewers. How did the slides shape an imaginary both of South Africa and of the viewers themselves? My analysis shows that the slides not only transmitted information about South Africa – its built infrastructure, natu…
The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: The cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles
The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: The cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles
Cette contribution s’intéresse à la manière dont deux textes artistiques représentent des Européens en situation de précarité : des sujets sociaux vulnérables (citoyens, habitants de l’Europe/UE) qui peuvent être considérés comme des « perdants » du projet européen. Ces personnes précaires sont rarement - voire pas du tout - représentées en tant que participants aux processus complexes de l’européanisation. Les textes analysés et discutés dans ce…
In their shoes? Categorizing identities and creating citizens in refugee reality TV
The so-called migration crisis in Europe is not only covered by serious informative genres such as news and documentaries, but has also been the topic of entertainment genres such as reality TV. This article focuses on two cases of European ‘refugee’ reality TV in which European participants embark on a ‘reversed’ refugee journey: from the Netherlands and Germany, respectively, to war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East. Despite the show…
Long distance Afrikaners: Afrikaans literature and dislocated identity in a European context
During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of (white) South Africans (many Afrikaans-speaking) left the country in search for a different and more stable political and economic situation abroad. This article focuses on the imagined expatriate identity expressed in three Afrikaans literary texts set in a European context. It examines Sabbatsreis (2007) by Annelie Botes, Dan Roodt’s Moltrein (2004) and 30 Nagte in Amsterdam (2008) by Etienne van Heerden…
The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: The cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles
Cette contribution s’intéresse à la manière dont deux textes artistiques représentent des Européens en situation de précarité : des sujets sociaux vulnérables (citoyens, habitants de l’Europe/UE) qui peuvent être considérés comme des « perdants » du projet européen. Ces personnes précaires sont rarement - voire pas du tout - représentées en tant que participants aux processus complexes de l’européanisation. Les textes analysés et discutés dans ce…
Long distance Afrikaners: Afrikaans literature and dislocated identity in a European context
During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of (white) South Africans (many Afrikaans-speaking) left the country in search for a different and more stable political and economic situation abroad. This article focuses on the imagined expatriate identity expressed in three Afrikaans literary texts set in a European context. It examines Sabbatsreis (2007) by Annelie Botes, Dan Roodt’s Moltrein (2004) and 30 Nagte in Amsterdam (2008) by Etienne van Heerden…
In their shoes? Categorizing identities and creating citizens in refugee reality TV
The so-called migration crisis in Europe is not only covered by serious informative genres such as news and documentaries, but has also been the topic of entertainment genres such as reality TV. This article focuses on two cases of European ‘refugee’ reality TV in which European participants embark on a ‘reversed’ refugee journey: from the Netherlands and Germany, respectively, to war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East. Despite the show…
The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: The cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles
The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: The cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles
Cette contribution s’intéresse à la manière dont deux textes artistiques représentent des Européens en situation de précarité : des sujets sociaux vulnérables (citoyens, habitants de l’Europe/UE) qui peuvent être considérés comme des « perdants » du projet européen. Ces personnes précaires sont rarement - voire pas du tout - représentées en tant que participants aux processus complexes de l’européanisation. Les textes analysés et discutés dans ce…
Introduction: Heritage and the making of ‘Europe’
The notion of ‘European heritage’ plays an increasingly important role in the discursive constructions of a collective sense of European belonging. This Special Issue critically reviews some of the contemporary instrumentalizations of European heritage as processes of borderwork by which various political and non-political actors demarcate the boundaries of Europe and European identity. Specifically, the nine contributions shed light on some of t…
Enticed to settle elsewhere: Magic lantern slides and the transnational creation of European colonial citizens
During the early twentieth century, people across Europe were enticed by magic lantern slide shows about a wide range of topics and issues. This contribution examines magic lantern images depicting South Africa and conveyed to Dutch viewers. How did the slides shape an imaginary both of South Africa and of the viewers themselves? My analysis shows that the slides not only transmitted information about South Africa – its built infrastructure, natu…
Dirty politics: The stories of soap in South Africa
During the global Covid-19 pandemic, the practice of extensively washing one’s hands with soap and water became ubiquitous worldwide. In this contribution, I look at how cultural references to soap have been productive in producing social identities in South Africa. By utilizing Nira Yuval-Davis’s (2006) distinction between belonging and the politics of belonging, I trace how stories and narratives featuring soap that circulate in the South Afric…
Introduction: The cultural deliberation of Europe
This special issue started years ago as part of a collective reading group on the public sphere with colleagues at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.A significant portion of our initial time was dedicated to understanding Jurgen Habermas ' (1989 [1962]) foundational contributions, which established the basis for a wideranging and complex field of study.This field spans social and political theory, media and communication studies, socio…
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · The Imaginary (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)