Els Van Dongen
Biographic Data
| ID | 87270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Els Van Dongen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Els |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dongen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DONGEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2342-0932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses
This article analyses Chinese migration policies through historical and comparative lenses in an attempt to cross conceptual divides in existing literature on migration policies. The first part of the article offers an empirically grounded overview of developments in Chinese migration policies in the two decades after the regime changes of 1949 and 1978. A second analytical section brings together literature on the Global North, Global South, and…
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration. By Shelly Chan
In a 2004 lecture entitled “Why China Historians Should Study the Chinese Diaspora, and Vice-versa,” the renowned historian Philip A. Kuhn made the case for the intermingled processes of modern Chinese history and the history of Chinese emigration. Continuing these efforts of cross-fertilization by Philip A. Kuhn and, among others, Madeline Y. Hsu, Adam M. McKeown, and Glen Peterson, in Diaspora’s Homeland, Shelly Chan puts in dialogue the fields…
The Specter of Failed Transition: Tocqueville and the Reception of Liberalism in Reform China
What connects the political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) to China? Hitherto, scholars have answered this question by looking into references to China in his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution or by applying insights from his works to issues of democratization. This article seeks to move beyond these "Tocquevillian perspectives on China" and instead foregrounds "Chinese perspectives on Tocqueville…
Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989
Between 1989 and 1993, with the end of the Cold War, Tiananmen, and Deng Xiaoping's renewed reform, Chinese intellectuals said goodbye to radicalism. In newly-founded journals, interacting with those who had left mainland China around 1949 to revive Chinese culture from the margins, they now challenged the underlying creed of Chinese socialism and the May Fourth Movement that there was 'no making without breaking'. Realistic Revolution covers the…
Localizing ethnic entrepreneurship: Chinese” chips shops in Belgium, “traditional” food culture, and transnational migration in Europe
This article explores the causes, dynamics, and theoretical implications of the \n“localization” of ethnic entrepreneurship through “traditional” food businesses in Europe. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2014 and 2017, it analyses the emergence of “Chinese” chips shops in the Flemish province of Antwerp, Belgium. Highlighting the history of Chinese migration to Europe, it argues that a specific set of “contexts of exit” and “contexts of receptio…
Looking to China and Back: On India’s Diaspora Engagement, Knowledge Transfer and the Limits of Inclusion
Against the background of the rise of ‘diaspora institutions’ since the early 2000s, this commentary reflects on China’s diaspora engagement and India’s interest in it in the context of its own institutionalisation of diaspora engagement since the early 2000s. It argues that notwithstanding historical and political differences, some lessons could be learned from China. These pertain to the importance of recognising the various segments of the dia…
Is Securitizing Migration a Mandatory Choice? Lessons from the EU and China
The correlation between migration and security is still prominent more than a decade after the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. While significant political authorities such as those in China and the EU have approached these issues from different perspectives, for European countries, having a strong and credible external border is crucial for the integration project. EU external migration practice has thus focused on keeping mi…
China’s Diaspora Policies as a New Mode of Transnational Governance
Existing studies of Chinese diaspora policies have mostly focused on the evolution and content of these policies, which tend to be confined within the realm of domestic politics. Against the backdrop of China’s increasing integration into the global economy, as well as its expanding interests abroad, this article goes beyond the existing frameworks in the studies of both domestic Chinese politics and diaspora relations by analyzing China’s diaspo…
Behind the Ties that Bind: Diaspora-making and Nation-building in China and India in Historical Perspective, 1850s-2010s
Whereas the rare existing comparative studies of Chinese and Indian diaspora policies have focused on recent periods following economic restructuring in both countries, this article, using a historical perspective, looks at diaspora policies in both countries from the angle of conceptions of the nation. Comparing three specific periods – the early twentieth century, the period between the 1950s and the 1970s, and the period since the 1970s – the …
Legal Pluralism, Forest Conservation, and Indigenous Capitalists: The Case of the Kalanguya in Tinoc, the Philippines
The Philippines is one of the many countries that currently acknowledge the presence of indigenous peoples (IPs) within their territories. Because of the equal existence of overarching state laws, this formally leads to a situation of legal pluralism for IPs. For many forest conservation advocates, legal pluralism for IPs, particularly with regard to land ownership and forest management, is expected to help conserve forests. This expectation, how…
Sustainability and Asia
What is the added value of investigating the contested concept of “sustainability” in tandem with the geographical marker of “Asia” in today’s world? To answer this question, we need to return to the formulation of the problematique of “sustainability” and “sustainable development” several decades ago. The Our Common Future report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)—also known as the Brundtland Commission—put forward the…
Keeping the feet of the gods and the saints warm: Mundane Pragmatics in Times of Suffering and Uncertainty
In this article the author writes about mundane pragmatics, or everyday deeds, in times of suffering and uncertainty. Such pragmatics differ from cultural practices such as biomedical therapies or individual health-seeking behaviour patterns. Medical anthropologists and others working in the field of health and illness often overlook such pragmatics. However, these actions are of great social value and express the connectedness and bonds between …
Souffrances dans le Polder: Contextes inhospitaliers et psychiatrie pour réfugiés
Juillet 2005. Après le déplacement de six réfugiés iraniens, du Verwijdercentrum Ter Appel — un centre pour demandeurs d’asiles qui se sont vus refuser la résidence sur le territoire hollandais — vers le centre de rétention de Zestienhoven (à l’aéroport de Rotterdam), vingt autres réfugiés iraniens ont entamé une grève de la faim, par crainte d’être également confinés. Ils désiraient en finir avec le traitement inhumain que leur réserve Ter Appel…
Anthropology on Beds: The Bed as the Field of Research
Remembering in times of misery: Can older people in South Africa ‘get through’
This paper reports a study of the situations of disadvantaged older people in contemporary South African townships. It draws from their own accounts that were collected through ethnographic research in day centres and care homes. Most of the informants had experienced a succession of serious material, psychological, social and cultural losses. Their lives had been characterised by violence, inequality, disruption and poverty. A dominant theme in …
Repetition and Repertoires: The Creation of Cultural Differences in Dutch Mental Health Care
This paper explores how culture and cultural differences are created and used to maintain power of definition in mental health care. The author argues that although in mental health care an open approach in care for immigrants is stimulated, cultural differences are strategically used to maintain the status quo of mental health care and mental health professionals. The result is that such strategies keep immigrants in a marginal position. In ment…
Sell a Book and Cook a Dog: Misery, Memory and Space from Siberian Camps to Apartheid
In this article, the life story of a Polish woman in South Africa is used to illustrate that stories of exile are 'matter out of place' in host countries. Space is a central category in both the story of exiles and in the collective history of receiving countries, but it has different emotional, social, cultural and political meanings. Sometimes stories of exile are denied a place in the social memory of a society. Therefore, recollection and mak…
Die lewe vat ek net soos ek dit kry.” Life Stories and Remembrance of Older Coloured People on Farms in the Western Cape Province
Walking stories: Narratives of mental patients as magic a
Mad stories are evocative and metaphoric. They are full of symbols, but we think that those symbols are used in very personal, even idiosyncratic ways. We consider them as incoherent and incomprehensible. They are not 'rational' and do not represent any 'normal' logic. They do not fit into categories. They escape every classification, save that of 'psychotic stories' or 'mad stories'. They are matters out of place. They are viewed as signs of mad…
Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie
Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie." Anthropology & Medicine, 9(2), pp. 85–95
Theatres of the lie: Crazy' Deception and Lying as Drama
In this article, the author argues that lying is drama, theatre, which brings about transition, reflection, reversal and involvement of the participants in the drama. By means of ethnographic data of a psychiatric ward, the author shows that lying of mental patients is not pathological, but a ritual of affliction. By using Turner's theory about rituals and performance and Goffman's theory about presentation of the self it will be showed that lyin…
Successful Aging in the Oldest Old: Who Can Be Characterized as Successfully Aged?
BACKGROUND: Successful aging is a worldwide aim, but it is less clear which indicators characterize elderly persons as successfully aged. We explored the meaning of successful aging from 2 perspectives. METHODS: Analysis of data from the first cross-sectional part of the longitudinal Leiden 85-plus Study, conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands. All inhabitants of Leiden aged 85 years were eligible. Data were obtained from 599 participants (response…
The art of touching: The culture of 'body work' in nursing
In this paper the authors argue that touch in nursing has a double meaning: on the one hand, it is a utilitarian and technical activity in which the bodies of nurses and patients are objects; on the other hand, touching is intimate, emotional and human and the bodies of both actors are subjects. The attention of studies on nursing and in nursing practices is often limited to the emotional reactions of patients. However, body care in nursing requi…
Paradise regained: How elderly people who are chronically mentally ill reinvent a social self
Throughout their lives, chronic mentally ill people go through a series of disruptive events and periods of suffering. In general, the literature suggests that people with long-standing mental illnesses are extremely vulnerable and cannot maintain themselves without assistance. When old age is added to this mix, the result is a heavy burden for both the patient and the caregiver. While the negative consequences, for both patient and caregiver, of…
Strangers on terra cognita: Authors of the other in a mental hospitala
Two important interrelated activities of medical anthropology at home are discussed: being at home in one's culture and the making of the Other. The author illustrates with ethnographic data from her fieldwork in a mental hospital how the anthropologist and the people in the hospital 'make' each other. Effects of this process are discussed. Making the other implies involvement in an arena in which morality and moral claims are contested and diffe…
China’s Diaspora Policies as a New Mode of Transnational Governance
Existing studies of Chinese diaspora policies have mostly focused on the evolution and content of these policies, which tend to be confined within the realm of domestic politics. Against the backdrop of China’s increasing integration into the global economy, as well as its expanding interests abroad, this article goes beyond the existing frameworks in the studies of both domestic Chinese politics and diaspora relations by analyzing China’s diaspo…
The art of touching: The culture of 'body work' in nursing
In this paper the authors argue that touch in nursing has a double meaning: on the one hand, it is a utilitarian and technical activity in which the bodies of nurses and patients are objects; on the other hand, touching is intimate, emotional and human and the bodies of both actors are subjects. The attention of studies on nursing and in nursing practices is often limited to the emotional reactions of patients. However, body care in nursing requi…
Behind the Ties that Bind: Diaspora-making and Nation-building in China and India in Historical Perspective, 1850s-2010s
Whereas the rare existing comparative studies of Chinese and Indian diaspora policies have focused on recent periods following economic restructuring in both countries, this article, using a historical perspective, looks at diaspora policies in both countries from the angle of conceptions of the nation. Comparing three specific periods – the early twentieth century, the period between the 1950s and the 1970s, and the period since the 1970s – the …
I wish a happy end'. Hope in the lives of chronic schizophrenic patientsa
The concept of hope is important for illness and healing. In psychiatry, the opposite, ‘hopelessness’ has clinical importance, because it is linked to depression and suicide. However, the clinical notion conceals the moral dimensions of the concept. By presenting anthropological data on psychiatric practices related to chronic mental illness, the author shows that hope with its western theological origins plays an important role in daily psychiat…
Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie
Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie." Anthropology & Medicine, 9(2), pp. 85–95
Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses
This article analyses Chinese migration policies through historical and comparative lenses in an attempt to cross conceptual divides in existing literature on migration policies. The first part of the article offers an empirically grounded overview of developments in Chinese migration policies in the two decades after the regime changes of 1949 and 1978. A second analytical section brings together literature on the Global North, Global South, and…
Localizing ethnic entrepreneurship: Chinese” chips shops in Belgium, “traditional” food culture, and transnational migration in Europe
This article explores the causes, dynamics, and theoretical implications of the \n“localization” of ethnic entrepreneurship through “traditional” food businesses in Europe. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2014 and 2017, it analyses the emergence of “Chinese” chips shops in the Flemish province of Antwerp, Belgium. Highlighting the history of Chinese migration to Europe, it argues that a specific set of “contexts of exit” and “contexts of receptio…
Remembering in times of misery: Can older people in South Africa ‘get through’
This paper reports a study of the situations of disadvantaged older people in contemporary South African townships. It draws from their own accounts that were collected through ethnographic research in day centres and care homes. Most of the informants had experienced a succession of serious material, psychological, social and cultural losses. Their lives had been characterised by violence, inequality, disruption and poverty. A dominant theme in …
Repetition and Repertoires: The Creation of Cultural Differences in Dutch Mental Health Care
This paper explores how culture and cultural differences are created and used to maintain power of definition in mental health care. The author argues that although in mental health care an open approach in care for immigrants is stimulated, cultural differences are strategically used to maintain the status quo of mental health care and mental health professionals. The result is that such strategies keep immigrants in a marginal position. In ment…
Theatres of the lie: Crazy' Deception and Lying as Drama
In this article, the author argues that lying is drama, theatre, which brings about transition, reflection, reversal and involvement of the participants in the drama. By means of ethnographic data of a psychiatric ward, the author shows that lying of mental patients is not pathological, but a ritual of affliction. By using Turner's theory about rituals and performance and Goffman's theory about presentation of the self it will be showed that lyin…
Space and time in the lives of people with long-standing mental illness: An ethnographic account
This paper argues that uncommon use of time and space in a closed ward of a mental hospital is strongly related to culture, social dynamics and power relations. Space is differentiated and continuously re‐embodied through awareness of and participation in events, interaction and forces. The time perspective is centred on patterns of improvement and regression of the illness. Past and future form an indissoluble part of these patterns. Through eth…
The Specter of Failed Transition: Tocqueville and the Reception of Liberalism in Reform China
What connects the political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) to China? Hitherto, scholars have answered this question by looking into references to China in his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution or by applying insights from his works to issues of democratization. This article seeks to move beyond these "Tocquevillian perspectives on China" and instead foregrounds "Chinese perspectives on Tocqueville…
Paradise regained: How elderly people who are chronically mentally ill reinvent a social self
Throughout their lives, chronic mentally ill people go through a series of disruptive events and periods of suffering. In general, the literature suggests that people with long-standing mental illnesses are extremely vulnerable and cannot maintain themselves without assistance. When old age is added to this mix, the result is a heavy burden for both the patient and the caregiver. While the negative consequences, for both patient and caregiver, of…
Strangers on terra cognita: Authors of the other in a mental hospitala
Two important interrelated activities of medical anthropology at home are discussed: being at home in one's culture and the making of the Other. The author illustrates with ethnographic data from her fieldwork in a mental hospital how the anthropologist and the people in the hospital 'make' each other. Effects of this process are discussed. Making the other implies involvement in an arena in which morality and moral claims are contested and diffe…
Keeping the feet of the gods and the saints warm: Mundane Pragmatics in Times of Suffering and Uncertainty
In this article the author writes about mundane pragmatics, or everyday deeds, in times of suffering and uncertainty. Such pragmatics differ from cultural practices such as biomedical therapies or individual health-seeking behaviour patterns. Medical anthropologists and others working in the field of health and illness often overlook such pragmatics. However, these actions are of great social value and express the connectedness and bonds between …
Anthropology on Beds: The Bed as the Field of Research
Die lewe vat ek net soos ek dit kry.” Life Stories and Remembrance of Older Coloured People on Farms in the Western Cape Province
Walking stories: Narratives of mental patients as magic a
Mad stories are evocative and metaphoric. They are full of symbols, but we think that those symbols are used in very personal, even idiosyncratic ways. We consider them as incoherent and incomprehensible. They are not 'rational' and do not represent any 'normal' logic. They do not fit into categories. They escape every classification, save that of 'psychotic stories' or 'mad stories'. They are matters out of place. They are viewed as signs of mad…
Courses in medical anthropology: The netherlands
Space and time in the lives of people with long-standing mental illness: An ethnographic account
This paper argues that uncommon use of time and space in a closed ward of a mental hospital is strongly related to culture, social dynamics and power relations. Space is differentiated and continuously re‐embodied through awareness of and participation in events, interaction and forces. The time perspective is centred on patterns of improvement and regression of the illness. Past and future form an indissoluble part of these patterns. Through eth…
Strangers on terra cognita: Authors of the other in a mental hospitala
Two important interrelated activities of medical anthropology at home are discussed: being at home in one's culture and the making of the Other. The author illustrates with ethnographic data from her fieldwork in a mental hospital how the anthropologist and the people in the hospital 'make' each other. Effects of this process are discussed. Making the other implies involvement in an arena in which morality and moral claims are contested and diffe…
I wish a happy end'. Hope in the lives of chronic schizophrenic patientsa
The concept of hope is important for illness and healing. In psychiatry, the opposite, ‘hopelessness’ has clinical importance, because it is linked to depression and suicide. However, the clinical notion conceals the moral dimensions of the concept. By presenting anthropological data on psychiatric practices related to chronic mental illness, the author shows that hope with its western theological origins plays an important role in daily psychiat…
Successful Aging in the Oldest Old: Who Can Be Characterized as Successfully Aged?
BACKGROUND: Successful aging is a worldwide aim, but it is less clear which indicators characterize elderly persons as successfully aged. We explored the meaning of successful aging from 2 perspectives. METHODS: Analysis of data from the first cross-sectional part of the longitudinal Leiden 85-plus Study, conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands. All inhabitants of Leiden aged 85 years were eligible. Data were obtained from 599 participants (response…
The art of touching: The culture of 'body work' in nursing
In this paper the authors argue that touch in nursing has a double meaning: on the one hand, it is a utilitarian and technical activity in which the bodies of nurses and patients are objects; on the other hand, touching is intimate, emotional and human and the bodies of both actors are subjects. The attention of studies on nursing and in nursing practices is often limited to the emotional reactions of patients. However, body care in nursing requi…
Paradise regained: How elderly people who are chronically mentally ill reinvent a social self
Throughout their lives, chronic mentally ill people go through a series of disruptive events and periods of suffering. In general, the literature suggests that people with long-standing mental illnesses are extremely vulnerable and cannot maintain themselves without assistance. When old age is added to this mix, the result is a heavy burden for both the patient and the caregiver. While the negative consequences, for both patient and caregiver, of…
Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie
Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie." Anthropology & Medicine, 9(2), pp. 85–95
Theatres of the lie: Crazy' Deception and Lying as Drama
In this article, the author argues that lying is drama, theatre, which brings about transition, reflection, reversal and involvement of the participants in the drama. By means of ethnographic data of a psychiatric ward, the author shows that lying of mental patients is not pathological, but a ritual of affliction. By using Turner's theory about rituals and performance and Goffman's theory about presentation of the self it will be showed that lyin…
Die lewe vat ek net soos ek dit kry.” Life Stories and Remembrance of Older Coloured People on Farms in the Western Cape Province
Walking stories: Narratives of mental patients as magic a
Mad stories are evocative and metaphoric. They are full of symbols, but we think that those symbols are used in very personal, even idiosyncratic ways. We consider them as incoherent and incomprehensible. They are not 'rational' and do not represent any 'normal' logic. They do not fit into categories. They escape every classification, save that of 'psychotic stories' or 'mad stories'. They are matters out of place. They are viewed as signs of mad…
Sell a Book and Cook a Dog: Misery, Memory and Space from Siberian Camps to Apartheid
In this article, the life story of a Polish woman in South Africa is used to illustrate that stories of exile are 'matter out of place' in host countries. Space is a central category in both the story of exiles and in the collective history of receiving countries, but it has different emotional, social, cultural and political meanings. Sometimes stories of exile are denied a place in the social memory of a society. Therefore, recollection and mak…
Remembering in times of misery: Can older people in South Africa ‘get through’
This paper reports a study of the situations of disadvantaged older people in contemporary South African townships. It draws from their own accounts that were collected through ethnographic research in day centres and care homes. Most of the informants had experienced a succession of serious material, psychological, social and cultural losses. Their lives had been characterised by violence, inequality, disruption and poverty. A dominant theme in …
Repetition and Repertoires: The Creation of Cultural Differences in Dutch Mental Health Care
This paper explores how culture and cultural differences are created and used to maintain power of definition in mental health care. The author argues that although in mental health care an open approach in care for immigrants is stimulated, cultural differences are strategically used to maintain the status quo of mental health care and mental health professionals. The result is that such strategies keep immigrants in a marginal position. In ment…
Souffrances dans le Polder: Contextes inhospitaliers et psychiatrie pour réfugiés
Juillet 2005. Après le déplacement de six réfugiés iraniens, du Verwijdercentrum Ter Appel — un centre pour demandeurs d’asiles qui se sont vus refuser la résidence sur le territoire hollandais — vers le centre de rétention de Zestienhoven (à l’aéroport de Rotterdam), vingt autres réfugiés iraniens ont entamé une grève de la faim, par crainte d’être également confinés. Ils désiraient en finir avec le traitement inhumain que leur réserve Ter Appel…
Anthropology on Beds: The Bed as the Field of Research
Keeping the feet of the gods and the saints warm: Mundane Pragmatics in Times of Suffering and Uncertainty
In this article the author writes about mundane pragmatics, or everyday deeds, in times of suffering and uncertainty. Such pragmatics differ from cultural practices such as biomedical therapies or individual health-seeking behaviour patterns. Medical anthropologists and others working in the field of health and illness often overlook such pragmatics. However, these actions are of great social value and express the connectedness and bonds between …
Legal Pluralism, Forest Conservation, and Indigenous Capitalists: The Case of the Kalanguya in Tinoc, the Philippines
The Philippines is one of the many countries that currently acknowledge the presence of indigenous peoples (IPs) within their territories. Because of the equal existence of overarching state laws, this formally leads to a situation of legal pluralism for IPs. For many forest conservation advocates, legal pluralism for IPs, particularly with regard to land ownership and forest management, is expected to help conserve forests. This expectation, how…
Sustainability and Asia
What is the added value of investigating the contested concept of “sustainability” in tandem with the geographical marker of “Asia” in today’s world? To answer this question, we need to return to the formulation of the problematique of “sustainability” and “sustainable development” several decades ago. The Our Common Future report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)—also known as the Brundtland Commission—put forward the…
Is Securitizing Migration a Mandatory Choice? Lessons from the EU and China
The correlation between migration and security is still prominent more than a decade after the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. While significant political authorities such as those in China and the EU have approached these issues from different perspectives, for European countries, having a strong and credible external border is crucial for the integration project. EU external migration practice has thus focused on keeping mi…
China’s Diaspora Policies as a New Mode of Transnational Governance
Existing studies of Chinese diaspora policies have mostly focused on the evolution and content of these policies, which tend to be confined within the realm of domestic politics. Against the backdrop of China’s increasing integration into the global economy, as well as its expanding interests abroad, this article goes beyond the existing frameworks in the studies of both domestic Chinese politics and diaspora relations by analyzing China’s diaspo…
Behind the Ties that Bind: Diaspora-making and Nation-building in China and India in Historical Perspective, 1850s-2010s
Whereas the rare existing comparative studies of Chinese and Indian diaspora policies have focused on recent periods following economic restructuring in both countries, this article, using a historical perspective, looks at diaspora policies in both countries from the angle of conceptions of the nation. Comparing three specific periods – the early twentieth century, the period between the 1950s and the 1970s, and the period since the 1970s – the …
Looking to China and Back: On India’s Diaspora Engagement, Knowledge Transfer and the Limits of Inclusion
Against the background of the rise of ‘diaspora institutions’ since the early 2000s, this commentary reflects on China’s diaspora engagement and India’s interest in it in the context of its own institutionalisation of diaspora engagement since the early 2000s. It argues that notwithstanding historical and political differences, some lessons could be learned from China. These pertain to the importance of recognising the various segments of the dia…
Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989
Between 1989 and 1993, with the end of the Cold War, Tiananmen, and Deng Xiaoping's renewed reform, Chinese intellectuals said goodbye to radicalism. In newly-founded journals, interacting with those who had left mainland China around 1949 to revive Chinese culture from the margins, they now challenged the underlying creed of Chinese socialism and the May Fourth Movement that there was 'no making without breaking'. Realistic Revolution covers the…
Localizing ethnic entrepreneurship: Chinese” chips shops in Belgium, “traditional” food culture, and transnational migration in Europe
This article explores the causes, dynamics, and theoretical implications of the \n“localization” of ethnic entrepreneurship through “traditional” food businesses in Europe. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2014 and 2017, it analyses the emergence of “Chinese” chips shops in the Flemish province of Antwerp, Belgium. Highlighting the history of Chinese migration to Europe, it argues that a specific set of “contexts of exit” and “contexts of receptio…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · China (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works)