Anouk De Koning
Biographic Data
| ID | 99014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anouk De Koning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anouk |
| FAMILY NAME | De Koning |
| SIGNATURE | DE KONING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8177-534X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
Contains fulltext : 296246.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
You Just Have to Wait: Bureaucratic Offerings and Spiritual Repertoires of Waiting in Postcolonial Paris
Contains fulltext : 304742.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
L’État par l’intime. Techniques et ambiguïtés du gouvernement par l’intimité en Europe
En Europe, de nouveaux programmes de protection sociale illustrent un mouvement actuel : la tentative de gouverner par la communauté. Par la mise en perspective de trois enquêtes de terrain réalisées avec des professionnel·les et des bénévoles du soutien à la parentalité à Amsterdam, Milan et Paris, nous montrons comment cette forme de gouvernement est mise en œuvre et comment elle fait émerger de nouveaux enchevêtrements aux effets incontrôlable…
Legal precarity, migrant mothering and the space of hesitation in Paris
Many migrant mothers residing in Paris find themselves in a situation marked by legal precarity, which causes them to be suspended between disparate possible futures for their families. This paper examines the case of one such mother. This paper proposes the notion of the “space of hesitation” to denote the way in which legal precarity creates a specific timespace for migrant mothers like Um Ahmed in which they perform their mothering. This times…
Introducing Urban Anthropology
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first-century urban anthropolo…
Introduction Special Issue “Paradoxical orders: Parenting encounters, the welfare state, and difference in Europe
This special issue examines welfare programs as sites where Europe’s increasingly diverse societies are being shaped and negotiated. It zooms in on parenting as a central governmental domain where concerns about, and hopes for, the future of society intersect with notions of citizenship, family care, welfare, and deservingness of public resources. In this introduction to the special issue, we draw out three paradoxical orders that shape the encou…
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
This article explores how notions of citizenship are negotiated in encounters between parents and youth care professionals in Amsterdam in the context of heated debates over citizenship and belonging. We draw on ethnographic research on Egyptian migrant parents' interactions with the welfare state, and on the work of youth care professionals. We found that both parents and professionals were invested in universal forms of citizenship. Parents wan…
Intimate States: Techniques and Entanglements of Governing through Community in Europe
Across Europe, new welfare programs exemplify attempts to govern through community. This article asks how such governing through community is done in practice. Drawing on comparative insights from fieldwork with parenting support professionals and volunteers in Amsterdam, Milan, and Paris, we document not only how governing through community is actually done but also what new forms of entanglements and unruly effects such governing creates. We ar…
Ordinary Icons: Public Discourses and Everyday Lives in an Anxious Europe
Across Europe, ethnically diverse neighborhoods figure as key sites in racialized public debates that imagine the nation as white and nonwhite citizens as foreign to the body politic. Drawing on research in Antwerp and Amsterdam, we examine how public discourses come to shape the lives of residents in such iconic sites. We propose the notion of ordinary iconic figures as a way to understand these connections. Ordinary iconic figures represent gen…
Anxious Politics in Postcolonial Europe
n Contains fulltext :\n 175445.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Handled with care: Diffuse policing and the production of inequality in Amsterdam
The intersection of race and the criminal justice system has been a longstanding topic of activism, public debate and research in the US context. In recent years, European countries have also seen a growing social and academic debate about the way racialized minorities are policed. Based on ethnographic research in Amsterdam, this article argues that in order to understand such racialized policing, we have to go beyond a narrow focus on the polic…
Tracing anxious politics in Amsterdam
In recent decades the Netherlands has seen the rise of anxieties regarding the present and future of the nation. De Koning explores the way such anxieties circulate and are taken up in various settings and by differently positioned people, using the ‘notorious’ Amsterdam Diamantbuurt neighbourhood as her vantage point. She focuses on engagements with the iconic figure of the troublesome ‘Moroccan youth’ in order to trace how such anxious discours…
Anxious politics in the European city: An introduction
At the time of writing this introduction, the news media were still filled with concerns over the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne. As reported, during those celebrations, close to Cologne's central station, men described as being of Middle Eastern or North African appearance, and as having refugee status, were said to have sexually assaulted over one hundred women in a coordinated fashion. In the immediate period after the incidents, scholars…
This neighbourhood deserves an espresso bar too”: Neoliberalism, Racialization, and Urban Policy
In the Dutch and more broadly European context, urban policymaking has generally been studied through the conceptual lens of neoliberalism. While important, I argue that this neoliberal lens does not fully account for the design and impact of urban policies currently transforming cities like Amsterdam. Following Mustafa Dikeç's (2007, Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics, and Urban Policy) understanding of urban policy as place-making practi…
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state: (En)countering Framings of the Good Citizen
This special issue analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of citizenship agendas. We define citizenship agendas as normative framings of citizenship that prescribe what norms, v
Citizenship agendas for the abject: The production of distrust in Amsterdam's youth and security domain
In this article I explore the seemingly contradictory notion of citizenship agendas for the abject. While abjection suggests a casting off or expulsion, citizenship implies inclusion. The youth and security policies that I argue can be read as citizenship agendas for the abject evidence this contradiction and the concomitant ambiguity. This article focuses on the workings of the youth and security assemblage' in the Amsterdam South District. This…
Moengo on strike: The Politics of Labour in Suriname’s Bauxite Industry
This article examines one crucial moment of contestation in colonial Suriname, the years 1941- 42, when sustained labour unrest in bauxite town Moengo led to the founding of the first mining unions. It argues that these strikes laid the groundwork for future relations between labour, company and the state and explores the kinds of socio-political alliances that were forged between labour and nationalist politicians on the one hand, and government…
Shadows of the Plantation? A Social History of Suriname's Bauxite Town Moengo
This article explores the social history of Suriname's first bauxite town, Moengo, founded in the late 1910s. It recounts the rise of a new industry that drew workers away from the plantations and urban artisanal occupations to work in a massive, highly organized and orchestrated organization-cum-social community. Using oral narratives about life in Moengo, as well as census and other statistical data, this contribution asks whether everyday life…
Beyond Ethnicity: Writing Caribbean Histories through Social Spaces
Ethnic groups have frequently functioned as building blocks for the narration of Surinamese and, more generally, Caribbean social histories. This focus on ethnicity may lead to the portrayal of society as made up exclusively of racial/ethnic groups with primordial loyalties and attachments and pure, distinct cultures. Such an approach makes it impossible to understand social life but through an ethnic lens, while barring us from asking how ethnic…
Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Global Dreams: Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo
In the course of the 1990s Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch.The luxurious five-stars hotels that rise high on the banks of the Nile speak of an incessant flow of high-end foreign visitors.The budding upscale gated communities, hotels, golf courts and foreign educational institutes in the desert around Cairo offer affluent Cairenes transnational products and experiences as well as a perfect, homogeneous social world that t…
Gender, Public Space and Social Segregation in Cairo: Of Taxi Drivers, Prostitutes and Professional Women
Cairo's cityscape has transformed rapidly as a result of the neoliberal policies that Egypt adopted in the early 1990s. This article examines the spatial negotiations of class in liberalizing Cairo. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the impact of neoliberal policies on global cities of the South, few studies have adopted an ethnographic focus to examine the everyday negotiations of such transformations. I examine the ways young f…
Negotiating the City-Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state: (En)countering Framings of the Good Citizen
This special issue analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of citizenship agendas. We define citizenship agendas as normative framings of citizenship that prescribe what norms, v
Intimate States: Techniques and Entanglements of Governing through Community in Europe
Across Europe, new welfare programs exemplify attempts to govern through community. This article asks how such governing through community is done in practice. Drawing on comparative insights from fieldwork with parenting support professionals and volunteers in Amsterdam, Milan, and Paris, we document not only how governing through community is actually done but also what new forms of entanglements and unruly effects such governing creates. We ar…
Ordinary Icons: Public Discourses and Everyday Lives in an Anxious Europe
Across Europe, ethnically diverse neighborhoods figure as key sites in racialized public debates that imagine the nation as white and nonwhite citizens as foreign to the body politic. Drawing on research in Antwerp and Amsterdam, we examine how public discourses come to shape the lives of residents in such iconic sites. We propose the notion of ordinary iconic figures as a way to understand these connections. Ordinary iconic figures represent gen…
Handled with care: Diffuse policing and the production of inequality in Amsterdam
The intersection of race and the criminal justice system has been a longstanding topic of activism, public debate and research in the US context. In recent years, European countries have also seen a growing social and academic debate about the way racialized minorities are policed. Based on ethnographic research in Amsterdam, this article argues that in order to understand such racialized policing, we have to go beyond a narrow focus on the polic…
Anxious politics in the European city: An introduction
At the time of writing this introduction, the news media were still filled with concerns over the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne. As reported, during those celebrations, close to Cologne's central station, men described as being of Middle Eastern or North African appearance, and as having refugee status, were said to have sexually assaulted over one hundred women in a coordinated fashion. In the immediate period after the incidents, scholars…
Anxious Politics in Postcolonial Europe
n Contains fulltext :\n 175445.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
This neighbourhood deserves an espresso bar too”: Neoliberalism, Racialization, and Urban Policy
In the Dutch and more broadly European context, urban policymaking has generally been studied through the conceptual lens of neoliberalism. While important, I argue that this neoliberal lens does not fully account for the design and impact of urban policies currently transforming cities like Amsterdam. Following Mustafa Dikeç's (2007, Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics, and Urban Policy) understanding of urban policy as place-making practi…
Gender, Public Space and Social Segregation in Cairo: Of Taxi Drivers, Prostitutes and Professional Women
Cairo's cityscape has transformed rapidly as a result of the neoliberal policies that Egypt adopted in the early 1990s. This article examines the spatial negotiations of class in liberalizing Cairo. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the impact of neoliberal policies on global cities of the South, few studies have adopted an ethnographic focus to examine the everyday negotiations of such transformations. I examine the ways young f…
Citizenship agendas for the abject: The production of distrust in Amsterdam's youth and security domain
In this article I explore the seemingly contradictory notion of citizenship agendas for the abject. While abjection suggests a casting off or expulsion, citizenship implies inclusion. The youth and security policies that I argue can be read as citizenship agendas for the abject evidence this contradiction and the concomitant ambiguity. This article focuses on the workings of the youth and security assemblage' in the Amsterdam South District. This…
Tracing anxious politics in Amsterdam
In recent decades the Netherlands has seen the rise of anxieties regarding the present and future of the nation. De Koning explores the way such anxieties circulate and are taken up in various settings and by differently positioned people, using the ‘notorious’ Amsterdam Diamantbuurt neighbourhood as her vantage point. She focuses on engagements with the iconic figure of the troublesome ‘Moroccan youth’ in order to trace how such anxious discours…
Introduction Special Issue “Paradoxical orders: Parenting encounters, the welfare state, and difference in Europe
This special issue examines welfare programs as sites where Europe’s increasingly diverse societies are being shaped and negotiated. It zooms in on parenting as a central governmental domain where concerns about, and hopes for, the future of society intersect with notions of citizenship, family care, welfare, and deservingness of public resources. In this introduction to the special issue, we draw out three paradoxical orders that shape the encou…
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
This article explores how notions of citizenship are negotiated in encounters between parents and youth care professionals in Amsterdam in the context of heated debates over citizenship and belonging. We draw on ethnographic research on Egyptian migrant parents' interactions with the welfare state, and on the work of youth care professionals. We found that both parents and professionals were invested in universal forms of citizenship. Parents wan…
Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
Contains fulltext : 296246.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Moengo on strike: The Politics of Labour in Suriname’s Bauxite Industry
This article examines one crucial moment of contestation in colonial Suriname, the years 1941- 42, when sustained labour unrest in bauxite town Moengo led to the founding of the first mining unions. It argues that these strikes laid the groundwork for future relations between labour, company and the state and explores the kinds of socio-political alliances that were forged between labour and nationalist politicians on the one hand, and government…
Shadows of the Plantation? A Social History of Suriname's Bauxite Town Moengo
This article explores the social history of Suriname's first bauxite town, Moengo, founded in the late 1910s. It recounts the rise of a new industry that drew workers away from the plantations and urban artisanal occupations to work in a massive, highly organized and orchestrated organization-cum-social community. Using oral narratives about life in Moengo, as well as census and other statistical data, this contribution asks whether everyday life…
You Just Have to Wait: Bureaucratic Offerings and Spiritual Repertoires of Waiting in Postcolonial Paris
Contains fulltext : 304742.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
Beyond Ethnicity: Writing Caribbean Histories through Social Spaces
Ethnic groups have frequently functioned as building blocks for the narration of Surinamese and, more generally, Caribbean social histories. This focus on ethnicity may lead to the portrayal of society as made up exclusively of racial/ethnic groups with primordial loyalties and attachments and pure, distinct cultures. Such an approach makes it impossible to understand social life but through an ethnic lens, while barring us from asking how ethnic…
Negotiating the City-Everyday Forms of Segregation in Middle Class Cairo
Global Dreams: Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo
In the course of the 1990s Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch.The luxurious five-stars hotels that rise high on the banks of the Nile speak of an incessant flow of high-end foreign visitors.The budding upscale gated communities, hotels, golf courts and foreign educational institutes in the desert around Cairo offer affluent Cairenes transnational products and experiences as well as a perfect, homogeneous social world that t…
Gender, Public Space and Social Segregation in Cairo: Of Taxi Drivers, Prostitutes and Professional Women
Cairo's cityscape has transformed rapidly as a result of the neoliberal policies that Egypt adopted in the early 1990s. This article examines the spatial negotiations of class in liberalizing Cairo. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the impact of neoliberal policies on global cities of the South, few studies have adopted an ethnographic focus to examine the everyday negotiations of such transformations. I examine the ways young f…
Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Moengo on strike: The Politics of Labour in Suriname’s Bauxite Industry
This article examines one crucial moment of contestation in colonial Suriname, the years 1941- 42, when sustained labour unrest in bauxite town Moengo led to the founding of the first mining unions. It argues that these strikes laid the groundwork for future relations between labour, company and the state and explores the kinds of socio-political alliances that were forged between labour and nationalist politicians on the one hand, and government…
Shadows of the Plantation? A Social History of Suriname's Bauxite Town Moengo
This article explores the social history of Suriname's first bauxite town, Moengo, founded in the late 1910s. It recounts the rise of a new industry that drew workers away from the plantations and urban artisanal occupations to work in a massive, highly organized and orchestrated organization-cum-social community. Using oral narratives about life in Moengo, as well as census and other statistical data, this contribution asks whether everyday life…
Beyond Ethnicity: Writing Caribbean Histories through Social Spaces
Ethnic groups have frequently functioned as building blocks for the narration of Surinamese and, more generally, Caribbean social histories. This focus on ethnicity may lead to the portrayal of society as made up exclusively of racial/ethnic groups with primordial loyalties and attachments and pure, distinct cultures. Such an approach makes it impossible to understand social life but through an ethnic lens, while barring us from asking how ethnic…
This neighbourhood deserves an espresso bar too”: Neoliberalism, Racialization, and Urban Policy
In the Dutch and more broadly European context, urban policymaking has generally been studied through the conceptual lens of neoliberalism. While important, I argue that this neoliberal lens does not fully account for the design and impact of urban policies currently transforming cities like Amsterdam. Following Mustafa Dikeç's (2007, Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics, and Urban Policy) understanding of urban policy as place-making practi…
Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state: (En)countering Framings of the Good Citizen
This special issue analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of citizenship agendas. We define citizenship agendas as normative framings of citizenship that prescribe what norms, v
Citizenship agendas for the abject: The production of distrust in Amsterdam's youth and security domain
In this article I explore the seemingly contradictory notion of citizenship agendas for the abject. While abjection suggests a casting off or expulsion, citizenship implies inclusion. The youth and security policies that I argue can be read as citizenship agendas for the abject evidence this contradiction and the concomitant ambiguity. This article focuses on the workings of the youth and security assemblage' in the Amsterdam South District. This…
Tracing anxious politics in Amsterdam
In recent decades the Netherlands has seen the rise of anxieties regarding the present and future of the nation. De Koning explores the way such anxieties circulate and are taken up in various settings and by differently positioned people, using the ‘notorious’ Amsterdam Diamantbuurt neighbourhood as her vantage point. She focuses on engagements with the iconic figure of the troublesome ‘Moroccan youth’ in order to trace how such anxious discours…
Anxious politics in the European city: An introduction
At the time of writing this introduction, the news media were still filled with concerns over the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne. As reported, during those celebrations, close to Cologne's central station, men described as being of Middle Eastern or North African appearance, and as having refugee status, were said to have sexually assaulted over one hundred women in a coordinated fashion. In the immediate period after the incidents, scholars…
Anxious Politics in Postcolonial Europe
n Contains fulltext :\n 175445.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Handled with care: Diffuse policing and the production of inequality in Amsterdam
The intersection of race and the criminal justice system has been a longstanding topic of activism, public debate and research in the US context. In recent years, European countries have also seen a growing social and academic debate about the way racialized minorities are policed. Based on ethnographic research in Amsterdam, this article argues that in order to understand such racialized policing, we have to go beyond a narrow focus on the polic…
Ordinary Icons: Public Discourses and Everyday Lives in an Anxious Europe
Across Europe, ethnically diverse neighborhoods figure as key sites in racialized public debates that imagine the nation as white and nonwhite citizens as foreign to the body politic. Drawing on research in Antwerp and Amsterdam, we examine how public discourses come to shape the lives of residents in such iconic sites. We propose the notion of ordinary iconic figures as a way to understand these connections. Ordinary iconic figures represent gen…
Intimate States: Techniques and Entanglements of Governing through Community in Europe
Across Europe, new welfare programs exemplify attempts to govern through community. This article asks how such governing through community is done in practice. Drawing on comparative insights from fieldwork with parenting support professionals and volunteers in Amsterdam, Milan, and Paris, we document not only how governing through community is actually done but also what new forms of entanglements and unruly effects such governing creates. We ar…
Introducing Urban Anthropology
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first-century urban anthropolo…
Introduction Special Issue “Paradoxical orders: Parenting encounters, the welfare state, and difference in Europe
This special issue examines welfare programs as sites where Europe’s increasingly diverse societies are being shaped and negotiated. It zooms in on parenting as a central governmental domain where concerns about, and hopes for, the future of society intersect with notions of citizenship, family care, welfare, and deservingness of public resources. In this introduction to the special issue, we draw out three paradoxical orders that shape the encou…
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
This article explores how notions of citizenship are negotiated in encounters between parents and youth care professionals in Amsterdam in the context of heated debates over citizenship and belonging. We draw on ethnographic research on Egyptian migrant parents' interactions with the welfare state, and on the work of youth care professionals. We found that both parents and professionals were invested in universal forms of citizenship. Parents wan…
L’État par l’intime. Techniques et ambiguïtés du gouvernement par l’intimité en Europe
En Europe, de nouveaux programmes de protection sociale illustrent un mouvement actuel : la tentative de gouverner par la communauté. Par la mise en perspective de trois enquêtes de terrain réalisées avec des professionnel·les et des bénévoles du soutien à la parentalité à Amsterdam, Milan et Paris, nous montrons comment cette forme de gouvernement est mise en œuvre et comment elle fait émerger de nouveaux enchevêtrements aux effets incontrôlable…
Legal precarity, migrant mothering and the space of hesitation in Paris
Many migrant mothers residing in Paris find themselves in a situation marked by legal precarity, which causes them to be suspended between disparate possible futures for their families. This paper examines the case of one such mother. This paper proposes the notion of the “space of hesitation” to denote the way in which legal precarity creates a specific timespace for migrant mothers like Um Ahmed in which they perform their mothering. This times…
Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
Contains fulltext : 296246.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
You Just Have to Wait: Bureaucratic Offerings and Spiritual Repertoires of Waiting in Postcolonial Paris
Contains fulltext : 304742.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political economy (7 works)