The Culturalization of Citizenship (PDF)

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at
the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current research interests span the welfare
state, social movements, nativism, belonging and 'feeling at home'. His most
recent books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging in
Western Europe and the United States (Palgrave, 2011); European
States and their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and
Boundaries (2014, co-edited with John
Bowen, Christophe Bertossi and Mona Lena Krook); and Players and Arenas: The
Interactive Dynamics of Protest (2015, co-edited
with James M. Jasper). He is co-editor of Ethnography.




Peter
Geschiere is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden University and the
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-editor of Ethnography.
He has been pursuing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon and
elsewhere in West Africa since 1971. His publications include The Modernity
of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-Colonial Africa (1997), Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and
Exclusion in Africa and Europe (2009), and Witchcraft,
Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (2013).





Evelien Tonkens is a sociologist and Professor of
Citizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector at the University for
Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands. She was previously
Professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the
Dutch parliament for the Green Left, and weekly columnist for the Dutch daily
newspaper Volkskrant. Her research
centres on ideals of citizenship and social change. Her recent books include Summoning the Active Citizen:
Responsibility, Participation and Choice (2011,
with Janet Newman) and Crafting
Citizenship: Negotiating Tensions in
Modern Society (Palgrave, 2012, with Menno Hurenkamp and Jan Willem
Duyvendak).