Muslim Cultural Politics (MCP)

Globalizing Culture and the Quest for Belonging: Ethnographies of the Everyday

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Globalizing Culture and the Quest for Belonging: Ethnographies of the Everyday - AISSR

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Muslim Cultural Politics

Islamic Cultural Practices and Performances: Néw Youth Cultures in Europe'

This NWO funded research project engages with emergent forms of Islamic cultural production in Europe, in particular artistic performances, popular music, fashionable dress, and mosque design.

The making of the transgender body: a comparative analysis of transgender healthcare in the Netherlands and the United States

This NWO funded ethnographic project focuses on two leading gender clinics in the Netherlands and the United States and seeks to analyze how different healthcare funding structures, clinical organizations, and client-doctor interactions give rise to distinct medical practices and different physicalities of transgender bodies.

Transformations in intimacy. Sexuality and modern personhood among middle-class Nigerians from 1940 to the present

This NWO funded research project will explore sexuality in Nigeria, as an embodied practice related to processes of social transformation. It will use an historical-ethnographic approach to understand middle-class Nigerians' ideas and practices of love and sexuality, starting with late colonialism, through early independence, and up to the current era of globalisation.

Unregistered marriages in the Netherlands and beyond

This FORUM commissioned research project investigates both the Dutch debates on informal marriages amongst Muslims and the variety of reasons people may have to engage in such marriages. It does so in a comparative framework, both with other European countries and Muslim-majority countries.

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