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Since the passing of André Hazes he has become a more prominent figure in contemporary Dutch popular culture. - Sinds zijn overlijden is André Hazes een steeds prominenter fenomeen geworden binnen de hedendaagse populaire cultuur van Nederland. Achteraf blijkt het roemruchte afscheidsconcert André Bedankt, op 27 september 2004 in de Amsterdam ArenA, slechts de aftrap te zijn geweest voor een jarenlange opeenvolging van met Hazes verbonden culturele producties: biografieën, een standbeeld, herdenkingsconcerten, televisieprogramma's, een musical en binnenkort ook een speelfilm. De figuur André Hazes spreekt kennelijk wijd en zijd tot de verbeelding. Maar wat maakt Hazes zo aansprekend?
Dit boekje probeert antwoord te geven op die vraag. Daarbij gaat het niet zozeer over 'de man Hazes' of zij n leven, maar over wat hier als 'het fenomeen Hazes' wordt aangeduid. Het fenomeen Hazes maakt een aantal bredere verschijnselen uit de hedendaagse Nederlandse samenleving zichtbaar, waarvan BN'er-cultuur, meezingcultuur, en herdenkingscultuur de meest bepalende zijn. Bovendien biedt Hazes een uitstekende illustratie van het belang dat tegenwoordig wordt gehecht aan 'echtheid' of 'authenticiteit', en de centrale plaats van emotie daarbij.

Sociology - Nieuw in Nederland: Feesten en rituelen in verandering levert een bijdrage aan het publieke debat over immigranten, cultuur en nationalisme. Het boek stelt het idee ter discussie dat in Nederland migrantenculturen bestaan met elk hun eigen traditionele feesten en rituelen. De onderliggende aanname dat migranten vastomlijnde gemeenschappen met eigen culturen vormen, wordt aan de hand van etnografisch onderzoek weerlegd. In het boek staan feesten en rituelen centraal die in Nederland zijn ontstaan als gevolg van de komst van nieuwe Nederlanders: van een doop in een Ghanese pinksterkerk tot het multiculturele evenement Kwakoe. Anders dan vanuit een conventioneel perspectief, waarin deze vieringen als onderdeel van en behorende tot culturen van migranten worden gezien, laten de bijdragen zien dat deze vieringen voortkomen uit onze Nederlandse samenleving als geheel. Vieringen van nieuwe Nederlanders blijken een hybride waarin de Nederlandse geschiedenis even bepalend is als de tradities in het land van oorsprong. Feesten en rituelen lijken weliswaar stabiel, maar zijn voortdurend in verandering. Onder de noemer 'nieuwe Nederlandsheid' schetst Nieuw in Nederland niet zozeer een portret van immigrantenculturen, maar van cultuur in Nederland.

AbstractThis ethnography contributes to the field of Holocaust heritage studies by exploring the paradoxical tendencies of memorial proliferation and oblivion. The topic of investigation is the genesis and multiplications of the so‐called 'Anne Frank Tree', the horse chestnut tree behind the Secret Annex that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary. Fungus‐infected, the tree fell in 2010. The Anne Frank Tree testifies to both the terrible fate of the European Jews and the shelter offered to some. Therefore, its eventual safeguarding, whether by conservation or multiplication, became a topic of concern worldwide. Following the roots and routes of the Anne Frank Tree legacy (stump, seedlings, grafts, wood, and chestnuts), this article examines the processes of sacralization that have stirred the material's vivid proliferation and, importantly, the burden which the accumulating material subsequently imposes on the people in charge of it. The case sheds light on the tendency of the sacred to proliferate, often to the extent of excess. Paradoxically, this tendency threatens to undo the sacrality.

Abstract The global interest in the search for and rescue of the Thai youth football team 'the Wild Boars', or the nationwide interest in the non-stop fundraising swimming-tour of Dutch swimmer Maarten van der Weijden, are examples of what in this lecture is called
high density events: intense, often emotional occurrences, of an almost entertainment-like character, followed continuously by many. High density events shape and articulate ideas about who belong or do not belong to the (national) community. During such events, cultural forms, objects
and practices are popularized, transferred and exchanged at a high pace, processes in which virtually anybody may become involved. Taking high-density events as object of research implies a focus on the making of heritage. In the repetitious, ritualized contexts of such events, certain cultural
forms, practices and objects may become magnified and sacralised, to become heritage. Although any object or practice may be made heritage, the analysis should situate this making in its societal context, asking such questions as who were involved in the selection process, and why certain
practices or objects are self-evidently attributed a heritage status and others not. With cultural identity becoming an ever more explicitly political issue, research into the making of heritage is the more urgent.

"What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are -religious or secular-sources of expertise and authority that validate and regulate heritage sites, objects and practices? As cultural heritage becomes an increasingly popular and influential frame, these questions arise in diverse and challenging manners. The question who controls, manages, and frames religious heritage, and how, arises with particular urgency. Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage"--

1. Emotional Entanglements of Sacrality and Secularity: Engaging the Paradox; Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs. - Part 1. Culture -- 2. The Boomerang Effect of Culturalized Religion: Nativist Affect Vs. Non-Consensus-Based Collaboration; Ernst van den Hemel -- 3. "We" and "The Others" as Constituents of Symbolic Politics: On the Populist Exploitation of Long-lasting Nationalist Sentiments and Resentments Regardings Citizenship in Germany; Irene Götz -- Part 2. Public Sphere -- Spatial Piety: Shia Religious Processions and the Politics of Contestations of Public Spaces in Northern Nigeria; Murtala Ibrahim -- 4. Religion, Aesthetics, and Hurt Sentiment: On the Visibility and Erasure of a Muslim Minority in Hindu India; Stefan Binder -- Part 3. Tolerance -- 5. "Homo Sanctus": Religious Contestations and the Sanctification of Human Rights in Vietnam; Oscar Salemink -- 6. Secularist Nativism: National Identity and the Religious Other in the Netherlands; Jan Willem Duyvendak -- 7. Dutch Tolerance in Black and White; Alex van Stipriaan -- Part 4. Images -- 8. Worshipers and Iconoclasts: Clashes about Colonial Statues in the Netherlands; Markus Balkenhol -- 9. Rooted in the Sacred? On Mark Rothko, Tears Flowing, and Enargeia; Herman Roodenburg -- Part 5. Bodies -- 10. Disgust and Difference: Conflicting Sensations of the Sacred; Jojada Verrips -- 11. Samba Struggles: Carnival Parades, Race and Religious Nationalism in Brazil; Martijn Oosterbaan and Adriano Santos Godoy -- 12. United in Competitive Mourning. Commemorative Spectacle in Tribute to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand; Irene Stengs -- Epilogue; Birgit Meyer.

Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiquitous figures of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important issues, including the nature of the relationships between the worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons in

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts-the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"-the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming -- Millennial Transitions -- Toward a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature -- Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society -- The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras -- Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) -- Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging -- Millennial Coal Face -- Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand -- Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan -- Millenniums Past, Cuba's Future? -- Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia -- Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils -- Contributors -- Index