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In this research, we argue that local aspects are as important as national and global aspects to understand the root causes of radicalisation, extremism, nationalism, populism, fundamentalism and violence. In this respect, we want to magnify the contemporary history of each city in which we conduct our interviews with both native and Muslim-origin youngsters as far as the processes of deindustrialization, unemployment, poverty, exclusion, alienation and isolation are concerned. Because we claim that radicalisation processes of both groups of youngsters in the European context are likely to result from their local forms of response to the detrimental effects of globalisation. We believe that revealing local socio-economic, political, demographic and ethno-cultural dynamics may help us better understand the current forms of youth radicalisation. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement no. 785934.

Christian love has historically been subject of extensive theological study but has rarely been studied within anthropology. Contemporary Coptic society receives growing attention over the last two decades as a minority in Egyptian Muslim majority society. An important bulk of this scholarship involves a discussion of the community's sometimes self-defined and sometimes ascribed characterization as a persecuted minority. Particular attention has gone to how social and political dimensions of minority life lead tochanges in Christian theological understandings This paper builds on these insights and examines how Christian love is experienced, and shapes feelings of belonging, everyday morality and political sensibilities vis-à-vis Muslim majority society. It draws from ethnographic observations and meetings with Copts living in Egypt between 2014–2017. It focuses on three personal narratives that reveal the complex ways in which a theology of love affects social and political stances. An anthropological focus reveals the fluid boundaries between secular and religious expressions of Christian love. Love for God and for humans are seen as partaking in one divine love. Practicing this love, however, shapes very different responses and can lead to what has been described as Coptic 'passive victim behaviour', but also to political activity against the status-quo.

Christian love has historically been subject of extensive theological study but has rarely been studied within anthropology. Contemporary Coptic society receives growing attention over the last two decades as a minority in Egyptian Muslim majority society. An important bulk of this scholarship involves a discussion of the community&rsquo ; s sometimes self-defined and sometimes ascribed characterization as a persecuted minority. Particular attention has gone to how social and political dimensions of minority life lead tochanges in Christian theological understandings This paper builds on these insights and examines how Christian love is experienced, and shapes feelings of belonging, everyday morality and political sensibilities vis-à ; -vis Muslim majority society. It draws from ethnographic observations and meetings with Copts living in Egypt between 2014&ndash ; 2017. It focuses on three personal narratives that reveal the complex ways in which a theology of love affects social and political stances. An anthropological focus reveals the fluid boundaries between secular and religious expressions of Christian love. Love for God and for humans are seen as partaking in one divine love. Practicing this love, however, shapes very different responses and can lead to what has been described as Coptic &lsquo ; passive victim behaviour&rsquo ; but also to political activity against the status-quo.

This paper deals with questions of the politics of location in knowledge and norm production within the context of Egyptian feminist activism for abandoning female genital cutting practices. It seeks to determine underlying schemes of international campaigning discourse and analyzes how these predicate and complicate Egyptian postcolonial activism. It draws on a broad literature study in addition to fieldwork in Cairo consisting of in-depth interviews with activists and policy makers. My focus is on the national Task Force against FGM from 1994 until 1999 and its subsequent cooptation by the National Council of Childhood and Motherhood. I argue through the concept of catachresis that location matters in setting the terms of anti-FGC discourse and its relation to religion.

In dit artikel worden de resultaten van een verkennend onderzoek gebundeld, waarbij ambtenaren van overheidsdiensten (informatieverwerking als gebruikersdiensten) over de gevolgen van de invoering van informatica bevraagd worden. Wanneer tot informatisering van deze diensten beslist wordt, dan kunnen wij meteen een reeks voorvallen observeren zoals de vertraagde installatie van een up-to-date (informatica) personeelskader, een blijvende aarzeling tussen de (om)scholing van eigen reeds in dienst zijnde personeel of het aantrekken van externe deskundigen (zonder ambtenarenstatuut). In deze nogal grote verwarring, de afwezigheid van een invoeringsplan op langere termijn, en door het "vacuum" dat de informatica in de bureaucratische en administratieve voorschriften genereert, kunnen sommige ambtenaren - als zij amateurs-programmeurs kunnen worden - een zekere onmisbaarheid verwerven. Maar deze kunde vertoont met de bestaande promotieprocedures en -systemen een hoge mate van "incompatibiliteit". Om hieraan te verhelpen zouden alvast enkele nieuwe tussenberoepen, zoals de coördinator - verbindingsfiguur tussen informatica-centra en gebruikers - moeten gecrëerd worden. De impact van de informatica op de kwaliteit van het werk zal grotendeels afhangenv an het niveau waarop de ambtenaar tewerkgesteld is: het topniveau blijft buiten schot; het leidinggevend personeel is bedreigd maar beschikt nog over voldoende onderhandelingsruimte om de nefaste gevolgen te voorkomen, het uitvoerend personeel zonder contact met cliënten lijdt aan een onherroepelijk functieverlies. Wie voor gebruikers/cliënten moet werken is aan zo'n functie-uitholling minder blootgesteld. De vakbonden tenslotte blijken meer geïnteresseerd in het verdedigen van categoriale privilegies en traditionele statuten dan in het beheersen van het informatieproces.

DiGeSt 10(1) General Issue - Editorial

DiGeSt 9(1) General Issue - Editorial

In this article, we look at colonialities of gender and sexuality as concepts employed in international aid and development. These international arenas reveal not only strong reiterations of modernist linear thinking and colonial continuities but also provide insights into the complexities of the implementation and vernacularisation of gender and sexuality in practices of development. Using a critical anthropological perspective, we discuss case studies based on our own research in Egypt and Bangladesh to illustrate the importance of unpacking exclusionary mechanisms of gender and sexuality scripts in the promotion of women's rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in postcolonial development contexts. We provide a conceptual analysis of decolonial feminist attempts at moving beyond the mere critique of development to enable a more inclusive conversation in the field of development. To work towards this goal, we argue, a critical anthropological approach proves promising in allowing a politically-sensitive, ethical, and critical engagement with the Other.

In this article,1 we look at colonialities of gender and sexuality as concepts employed in international aid and development. These international arenas reveal not only strong reiterations of modernist linear thinking and colonial continuities but also provide insights into the complexities of the implementation and vernacularisation of gender and sexuality in practices of development. Using a critical anthropological perspective, we discuss case studies based on our own research in Egypt and Bangladesh to illustrate the importance of unpacking exclusionary mechanisms of gender and sexuality scripts in the promotion of women's rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in postcolonial development contexts. We provide a conceptual analysis of decolonial feminist attempts at moving beyond the mere critique of development to enable a more inclusive conversation in the field of development. To work towards this goal, we argue, a critical anthropological approach proves promising in allowing a politically-sensitive, ethical, and critical engagement with the Other.