Författare: Evelien Tonkens

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).