- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Room
- M6-42
- k.willemse@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
Karin Willemse obtained her Ph.D. from Leiden University (Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology) based on her dissertation entitled ‘One foot in heaven. Narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan, which has been published by Brill (2007).
Currently she is Assistant Professor of History of Africa, and of Gender and Islam at the History department of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in an analytical methodology of narrative analysis, which she calls ‘con/text analysis against the grain’.
She was chair of the Netherlands Association for Gender and Feminist Anthropology (1997-2003) and fellow-in-residence at NIAS (2005/6 & 2007/8) and currently she is member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Islam Research Project, a research-cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Leiden University.
As co-applicant of the NWO project "Moving Frontiers: Islam and globalization in Africa", she worked with scholars from South Africa, Senegal and the Netherlands. Based on this and earlier research, she writes on transformations in the relations between religion, ethnicity, gender, youth and citizenship, with respect to the war in Darfur, the revival of sufism in Khartoum, Sudan, and the construction of Muslim identities in South Africa.
- Karin Willemse & T Davids (2018) - Gendered narrations of national belonging and motherhood in Sudan and Mexico
- Karin Willemse (2017) - What makes them tick - [link]
- Karin Willemse & Sylvia Bergh (2016) - Struggles over access to the Muslim public sphere: Multiple publics and discourses on agency, belonging and citizenship (Introduction to the Themed Section) - Contemporary Islam, 10 (3), 297-309 - doi: 10.1007/s11562-016-0367-1 - [link]
- Karin Willemse (2016) - Darfur Tribal Courts, Reconciliation Conferences and “Judea”: Local Justice Mechanisms and the Construction of Citizenship in Sudan
- Karin Willemse, A al Shahi & R Bradshaw (2015) - Nubian living heritage: Past, present and future of Nubian culture, history and experiences in Sudan (co-organizer)
- Karin Willemse, ME de Bruijn, H van Dijk, J Both & K Muiderman (2015) - What are the connections between Africa's contemporary conflicts? - [link]
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Interim report II: Research project Urgent Anthropology Landscapes of memories - 'Nubian' (im-)material heritage as constructed through narratives on belonging and loss
- Karin Willemse & T Davids (2015) - Gendered ‘narrations of the nation’: biographic narratives of elite women negotiating motherhood to construct spaces of national belonging in Mexico and Sudan
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Review of Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama’at - Tijdschrift voor het Landelijk Overleg Vrouwenstudies in de Antropologie, 35, 86 - [link]
- Karin Willemse (2014) - Interim report I: Conceptual outline of the research project Urgent Anthropology Landscapes of memories – Nubian narratives of belonging and loss. Cultural heritage as constructed through reflections on ’Nubian’ spaces of a lost past
- Sylvia Bergh & Karin Willemse (2016) - Contemporary Islam (Journal)
- Samira Bohemen & Karin Willemse (2016) - Unknown event
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Reflections on Nubian heritage in oral narratives: diversity of perspectives on the past in contemporary Abri Town (Keynote)
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Methodologies of (inter)textual analysis of films, documentaries and photos: text and context
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Hakamat cheering on Janjaweed to attack: Young men, violence and the role of women in the construction of masculinities in Darfur (Keynote)
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Gender and security issues in Darfur, Sudan
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Ghanni al-banaat, zar and hakamaat – social criticism, gender issues and violence in female oral expressions in Sudan
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Abri youth expressing Nubian cultural heritage
- Karin Willemse, ME de Bruijn, H van Dijk & J Both (2015) - Africa Studies Centre, Leiden University
- Karin Willemse (2015) - Nationale Wetenschaps Agenda Conferentie: Wetenschap en maatschappij in gesprek
Mobility and constructing identities
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Course Code
- CH2219
Bachelor Thesis
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CH3100
Religion, Culture and Global Encounters
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Course Code
- CH2206