A few days ago, the head of MI5 Jonathan Evans has undertaken the unusual step of revealing, among other aspects linked to the security of the UK, his own concerns that a number of soon-to-be-freed inmates are still 'committed extremists and likely to return to terrorist activities.' As an anthropologist who has conducted one of... Continue Reading →
I am pleased to inform you that my book 'Faith, Ideology, and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons', published by Continuum, is now available. This book is based on my 4-year-research both within UK prisons as well as outside them. I have written about the research itself before. You can find the book both in... Continue Reading →
In any course of sociological theory we will meet Marx. Certainly his theory of society and economy seems, today, part of history. Yet Marx's analysis of 'commodity' has still some interesting aspects worth of thinking over. This is even truer in the case when instead of objects, the commodities are actually people; or better a... Continue Reading →
I have discussed and provided some information about the quite unknown tragedy of Rohingya Muslims elsewhere in this blog. Normally, Rohingya Muslims make news only when there is a dearth of other stories. Today, more people know who the Rohingya are because of shocking reports in which some tourists in Thailand have witnessed and documented the severe mistreatment of refugees by the Thai... Continue Reading →
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