Political Science

dr. M.J.M. (Marcel) Maussen


  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
    Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht  166
    1018 WV  Amsterdam
  • M.J.M.Maussen@uva.nl
    T:  0205254097

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Marcel Maussen (1972) obtained his PhD in 2009 (with honour). He obtained his Master's degree in political science (with honour) and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1996. In 1997 he obtained a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA) at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and studied the discourses of the extreme right and anti-racist movements in France. Since December 1 2008 Marcel Maussen works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science.

Research and Teaching Interests

Research interests include the accommodation of religious diversity and in particular of Islam in Western Europe and practices of tolerance in Europe, democratic theory, free speech, social inequality and contemporary political theory. 

Selected Academic Publications

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Last update: May, 29th, 2005

Academic Publications

 

2013

 

Marcel Maussen Religious Governance in the Netherlands: Associative Freedoms and Non-Discrimination After "Pillarization". The example of Faith-Based Schools. RECODE working papers series, No 14

2012

Marcel Maussen " Post-colonial governance of Islam in France: deconstructing some founding myths about Republicanism and laïcité". Review of Only Muslim. Embodying Islam in Twenthieth Century France (Cornell University Press, 2012) by Naomi Davidson.

 

Van den Breemer, R. and Maussen, M. (2012) "On the viability of state-church models: Muslim burial and mosque building in France and the Netherlands" in Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies , Vol.10, pp.279-298 

 

Marcel Maussen (with Thijs Bogers and Inge Versteegt) (2012) Tolerance and cultural diversity discourses in the Netherlands . ACCEPT Pluralism report. 121 pages

 

Marcel Maussen (2012) "Pillarization and Islam: Church-state traditionsand Muslim claims for recognition in the Netherlands" in Comparative European Politics , Vol. 10(3), pp.337-353

Inge Versteegt and Marcel Maussen (2012) Contested Policiesof Exclusion: Resistance and protest against asylum policy in the Netherlands . ACCEPT pluralism. Amsterdam: AISSR

Marcel Maussenen FlorisVermeulen (red.) (2012)  Democratie en wetenschap. Essays voor Meindert Fennema . Amsterdam: AISSR.

 Marcel Maussen and Veit Bader (2012)  Tolerance and cultural diversity in schools. Comparative Report . ACCEPT pluralism Working Paper 2012/01.

Marcel Maussen and Veit Bader (2012) Policy Brief: A delicate Balance: Religious Schools and Tolerance . ACCEPT Pluralism.

Marcel Maussen and Thijs Bogers (2012) "Discourses on tolerance and diversity challenges in the Netherlands" in R. Zapata-Barrero and A.Triandafyllidou (eds) Adressing tolerance and diversity discourses in Europe . Barcelona: CIDOB, pp.103-124

2011

IngeVersteegt and Marcel Maussen (2011) The Netherlands: challenging diversity in education and school life   ACCEPT pluralism WP 3 country report

Inge Versteegt and Marcel Maussen (2011) "Policy brief: The Netherlands: challenging diversity in education and school life"

Maussen, M., Bader, V. and Moors, A. (eds) (2011) Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam. Continuities and ruptures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

2010

Maussen, M. (2010) "The governance of Islam in France. Church-state traditions and colonial legacies" in T.Sunier and E.Sengers (eds) Religious newcomers and the nation state. Political culture and organized religion in France and the Netherlands . Delft: Eburon, pp.131-154

2009

Grillo, R., R.Ballard, A.Ferrari, A.Hoekema, M.Maussen and P.Shah (eds), Legal practice and cultural diversity . Farnham: Ashgate, 345pages.

2009

  • Marcel Maussen (2009) "Verhoudingen van kerk en staat, integratiebeleid en de islam in Nederland" in A.J. Nieuwenhuis en C.M. Zoethout (red.) Rechtsstaatenreligie. Publikatiesvan de staatsrechtkring. Staatsrechtconferentie 2008, Nijmegen: Wolf LegalPublishers,pp.117-140.
  • Grillo, R., R.Ballard, A.Ferrari, A. Hoekema, M.Maussen and P.Shah (2009) "Cultural diversity: challenge and accommodation" in Grillo, R., R.Ballard, A.Ferrari, A. Hoekema,M.Maussen and P.Shah (eds), Legal practice and cultural diversity ,Farnham: Ashgate, pp.9-30.
  • Marcel Maussen (2009) "Le modèle néerlandais et l'islam. Redécouvrir la tradition des relations Église-État au-delà dus système de 'pillarisation'" in C.Bertossi and J.W. Duyvendak (eds) Dossier: modèles d'intégration et intégration des modèles. Une étude comparative entre la France et les Pays-Bas. Migrations Société , Vol. 21(122), pp.137-172

2009

Constructing Mosques. The governance of Islam in France and the Netherlands . PhD thesis. Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR)

2007

  • "Islamic Presence and Mosque Establishment in France: Colonialism, Arrangements for Guestworkers andCitizenship" in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , Vol.33(6), pp.981-1002.
  • "Gemeente en moskee, een halve eeuw schuivende verantwoordelijkheden" in City Journal (June 2007): pp.30-35
  • "Muslims in the EU: Cities Report. The Netherlands" (with Froukje Demant and JanRath), EU Monitoringand Advocacy Pogram, April2007
  • "Meten met twee maten" article on Reliflex, February 26 2007
  • "Scheiding van kerk en staat en de islamopgemeentelijk niveau" in JustitiëleVerkenningen , 33 (1), pp.20-36
  • The governance of Islam in Western Europe. A state of the art report . IMISCOE cluster B6 "Linguistic, cultural and religious diversity and related policies"

2006

  • "Representing and regulating Islam in France and in the Netherlands" Paper presented at the conference Muslimsin Europe and in the United States: A transatlantic comparison. Organised by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. HarvardUniversity. Cambridge: 15 and 16 December 2006.
  • "Ruimte voor de islam? Lokaal beleid onder de loep" in Waterstof. Krant van Waterland , 20 november 2006.

2006

  • Maussen, Marcel Ruimte voor de islam? Stedelijk beleid, voorzieningen, organisaties . Apeldoorn/Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis
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2006

  • Marcel Maussen "Anti-Muslim sentiments and mobilizationin the Netherlands. Discourse, policies and violence" in J.Cesari, P.DeWan and M.Somos(eds) Islamophobia inWestern Europe , September 2006.
  • Marcel Maussen"Recensie vanD.Douwes, M. de Koning en W. Boender Nederlandse moslims. Van migrant tot burger " in Migrantenstudies 22 (6), pp.110-111
  • Marcel Maussen and Boris Slijper "Pays-Bas: le retour du refoulé" in RevueRelations , Issue 711, August 2006
  • Marcel Maussen "Constructing Mosques: MosqueEstablishment and Islamic Presence in France and the Netherlands" paper presented at the Symposium 'The Mosque intheWest', organized by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT Boston, Aprill 21-22 2006.
  • MarcelMaussen "Mosque Establishment and the Social Construction of Cultural Differences and Islamic Presence. Public Discussions in Marseilles and Rotterdam." paper presented at the Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence & Montecatini Terme, 22-26 March 2006, organised by the Mediterranean Programmeof the Robert Schuman Centre forAdvanced Studies at the European University Institute.

2005

  • Maussen, M. "Mosques and Muslims in Marseilles" in ISIM-Review , (16)Autumn 2005, pp.54-55

2005

  • Maussen, M. "Kolonialisme, emancipatie en revolutie. De (ir)relevantie van het denken vanFrantz Fanon" Blind! Interdisciplinair Tijdschrift , July 2005
  • Maussen, M. "Regulating Islamic Presence and Mosque Establishmentin the Netherlands and France. Colonialism, arrangements for 'guest workers' and citizenship". Paper presented at the IMISCOE workshop in Amsterdam May 26-28, 2005.
  • Maussen, M., "Making Muslim Presence Meaningful:Studies onIslamand Mosques in Western Europe", ASSR workingpapers series May 2005

2005

  • Fennema, M.and M.Maussen "Dealing with extremists in public discussion. Front National and 'RepublicanFront'in France" in J.Rydrgen (ed.), Movements of exclusion. Radical Right Wing Populism inthe Western World ,NewYork: Nova Publishers, 2005

2004

  • Hajer, M. & M.Maussen, "Na de moord opTheo van Gogh - Betekenisgeving aan de moord, een reconstructie", Socialisme en Democratie, vol.61, afl. 12, pp. 10-18

2004

  • Maussen, M., 'PolicyDiscourses on Mosques in the Netherlands 1980-2002: Contested Constructions', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice , vol.7, issue2, pp. 147-162

2001

  • Maussen, M."Deliberating Mosquesin Rotterdam.An analysisof discursive struggles overthe construction of mosques in a Dutch city" paper presented at the workshop Les formes d'espaces publics: usages et limites de la notion en sciencessociales at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris,26-27 November2001.

2000

  • Fennema, M. and M.Maussen 'Dealing with Extremists in Public Discussion: Front National and 'Republican Front' in France', The Journal of Political Philosophy ,Volume8, Issue 3, pp.379-400

1999

  • Maussen, M. en S. Frieling Sprekend Nederland.Burgerparticipatie en besluitvorming over de ruimtelijke inrichting van Nederland , StichtingHet Metropolitane Debat, DenHaag


1997

  • Maussen, M. La démocratie moderne et les règles du débat. Le cas du Front national en France , Mémoire présenté pour le DEA d'Études politiques, Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) de Paris, sous la directionde Jean-Marie Donégani

1996

  • Maussen, M. Revolutionair gewelden democratische praktijk.Een analyse van het denken van Georges Sorel en Frantz Fanon , afstudeerscriptie Politicologie Universiteit van Amsterdam, onder begeleidingvan MeindertFennema

Contact

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Newspaper articles

On this page you can find some of my articles which appeared in the Dutch press

Interview in Facta

"Ruimt voor de islam? Interview met Marcel Maussen over stedelijk beleid" door Marije Schoonen in Facta sociaal-wetenschappelijk magazine , 14 (4), December 2006

Interview in Nederlands Dagblad 9 december 2005

Regels van het democratische debat

Kijk uit met het woord 'oorlog'

Boekrecensie over het Europese debat over multiculturalisme

Het publieke debat als wapen

2015

2014

2012

  • E. Bergsma & M.J.M. Maussen (2012). Meritocracy versus Democracy? An analysis of the relationship between meritocratic and democratic political authority. In Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference in Tilburg.
  • R. van den Breemer & M. Maussen (2012). On the viability of state-church models: Muslim burial and mosque building in France and the Netherlands. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 10 (3), 279-298. doi: 10.1080/15562948.2012.693037
  • M. Maussen (2012). Pillarization and Islam: Church-state traditions and Muslim claims for recognition in the Netherlands. Comparative European Politics, 10 (3), 337-353. doi: 10.1057/cep.2012.11
  • I.C. Versteegt & M.J.M. Maussen (2012). Contesting the execution of Dutch asylum policy: citizen mobilization against expulsion of end-of-line asylum seekers. In 7th International Conference in Interpretetive Policy Analysis.
  • E. Bergsma & M.J.M. Maussen (2012). Meritocracy versus Democracy? Towards clarification of the relations between elite-based governance, democracy and political authority. In Politicologenetmaal.

2011

  • I.C. Versteegt & M.J.M. Maussen (2011). Challenging diversity in education and school life draft report. In ACCEPT pluralism conference Istanbul.
  • V. Bader & M. Maussen (2011). Conclusion. In M. Maussen, V. Bader & A. Moors (Eds.), Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam: continuities and ruptures (IMISCOE research) (pp. 233-248). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.[go to publisher's site]
  • M. Maussen & V. Bader (2011). Introduction. In M. Maussen, V. Bader & A. Moors (Eds.), Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam: continuities and ruptures (IMISCOE research) (pp. 9-26). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.[go to publisher's site]

2014

  • M. Moret & M. Maussen (2014). Leren studeren. In M. Maussen & M. Moret (Eds.), Academische vaardigheden voor politicologen. - 2e gewijzigde editie (pp. 17-36). Amsterdam: Bacheloropleiding politicologie, College sociale wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

2013

  • M. Moret & M. Maussen (2013). Leren studeren. In M. Maussen & M. Moret (Eds.), Academische vaardigheden voor politicologen (pp. 15-34). Amsterdam: College Sociale Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

2012

  • I. Versteegt & M. Maussen (2012). Contested Policies of Exclusion in The Netherlands: The lamentable asylum cases of Sahar and Mauro. (extern rapport, ACCEPT PLURALISM, no 2012/17). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
  • M. Maussen & T. Bogers (2012). The Netherlands. In R. Zapata-Barrero & A. Triandafyllidou (Eds.), Addressing tolerance and diversity discourses in Europe: a comparative overview of 16 European Countries (pp. 103-124). Barcelona: CIDOB.
  • I.C. Versteegt & M.J.M. Maussen (2012). Contesting the execution of Dutch asylum policy: citizen mobilization against the expulsion of end-of-line asylum seekers. In Workshop: Restrictive immigration policies beyond the radar: limits of control in the age of mobility.
  • M. Maussen, T. Bogers & I. Versteegt (2012). Tolerance and cultural diversity discourses in the Netherlands. (extern rapport, ACCEPT PLURALISM, no 2012/28). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

2010

  • M. Maussen (2010). The governance of Islam in France: church-state traditions and colonial legacies. In E. Sengers & T. Sunier (Eds.), Religious newcomers and the nation state: political culture and organized religion in France and the Netherlands (pp. 131-154). Delft: Eburon.
  • M. Maussen & T. Bogers (2010). Tolerance and cultural diversity discourses in the Netherlands. (extern rapport, ACCEPT Pluralism working paper, no 11/2010). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

2009

  • M.J.M. Maussen (2009). Verhoudingen van kerk en staat, integratiebeleid en de islam in Nederland. In C.M. Zoethout & A.J. Nieuwenhuis (Eds.), Rechtsstaat en religie (Publikaties van de staatsrechtkring. staatsrechtconferenties, 13) (pp. 117-140). Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers.
  • M. Maussen (2009). Le modèle néerlandais et l'Islam: redécouvrir la tradition des relations Église-État au-delà du système de ‘pilarisation'. Migrations Société, 21 (122), 137-171.
  • R. Ballard, A. Ferrari, R. Grillo, A.J. Hoekema, M. Maussen & P. Shah (2009). Legal practice and cultural diversity: introduction. In R. Grillo, R. Ballard, A. Ferrari, A.J. Hoekema, M. Maussen & P. Shah (Eds.), Legal practice and cultural diversity (Cultural diversity and law) (pp. 1-7). Farnham: Ashgate.
  • R. Ballard, A. Ferrari, R. Grillo, A.J. Hoekema, M. Maussen & P. Shah (2009). Cultural diversity: challenge and accommodation. In R. Grillo, R. Ballard, A. Ferrari, A.J. Hoekema, M. Maussen & P. Shah (Eds.), Legal practice and cultural diversity (Cultural diversity and law) (pp. 9-29). Farnham: Ashgate.

2012

  • V. Bader & M. Maussen (2012). Introduction: Tolerance and diversity challenges in European education. In M. Maussen & V. Bader (Eds.), Tolerance and cultural diversity in schools: comparative report (ACCEPT Pluralism, 2012/01) (pp. 21-28). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
  • M. Maussen & V. Bader (2012). A delicate balance: religious schools and tolerance. (unknown, Comparative Policy Brief, no 2012/04). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
  • V. Bader & M. Maussen (2012). Religious schools and tolerance. In M. Maussen & V. Bader (Eds.), Tolerance and cultural diversity in schools: comparative report (ACCEPT Pluralism, 2012/01) (pp. 87-106). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

2011

2009

Media optreden

  • M.J.M. Maussen (Interview) (2013, Dec 18). Europa und Wir [webcast]. In Adenauer Stiftung. http://www.europaundwir.eu/ist-die-moschee-erst-einmal-da-funktioniert-sie-einfach/.

Wetenschappelijke positie

  • M.J.M. Maussen (period: 2011 till 2011). Assistant professor Position at : Workshop: Governance of speech in multicultural societies: IMISCOE and UvA.
  • M.J.M. Maussen & V.M. Bader (period: 2008 till 2008). Training Session. Training session to help inform journalists on how to research and write about the topic of religious diversity. It was based on Veit Bader’s book Secularism or Democracy? and on ongoing research by Marcel Maussen. Position at : Organised by the IMISCOE Network Office, in cooperation with Journalists@YourService of the European Journalism Centre, Brussels, 27 May.

Wetenschappelijke positie

  • D.W. Laws, F.F. Vermeulen & M.J.M. Maussen (2014). Organizer workshop: Incident driven democratization: reflecting on “un-planned” examples of democratic reform. Research Workshop, UvA: Amsterdam (2014, May 21).
  • R. Pierik & M.J.M. Maussen (2012). Workshop: Restrictive immigration policies beyond the radar: limits of control in the age of mobility. IMISCOE anual conference: (2012, August 29 - 2012, August 29).
  • M. de Goede, F.F. Vermeulen & M.J.M. Maussen (2012). IMES Human Mobility and Borders.
  • M.J.M. Maussen, A.M.R. de Dijn & R. Pierik (2012). Sessie Politieke Theorie. Politicologenetmaal: Amsterdam (2012, May 31 - 2012, June 1).

Spreker

  • M.J.M. Maussen (2012, November 1). Presentation of results ACCEPT pluralism research on protest against asylum policy. The Hague, Science meets policy. Policy meets science. Ministry of Internal Affairs.
  • M.J.M. Maussen (2012, March 8). Going beyond toleration. Should liberal-democratice states also recognize collective identities? Budapest, Round table lecture and debate with prof. Tariq Modood, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University.

Boekredactie

  • M.J.M. Maussen & R. Grillo (Eds.). (2015). Regulation of Speech in Multicultural Societies. New York: Routledge.
  • M. Maussen & M. Moret (Eds.). (2014). Academische vaardigheden voor politicologen. - 2e gewijzigde editie. Amsterdam: Bacheloropleiding politicologie, College sociale wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • M. Maussen & M. Moret (Eds.). (2013). Academische vaardigheden voor politicologen. Amsterdam: Bacheloropleiding politicologie, College sociale wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • M. Maussen & F. Vermeulen (Eds.). (2012). Democratie en wetenschap: essays voor Meindert Fennema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Resarch (AISSR), University of Amsterdam.
  • M. Maussen & V. Bader (Eds.). (2012). Tolerance and cultural diversity in schools: comparative report. (ACCEPT Pluralism, 2012/01). Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
  • M. Maussen, V. Bader & A. Moors (Eds.). (2011). Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam: continuities and ruptures. (IMISCOE research). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.[go to publisher's site]
  • R. Grillo, R. Ballard, A. Ferrari, A.J. Hoekema, M. Maussen & P. Shah (Eds.). (2009). Legal practice and cultural diversity (Cultural diversity and law). Farnham: Ashgate.
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