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Dr. A. (Anne) de Jong
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Globalising Culture and the Quest for Belonging
Dr. Anne de Jong is senior lecturer anthropology of conflict with a regional expertise on the Middle East (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Bahrain). Prioritizing subaltern everyday perspectives, her research interest center on violence - nonviolence, radical activism and social movements, human rights violations and resistance, anti-racism and anti-colonial struggles.
For her PhD (2011, SOAS) she conducted a 19 month fieldwork research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories including East-Jerusalem and Gaza. Concurrent fieldwork was executed in Syria and Bahrain and her ongoing research project extends to South Africa and Nepal. Emphasizing anti-racism and social justice struggles, her current work focuses on 1) nonviolent resistance in armed conflict (Palestine) 2) the transition between armed and unarmed struggle (Nepal) and, 3) anti-racism and anti-colonial activism (South Africa and the Netherlands).
EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
activism, resistance
Violence & Non-violence
Middle East (Israel-Palestine, Bahrain, Syria and Lebanon)
2017 Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: a critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict.Journal for Settler Colonial Studies Vol 7 Nr. 2.
2016 Book review Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. In: American Anthropologist.Vol 188 Nr. 4.
2014 ‘Peace versus Justice: A critical analysis of Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent activism and resistance’. In: Journal of Palestine Studies – forthcoming
2013 review Militarism and International Relations: Political economy, security, theory Stravriannakis & Selby (eds. 2013) London: Routledge In: E-International Relation:e-International Relations
2013 review Militarism and Israeli Society. Sheffer, G. & Barak, O. (eds. 2011) Bloomington: Indiana University Press In: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Vol. 12, Issue 3
2011 Geen Vijanden: 1000 dagen in Israël en de Palestijnse Gebieden. Amsterdam: Maarten Muntinga Uitgeverij
2011 'The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism and Academic Neutrality'. In: Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural andPolitical Protest Volume 11, Issue 2: 193-209
2011 Israël Palestine : Les combattants de la paix. Paris: Noviny44
2017 Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: a critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict.Journal for Settler Colonial Studies Vol 7 Nr. 2.
2016 Book review Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. In: American Anthropologist.Vol 188 Nr.
2015 Activism, human rights and Academic neutrality: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla. In: Gillan, K. & Pickerill, J. (eds.) Research Ethics andSocial Movements: Scholarship, Activism & Knowledge Production. London: Routledge S
2014 Women’s resistance, femicide, and ‘Dead without Dying’ in Palestine: An interview with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. In: Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies , Vol. 17 nr. 4: 245-35
2014 ‘Peace versus Justice: A critical analysis of Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent activism and resistance’. In: Journal of Palestine Studies – forthcoming
2013 review Militarism and International Relations: Political economy, security, theory Stravriannakis & Selby (eds. 2013) London: Routledge In:E-International Relation:e-International Relations
2013 review Militarism and Israeli Society.Sheffer, G. & Barak, O. (eds. 2011) Bloomington: Indiana University Press In: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Vol. 12, Issue 3
2012 'The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Human Rights, Activism and Academic Neutrality'. In: Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest Volume 11, Issue 2: 193-209
2011 Geen Vijanden: 1000 dagen in Israël en de Palestijnse Gebieden. Amsterdam: Maarten Muntinga Uitgeverij
2011 Israël Palestine : Les combattants de la paix. Paris: Noviny44
2011 'Book review Militarism and Israeli Society'. Sheffer, G. & Barak, O. (Eds.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press'. In: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Volume 11, Issue 3: 16-17
2010 'The Grey Zone:academia, activism andtheFreedom Flotilla' In: The Middle East in London Volume 7: 4-9
2010 'Peace or Justice: Can Peace Talks Resume?' In: LSE International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDEAS), 11-02-2010. Also available at: http://www2.lse.ac.uk
de Jong, A. (Accepted/In press). Teaching the Enlightened Student: Political Polarization and the Ongoing Quest for Critical Thinking . In M. Pacer, & J. Voelkel (Eds.), Knowledge Production in Higher Education: Between Europe and the Middle East Manchester University Press.
2020
Mung'ala, L. W., & de Jong, A. (2020). Health and Freedom: The Tense Interdependency of HIV/AIDS Interventions and LGBTIQ Activism in Kenya. Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, 6(1), 133-151. https://kohljournal.press/health-and-freedom[details]
de Jong, A. (2020). Violence in Nonviolent Action: Power Relations in Joint Activism in Israel and Palestine . The Journal of Resistance Studies, 6(2).
2019
de Jong, A. (2019). Gaza, Black Face and Islamophobia: Intersectionality of Race and Gender in (Counter-)Discourse in the Netherlands. In P. Essed, K. Farquharson, K. Pillay, & E. J. White (Eds.), Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness (pp. 271-298). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78990-3_11[details]
2018
de Jong, A. (2018). Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: A critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict. Settler Colonial Studies, 8(3), 364-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2017.1321171[details]
de Jong, A. (2015). The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: human rights, activism and academic neutrality. In K. Gillan, & J. Pickerill (Eds.), Research ethics and social movements: scholarship, activism and knowledge production (pp. 57-74). London: Routledge. [details]
2014
de Jong, A. (2014). Women's resistance, femicide, and 'dead without dying' in Palestine: an interview with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 17(4), 345-355. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2014.4.JONG[details]
2017
de Jong, A. (2017). Zwarte Piet, Palestina en de strijd om het dagelijks leven. ICA - Journal of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology. [details]
Blankenberg, F., Landowski, E., Cancedda, A., Theodorie, H., Wright, K., Willemsen, A., ... van Ettro, J. (2016). How to Break the Vicious Cycle: Evaluation of Dutch Development Cooperation in the Palestinian Territories 2008-2014 . (IOB Evaluation; No. 412). The Hague: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. [details]
de Jong, A. (2016). Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture by Smadar Lavie [Review of: S. Lavie (2014) Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture]. American Anthropologist, 118(2), 436-437. [details]
de Jong, A. (2014-2015). Member of Expertise Evaluation Group (Referentiegroep) IOB ‘Dutch development program in the Palestinian Territories’, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MinBuZa), the Netherlands.
de Jong, A. (participant) (2-11-2017). Spui 25 lecture Balfour’s Shadow. A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel, Amsterdam. Balfour’s Shadow. A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
de Jong, A. (participant) (4-5-2017 - 6-5-2017). Mobilization Conference., San Diego (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
de Jong, A. (consultant) (22-9-2016). WTHX# Peace, justice, security +code, WTHX# Hacketon Peace, Justice, Security + Code, The Hague (consultancy).
de Jong, A. (consultant) (20-5-2016 - 1-2-2017). Ministry of Foreign Affair - referee panel development aid Palestinian Territories, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MinBuZa), the Netherlands (consultancy).
de Jong, A. (host) (23-9-2015). Ghassan Hage (hosting a visitor).
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de Jong, A. (2018). Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: A critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict. Settler Colonial Studies, 8(3), 364-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2017.1321171 [details]
de Jong, A. (2018). Zionist hegemony, the settler colonial conquest of Palestine and the problem with conflict: A critical genealogy of the notion of binary conflict. Settler Colonial Studies, 8(3), 364-383.