Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology atthe University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current research interests span the welfarestate, social movements, nativism, belonging and ‘feeling at home’. His mostrecent books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging inWestern Europe and the United States (Palgrave, 2011); EuropeanStates and their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions andBoundaries (2014, co-edited with JohnBowen, Christophe Bertossi and Mona Lena Krook); and Players and Arenas: TheInteractive Dynamics of Protest (2015, co-editedwith James M. Jasper). He is co-editor of Ethnography.PeterGeschiere is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden University and theUniversity of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-editor of Ethnography.He has been pursuing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon andelsewhere in West Africa since 1971. His publications include The Modernityof Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-Colonial Africa (1997), Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship andExclusion in Africa and Europe (2009), and Witchcraft,Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (2013).Evelien Tonkens is a sociologist and Professor ofCitizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector at the University forHumanistic Studies, the Netherlands. She was previouslyProfessor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam, a member of theDutch parliament for the Green Left, and weekly columnist for the Dutch dailynewspaper Volkskrant. Her researchcentres on ideals of citizenship and social change. Her recent books include Summoning the Active Citizen:Responsibility, Participation and Choice (2011,with Janet Newman) and CraftingCitizenship: Negotiating Tensions inModern Society (Palgrave, 2012, with Menno Hurenkamp and Jan WillemDuyvendak).
