This book offers a detailed and innovative study of the Dutch case of politics of citizenship and nationalism by focusing on public and political controversies in the crucial period of 1973–2015.
Rogier van Reekum is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Enacting Debate, Composing Problems.- Chapter 2. How Dutchness Became a Public Problem.- Chapter 3. Dialogical Dutchness: Enacting Dutchness Through debate.- Chapter 4. Re-membering the Native Public.- Chapter 5. The Return of Race in Native Soil.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Out of Character.