Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands

Nadia Fadil is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC) at Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. She has published extensively in academic journals, including HAU, Ethnicities, Identities, Social Anthropology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and the Feminist Review as well as in edited volumes.Francesco Ragazzi is Lecturer in International Relations at Leiden University and Associated Scholar at the Centre D’Etude sur les Conflits, Liberté Security (CCLS). He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue and Political Geography. He has been consulted as an expert on security by the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the French Senate.Martijn de Koning teaches at the Department of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published in the Journal of Muslims in Europe, Anthropology Today and Contemporary Islam.

• Introduction. Radicalization: Tracing the Trajectory of an “empty signifier” in the Low Lands Nadia Fadil, Martijn de Koning & Francesco Ragazzi Part I: The circulations of a contested concept Radicalization. De geboorte van een ambigu conceptThe origins and limits of a contested conceptRik Coolsaet Turning ‘radicalization’ into science. Ambivalent translations into the Dutch(speaking) academic fieldNadia Fadil & Martijn de KoningConsidering internal debates on “radicalism” within the Brussels’ Islamic community Mieke Groeninck Part II: De/Radicalization policies on the ground Foreign fighters on trial. Sentencing risk, 2013-2017Beatrice de Graaf Pre-emptive measures against radicalization and local partnerships in AntwerpIneke Roex & Floris Vermeulen Countering Radicalization: Hijacking Trust? Dilemmas of Street-Level Bureaucrats in The NetherlandsFrancesco Ragazzi & Lili-Anne de Jongh(De-)radicalization as a negotiated practice. An ethnographic case study in FlandersSilke Jaminé & Nadia FadilPart III: De/Radicalization and its effects Routinisation and Mobilisation of Injustice: How to live in a regime of surveillance Martijn de KoningCan the ‘Muhajir’ Speak? European Syria Fighters & the Digital Un/Making of Home Jaafar AlloulNo escape: the force of the security frame in academia and beyondAnnelies Moors ConclusionsFrom convert to radical: making critique illegible Iman Lechkar The maze of radicalization: justification and professional interestsDidier Bigo Afterword Afterword: A De/Radicalised FuturePaul Silverstein

"This tightly organized and superbly edited volume on radicalization reveals the development, application, and effects of the term's post 9/11 adoption in the Netherlands (its point of origin) and Belgium. The book offers a compelling analysis of a key political term for our times, one with broad applicability and implication well beyond Northern Europe. An exemplary analysis for anyone interested in critical security studies, contemporary political and critical theory, and European studies."