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Sonja van Wichelen (1976) is a member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University for the academic years 2007-2009. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam . Her work broadly focuses on cultural politics in the age of globalization. In her dissertation Disputing the Muslim Body: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Indonesia – which is under contract with Routledge – she examined these themes through the study of public debates on Islam and gender in contemporary Indonesia . Her current project looks at the same themes by investigating cultural paradigms informing adoption practices in the United States and Europe and draws on theories of cultural pragmatics to offer a new perspective for analyzing transnational adoption. Together with Marc de Leeuw she is also preparing a manuscript which concentrates on the so-called Integration-debate in the Netherlands and the way in which the notion of “Dutchness” is changing alongside new narratives of cultural citizenship.
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