Dr. Marjo E.M. de Theije

 
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Promotiefilmpje Master Antropologie

Specialisatie

• Pentecostialisme
• Rituelen
• Staat
• Grensgemeenschap
• Brazilië
• Suriname
• Armoede
• Etniciteit
• Inheemse volken
• Migratie
• Milieu
• Regionaal: Brazilië, Suriname, Amazone
• Thema’s: Goud, migratie, gold rush, Brazilianen in Suriname, mijnbouw, kleinschalige mijnbouw, marrons, Aluku, Aukaners, Lawa, ontwikkeling, religie, katholicisme, sociale bewegingen, gender en religie.
  
  

Onderwijs in 2011/2012

Master's thesis in SCA (Graduate Seminar part) (MSc SCA)

Onderzoek

Lid van onderzoeksschool CERES

2010-2015:Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon: Comparing states, environments, local populations and miners in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname.
Over the last few decades, the growth in small-scale gold mining has resulted in environmental problems and socio-political conflicts in the Amazon. The countries affected include Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname. Uncontrolled polluting activities of small-scale gold mining often threaten the livelihoods of indigenous peoples, but also the health of the miners themselves and their families. Cross-border tensions arise when miners from one country invade another, or smuggle gold between countries. With the recent instability in the world economy driving up the price of gold, and with techniques becoming more mechanised, the scale of such problems is increasing. The principal objective of this project, is to develop a comparative understanding of socio-political and environmental conflicts related to small scale gold mining in the Amazon, and contribute to their possible solution.
For more information, see www.gomiam.org and www.marjodetheije.org

2007-nu:Goud in Suriname (werktitel). In het Amazone woud van Suriname voltrekt zich sinds een jaar of tien een goudkoorts. Daarin zijn duizenden Surinaamse inheemsen en marrons betrokken, evenals migranten uit Brazilië, ondernemers uit Paramaribo en multinationale ondernemingen uit de VS en Canada. In dit onderzoeksproject wordt de dynamiek tussen al deze actoren in de zoektocht naar het goud en de exploitatie van de gevonden goudvelden onderzocht vanuit verschillende perspectieven: (1) de vraag naar de wijze waarop concepten als succes, fortuin, kans, en zekerheid betekenis krijgen in de goudvelden; (2) de lokalisering van de rijkdommen en de rechten op het land en de delfstoffen in de context van (seizoen)migratie, nationale grenzen en regionale integratie; (3) concepten van individualiteit en gemeenschap in de organisatie van het leven in de goudvelden (in een context van het opbouwen van vertrouwen, de afwezigheid van de staat, etc.)

2004-2006:Transnationalism in the Amazon: Brazilians in Suriname
"Grand Dreams": Brazilian migrants in Suriname. In search for security in transnational Amazon. In the past few years a large number of Brazilians has migrated to Suriname. According to journalistic sources as many as 40.000 Brazilians have found a home in the country since 1995, many of them as gold prospectors in the woods, but increasingly also in Paramaribo, where a neighborhood is called after one of the hometowns of these new migrants, Belém, the capital of the state of Pará in the north of Brazil. In the bordering Guyana's the influx of Brazilian migrants is also considerable. This recent Brazilian migration to the Guyanas gives rise to many questions related to contemporary processes of relocation of labor in the global context and in a regional context, the related flows of social and economic capital, and the transnational quest for human security. Why did these Brazilians come to Suriname in the first place? What are their aspirations and expectations? How do they adapt to the circumstances and their condition of illegal migrant in Suriname? This recent migration also brings to the fore questions of identity formation. Do these Brazilians establish a "Brazilian life" in Suriname or does the adaptation to the Surinamese society initiate a process of "creolisation"? What is the importance of identification with Brazil in their lives? Do they maintain transnational connections with migrants in other countries of the region, and if so, how?

2000-2003:Onderzoek “A Caminhada do louvor: os rumos atuais do catolicismo na base”
(The Journey of Praise: contemporary liberationist Catholicism), 2000-2003, in samenwerking met Cecília Loreto Mariz (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Publicaties

Publicaties (Bron: METIS VU)

• 2011 Local protest and transnational Catholicism in Brazil. Chapter 4 in Ton Salman and Marjo de Theije (eds), Local Battles, Global Stakes. The Globalization of Local Conflicts and the Localization of Global Interests. Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij. Pp. 59-75.
• 2011Introduction, in Ton Salman and Marjo de Theije (eds), Local Battles, Global Stakes. The Globalization of Local Conflicts and the Localization of GlobalInterests. Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij. Pp. 7-17. (with Ton Salman)
• 2011 Local Battles, Global Stakes. The Globalization of Local Conflicts and the Localization of Global Interests. Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij. (edited with Ton Salman)
• 2011 Groot en klein goud in Suriname. De informalisering en ordening van de goudwinning. Justitiële verkenningen 37(3):45-58.
• 2010 Flexible migrants. Brazilian gold miners and their quest for human security in Surinam. In A world of insecurity: Anthropological perspectives on human security, ed. Ellen Bal et al. London/Sterling Virginia: Pluto Press. (with Ellen Bal)
• 2010Transforming Land Tenure Systems in the Quest for Gold: Aluku, Wayana, and the State in the Suriname - French Guiana Border Region. In: Visigalli EB, and Roosevelt A, editors. L'acte de colloque Amaz'hommes. Cayenne: Ibis Rouge. p 353-365. (with Marieke Heemskerk)
• 2009 Moving frontiers in the Amazon. Brazilian small-scale gold miners in Suriname. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (87): 5-25. (With Marieke Heemskerk).
  Lees 
• 2009 Reading the city religious: Urban transformations and social reconstruction in Recife, Brazil. In When God comes to town. Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts. R. Pinxten and L. Dikomitis, eds. Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture, Vol. Volume 4. Oxford: Berghahn.
• 2008 Migration and Religious Transnationalism: Recent Research and the Case of the Brazilians in Suriname. In Brazil and the Americas. Convergence and Perspectives. P. Birle, S. Costa, and H. Nitschack, eds. Pp. 151-170. Madrid / Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana / Vervuert Verlag.
• 2008 Ouro e Deus: sobre a relação entre prosperidade, moralidade e religião no garimpo de Suriname. Religião e Sociedade 28(1):69-83.
• 2008 Localizing and globalizing processes in Brazilian Catholicism: comparing inculturation in Liberationist and Charismatic Catholic cultures Latin American Research Review 43(1):33-54.  (with  Cecília Loreto Mariz)
• 2007 O estudo da religião no Departamento de Antropologia Social e Cultural da Vrije Universiteit em Amsterdã. Debates do NER 8(11):83-100. (Com André Droogers e Peter Versteeg)
• 2007 Migrantes Brasileiros e a construção de religião popular em Paramaribo, Suriname. Numen 8(2):105-123.
• 2007 'De Brazilianen stelen al ons goud!' Braziliaanse migranten in stad en binnenland. Oso, Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek 26(1):81-99.
• 2007 Insegurança próspera: as vidas dos migrantes brasileiros no Suriname. Revista AntHropológicas 18(1)
• 2006 Het belang van de onderzoeker. In de Marge. Tijdschrift voor levensbeschouwing en wetenschap 15 (3):33-36.
• 2006 Local protest and transnational Catholicism in Brazil. Focaal. European Journal of Anthropology 47:77-89.
• 2006. Religião e transformações urbanas em Recife, Brasil. Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Ciências Sociais e Religião 8 (8):63-84.
• 2006. Transnationalism in Surinam: Brazilian Migrants in Paramaribo. In Caribbean Transnationalism. Migration, Socialization, and Social Cohesion, edited by R. Gowricharn. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Pp. 117-135.
• 2004 “A Caminhada do Louvor”: como carismáticos e grupos católicos da base vem se relacionando na prática. Religião e Sociedade 24(2): 37-45.
• 2004 (With Lenie Brouwer) Anthropology and ICT: Experiences of a Dutch Pilot Project. In: Dorle Dracklé and Iain Edgar (eds.), Learning fields: Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education. New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp 72-84.
• 2004 (With Hans Siebers, André Droogers, Hans Knippenberg, Robert Maier, Lorraine Nencel, Catrien Notermans, Ton Salman, and Jeroen Vermeulen) Identity Formation: Issues, Challenges and Tools. In: Globalization and Development. Themes and Concepts in Current Research. Kluwer Academic Publisher.
• 2003 (With Els Jacobs) Gênero e aparições Marianas no Brasil contemporâneo. Em: Carlos Steil, Mísia Reesink e Cecília Mariz (org.) Maria, Mãe entre os vivos. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS. Pp. 34-51.
• 2003 "São metade macho, metade fémea." Sobre a identidade de gênero dos homens católicos. Revista AntHropológicas vol. 13(1):47-56.
• 2002 Tudo o que é de Deus é bom. Uma antropologia do catolicismo liberacionista em Garanhuns, Brasil. Estudos e pesquisas, 118. Recife: Fundacão Joaquim Nabuco / Massangana.