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Evelien Tonkens
Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Publications - 50
Citations - 988
Evelien Tonkens is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citizenship & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 39 publications receiving 920 citations. Previous affiliations of Evelien Tonkens include University of Oxford.
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Sexual Politics, Orientalism and Multicultural Citizenship in the Netherlands
TL;DR: It is argued that representations of gay emancipation are mobilized to shape narratives in which Muslims are framed as non-modern subjects, a development that can best be understood in relation to the ‘culturalization of citizenship’ and the rise of Islamophobia in Europe.
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Participation, responsibility and choice: summoning the active citizen in Western European welfare states
Janet Newman,Evelien Tonkens +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater independence, power and control.
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Talking active citizenship: framing welfare state reform in England and the Netherlands
Imrat Verhoeven,Evelien Tonkens +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that English politicians employ empowerment talk to trigger positive feelings about being active citizens, while Dutch politicians employ responsibility talk to convey negative feelings about failure to participate more actively in society.
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Working with Arlie Hochschild: connecting feelings to social change
TL;DR: The authors proposed the concept of "citizenship regimes" to bridge the gap between the core micro-level concepts of feeling and framing rules and macro-level phenomena such as commercialization.