Jasmijn Rana
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. J. Rana
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3732
- j.rana@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5074-126x
Jasmijn Rana is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her research is characterised by a critical look at the contemporary society in which discussions on gender, race-ethnicity, religion, embodiment and movement take centre stage. She has published on Muslim women, sports diversity in cultural heritage and decolonizing anthropology. Jasmijn is currently (2022-2023) a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.
More information about Jasmijn Rana
News
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Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers -
Jasmijn Rana on women's football and emancipation in Morocco -
Jasmijn Rana in Dutch Newspaper on sexism and racism in recreational sports -
Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship -
Turn uneasiness about reductions to skin colour and gender into productivity in the fight against racism and sexism -
Jasmijn Rana about the privileged position of white, hetero man -
Workshop Report: The Stigma of ‘Underdevelopment’ in Heritage Production
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Decolonizing European Anthropology?
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LOVA Study Day 2019: Gender Moves -
Call for papers LOVA Study Day 2019: Gender Moves
Blogs
Publications
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Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing -
Gendered enskilment: becoming women through recreational running -
Secular-religious self-improvement -
Moved by the tears of others: emotion networking in the heritage sphere -
Ladies-only! Empowerment and Comfort in Gender-segregated Kickboxing in the Netherlands
Short CV
Jasmijn Rana is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. She is also chair of the LOVA-Network for Feminist Anthropology and Gender Studies. She received her PhD in anthropology (magna cum laude) from Freie Universität Berlin in 2017. Jasmijn is currently (2022-2023) a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.
Research
Jasmijn’s research is characterised by a critical look at the contemporary society in which discussions on gender, race-ethnicity, religion, embodiment and heritage take centre stage. She has published on Muslim women, sports, diversity in cultural heritage, and decolonizing anthropology.
She is currently a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley (2022-2023) and Leiden University (2023-2024) with the project Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging (EmbRace). This ethnographic research takes recreational running as an angle to investigate the effects of racialization on the relation to one’s own body, environment, and to other people.
Jasmijn is also a co-coordinator and senior researcher in the project At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage Through Diversity, which investigates diversifying and democratizing heritage through practices of “home-making”.
Previously, she has collaborated in research projects on measuring diversity in the fields of museum and heritage, and race-ethnicity at Dutch universities. Her doctoral research focused on young Muslim women in kickboxing in the Netherlands, which resulted in the monograph Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women Only Kickboxing.
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Rana J. (2023), Antropología feminista en el mundo: una perspectiva desde los Países Bajos. In: Esteban M.L. & Arakistain M.G (Eds.), La antropología feminista como desafío. Manresa: Bellaterra Edicions. 101-112.
- Rana J. & Koning A. de (2023), Diversiteit in de culturele sector : een aanzet tot zinvoller definieren en meten. Boekman Extra no. 42. Amsterdam: Boekmanstichting.
- Hiemstra M. & Rana J. (2023), Sensing inclusion among visually impaired and guide runners, International Review for the Sociology of Sport : 1-16.
- Rana J. & Bogert K. van den (2023), Cultuur en religie houden tienermeiden zelf niet af van sporten. Trouw, Opinie.
- Rana J. & Bogert K. van den (20 February 2023), Stop stereotyping ‘girls with a migration background’. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].
- Heath S. & Rana J. 6 March 2023, Handwraps & Hijabs: Dr Jasmijn Rana on Kickboxing & Piety in the Netherlands. The Familiar Strange 103 [podcast].
- Rana J. (2022), Muslim piety as emphasized femininity in women-only kickboxing, New Diversities : 1-14.
- Rana J. (2022), Punching back: gender, religion and belonging in women-only kickboxing. New York/London: Berghahn Books.
- Rana J. (2022), Secular‐religious self‐improvement: Muslim women's kickboxing in the Netherlands, American Ethnologist 49(2): 191-203.
- Rana J. (2022), Review of: Lean N. (2017), The Islamophobia industry: how the right manufactures hatred of Muslims . London: Pluto Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 28(3): 1079-1080.
- Rana J. (2022), Gendered enskilment: becoming women through recreational running, The Senses and Society 17(3): 290-302.
- Carter T.F., Heath S., Jacobs S. & Rana J. (2022), Sensory ecologies: the refinement of movement and the senses in sport, The Senses and Society 17(3): 1-12.
- Rana J (2022), Kickboksende moslima’s in Nederland: religieus, seculier of beide?, ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam 2022(2): 28-35.
- Rana J. & Koning A. de (2022), Diversiteit in de culturele sector: over het ongerief en belang van meten, Boekman 133: 42 (45).
- Charlety E.C., Zurné L., Bogert K. van den & Rana J. (2022), In dialogue with Kathrine van den Bogert and Jasmijn Rana, LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie 43: .
- Rana J. & De Koning A. (15 June 2020), A Call to Action. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].
- Rana J. (4 April 2019), The Negative Impact of Unethical and Fraudulent Research: The Case of Soroush. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].
- Rana J. (2019), Editorial, LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie 40(1): .
- Rana J. (6 June 2019), Verwar wetenschappelijke correctheid niet met politieke correctheid. Leiden Islam Blog. [blog entry].
- Rana J. (2018), The Continuous Decolonization of Anthropology: The Case of Muslims in Europe, Etnofoor 30(2): .
- Rana J. (2018), Editorial, LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie 39(1): .
- Rana J., Willemsen M. & Dibbits H.C. (2017), Moved by the tears of others: emotion networking in the heritage sphere, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES 23(10): 977-988.
- Rana J. (2017), Ladies-Only! Empowerment and comfort in gender-segregated kickboxing in the Netherlands. In: Ratna A. & Samie S.F. (Eds.), Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women: Routledge. 148-167.
- Rana J. (24 October 2017), Learning and Belonging in Ladies-Only Kickboxing. Learning and Belonging in Ladies-Only Kickboxing. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].
- Rana J. (2015), Languaculture in the superdiverse city 'street-language' as intangible heritage, Volkskunde 116(3): 343-+.
- Rana J. (2014), Producing the National, Healthy Citizen: Participation in Ladies-Only Kickboxing Training, Etnofoor 26(2): 33-48.
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