WORK PROFILE
Christine Jacobsen is a social anthropologist working in the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations with a focus on issues related to Muslim minorities in Europe (France and Norway). Her work has been concerned with the changes that affect religious identities and practices in a context of international migration and transnational flows, and has focused on young people and women in particular. Theoretically, Jacobsen’s work engages with poststructuralist and feminist theory, and with anthropological approaches to Islam as a discursive tradition. It deals with themes such as gender, migration, multiculturalism, transnationalism, citizenship, tradition, agency, religion and secularism. Jacobsen is now a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, and works on the issue of transnationalism from the point of view of two different ethnographic fields: transnational prostitution as a form of female migration (PROGEMI), and political mobilisation and engagement in transnational networks among young adults of immigrant background (TRANSNAT).
Research Interests
Themes: international migration, transnationalism, sex work/prostitution, multiculturalism, Islam, Muslims in Europa, gender, intersectionality, identity and culture, racism, secularism.
Region(s): France, Norway, Morocco.
RECENT publications
Jacobsen, Christine 2009 “Norway”, in Göran Larsson (ed.) Islam in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Routledge.
Jacobsen, Christine. 2009. "De l'immigrant au citoyen: la production de "musulmans norvégiens"?, Ethnologie Française 39(2) pp. 229-239
Jacobsen, Christine. 2009. “Norway”, (with Oddbjørn Leirvik), in Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Brigitte Maréchal, Christian Moe (eds.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Leiden: Brill.
Jacobsen, C.M. og Randi Gressgård. 2008. “Krevende toleranse. Islam og homoseksualitet”, in Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 32 (2), s. 22-40.
Jacobsen, C.M. 2008. “Theory and Politics in Research on Muslim Minorities in Norway”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Islam (Tidsskrift for Islamforskning), 3: 2 , pp. 27-52.
Jacobsen, C.M. 2007. ”Powers of the Secular Modern”, Bokanmeldelse i Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift nr. 3-4.
Jacobsen, C.M. 2007. ”Unge norske muslimer om kjønn og likeverd”, in NIKK magasin nr. 1, s.19-21. Oversatt til engelsk og publisert under tittelen "Young Muslims Critical of Patriarchal interpretations of Islam”, NIKK magasin nr. 3, 2007.
Jacobsen, C.M. 2006. ”Beyond 'Man' In Defence of Multidimensional Identities”, in Yngve G. Lithman og Hakan G. Sicakkan (eds.) Envisioning Togetherness: Politics of Identity and Forms of Belonging. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press
Jacobsen, C.M. 2006. Staying on the Straight Path: Religious Identities and Practices among Young Muslims in Norway.: University of Bergen. More at BORA-UiB.
Jacobsen, C M. 2005. "Religiosity of young Muslims in Norway: the quest for authenticity", in Jocelyne Cesari (ed.) European Muslims and the Secular State, by The Network of Comparative Research on Islam and Muslims in Europe, London: Ashgate. More information about the book here.
Jacobsen, C. M. 2004. "Negotiating Gender: Discourse and Practice among Young Muslims in Norway". In Nordic Journal of Religion and Society ( Tidsskrift for kirke, religion og samfunn) 17 (1) pp. 5-28.
Jacobsen, C. M. and R. Gressgård. 2003: "Questions of Gender in a Multicultural Society" in NORA , Nr.2, Vol 11.
Jacobsen, C. M. and R. Gressgård. 2002: "En kvinner er ikke bare en kvinne. Kjønnsproblematikk i et flerkulturelt samfunn". I Cathrine Holst (red.) Frihet i en liten eske? Feminisme og demokrati i Norge. 2002.
Jacobsen, C. M. 2002 : Tilhørighetens mange former. Unge muslimer i Norge. Pax: Oslo.
Jacobsen, C. M. 2001 :Ung, muslim og kvinne på norsk. I NIKK magasin nr.1.
Jacobsen, C. M. 2001 : "Young, Muslim and Woman, Norwegia Style. I NIKK magasin No.3.
Jacobsen, C. M. 1999: Å vende tilbake til islam. Islamisering, kjønn og identitet i en fransk kontekst. IMER Norge/Bergen Rapport nr. 21/1999. More at BORA-UiB.
