Mixed Intimacies in Postcolonial Europe
Race, Religion and Gender
Mixed Intimacies in Postcolonial Europe
Race, Religion and Gender
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Description
Offering detailed accounts of mixed relationships, this book explores how partners navigate and reshape their relations, identities, and social expectations in contemporary Europe. Using 'mixedness' as a context-dependent concept, this volume moves beyond traditional and binary understandings of 'interracial' or 'interfaith' couples, examining how 'mixedness' is lived and experienced within postcolonial, social, and legal frameworks. Chapters also explore how individuals in mixed relations occupy complex social positions based on different forms and grammars of difference.
Addressing a range of themes, including the impact of history and colonial legacies on present-day experiences of mixedness in Europe, this book explores the role of law in the regulation of mixedness, gender dynamics amongst mixed couples, and configurations of race, religion and ethnicity. It additionally brings forward the ways in which individuals in mixed relations navigate societal prejudices and norms, construct perceptions on formations of mixedness, as well as strategies for dealing with differences. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines such as anthropology, history, law, religious studies, and gender studies, this volume provides multifaceted perspectives on the challenges and opportunities faced in and mixed relationships.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction. Mixedness, Religion, and the Politics of Intimate Life in Postcolonial Europe, Marianne Moyaert (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Part I. Genealogies of Mixedness: Race, Religion and the Politics of Intimacy
1. Reframing Cultural Diversity: Towards a Theory of Identity Reconstruction in Mixedness, Francesco Cerchiaro (Radboud University, Netherlands)
2. Resistance, Race, Interracialized Relationships, Multiracialized Bodies and the Second World War in the Netherlands, Guno Jones (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Part II. Jewish–non-Jewish Families: Historical and Contemporary Practices
3. Jewish Identity and Antisemitism: Patrilineal Jews and Conditional Whiteness in Finland, Mercédesz Czimbalmos (ÅboAkademi University, Finland)
4. Narrating Mixedness: Oral Histories of Jewish–Catholic Couples in Occupied Poland, Magdalena Dziaczkowska (Lund University, Sweden)
5. Ritual (Non-)Participation amongst Nonreligious–Christian and Jewish–Christian Couples, Lieke L. Schrijvers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Part III. Muslim–Christian Relations: Religio-racialization and Transnational Belonging
6. Legal Navigation in the Global South: Institutional Recognition of Mixed-Status Unions, Hindering Absence, and Asserting Rights, Laura Odasso (University of Paris VIII, France)
7. From the Margins to the Centre? Shifting Dynamics of Mixedness Among Dutch and Flemish Muslim Couples Making Hijra to Morocco, Nina ter Laan (University of Cologne, Germany)
8. Navigating Mixedness, Negotiating Belonging: Race, Religion, Secularity, and Christian–Muslim Intimacies, Deniz Aktas (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium)
Part IV. Nonreligion, Gender, and Sexuality in Intimate Life
9. Women Leaving Religion: Negotiating Mixed Intimate Relationships, Nella van den Brandt (KU Leuven, Belgium)
10. Catholic Women and Non-Religious Partners in Flanders, Belgium: Navigating Challenges, Choices and Cultural Contexts, Eline Huygens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
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Product details
| Published | Dec 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350597334 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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