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[email protected] The individual contributions in this publication and any liabilities arising from them remain the First published, 2020 responsibility of the authors. The publisher is not responsible for possible https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1 - Wednesday, January 06, 2021 10:56:08 AM IP Address:177.240.143.159 © Wageningen Academic Publishers damages, which could be a result of content The Netherlands, 2020 derived from this publication. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Encountering and Engaging Monique Nuijten 9 Bram Büscher, Michiel Köhne, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch and Oscar Salemink PART 1: THEORETICAL ENCOUNTERS 13 1. Capturing law: Monique Nuijten’s contribution to the study of plural legal ordering 15 Keebet von Benda-Beckmann 2. Organizing practices, property, and social movements: an impressive contribution to sociology of development, political and legal anthropology 19 Dik Roth 3. A conversation with Monique Nuijten 25 Gavin Smith 4. Navigating Nyamaropa: the significance of local forms of organisation 29 Paul Hebinck 5. Power, community and the state: an enduring classic of anthropology and development 37 David Lewis 6. Citizenship and political agency in Latin America 41 https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1 - Wednesday, January 06, 2021 10:56:08 AM IP Address:177.240.143.159 Sian Lazar ENGAGED ENCOUNTERS 5 Table of contents 7. Neglect and the imaginations of care; some brief thoughts inspired by Monique Nuijten’s work 45 Julia Eckert 8. Esperanza y política 49 José Luis Escalona Victoria 9. Anthropology of the state and contemporary state-building 55 Georg Frerks 10. Hope 61 Joost Jongerden 11. The Pacific ‘Hope-Generating Machine’: negotiating development in Solomon Islands 69 Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis 12. Monique Nuijten and the ‘hope-generating machine’ in the time of Covid-19 73 David Mosse 13. Force fields surrounding trophy hunting in Namibia: generating hope with economic benefits for the San of Namibia? 77 Stasja Koot 14. About force fields, Foucault, and governance: Monique Nuijten’s contribution to legal anthropology 83 Han van Dijk 15. The little voice inside your head: Nuijten, introspection and political agency 87 Bram Büscher 16. Suffering from force fields 91 Michiel Köhne 17. ‘Urban Nuijten’: theory, ethics, and commitment in the academy 97 Arturo Escobar 18. Old and new urban questions 103 Robert Coates https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1 - Wednesday, January 06, 2021 10:56:08 AM IP Address:177.240.143.159 6 ENGAGED ENCOUNTERS Table of contents PART 2: COLLEGIAL ENCOUNTERS 109 19. Interview with Monique in the actor-oriented express 111 Gerard Verschoor 20. Fearless intellectual reinvention: Monique Nuijten and being an expansive academic 117 Dennis Rodgers 21. Ontwikkelen doe je zelf 121 Leontine Visser 22. Hope generation among refugees and migrants 123 Dorothea Hilhorst 23. De studie van ontwikkeling; nieuwe energie te midden van universitaire crisis rond 1984 127 Philip Quarles van Ufford 24. Fear and fantasy in social movements – and in the research about them 135 Stine Krøijer 25. Pushing resistance and representation: opening pathways for scholar-activists 141 Jessica Duncan 26. Monique Nuijten and ethics of care as a roadmap for engaged scholarship 147 Elisabet Dueholm Rasch 27. Feeling like a political anthropologist 153 Rivke Jaffe 28. Looking for hope in a world of struggle 157 Martijn Koster 29. On storytelling in education – Monique as inspiration 161 Jessica de Koning https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1 - Wednesday, January 06, 2021 10:56:08 AM IP Address:177.240.143.159 ENGAGED ENCOUNTERS 7 Table of contents PART 3: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS 165 30. Taking practice seriously 167 Gemma van der Haar 31. The ethnography of power and the power of ethnography 171 Jilles van Gastel 32. Vrouwen in de wetenschap 175 Nuray Tümer 33. Finding your way as a young adolescent after graduation – and reflections on the role my teacher/supporter/friend Monique Nuijten played in my search 177 Lynn van Leerzem 34. Onze leuke en leerzame samenwerking 179 Maritza Bode Bakker 35. Monique Nuijten – uma orientadora a ser seguida 183 Augusto Antonio Campelo Cabral and Mônica Valéria dos Santos Cabral 36. Mirar como Monique Nuijten 185 Ernesto Martínez Fernández 37. Sharing office 187 Regnar Kristensen 38. The skill of writing observations: what Monique taught me 189 Edwin Rap 39. Monique Nuijten as a hope generator in contrarious force fields 191 Oscar Salemink 40. The pleasure of narrating lives: Monique as a passionate ethnographer 197 Pieter de Vries Academic publications Monique Nuijten 205 https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1 - Wednesday, January 06, 2021 10:56:08 AM IP Address:177.240.143.159 8 ENGAGED ENCOUNTERS INTRODUCTION: ENCOUNTERING AND ENGAGING MONIQUE NUIJTEN Bram Büscher, Michiel Köhne, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch and Oscar Salemink Engaged encounters Engaged encounters define the life and work of Monique Nuijten, the eminent scholar to whom this festschrift is dedicated. From her academic home base in Wageningen, the Netherlands to the various countries in Latin America and Europe where she conducted field research, Nuijten embodies the ideal of a politically engaged ethnographer who is able to combine astute empirical observations with innovative conceptual interventions. For many colleagues around the world she also exemplifies an engaged collegiality that is nothing short of exemplary. Those who had the privilege to work closely with Monique Nuijten can all testify to her innate ability to combine the political and collegial with the personal in a way that often led to warm friendships. The contributions to this book showcase these three principal dimensions of engaged encounters, which in Nuijten’s work emerge as three interconnected but distinct foci. On the most abstract level, ‘engaged encounters’ appear as a way of being in and thinking about the world. Being in the world is often understood as a state (of mind, of being). https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-909-1 - Wednesday, January 06, 2021 10:56:08 AM IP Address:177.240.143.159 This state is dynamic but at the same time often experienced as static, as something that holds a particular permanence or essence. This classic idea of static being and thinking ENGAGED ENCOUNTERS 9 Bram Büscher, Michiel Köhne, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch and Oscar Salemink holds little resonance for Monique Nuijten. While she would acknowledge certain permanences, Nuijten always stresses the relational in her work whereby people on different levels and within different institutions are, first and foremost, embodiments of historical, contemporary and future encounters. Persons exist in and through encounters across time and space, and these are necessarily engaged in that they involve historical, political and personal stakes. These encounters shape the institutions and organisations that people create and inhabit, as well as their everyday practices. This distinction between institutions and organisations and how these are enacted in daily life is another key focus of Monique Nuijten’s work. This leads us to the second way to approach ‘engaged encounter’, namely as a political way of interacting. Engaged encounters are always political encounters. Because actors have fundamental stakes in the encounters that make up their world, they necessarily partake in these politically. Their interests conjoin with others and with historical and contemporary contexts to become force fields. In these force fields that constitute their life-worlds along intertwined structural and personal dimensions, actors engage affectively as well as strategically: thinking through and about the forces that impact their lives, which simultaneously infuses their actions. Engaged encounters thus become political in two ways: as structural forms of organisation and as modes of agency.