“No punishment is enough for monsters”: vindictiveness as an important political emotion in dealing with Belgian (potential) returnee men
“No punishment is enough for monsters”: vindictiveness as an important political emotion in dealing with Belgian (potential) returnee men
Iman Lechkar Jihane Sliti Political Science Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, BelgiumIman Lechkar has a PhD in anthropology (2012-KU Leuven) and is tenure track professor of Islam & Gender in the Political Science department of the Social Sciences Faculty and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she holds the Fatima Mernissi chair on Islam, Gender and power. Iman Lechkar is a PI at the VUB Centre for Democratic Futures (DFUTURE), a core member of the VUB Research Centre for Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA), and a board member of the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM). Prof. Lechkar’s teaching and research speak to questions of Islam and gender from an intersectional perspective, including masculinities, religion and secularism, conversion, agency, ethnicity, restorative justice and arts-based methods in multicultural contexts. She is currently supervisor of the FWO research project Islam in Brussels Prisons: an ethnographic study on prison policies, experiences and masculinities and Coordinator of the BESLPO- BRAIN-be 2.0 research project REGUIDE: a holistic, restorative and gendered approach to guiding returnees to their home countries.Jihane Sliti is a PhD researcher in the Political Science department of the Social Sciences Faculty and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and VUB Centre for Democratic Futures (DFUTURE). She is a core member of RHEA, the VUB Research Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality. Sliti specialises in analysing political and media discourses, Muslim masculinities, and foreign fighters from an intersectional and security perspective. She currently works on the BESLPO- BRAIN-be 2.0 research project REGUIDE.