Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A., & Topolski, A. (2026). Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: The Constellation as an Analytic Tool for the Critical Study of Race and Religion. Ethnic and Racial Studies. [DOI]
2025
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2025). This Barbie Can Walk on Water! Longing for a Feminist Messiah in the Cinema. In A. van Klinken, N. van den Brandt, & M. van den Berg (Eds.), Blasphemous Art? Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Arts and Popular Culture (pp. 197-209). (Routledge Critical Studies in Religion, Gender and Sexuality). Routledge. [DOI] [Portal]
Professional publications
Popularising publications
van Es, M. A. (2025). Beeldvorming. In J. Wagemakers (Ed.), Inleiding tot de islam: Een levende traditie Amsterdam University Press.
2024
Professional publications
van Es, M. A. (2024). Niet zomaar een flesje water. Web publication/site, Omstreden zaken: hoe wij samenleven in een multireligieus landschap. https://omstredenzaken.nl/module/niet-zomaar-een-flesje-water/
2023
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2023). The Gastro-Politics of Replacement: How Imaginations of a Muslim Takeover Become "Real" through Food. In S. Bracke, & L. M. Hernandez Aguilar (Eds.), The Politics of Replacement: Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Race Wars (pp. 206-216). (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right). Routledge. [DOI]
van Es, M. A. (2023). Multicultural Clumsiness: Provocative Anti-Provocations in the Aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks. In D. Kloos, L. Schmidt, M. Westmoreland, & B. Barendregt (Eds.), Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam (pp. 67-83). Leiden University Press.
2022
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2022). Blog: Multi-Scalar Cosmopolitanism. Web publication/site, Religiousmatters.nl. https://religiousmatters.nl/multi-scalar-cosmopolitanism/
van Es, M. A. (2022). A Ring of Peace around the Oslo Synagogue: Muslims and Jews Expressing Interfaith Solidarity in Response to the Paris and Copenhagen Attacks. In L. van Liere, & E. Meinema (Eds.), Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict (pp. 187-210). (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion; Vol. 19). Brill. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2021). Men, Masculinities, and Religion. Religion and Gender, 11(1), 127-129. [DOI] [Repository]
van Es, M. A. (2021). Norwegian Muslims Denouncing Terrorism: Beyond 'Moderate' versus 'Radical'? Religion, 51(2), 169–189. [DOI] [Repository]
van Es, M. A., ter Laan, N., & Meinema, E. H. (2021). Beyond 'Radical' versus 'Moderate'? New Perspectives on the Politics of Moderation in Muslim Majority and Muslim Minority Settings. Religion, 51(2), 161-168. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
van Es, M. A. (2021). Book review: Muslim Identity Politics - Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain, written by Khadija Elshayyal. Journal of Muslims in Europe, 10(1), 117-120. [DOI] [Repository]
Popularising publications
Kragtwijk, P., & van Es, M. A. (2021). Ramadan in Lockdown. Web publication/site, Utrecht Religie Forum. https://urf.sites.uu.nl/2021/04/21/ramadan-in-lockdown/
Kragtwijk, P., & van Es, M. A. (2021). Ramadan in Lockdown. Web publication/site, Religiousmatters.nl. https://religiousmatters.nl/ramadan-in-lockdown/
2020
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2020). Roasting a Pig in Front of a Mosque: How Pork Matters in Pegida’s Anti-Islam Protest in Eindhoven. Religions, 11(7), 359. [DOI] [Repository]
van Es, M. A., & van den Brandt, H. P. (2020). Muslim Women’s Activism and Organizations in the Netherlands and Belgium. Trajecta, 29(2), 191-220. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Popularising publications
van Es, M. A. (2020). Re-Opening Restaurants in Rotterdam. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://religiousmatters.nl/re-opening-restaurants-in-rotterdam/
2019
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2019). Was the Multiculturalism Backlash Good for Women with a Muslim Background? Perspectives from Five Minority Women’s Organisations in the Netherlands. In E. Henrich, & J. M. Simpson (Eds.), History, historians and the immigration debate: going back to where we came from (pp. 153-170). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI], [DOI] [Repository]
van Es, M. A. (2019). The Promise of the Social Contract: Muslim Perspectives on the Culturalization of Citizenship and the Demand to Denounce Violent Extremism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(16), 141-158. [DOI] [Repository]
van Es, M. A. (2019). Muslim Women as Ambassadors of Islam: Breaking Stereotypes in Everyday Life. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(14), 375-392. [DOI] [Repository]
Popularising publications
van Es, M. A. (2019). Blog: Halal Dining in Rotterdam. Web publication/site https://religiousmatters.nl/halal-dining-in-rotterdam/
van Es, M. A. (2019). Halal BBQ in kerstsfeer. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://www.uu.nl/achtergrond/halal-bbq-in-kerstsfeer
van Es, M. A., ter Laan, N., & Meinema, E. H. (2019). De zin en onzin van de woorden “gematigd” en “radicaal”. In J. Wagemakers, & L. van Liere (Eds.), Wie is er bang voor religie? Waarom kennis van religie belangrijk is (pp. 18-26). Parthenon.
2018
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2018). Islamsk Kvinnegruppe Norge: Idrettsgruppen som ble forkjemper for muslimske kvinners rettigheter i Norge 1991–2005. In J. Sorvoll, T. R. Korsvik, & I. Helle (Eds.), Kollektive bestrebelser (pp. 223–238). Novus Forlag.
van Es, M. A. (2018). Islamic Feminism in Norway. Labrys: Études Féministes/Estudos Feministas. https://www.labrys.net.br/labrys31/nordic/matgaretha.htm
Popularising publications
van Es, M. A. (2018). Blog: Muslims Condemning Violent Extremism: A Multiple Critique. Web publication/site, Religiousmatters.nl. https://religiousmatters.nl/muslims-condemning-violent-extremism-a-multiple-critique/
van Es, M. A. (2018). Blog: De Zin en Onzin van Stereotypen Doorbreken. Web publication/site https://urf.sites.uu.nl/2018/04/10/de-zin-en-onzin-van-stereotypen-doorbreken/
2017
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2017). Muslims Embracing Civic Nationalism: The Promise of the Social Contract and the Persistence of Nativism. Paper presented at Asserting and Contesting the "Good Citizen".
Professional publications
van Es, M. A. (2017). Book Review: Naaz Rashid (2016) Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses, Bristol: Policy Press. 224 pp. Religion and Gender, 7(1), 141-143 . [DOI] [Repository]
van Es, M. A. (2017). Book Review: Jeanette S. Jouili (2015) Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 258 pp. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 7(1), 58-59. [DOI] [Repository]
Popularising publications
van Es, M. A. (2017). Blog: The Right to Self-Representation: Muslim Women Breaking Stereotypes. Web publication/site, STK.
van Es, M. A. (2017). Moslims, Spreek Je (Niet) Uit! Geen Wereld Zonder Religie: Magazine over de Studies Religiewetenschappen en Islam en Arabisch, Utrecht University, 19-21.
van Es, M. A. (2017). Terreuraanslagen veroordelen? Moslims doen bijna niet anders! AD / Algemeen Dagblad.
Other output
van Es, M. A. (2017). Van Es on Self-Representations of Muslim Women. Web publication/site
2016
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2016). Stereotypes and Self-Representations of Women with a Muslim Background: The Stigma of Being Oppressed. (Citizenship, Gender and Diversity). Palgrave Macmillan.
van Es, M. A. (2016). Norwegian Muslim Women, Diffused Islamic Feminism and the Politics of Belonging. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, 29(2), 117-133. https://www.idunn.no/nordic_journal_of_religion_and_society/2016/02/norwegian_muslim_women_diffused_islamic_feminism_and_the_p
Professional publications
van Es, M. A. (2016). Muslims Condemning Violent Extremism. Poster session presented at 20 Years of Marie Skłodowska-Curie! , Amsterdam.
2015
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2015). Bildet av “muslimske kvinner” i Aftenposten 1975-2010. Pressehistorisk tidsskrift, 24, 103-113. http://www.pressetidsskrift.no/tidsskrift/pressehistorisk-tidsskrift-nr-24-2015/
Professional publications
van Es, M. A. (2015). Book Review: Marianne Takle (2015) Politisk Integrering. Innvandrerorganisasjoner Som Skoler i Demokrati og Byråkrati, Oslo: Cappelen Damm. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 3, 157-158.
Popularising publications
van Es, M. A. (2015). Een Noorse Al Nisa? Moslimorganisaties in Noorwegen. Al Nisa: Islamitisch Maandblad voor Vrouwen, 34, 30-35 .
2012
Other output
van Es, M. A. (2012, Mar 13). Competing Essentialisms: “Culture”, “Religion” and the “Oppression of Muslim Women” in Norwegian Newspaper Articles (1975-2010).
2008
Scholarly publications
van Es, M. A. (2008). Etenstijd! Voedselconsumptie Onder Leidse Arbeiders Rond 1890. Jaarboek der Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis van Leiden en Omstreken, 19/20, 127-158.
van Es, M. A. (2008). Van Korset tot Kimono: Exotica in de Nederlandse Mode van het Belle Epoque 1890-1914. Textielhistorische Bijdragen, 48, 7-29.
2007
Professional publications
van Es, M. A. (2007). 'Hollandse Heldin'. Book Review: Mineke Bosch (2005) Een Onwrikbaar Geloof in Rechtvaardigheid: Aletta Jacobs 1854-1929, Amsterdam: Balans. 852 pp. Leidschrift, 22(3), 127-129.