‘Muslim women’ in Europe: Secular normativities, bodily performances and multiple publics

Moors, Annelies; Salih, Ruba

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2009.00090.x

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“…The increasing presence of Muslims, who are by now not just second or third generation migrants but are born and bred citizens of the countries in which they reside, has led to a considerable amount of research in the social sciences (Moors and Salih 2009;Schielke and Debevec 2012;Eickelman and Anderson 2003;Winchester 2008) into their everyday practices. This current study falls into the volume of literature that studies the everyday, but it focuses on an aspect that is not as often covered; the role of everyday practices on the phenomenon of giving within the Islamic context has yet to be studied in the discipline of anthropology.…”

Section: Islam and Muslims In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Giving in God’s name: investing in the ethical self in the case of the kermes

Kayikci

2016

Cont Islam

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In this article, I look into a case study of a kermes (kermis) to see how Islamic discourses can structure and re-structure an apparently mundane practice. The aim is to see how a mundane activity is transformed into an act of piety, simply because it is driven by a religious intention. Additionally, we study how this intention supported by the articulation of a particular interpretation of an Islamic tradition. Ultimately, the goal is to understand how the kermes is converted into a disciplined practice of moral construction, ethical conduct and allows for the fulfillment of religious and nonreligious responsibility and, consequently, how a moral discourse can embed a completely mundane practice and transform it into an ethical cycle of self-development, sacred duty and gift giving. This study fills a gap in the literature on volunteering as it examines how practices of volunteering are developed according to a discourse of piety and are the result of a process of active decision-making, according to the context in which the volunteers live. The data for this research was gathered through participant observation and dialogue.

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Section: Islam and Muslims In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Giving in God’s name: investing in the ethical self in the case of the kermes

Kayikci

2016

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“…This is particularly relevant in a contemporary global context where many westernized politicians or advocates have appropriated and contributed to feminist discourse to bolster arguments supporting brutalities of military interventionism in the 'Muslim world' (Abu-Lughod 2002). This line of thought is also used to characterize the Muslim Man (Ewing 2009) and the Muslim Woman (Moors and Salih 2009) within Western framework as the anti-Western and anti-ethical embodiments of supposed 'non-Western' values. The global iconicity of Malala Yousafzai is representative of such a framework (Sadaf 2017;Walters 2016).…”

Section: A Movement: Summary Of Politics Of Pietymentioning

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The Politics of Pity versus Piety

Wong

2019

Mathal

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This article analyzes two books that utilize the construct of "The Muslim Woman" as a symbol for public consumption across a global and conceptual scale: Saba Mahmood's book, 'Politics of Piety', and Malala Yousafzai's and Christina Lamb's 'I am Malala'. The motivation behind the analysis is to situate the texts within debates on essentialism within accounts of Muslim women. While essentialism and the critique of it in such discussions are not a novelty, the books demonstrate a physical manifestation of essentialism and a reductionist reaction toward this brand of essentialism. Through analysis of the content, poetics, and response toward the books, I argue that scholarship surround Muslim women are still mired in essentialism albeit efforts to avoid it due to a lack in direction as to how to resolve the issue. I suggest using a combination of power convolution and intersectionality of identities to capture the representation of Muslim women.

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“…These constructed publics were not simply different stakeholders of governance (cf. Brott and Meyers ) but also competing constellations of community that involved unique cultural worldviews (Moors and Salih ; Staeheli and Mitchell ). In this sense, we build on Yeh's () analysis of multiple publics at the Mexico–US border, which highlights not only the fractal nature of the discursive and material manifestations of the “public” (Gal )—that is, through pamphlets, protests, and media polling—but also the ways in which these different publics are ultimately situational, relational, and even permeable.…”

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When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State

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Trinch

2018

PoLAR

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In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In this dissociative context, the state successfully implemented eminent domain in the absence of street‐level bureaucrats, relying instead on the creation of multiple publics, on the ambiguity of public–private partnerships, and, ironically, on the efforts of activists who fought the project. In addition to facilitating the seizure of land, this relationship between the state and the developer imposed the logic of neoliberal for‐profit development, espousing the creation of a public good for certain types of publics to the exclusion of others and creating a discourse wherein arguments against it seemed almost impossible.

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‘Muslim women’ in Europe: Secular normativities, bodily performances and multiple publics

Cited by 31 publications

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Giving in God’s name: investing in the ethical self in the case of the kermes

Giving in God’s name: investing in the ethical self in the case of the kermes

The Politics of Pity versus Piety

When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State

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