On sacred ground: the political performance of religious responsibility

Heslop, Luke

doi:10.1080/09584935.2013.870975

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“…Muslims were again on the sandēśa route, in an accusatory mercantile stereotype:This set mold of the greedy Muslim, imprintable upon any media, is why Ameer Ali (2015) has rightly written of “waves” of Sri Lankan Islamophobia, recurrent over the twentieth century. These waves swelled to dangerous crests after Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009, with many instances of boycotting or attacking Muslim businesses, and demolishing mosques or other structures alleged to be on sacred Buddhist ground (Haniffa 2015a; Heslop 2014).…”

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Merchants, Maidens, and Mohammedans: A History of Muslim Stereotypes in Sinhala Literature of Sri Lanka

McKinley

2022

J of Asian Stud

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This article analyzes stereotypes of Muslims that have recurred in Sinhala literature over the past seven centuries. This temporal span includes (1) a precolonial time when Muslims were a curiosity in Sinhala poetry as rich traders, wild men, and seductive women; (2) an early colonial time when the Portuguese and Dutch displaced more Muslims into the island interior, and Sinhala authors increasingly wrote of them as religious others akin to Tamils; and (3) a late colonial time when British policies forged religo-racial political categories in the decades leading up to the anti-Muslim pogroms of 1915. Each case is also connected to postcolonial instantiations or transformations of these typecasts. This history therefore eschews linear narratives of change to show the recurrent tendencies of social reasoning through stereotyping, past and present.

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Section: The Weaponization Of Representationmentioning

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Merchants, Maidens, and Mohammedans: A History of Muslim Stereotypes in Sinhala Literature of Sri Lanka

McKinley

2022

J of Asian Stud

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“…As a broad and encompassing system of politics and government, the political system-the set of formal legal institutions that constitutes a "government" or "state" (Heslop, 2014)-has an influential role on social trust, happiness, and trust in government. On the contrary, trust does not exist independently of government.…”

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From Social Trust and Happiness to Government Trust: The Moderating Role of Political Systems and Governance in the Philippines

Calata

Ugaddan

2019

Power, Conflict and Democracy Journal

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There are frequent calls to enhance citizens' trust in government to pave the way towards a new paradigm of participatory governance and strong citizen support for government. In various realms, citizens may directly or indirectly engage with the government through various available mediums, even though, despite the availability of various policies and services provided by the government, citizens are generally passive and adamant in trusting the public sector. While many studies have explored a set of determinants that influence citizens' trust in government (i.e., central government, local government, parliament, and the legal system), few studies have ascertained the relationship and the role of social trust, happiness, governance, and political systems. These are critical factors that may influence trust in government. To address this gap, this study draws on the theoretical lens of social capital theory, proposing that cognitive social trust and citizen happiness—environment and performance—are the most likely predictors of citizen trust in government. This study assumes that citizens' perceptions of governance and political systems will moderate the effect of social trust and happiness on trust in government. Using data from the Asia Barometer Survey 2007, and focusing on data collected from the Philippines, this study tests a latent model employing the structural equation modelling technique. It finds that happiness negatively predicts trust in the central government and the legal system, while all other predictors do not have a significant effect. The findings also show that the political system moderates the impact of social trust and happiness on trust in government. Finally, this article points out its theoretical, empirical, and practical implications and provides directions for future research.

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“…More generally, the workings of party politics, parliamentary democracy, and wider political formations are viewed with deep cynicism and characterized as involving 'dirty politics' -an emic term widely documented across South Asia. Politics is routinely equated to 'politicking' that creatively uses violence, corruption, and legal and illegal tactics for personal gain (Heslop 2014;Jeffrey 2010). Not always morally decried, everyday workings of dirty politics come also to be looked upon favourably as a more 'efficacious' mode of politics (Piliavsky & Sbriccoli 2016), bringing together muscle, money, and political machinations in a manner that inspires both fear and fantasy (Michelutti et al 2018).…”

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The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India

Jaju

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article explores the tensed sociality amongst precariously employed service economy workers in the retail outlets of a prominent eyewear company in New Delhi, India. The bickering staff label the ongoing interpersonal strife ‘dirty politics’. Linked to this are their confident assertions that, in fact, all politics is dirty, and dirty politics is the only type of politics possible – rejecting formal party politics and labour unions as morally vacuous and motivated by utilitarian individualism. Engaging with the anthropology of ordinary ethics, the article demonstrates how the affectively charged experience and talk of petty politicking on the neoliberal workfloor provides critical ‘evidence’ that ‘confirms’ such a politico‐ethical view.

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On sacred ground: the political performance of religious responsibility

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Merchants, Maidens, and Mohammedans: A History of Muslim Stereotypes in Sinhala Literature of Sri Lanka

Merchants, Maidens, and Mohammedans: A History of Muslim Stereotypes in Sinhala Literature of Sri Lanka

From Social Trust and Happiness to Government Trust: The Moderating Role of Political Systems and Governance in the Philippines

The play of ‘dirty politics’: ordinary ethics and the evidence of experience on the workfloor in New Delhi, India

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