Social reproduction in France: Religious dress laws and laïcité

Hopkins, Carmen Teeple

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.09.002

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“…Researchers have analysed how Muslim women have restricted access to public space in the name of alleged Western values. For example, Carmen Teeple Hopkins (2015) has analysed the unequal access of Muslim women living in France to the public sphere – in particular, schools, universities and the majority of workplaces. Listerborn (2015) has investigated the intersection between geographies of pain and the geography of headscarves among Muslim women in Malmö, Sweden.…”

Section: Literature Review and Methodologymentioning

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Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Direnberger

Banfi

Eskandari

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Since 2001, the ‘Islamic threat’ has become increasingly prominent in debates on migration policy, religious affairs and security at the federal level in Switzerland. Supported by the far right-wing parties, the paradigm of the Islamic threat reveals how Islamophobia is gendered and affects Muslim women and men differently. By analysing debates between the Federal Council and Swiss Parliament, this article shows how the Islamic threat shaped the border politics of the Swiss Nation between 2001 and 2015. It reveals how the ruling elite justified the socio-spatial exclusion of Muslims living in a Muslim-minority context. As consequence of the success of the far right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), legal measures have increased with regard to security, protection of Swiss culture and women's rights, and exclusion of Muslims from the boundaries of the Swiss nation.

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Section: Literature Review and Methodologymentioning

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Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Direnberger

Banfi

Eskandari

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…With the implementation of these laws related to new laïcité in 2004 and 2010, France became the first country in Europe to ban the burka and niqab in public (Hopkins, 2015).…”

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Why do people come to support a highly controversial law? Manipulating the clarity and coherence of a law can shape individuals’ perception and approval

Kleinlogel

Nugier

Pelletier‐Dumas

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Psychologie Française

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“…Secularism in France is also intertwined with discourses about immigration and integration. While some researchers argue that secularism constitutes a resource to ease interreligious relations and help immigrants integrate into society (Weil 2008), other studies have pointed out inherent contradictions of the French model that may cause further tensions between majority and minorities (Adrian 2009;Auslander 2000;Sommier 2017a;Hopkins 2015). The extent to which secularism appears in discourses constructing 'us' and 'them' in France highlights the need to examine which type of cultural reality is associated with it.…”

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‘Culture’ as a discursive resource in newspaper articles from Le Monde about secularism: constructing ‘us’ through strategic oppositions with religion

Sommier

2018

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

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Building on research highlighting the complex webs of relations between secularism, culture, and religion, this study investigates how the concept of culture was utilized in discourses of laïcité from the newspaper le Monde. Articles (N = 76) published between 2011 and 2014 were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results revealed the agency associated with the use of culture as it was strategicallyrather than systematicallyused in opposition to religion. Overall, cultureand the practices it definedtended to be represented as normal and invisible. On the other hand, religion tended to be constructed as a disruption to secularism and the corresponding cultural reality. The findings therefore suggested culture could be strategically used to validate and regulate specific practices as well as representations of the imagined community. This study complements previous research on discourses of secularism by drawing attention to the strategic divisions between culture and religion, and their implications. The findings draw attention to the construction of a secular imagined community because of the punctual and strategic use of culture and religion as proxies for 'us' and 'them'. Thus, the findings have practical implications as regards religious minorities' identification with and belonging to the nation.

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Social reproduction in France: Religious dress laws and laïcité

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Why do people come to support a highly controversial law? Manipulating the clarity and coherence of a law can shape individuals’ perception and approval

‘Culture’ as a discursive resource in newspaper articles from Le Monde about secularism: constructing ‘us’ through strategic oppositions with religion

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