The Terrorist and the Girl Next Door: Love Jihad in French Femonationalist Nonfiction

Tebaldi, Catherine

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“…From Brotherton's article in this issue to conspiracy theories of the great replacement (Tebaldi 2021b) and, in India, Love Jihad's construction of the hypersexual Muslim male (Frydenlund and Leidig 2022), anti-genderism registers are also entangled with sexualised anti-Muslim stereotypes and pronatalist conspiracy theories. These discourses, in which sex, sexuality and reproduction are linked to the state, whiteness and religion, imagine Muslims as repugnant others (Harding 1991), poised to replace white Europeans.…”

Section: Global Anti-genderism In Local Contextsmentioning

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Of tradwives and TradCaths

Tebaldi

Baran

2023

Gender and Language

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Building on Borba’s theorisation of the anti-genderism register, the articles in this special issue explore anti-genderism as a political tool for the global right in four cases: online ‘tradwives’ or traditional wives defending national and sexual purity (Tebaldi), homonationalism in the Islamophobic forum r/thedonald (Brotherton), the natalist chronopolitics of Bolsonaro in Brazil (Silva and Dziuba) and the invocation of the spectre of gender to place Poland at the centre of the white West (Baran). Together, they highlight new discursive elements in the nationalist far-right use of the anti-genderism register and the construction of morally marked figures through nationalist discourses of tradition, sexuality, temporality and place. Anti-genderism is not just a call for ‘traditional’ gender or marriage, but the evocation of a gendered nation, an idealised past and a strong future populated with warriors and mothers.

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Section: Global Anti-genderism In Local Contextsmentioning

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Of tradwives and TradCaths

Tebaldi

Baran

2023

Gender and Language

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“…With its imperial legacy in the Muslim world, its particular notion of secularism (la laïcité), and with the largest Muslim population in Western Europe (but still only around 5 per cent), the question of Islamophobia is particularly relevant in the case of France. In 'The Terrorist and the Girl Next Door: Love Jihad in French Femonationalist Nonfiction', Tebaldi (2021) discusses the role of "Love Jihad" in true sex crime novels. A semiotic analysis of visual and textual representations shows that these stories reflect, dramatize, and sexualize broader social constructions of the monstrous Muslim; from far-right conspiracies of "The Great Replacement" to femonationalist debates about veils and republican values.…”

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Introduction: “Love Jihad”: Sexuality, Reproduction and the Construction of the Predatory Muslim Male

Frydenlund

Leidig

2022

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The Introduction to this Special Issue on ‘“Love Jihad”: Sexuality, Reproduction and the Construction of the Predatory Muslim Male’ provides a theoretical overview and suggests an analytical lens for how to understand “Love Jihad” and related notions of Islamization through marriage, sexuality, and reproduction. We define “Love Jihad” as the notion that Muslim men intentionally and strategically allure and entrap non-Muslim women with the intent to marry and convert them to Islam as part of an Islamization project. We suggest a two-fold understanding of the concept of “Love Jihad”. First, the concept needs to be understood as a globalizing trope, originating from India and spreading to a wide range of cultural and national contexts across the world. Second, we propose to understand the specific term “love jihad” beyond its referential specificity, and thereby broadening it into an analytical concept for exploring related concepts (such as “sexual jihad” and “demographic jihad”), as well as related notions of Muslim men as sexual predators (in certain geographical settings known as “rapefugees”). We therefore include in our analysis related notions such as Islamic womb fare, “grooming”, “The Great Replacement”, and “unethical conversion” in marriage where they relate to flows of gendered nationalist imaginaries of the Muslim “Other”. The aim of this Introduction—as well as the Special Issue—is to contribute to the study of Islamophobia as a global phenomenon and to deepen our understanding of the gendered imaginaries of anti-Muslim nationalist formations across the world.

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Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing

Tebaldi,

Del Percio

2024

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This article focuses on the branding of Patriotic Alternative (PA), a British fascist organization and business, in three analytic steps: (i) branding as circulating ideologies as commodities; (ii) branding as creating—and selling—community, and (iii) branding as regimenting meaning. Building on work on the communicability of evil and language, nationalism, and political economy, we explore how PA uses the affordances of platform capitalism in a project that goes beyond ideological normalization: not just rebranding a message as acceptable but selling a product which builds a community aligned with this ideology. Looking at both brand and political websites, YouTube, as well as Telegram channels, we show how PA's branding functions to invest a wide range of mundane practices with racist meaning; they are imagined to forestall the great replacement. Rebranding racism as white community, every cup of tea sold brings back the world of your grandma, each bar of soap protects white skin. (Far-right semiosis, branding, platform capitalism)*

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The Terrorist and the Girl Next Door: Love Jihad in French Femonationalist Nonfiction

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Of tradwives and TradCaths

Of tradwives and TradCaths

Introduction: “Love Jihad”: Sexuality, Reproduction and the Construction of the Predatory Muslim Male

Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing

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